Anyone deciding to watch this movie as if it’s a documentary of Washington Heights is going to be very confused by all the singing and dancing.

Thank you for your rational thinking—and thorough reading.

Well, yes, I do want The Root to stay strong, so you’re welcome.

Yay clickbait, that’s good journalism!

You repeat insulting names others on social media have called her as a way to say them yourself without actually saying them, then dismiss her apology as ‘boilerplate’, then summarize by saying that none of it matters anyways because a gay black man didn’t say anything funny about it you could instead base your…

Nope

get lost nazi troll

You are not a good person.

So you admit to being ok to dragging innocent people for clicks? That’s pretty fucked up.

Pushing stories like this actually harm our cause because it makes it look like we are just looking for stuff to whine about especially with all the real racist issues that we are facing. I am so disappointed that the Root bothered with this non-story. Actually, I suppose I shouldn’t be surprised. This just adds…

Did you notice how 95% of the comments on the original article, from a group of people who are always ready to jump on white people nonsense (and white people have no shortage of nonsense), were all “no, this really isn’t a big deal”? And still we have this article.

Did you know that Joe Biden is leader of an organization that has it’s roots in slaveholders????

I’m going to dissect this bullshit one bit at a time:

I love how the article tries to insinuate that it was terrible that she took a week to respond to this manufactured controversy. Y’all ought to be ashamed of yourselves.

Like for “I’m writing more than the movie deserves.”

It makes sense from a viewer standpoint to comment on him being there, but not sense from a movie script standpoint. You want betrayals to be unexpected, otherwise there’s no surprise.

My goodness. American education systems failing left and right, these people can’t even manage basic reading comprehension. Let’s try it in caps, maybe that will help you. Sound it out:

but then also doing stuff like applying generalised traits to every member of that “race”, which borders on mirroring the prejudices of real-world racism.

“Whedon’s current issues stem from his recent wedding to Canadian artist Heather Horton”

“It’s legal to fuck teens in Europe, so it must be morally okay!”