Except I do think we need to not destroy all that stuff, because people need to remember how it was—how comfortable people were with that kind of racism, so recently. History and context are important. But I feel like it should not be used for entertainment nowadays, just for education and discussion.

The 2011 Tintin film was problematic in other ways. Very male dominated. Also the way they portrayed alcoholism (for laughs) was not ok. We really do need lots of new stories.

She obviously thought no one would notice.

“A ‘skinny white muzungu with long angel hair’, Louise was an anomaly in darkest Africa” - part of a description of her book. Also: “Still struggling with the untimely loss of her mother, Louise found comfort in her bond with Zimba, a six-year-old orphan girl who she came to love as her own.”

So, noramally I don’t fully get controversies about inaccuracies in memoirs, because my understanding is that memoirs are supposed to be loose and factionalized retellings that capture the “mood” of real events, feature composite characters, made up situations that resemble real ones that occurred several times, etc.

Durham instead pulled a dirty, unwrapped mint from his pocket and said, “You don’t want those, I’ve got this.”

Let me guess. I don’t even have to read the story:

+1 carlvenkman. My guess is there’s about two or three really sad dudes, and they are such dudes, who create several burners in order to post hateful shit. Maybe they snicker as their shit gets posted, but the sadness and emptiness of their existence doesn’t escape them. They know.

Wasn’t the solution to a “Bad Guy With a Gun” supposed to be “Good Guy(s) With Guns”? Why didn’t all those open carry heroes at the protest prevent this from happening? Instead of running the other way & making it harder for the police to tell who the “Bad Guys” were?

And the amazing thing is, Gawker posted the biggest political recipients of NRA money over the last five years, and number 1 was paid like $64,000. You sold your soul for $12,800/year???

Some of my favorite people. And they were awesome for speaking out. But until our politicians have the guts to make changes, real changes, against the gun dealership lobby, nothing will change. Because you can wrap all this in the American flag and 2nd amendment bullshit, but it’s all about selling guns and fuck the…

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2016/07/01/like-a-ghost-town-possible-serial-killer-has-phoenix-families-hiding-at-home/?utm_term=.c3e3ea623749

To be fair, the legislators invited a number of drowning victims to testify during the hearings, but none of them showed up.

Any arguments for Open Carry and Gun Free Zones got buried with those Police Officers.

I live in Texas (though I’m not a native)-it genuinely scares me how my neighbors and coworkers thinks every man, woman, child, dog, or whatever should be able to get a gun.

And people wonder why I have agoraphobia... screw going to the grocery store- I don’t want to have to worry if some open carry gun nut next to me…

—There. Pithier, & no less accurate!

Disclaimer: grandparents are from Texas. And, fuck Texas.

We’re the only country in the world where mass shootings occur on the regular and the only country where you can get a gun easier than you can get antibiotics, but “this is not a gun control problem.”

Texas lawmakers also don’t believe that inhaling water causes drowning, soooooooooooooo............

Weird. Because I think mass shootings are a solution to Texas lawmakers?