I’m not white you idiot.

It’s bad because Hollywood and America has notoriously refused to acknowledge the accomplishments, beauty and art of African Americans, especially those with more prominent African features and darker skin. To hire a lighter skinned African American woman, with more European features despite the existence of many…

In fact, she even identifies as black.

please read up on colorism in the black community. yes, that’s shadism. read about how black actresses feel about being pushed out by their lighter sistas. there is some painful history about black women’s looks and color, which is why this movie is ironic because nina simone was a dark-skinned black woman of african…

No. To be clear: I don’t understand why you are flummoxed by your confusion. Why you would expect to understand.

Well, white guys who jump into conversations like this wholly ignorant of the basic facts and related histories are prone to condescendingly dismiss many things as “silly” and “weird.”

Though Saldana is Latina, she is not South American.

Plus, there are qualified, exceptionally talented actresses who look more like Simone who did not get this job. They’re already not getting the mainstream Hollywood roles that Saldana gets - and now Saldana comes and takes this? Naw. Hell naw.

Hiring dark skinned women doesn’t happen enough already. That’s the colourism issue at the heart of this. It’s discrimination by preferencing white-public palatable, light skinned actresses rather than hiring dark skinned women to represent themselves – dark sinned women who already have much, much fewer opportunities…

There’s only one way to culturally approriate music as an artist - by claiming to be the inventor of it.

I mostly have a problem with you calling it a “shameless” advertisement. It doesn’t apply to the first definition you pasted in, and by the second definition, any positive review of anything is an ad.

What a strange hill to die on.

An advertisement suggests I was given the book and paid by its publisher to review it. I bought the book myself and reviewed it out of sheer glee over its content.

I don’t even mind this absolutely shameless advertisement because I really like Chrissy Teigen.

Right, the answer is for everyone to be armed, that way we can have John Woo style shootouts because Jonny got drunk and didn’t do his homework.

I never got the “do you know who....” bit from students, but a recurring theme was definitely “how dare you judge my opinion”.

Previously, anyone taking a weapon onto campus faced legal trouble just for bringing it. If a student got violent with a weapon, you can be pretty sure they planned on it, and if someone is caught with a weapon you can be pretty sure you’ve just stopped a potential shooting.

I’d rather chance someone MAYBE breaking rules to bring a gun to school vs. definitely being surrounded by them.

Yeah, doesn’t she know that’s only for white guys who shoot up malls and abortion clinics? Sheesh!

It would make her a fucking asshole who has mental problems as well as being a fucking asshole. Mental disorders may explain but they don’t excuse.