“Men Who Can’t Read...”, “...they’d even insinuate they did not—or could not—read at all“

Every time someone brings up The Confederate, and how it’s a terrible idea (for the record, I probably wouldn’t watch it if it was made.), I wonder if they even know about The Man in the High Castle.

There was a post that went viral a year or two ago where some uninformed internet person compared the state using inmates to fight fires as slavery. Apparently they were unaware it’s a completely volunteer program that offers a lot of benefits over regular prison life.  I’m assuming that was the beginning and end of…

For the record, I wasn’t a GoT fan and don’t give a shit about Weiss and Benioff. But I hate the terrible logic in articles like these. I’ll focus on two issues:

Oh please, Game of Thrones was so ‘bad’ that Jezebel ran a detailed report of each new episode to discuss how ‘bad’ it was. And these guys were so terrible that everyone thought Game of Thrones sucked right from the beginning. Which is why they made like 8 seasons of it. Which everyone hated.

Oh god, to live in the world through eyes like yours... where everything has to be filtered out like you looked at the internet through horse blinders because otherwise you lose your shit.... how terrible. I’m sorry you’re this insecure in your notions of how the world is.

The Southern Poverty Law Center and FBI disagree with your statement. Hate crimes against American Jews has shot up in recent years, while thankfully anti-Muslim hate crimes have gone down.

Cannon used his platform to spread vicious and dangerous conspiracy theories about a religious/ethnic minority that has been historically persecuted, and that currently has been facing a fast rising level of hate crimes in the USA, and you barely mention that and instead say “thank you” to him?

As a Jewish woman, it is so damn disheartening to see so many black people defending all this anti-semitism. These Jewish conspiracy theories are dangerous. If I can call out fellow Jews for their racism, why the hell can’t you call out anti-semitic black people? I don't care whether it's a klansman or a black…

“Whether you’re sitting in a barbershop or on the set of “Cannon’s Classroom,” you should speak up every single time that someone espouses racist, homophobic, sexist, transphobic or harmful beliefs. That is the only way to beat this stupid bullshit. We have to do it every single time.”

Somehow left antisemitic off that…

Michael Harriot can’t couch his ‘take’ in the context of Cannon’s antisemitism.

The irony in this article is that Michael Harriot, like Viacom, are focusing on different aspects of Cannon’s comments.

So why not give the other political party a try? I would think that voting exclusively for a party that has told you they would fix you for 50 plus years, yet never seem to deliver on their promises while saying there is still work to do so give us another 4 years to solve it? I know the other side isn’t perfect…

One can hope. On the other hand, they dragged Lady Forward down the street and tossed Wisconsin abolitionist Col. Hans Christian Heg into a lake in Madison.

Why did you leave out the anti-Semitic comments?

The people told you what they wanted by forcibly removing the statue of the slave trader.

I believe that racism is real and pervasive. I have seen it with my own eyes (in northern New York, where I live). I think, given the atrocity that was slavery and the ongoing atrocity that is systemic racism (and it’s many penumbras), that to err on the side of vastly over-doing it when fighting against this stuff is…

You left out the comments he made about Jews specifically, which were far more indefensible and more likely the actual reason why he got fired.

If we’re going to clean house, we have to sweep the corners too.

I feel like this argument is a deflection. Everything in it is correct- however, Viacom didn’t (or at lease didn’t say) they fired him because of the anti-white shit. It was because of the antisemitism. And that isn’t just words, that’s stuff that actively hurts and provokes violence against Jewish people.