I'm really not feeling the outrage on this one. Scott cast Yaphet Kotto in Alien in a pivotal non-raced role in Alien; Kotto went on to one of the most delicious character roles of all time in Homicide: Life on the Street. Similarly Djimon Hounsou's breakout role was in Gladiator. Compare this to the offensive casting…

No. You will not find a single contemporary history textbook or peer-reviewed academic paper that says that about indigenous peoples. This is not to say offensive depictions of "Noble Savages" do not occur all over the place in pop culture, they do, but that has nothing to do with credible scholarship. Like the poster…

Maybe you can get a review copy and let us know what minute/second/frame grab of the last reel the main character dies in, and how.

I should have added Eastern Europeans, but, yes. Don't forget "...and wear those round Dr. Zhivago glasses..." ;)

Well too bad because we're going to keep talking about it until people stop throwing wildly offensive and painfully obtuse parties where the "theme" consists of tired stereotypes about an entire culture or race of people.

I've been banned by the food and the True Stories guy – banned, not demoted! – that I just don't even get attached or put much effort into my Burner names anymore. At least Laymon is earnest; I think Pinkham knows how much he sucks/is a moron but, like the Jezebel writers of late, won't climb down even when he is…

A flame war? You must be watching live TV with Hillary Crosley! I'm sorry, it's the end of the day here, I'm just messing with you, I apologise.

I don't have to explain my genius to you.

I was actually referring broadly without realising that most people would not have seen it to EGR's nasty (I suppose in keeping with Hillary Crosley's nice response to criticism over the spoiler post) riposte, as she is always on about her experiences in the Midwest and as an esteemed alumna of Notre Dame University,…

Merkel, born in Hamburg ≠ Bavarian.

"misogynoir" = genius coinage.

Well to respond to the commenter below as well, it actually is a tradition, as the previous feature on the Kartoffeln calendar suggest. It's Bavarian, I should say, and there are a significant number of us as it's the geographically largest kingdom in Germany (and it was indeed a discrete kingdom until 1918). Moreover…

No, I know, that guy's a complete moron, and terribly unfunny, and defensive to the point of paranoia about his schtick as well.

I'm kind of curious about the writer's, and also C.A. Pinkham's juggernaut against German culture. It's not in any way humorous – the commentary, I mean – and comes across simply as ... weirdly bitter and jingoistic ... something like that.

Oh, myself also...I'm German, but I grew up in Brussels and learned first the Francophone Tintin and then to read in Flemish. I have wonderful associations with the memories of learning to read, and of my parents showing me the places around town (such as the museum Hérge incorporated into the "Congo" scenes) that…

thinks Tara has betrayed all of her "boys" to the police and (SPOILER ALERT!) brutally stabs her to death

People have some of the same issues with Tintin as originally depicted by Georges Remi (Hérge). See also: Robinson Crusoe, Tarzan. Most European libraries have moved these creations in their lives as books to non-fiction historical sections, and it seems like that's how they are supposed to be appreciated. There's…

See: all the influence the Koch Brothers have had on seating university boards of trustees, especially the semblance of governance that now exists in Florida.

Interestingly, the most notable instantiation of the intersection of German and American jurisprudence were the war crimes trials in Nürnberg. The panel of jurists was comprised of judges and attorneys from the U.S and different European countries. The "jury of one's peers" has become problematic in the U.S. system,…

That is a very good point and excellent turn of phrase, "sanitizes the role of the abuser..." I wish you peace, and also that there were some way to give you footnote-credit for this thoughtful wording, as I intend to use it when explaining these thoughts to others...I will refer people to this post, of course.