I don't think those people are necessarily being defended because they're liberals. I think they're being defended because other Hollywood people are protective of their own, and fans (regardless of ideology) are protective of their art. The Polanski thing especially does bother me, because for chrissakes he was…

The Moses thing is always a difficult sticking point for me too, because he's said that in fact Mia Farrow was abusive to the kids including him, including throwing chairs at them and whatnot. And Dylan Farrow denies that happened. And, as much as I want to believe victims and whatnot, the fact that each denies one…

The whole film Manhattan (which for the record, I think is a great film) is based on his actual relationship with a high school student*. And, Mariel Hemmingway has said that while making that film Allen was kind of creepy with her, and tried to get her to go on a trip alone with him and so forth, even though she was…

Eh, I'm agnostic as far as the Allen/Dylan stuff goes, but I think it's a little different than someone like Tarantino given that Allen frequently plays essentially himself or inserts avatars of himself into his movies. Yes, it is still a persona and at least somewhat fictitious at the end of the day, but it's not…

You're a towel!

I think the calculation behind that was a little different when you couldn't watch films at home, though. Literally the only way you could revisit a film at all (or catch up with one you missed originally) at that point was if it was remade.

The presence of Billy Eichner is making this an easy one to miss.

He was also just more the main character by the time the Muppets really became an enterprise…it's kinda like Mickey Mouse. Mickey wasn't Walt Disney's first character, or even his best, but damn if he isn't the most recognizable. They could have theoretically stopped doing cartoons about Goofy or Donald Duck or Chip…

He was still one while he was openly shilling for the Iraq war though, so fuck him.

"The fact this guy was saying racist stuff that could've caused him
problems in his real life isn't all that different from that guy who
lost his job in New Orleans for wearing white supremacist symbols or the
multitude of people who lose jobs due to dumb social media mistakes."

I pretty much agree with everything you said, I think (even though I haven't really watched any of those particular shows). This raises an interesting discussion, though; while a trans actor can probably play a trans role more effectively, all other things being equal, then a non-trans actor generally can, does…

The mere fact of Helen Keller's story is what makes her exceptional and famous, as I'm sure you're aware. I hate to break it to you, but there are probably not a great many blind, deaf, and mute people who can even function quite as well as she did let alone who also happen to have the extensive acting training that…

Eh, I think this particular outrage is silly, but to be fair, Rain Man actually is a really problematic movie (speaking as someone on the autism spectrum) and has contributed to a lot of troubling stereotypes of autistic people, as is true of many other Hollywood films that have attempted to portray various mental…

Oh agreed. I'd be all for saying we should only allow real-life psycho clowns to play psycho clowns if it would have spared us his Joker antics.

What's funny about this accusation is that Matt and Trey have always insisted that they are fundamentally optimistic people who do really care about the world and the issues they discuss - hell, I'm not sure how you could watch the show and think that they genuinely don't care about the issues they parody. There is a…

That may be true for the individual film, but the alternative is potentially that you don't get any films about blind (or trans) characters at all, which isn't exactly better than getting the one bad one.

As a person with a disability, I never really get this complaint. It's acting. You pick a person who can play the role, not necessarily someone who has actually lived the experience of the character they are playing. I'm pretty sure most of the actors who play doctors or detectives have never done those jobs. Does…

Keep being a fucking moron with poor reading comprehension!

My issue is that I don't think "exposing" this one particular guy does anything to actually stop that spread. As I've said, it just turns him into a martyr.

I'm not ignoring what you said. I'm stating why I don't think what you described is the same thing I am, and why I think what they did is problematic even if they didn't technically out him. Focusing entire articles on him is counterproductive in the best case scenario. He should have been the focus of a sentence or…