Oh, ok, so the majority of Americans can vote on what art is and isn’t acceptable? And if a majority of Americans disagree with someone’s message, that person should be censured? Sounds like something that will work out well for minorities!

I’m afraid you must be mistaken. I’m good at it.

Hmm, yes, you wouldn’t want to sully the theater by having it associated with any assholes.

Oh, I see, you don’t know what an analogy is. You see, an analogy is a comparison between two different things. So just as closing someone’s trachea will directly lead to death, so does closing off a theater critic’s access to tickets lead directly to her loss of job opportunities. In this analogy, the access to the…

I didn’t purport to provide evidence, I’m just saying that taking away her tickets will likely make it impossible for her to do her job. You don’t think so, so fine. But ultimately you are resting on a curious defense: “this is a good action to take BECAUSE it does not punish her.” Your argument, as I understand it,…

I’m not joking. Stating she can’t get free tickets means that she will have to pay for the tickets out of her own pocket. Since she’s a critic she’d have to attend opening night, which, at a large theater like Steppenwolf, is going to be sold out. The only tickets will be above face price. Like most theater…

Of course, if she can’t get tickets to performances, she can’t do her job. Saying this isn’t the same as saying she should get fired is like closing someone’s trachea and saying “well, at least i’m not telling him he can’t breathe.”

I feel like you might be more at home on the Stormfront forums. They seem like a good fit for your mix of self-righteousness, desire for racial segregation, and uncontrolled rage problems.

Well sure, but “Indigenous Rentiers Seek To Expand Their Copyrights on Specific Patterns” don’t bring in the clicks.

Counterpoint: actually, cultural appropriation is fine. Any person is entitled to do whatever they want artistically, even if it means borrowing liberally from someone else’s creation. Additionally, no person has the authority or right to tell an artist that they can’t create art in the way that they want to. …

I look forward to the Vox explainer for why Mario wearing a sombrero is problematic.

“Listen. There’s lots more stuff like this out there this morning . . . I’m not going to round it all up, here. It is very silly. One of the best basketball teams of all time added Kevin Durant and improved. Do them the honor of acknowledging the dull obviousness they sought and accomplished. The lesson, here, is: If…

Please fix the lede, it’s well-established that the coolest thing in Australian Rules Football is the short shorts.

But the big unanswered question: who in the world was being paid $400,000 to edit gawker?

Should they add a fourth E?

Being as generous as I possibly can, this comment still makes no sense in response to mine.

“I don’t know that the guy is a cop, but I am comfortable using this to extrapolate conclusions about cops.”

Well yes, but this isn’t about watching basketball. Burneko is upset because the storylines on his favorite soap aren’t as interesting as they were last year.

So far the worst thing about this season is everyone falling over themselves to show how sophisticated they are by complaining about it. The basketball itself has been entertaining as ever.

I dunno, I think there’s a contingent of people who are overrepresented on internet comment boards who don’t know how to interact with anything besides complaining endlessly about it. TV show, sports, staff change at work... everything is just an excuse to show how savvy you are by complaining.