Ultimately, Odenkirk and Cross’ intentions are irrelevant. There is no excuse for donning Blackface.

Sure, but they probably don’t want a Chris Gaines situation.

I imagine it will just be “Quaker Brand” and they’ll put their generic logo on it for continued name recognition rather than trying to attract people to an unfamiliar name and logo...

Same. I always assumed it and Uncle Ben were like Wendy’s or Newman’s, where it was based on the owner.

Yeah, but they clearly decided they didn’t want “Antebellum” in their name anymore, so it doesn’t stand for that.

Maybe they should have replaced Antebellum with a symbol...

I imagine so internet searches for their old albums from people who don’t know still lead to the same thing. If they changed their name to Lady Starship or something, people might be able to find their new stuff. They might come across as their own cover band.
And going with a completely different name means they…

Agreed. Master/slave is problematic and needs to go. That could cause problems in coding, but fixing it and removing that language is a worthwhile goal.

The fact that America still uses racist psuedoscientific 17th-century terms like “racial groups” and “race” in its polls and demographics certaily inflences how many fucks I give about it’s classifications...

eth·no·cen·tric. evaluating other peoples and cultures according to the standards of one’s own culture.

It does seem a little ethnocentric of Americans to assume that people from other countries know blackface is problematic. Especially when so many Americans seem to have problems understanding the concept.
I don’t know any Lebonese cultural stereotypes or what they consider commonsense cultural no-nos. Why should they…

Agree 100%

Spider-Man feature an extended subplot about a cop going rogue and crossing the line to murder. It wasn’t as clear cut as the article suggests.

In fairness, Lady A isn’t a well known artist.
She doesn’t have a Soundcloud, her Spotify has 300 monthly listeners, and her Wikipedia entry dates to earlier this morning. The video linked in this article as <850 views at the time of this writing, with most being around 400 while the highest is 2k.

This is a hard and complex issue because while racism is bad and romanticizing the antebellum South is problematic, removing the film is censorship. It is taking the choice of viewership away from people.

That’s the Square Enix game coming September.

As others have said, it would undoubtedly lead to fewer women and more dudes winning. And even if there is an informal rule for gender equality in the nominations, it’d lead to stiffer competition for the two or three spots for women.

Yeah. It’s unarguably a great thing that will make a lot of people happy and I’m excited for all those kids of colour to have a Spider-man they can more easily identify with.

I will buy the eff out of that if true...

Unsure how I feel about this.