All the conflicted anti-hero chickens are coming home to roost. Good and evil are apparently outdated concepts, and all that matters anymore is if you’re badass.
All the conflicted anti-hero chickens are coming home to roost. Good and evil are apparently outdated concepts, and all that matters anymore is if you’re badass.
No, they didn’t. At least as far as I could find. The often mentioned quote talking about Parker’s intent on using Trump this season is in its entirety below:
One week. One week is how long it took until the show tackled (and very much chastised) the current presidency. And yet we got more than half a year and thousands of comments about how Trey and Matt were alt-right cowards who didn’t want to alienate their fan base, don’t want to stand for anything, etc.
I guess were all gonna have to grow up now.
Crud. I remember when I was a kid getting such a rush out of just walking in the door to a Toys R Us. It was like the closest thing to heaven! I can’t fathom how any kid today could feel any differently.
Personal hatred of Juggalos is fine, oppression by the government is never OK, ESPECIALLY if is a group people hate.
I decided I wanted to spend some time really deep in a long read, so I decided to start on Crime and Punishment by Dostoevsky. I’m not even 100 pages in yet, but there’s already a very feverish intensity to it- the feeling of someone going mad.
I’m trying, I’m trying real hard to get through William Gibson’s Neuromancer, but it’s just not working. I can normally go through five or six books a month, but the prose is so dense every time I pick it back up I have to re-read to same chapter again to try to catch myself up.
Alright, that Dragnets sign is pretty damn good.
“But she should be subject to that criticism. It should be an uncomfortable space for a white artist to appropriate black music. It’s only because of her white privilege that Iggy can be in that uncomfortable space but not have it get in the way of her career.”
Being able to approach something on your own terms - or rather, it’s own terms - is huge in a way I don’t think gets enough credit, particularly given the internet’s slavish devotion to the backlash/backlash-to-the-backlash circle of life. Preconceptions can’t just be dismissed and context is everything. Being…
Oh, like you wouldn’t have posted that.
Anything less than a total commitment to political violence, ideological purity, and modern racial identify obsession will not be tolerated, eh, AV Club/Bee/Progressives?
Seriously? They bring in actual reformed white supremacists on to try and talk about how to deal with this situation and your response is “LOLOLOLOL WHITE PEOPLE AMIRITE?!?!?!!?”
I also love the notion that hugging a Nazi is some sign of ridiculously effete white privilege. The article even feels compelled to at least acknowledge that Fred Armisen isn’t entirely white, but apparently feels that Carrie Brownstein’s ethnic identity doesn’t even merit a mention. She’s white! Surely the neo-Nazis…
Virtually no one is in physical jeopardy — at the moment — from white supremacists. The current battle is one of ideas, not an actual battle. People understand this, right? The idea of nonviolent resistance is actually a rather good one, and not just morally, but strategically. Can we stop snarking at it now, please?
You’re wrong Kel C! You’re wrong! John Oliver’s rants are hilarious, and you are wrong. It’s a fact, Kel C. It’s a fact.
It’s a rich vein of humor that one can mine for hours, leading to such giggle-inducers as “Mike Huckabee’s son once murdered a BOG in cold blood,” because the image of a person murdering a dog in cold blood, as Huckabee’s son did, is not funny at all.
“They’re “oooooh you’re not SUPPOSED to mock Jews and Transpeople and gays that way but we GO THERE!!!””
I think some people seeing this headline are in for a little disappointment if they are going in expecting the show’s message to blast only one side and not point out anything wrong with the cycle of aggression and violence that both sides fed. Those guys are very centrist and no one is safe from ridicule. And in…