A lot of those sex, drugs and rock n roll cults involve sexual abuse against minor children so.....

Social media can be as helpful as it is hurtful. While it can lead to problems because kids can’t escape the potentially toxic social problems at school, it also can lead to a lot of kids finding an online community for support (which I suspect is very helpful for LGTBQ kids in small towns) when they wouldn’t of had…

But finding a male lead in his 20s who can act and sing has proven difficult — especially since the studio wants someone of Middle-Eastern or Indian descent 

Are they influencing him? Yes, influencing him to deactivate and limit his presence online. You answered your own question.

Given that they have what amounts to dirt on him in this situation, yes. They hold the power in this dynamic, unless things shift away from that; from the reactions, people aren’t going to let it go easily, and when your job requires you to interact with the public, negative public perception like this is a…

There’s a common theory that James Bond is a code name, much like M or Q. No reason it couldn’t work. And God knows there are South Asian dudes who live in Scotland, too.

Your real mistake is that you assume others can’t understand. Emasculation of Asian men, fetishization of Asian women, relegation of non-white characters to support roles, othering, and stereotypes aren’t impossible to understand.

Yes this is another really good point. Generally speaking though, she’s right, but when you start to look within the groups, you are correct. Where I live there is a huge Burmese refugee community, and they are not doing well on any of those metrics. And yes, the model minority thing is part of the stereotypes people…

Right, Asians are so respected that Chris Rock can parade three Asian kids onto the stage at the Oscars as the butt of a joke. Isn’t it adorable how all Asians are child-worker math nerds?

It’s that old conversation about the relationship of racism and power. You can be a victim of racial prejudice without being oppressed by power. Asian people generally do face stereotypes and prejudice, sometimes on a daily basis, and lately it has included being the target of violence (if you look like you could be…

Do you know how many Sikh men & hijab-clad Asian women alone have been murdered, brutalized, and humiliated in this country in just the last decade? You are embarrassing, dude. And “Asian” includes everything east of occupied Palestine and west of California, sooo..... shhhh

Yeah, you’ve had way worse. And? Asians should just shut up about everything race related cause they haven’t had it the worst of all?

On what possible metric are Asian people oppressed? Asian people have higher average incomes, higher levels of education, lower rates of incarceration, better access to healthcare, and fewer instances of police violence then WHITE PEOPLE. Asian people literally outperform WHITE PEOPLE on ALL the metrics.

As far as I know there’s never been a court case about this kind of thing, but I would be very (very) surprised if it held up under a legal challenge. It has a such hugely disproportionate impact on poor and minority students it’s arguably a constitutional rights issue and it’s not actually related to meeting…

Also wouldn’t denying these students their diplomas make them less hireable? The logic of this escapes me.

So if you can’t afford college without a job, and you can’t get a job because there aren’t enough entry level positions for every 18 year old in the city, they won’t give you a diploma and thus make it harder for you to get a job later on?

This seems like one of those ideas that someone pitched to the Mayor as a splashy policy that would generate a lot of “tough love” good publicity, but lord will it have massive amounts of unforeseen (or completely foreseeable from some peoples’ points of view) consequences. For instance; disabled children won’t get a…

She usually says she wants a partner though. She’s lovely and we all want her to be happy.

I don’t know if you actually read his whole post, but that’s not all he said. He talks about his initial terrible justifications for his behavior and how he felt indignant at the accusation and after speaking with several people he realized he was the one in the wrong, and that he is in counseling to try to correct…