These characters were created decades ago, with a small voice cast tasked with a huge number of roles. The showrunners (back when whitewashing was not a public concern) likely did not think anything beyond money: why chip away at the budget by finding and paying additional actors, when they already have (and are…

Um. First off, producers have “actual musical talent.” It’s not like they just “sample a beat” and push a button on a “production” machine, only for music to splooge out like soft serve. Producers compose, arrange, and often play instruments that go in their songs.

Read the article, dingus. They never got their food.  

Yes and no. A private citizen with a private company generally cannot deny service to a customer based on, for example, the customer’s sexual orientation. The issue here is that such a prohibition was at odds with this businessowner’s religious beliefs (and the right to practice one’s religion is in the First…

That’s a good point. The Tropic Thunder character indeed used heinous stereotypes, but as obvious satire of white ignorance (much like the satire in Chappelle’s white characters).

Honest, good faith question from a generally progressive white guy (and this question is to the group, not just to you specifically): does this type of costume (re: the Jimmy Kimmel impersonation of Karl Malone) constitute “blackface” and is it offensive?

Women not only get paid 30% less than men, but they have 30% fewer Ocean’s members.

That was an indelible, idiotic bit of lunatic silliness.  Hit the spot.

RAAAAAaaaaaaAAAAAh!

You know the famous stomp/clap in Queen’s We Will Rock You? Sure you do: Stomp. Clap. Stomp-stomp. Clap.

Nah, you don’t need to know theory to enjoy music.

You are offended at the wrong thing here.

That is so perfect. Peaceful humiliation.

The first half better be good—splitting something in two (e.g. Harry Potter finale) only works when the second half is hotly anticipated. 

Glad you gave it a shot. The first season does take a while to get great, as most first seasons do. I will say that, like Architeuthis, my wife hated Andy Samberg, to the point that I had to basically force her to try B99. She doesn’t love him in general now, but loves B99 (including its use of Samberg).

All of this, especially that “the show at no point advertised any of this or attempted to get social credit for it, and just exists the wa[y] a show should.” That is, the show’s diversity feels authentic, because it does not cynically exploit that diversity as something “brave” or “commercially mandated” or “preachy.”

“Ridiculous,” but unfortunately accurate.

This is so frighteningly common. I hate it.

Good points, but Fox is absolutely an enormous part of it.  

The problem is that a lot of “fundamentally decent” people voted for Trump.  I think we all know some lovely people that did, and can’t understand it beyond the fact that they have been conditioned through decades of Fox News propaganada.