Ah yes, “the silent majority,” that imaginary friend that people seem to make when there’s absolutely no evidence that their views are within the mainstream.

The silent majority has supported a lot of terrible shit throughout history.

Right?  It’s funny how a lot of times AVClub newswires go for snark against all common sense.  Sometimes news is just news, and if you truly think it’s “beating a dead horse,” then why did you cover it?  

Exactly. Considering there was a violent assault at the same industry event last year, it would be kind of weird not to address the issue.

“Yang perhaps refers to the response of the Academy in the moment”

I’m not really sure this is “beating a dead horse” considering it’s the Academy president talking at an Oscars luncheon about the organization’s response, and how this impacts the Oscars going forward. Seems like that’s exactly where it would be still relevant to bring up. Beyond that, I’m sure Will Smith would like…

A fun exercise is to ask them to name a specific quote

Here’s an author that wrote a great, strong gay character

don’t you dare presume to belittle me simply because I don’t think the same way you do

So, your standard for not being a transphobe is “wrote a gay character who didn’t groom his students.” Sounds about right.

“So tired of people labeling JK a transphobe”

Dave Chappelle is an all-time great standup comedian

This is deeply embarrassing, your family must be ashamed of you.

His main “successes” are mostly situations where he provided the capital, and then the recipients of said capital had dedicated folks whose job was to placate Elon, while the actual workers did actual work. At least, that’s according to former SpaceX employees who said that they succeeded DESPITE Elon, not BECAUSE of…

He’s a hilariously bad public speaker, but when you’re already generationally wealthy, you don’t need any tangible skills like public speaking to survive.

most blockbuster movies need to make 2.5x their budget during their theatrical run to be considered successful, because there’s a lot of extra costs not included in that production budget.

Look, the thing you have to understand is that the best thing in any Marvel movie is when Captain America decks a guy with his shield and then that dude goes flying and The First Avengers has the highest number of instances where that happens. You can’t really dispute that; it’s just science.

They should’ve counted popcorn sales as well.

No.

I was so glad you did a post on it! I read it earlier this morning and was like “who is going to fall for this?”.