He reminds me of “Ow, my balls” in idiocracy.

It’s a weird world I find myself in where games in particular are not allowed to be nuanced AT ALL. They’re either dismissed as “shit” or they’re “awesome”.

Pewdiepie reminds me a lot of Harry Knowles in the early 2000s. Pop culture somehow latches on to him and considers him an expert, and his casual opinion costs others serious business.

“So it’s Pewdiepies fault that this game is shit?”

No Whats fucked up is you accusing Black folks of not accepting Zoe when She was clearly supported playing the role of black women (with two black parents) in Movies like Drum Line , Guess Whos coming to Dinner , Death At A Funeral. etc..

Facial features dont exist in a vacuum.

She's both. It's not mutually exclusive.

Fair enough for the culture of victimhood, but don’t forget that Nina Simone had a great career also, and she did make a lot of money.

That’s called identifying with you ethnicity/nationality. Africans do it all the time, especially when the topic of African-Americans comes up, but there doesn’t seem to be any sensitivity amongst us black people when Africans refuse to refer to themselves as black, but we’re up in arms when anybody from Latin America…

It’s a damn shame when people in the black community are castigating another black women for taking a role because she “isn’t dark enough”, whereas white people have been wearing makeup and prosthesis for decades.

Johnny Depp looked nothing like Whitey Bulger.

I'm pretty sure the whips on the backs of their ancestors were less discriminating on this trivial difference.

No. It’s not at all bad to feel sorry for Zoe, here. That makes you a caring person who prioritizes the well-being of a real person over an adherence to rigid ideology.

This entire comment thread and article is a case study in categorical thinking. It’s lazy. It’s the type of thing I’d expect to see from the far right.…

I hate to be the one to break this shitty part of history to you, but most Dominican and Puerto Rican folks have ancestors who got to the islands via boat. Against their will. From Africa.

People keep referring to “the Simone estate” as “they” as though Nina’s royalties were sending these tweets. An estate consists of the assets of a dead person. Why doesn’t the person sending these tweets do it under their own name? It’s creepy to drag someone using a pseudonym like this. Is it Lisa Simone (as…

“what can easily be considered a modern version of blackface”

No. You’re right. It’s totally better to have an Asian guy with Asia powers, shedding his attempts at being a full, complete person and allowing himself to be pigeon-holed with the only powers guys with epicanthic folds are allowed to have.

Agreed. Casting him Asian plays right into racist tropes. Oh, he’s a martial artist so naturally he NEEDS to be of Asian decent. The character is white. Get over it. Fucking real life murder and institutional racism plaguing entire communities isn’t enough? We need to make up petty bullshit like this to be offended by?

EXCUSE YOU. Mentally challenged indeed. Perhaps we should leave the stage of her mental health up to experts.

Actually, the best conversations are in the greys, and you don’t have to deal with the sense of entitlement that many of the foolish “non-greys” have.

I’m pissed that someone who might have an undiagnosed mental illness is being treated like a piece of trash? I wonder why that might be.