I’m “literally fine with” a return to normalcy as well, inasmuch as it’s what I expect if the best possible outcome occurs and Biden wins (which is kind of the problem), and it is preferable to another four years of Trump. But the idea that with Biden the best you are going to get is “returning to a baseline of…

You’re starting to get the hang of it.  The best thing you can do to support the establishment, authority, and law enforcement is break the law and get punished for it.  However, if you park where you’re supposed to park, you’re basically La Resistance.

George Conway is making his marriage and personal life a spectacle—he would be an absolute fucking nobody, one of a dozen irrelevant Never Trump Republicans with no political home tilting at windmills, if it wasn’t for the fact that he happens to be married to a key member of the Trump administration. It is the…

Speaking of Joey B, word on the street is that he and his wife Dr. Jill Biden had an affair before Jill was divorced according to her ex-husband. 

don’t blame me for your lack of self-control

Actually there is much more than a hair’s width between those two opinions! I know, because I hold something akin to one of those opinions (I think even used purportedly “ironically,” doing blackface is lazy, shitty, low-grade racist humor) and that performers shouldn’t use it, and yet I think removing is basically…

Okay? It wasn’t meant to be an exhaustive list of people who have done shitty things, it’s just popular artists off the top of my head who have been “cancelled” to some degree. I’m not saying any of them should or shouldn’t get a particular degree of slack from anyone. Also, I don’t think West has been any more or…

I didn’t ask for you to link any random article. I asked you to cite an article that shows there was some “massive outcry” for instances of ironic blackface to be removed. That article on the Bob & David sketch does not represent that. It is mostly a factual article, reporting the fact that the sketch was removed, and…

So your evidence for this “massive outcry” to remove ironic blackface is your own mischaracterization of an AV Club article that discusses the fact of a removal that already had taken place?  I don’t think you understand how “mass outcries” work. 

The kind of person who wants to critically examine the ways in which particular works may have influenced their thinking (or the thinking of other children)? The kind of person who may be inclined to share those sorts of works with their own children, but doesn’t want to reinforce harmful, outdated tropes?  

“Just ignore it” isn’t the critical, independent thinking mantra you think it is.

Who cares? Like literally, who cares? If someone hasn’t yet been outed as terrible, they haven’t yet been outed as terrible. There is nothing anyone can do about something they don’t know about. But there are artists the OP knows are terrible, and they are choosing not to consume that art. If it turns out a…

But JK Rowling won’t ever meet most trans people, so will never have the opportunity to be nice to them face-to-face. And so for most trans people, there experience with JK Rowling will be that she used her significant platform to push ideas that are used to justify discrimination against trans people. Why isn’t that…

Your second sentence kind of contradicts your first. 

Great article. Far too often when someone brings up that a particular artist is problematic for whatever reason, you’ll see this backlash reaction of like “Well what? Are we not allowed to like anyone who has done anything wrong?” And it’s bullshit. No, no one is telling you what you can and can’t like. What we’re…

Thanks for the link, but I followed it and there is not a single thing on that page that is calling for removal of all content that includes ironic blackface. 

Oh?  Cite?

Pierson and her comrade Mercedes Schlapp opted to skip masks on this part of the Pennsylvania stop because masks are not empowering and Women for Trump is all about empowerment. 

So, first of all, it’s not an empty threat, because I’m not making a threat at all. But in any event, if discussing Biden’s and Harris’s records and the things I want them to do will have no impact, because I’m going to vote for them anyway, why do you care about me discussing them?  What harm do you think exists from…

So one thing is the platform leaves plenty to be desired, though, on plenty of issues. For example, there is no commitment to Medicare-for-All or any other universal health care system, and Biden would largely preserve the employment-based health care system, an issue that has taken on increased significance during a…