I’d love to see some counter-evidence for any of it, person with a keyboard and no platform. 

I can’t imagine a functioning adult taking winning a dumb comment thread argument this seriously. Me being like a child makes me an incalculably more valuable member of society than you are.

Excellent articles that are tangentially related but don’t actually support your claim. Pair that with some pointlessly argumentative nitpicking, and you’re really living up to your username. Good work!

So you got nothing, eh? I expected as much.

Do you only communicate in moronic strawmen, or do you save that just for comment threads?

I agreed that it’s a bad headline, but if you read the text (like apparently no one else did) it doesn’t use the term “toxic parent” in this section or any other. The actual language is much more measured than you seem to think, but I know that reading is hard and you and Fritz couldn’t be bothered to do it.

Prove it.

Meh, I tried that for a while but then I realize that I was categorically incorrect, so I didn’t see a purpose in continuing on. I’m quite surprised that you did. Did you need me to provide a more detailed explanation of how you are correct and how I am wrong? I’ll be happy to provide one.

Oops I reread all the posts and it turns out that I was entirely wrong and you were entirely correct. I apologize for my racism and colorism and generally problematic speech. I have to do the work and stop perpetuating white supremacy which I was doing and that was unforgivable. Thank you for doing the work that…

I never said “social justice warriors” either. If you’re just going to make things up (and put quotes around them as though I said them?!?), I think I’m going to sign off on this one. Have a good one and I hope you find some peace. It sounds like you need it.

I never once said that people shouldn’t be criticizing the makers of this movie. You made that up.

Got it, so you’ve redefined “backlash” to exclude widespread criticism. I guess that’s pretty convenient. What is backlash, then? Like I said, you can think what you want, but the internet disagrees with you. Relatedly, it doesn’t take an organized boycott for people to say “everybody on the internet is mad about this…

I’m glad that you think there’s no backlash. I’m sorry to inform you that the world disagrees (Don’t believe me? Google “ ‘In the Heights’ backlash”). Also, the movie is significantly underperforming at the box office, so a widespread backlash among their precise target market contributing isn’t some far-fetched idea. …

True, it’s definitely common to go the opposite way, where people drop all discipline along with corporal punishment. It especially happens when their own parents use corporal punishment to abusive levels and they don’t want to be like their parents and overcorrect.

That’s fair, though the examples you gave (with the exception of Nina, which I’d never heard of) are more about white people playing specific characters that shouldn’t be white. I can’t think of a movie/show that’s had a cast that was whiter than it should have been getting any kind of backlash than this. It’s fine if…

Like I said, there’s lots of vague bellyaching about the whiteness of it all and vague calls for more diversity in general. This kind of concentrated, targeted demand for accountability for a specific director and producer for a movie that probably should have been more diverse? It’s very rare. I’d be happy to be…

Yet here you are.

It’s so important to think about your priorities and know that different priorities will guide you to different modes of exercise. So much advice conflates “incorrect and possibly dangerous” with “doesn’t fit into my fitness priorities.” I see this all the time when people tell Crossfitters that their low-weight,…

Meanwhile, the vast majority of TV and movies use majority white casts and no one says a word beyond vague bellyaching. It’s amazing how, after creating dozens of iconic roles for people of color between Hamilton and In the Heights, Lin-Manuel Miranda has been an absolute punching bag for social justice types, while…

I’ve never heard a kid called “picky” in a way that is positive, and I’m not alone. It always has an air of judgment or frustration attached. It’s not much different when applied to adults, either. Can you think of any situation where a kid would be called picky and feel good about it?