Any high turnouts in upstate counties of NY gives me pause and what that may mean come election night, cause if even NY goes red, this country is doomed. 

And that’s far more undeniable, especially if you do care.

Yeah, just come back with, "Nice to be here, er-David."

What a load of bullshit

That’s kind of how Letterman differentiated his original NBC show from Carson. He had a reputation of... well, not exactly humiliating guests, but at the same time, not coddling them either. He probably softened up mid-career, particularly after the move to CBS, but perhaps he later reverted to form.

Wow that is the biggest pile of straw I’ve ever seen

I think it’s a fuzzy line. He is correct, to a large degree, both because it is his own story and because of the subtler elements. As a Jew, though, I do become uncomfortable when I start to feel like an actor is “performing” Judaism or substituting stereotypes for depth. I concede I don’t know where exactly the line…

Right, that was Silverman’s point. She wasn’t saying that gentile actors can’t play jews, she was questioning how those parts are cast. She felt that when parts, particularly women’s, are centered on a character’s jewish ethnicity, the powers that be often seem to go out of their way to cast actors that read as very…

“Minorities, please stop talking about being minorities. The simple act of discussion makes me uncomfortable.” —Guess Who.

I think the problem people point out is that yes, there are Jewish actors and actresses in Hollywood, but it seems to be a consistent occurrence that when the role calls for an actual Jewish person they don’t cast a Jewish person.

I repeat: If you choose not to use actors of a particular culture to tell a story of that particular culture, then obviously there are actors of that particular culture that are missing out on work and representing that culture publicly. This is undeniable even if you don’t care.

That’s confusing the ethnicity of Jewishness with the religion of Judaism. Yes, non ethnically Jewish people can convert to Judaism, and plenty of ethnically Jewish people don’t follow the religion of Judaism, but that’s not the point. You wouldn’t accept that if Hopkins converted to Islam he could play an Arab?

I mean, sure, if we’re pretending that this conversation is purely about religious practices and ignoring the cultural aspect altogether. 

That was one of the points Silverman raised in the “Jewface” discussion, and I do think it’s an interesting one vis-à-vis “desirability” being seemingly at odds with Jewishness in Hollywood casting.

What bothers me is that Hollywood seems to have a rule that good-looking Jewish actors can’t play Jewish characters, and good-looking Jewish characters can’t be played by Jews. 

Isn’t it the usual issues about representation and employing minorities?

the problem with this article is it carries on the tired old tradition of feeling like we have to protect Kanye (the main reason why he’s gotten to where he’s at) . Although this time from what? some subliminal disses. Kanye has done much worse to people he doesn’t like, where’s that mentioned in the article?

Swift, at the peak of her power, became an icon of white woman victimhood, antagonizing a mentally ill Black man on music’s biggest stage.

The same way Best Director at the Oscars doesn’t always win Best Picture. Spreading the love at an awards show is very common. 

I dream of the day when people will hold this dude accountable for his dumb, hateful shit. He went from harassing his ex wife to spewing anti semitic conspiracy theories in just this year, but sure, let’s feel bad because maybe a song has a reference about him. (It most probably doesn’t, those really seem about…