They could have just used Nepal or Bhutan.

No, it’s not just that. China has a nasty history of wiping out minority groups that aren’t “model Chinese” citizens, and there’s a ton of deep-rooted racial tension involved in this. There’s a lot of low key ethnic cleansing that still goes on to this day. Check out jazz culture in Taiwan and the Taiwanese language…

I’m so glad someone posted this. This is way more complex than just whitewashing a character. Going through my Masters program, I had a really good friend who was Mongolian and of Tibetan descent. I watched Chinese students, even people who were also my friends and normally wonderful human beings, act like racist…

Yeah, that decision comes from the Party leadership and they would shut that shit down if it acknowledged Tibrts “history” as a PLACE that EXISTS

The same goes for the idea that Taiwan is independent. When I was in China studying I witnessed otherwise intelligent, perceptive, thoughtful people descend into utter nationalism at the mere idea that Taiwan might be a different country and that it might have the right of self-determination.

But come on: here’s a country of one billion people who you see as so powerful that you’ll change a character’s ethnicity to fit your perceptions of their taste, but who you also see as so incredibly stupid that merely “acknowledging that Tibet is a place” will render them so apoplectic with politicized rage that…

He comes off like a real asshole in that interview. But then, anybody who uses the term “social justice warrior” as a way to excuse his company’s fuck up is most likely an asshole.

I freshwater fish. Live in Florida. Not going in that pond regardless of the person’s first name.

No, it’s not. The officers hadn’t IDed the driver as white or black, but go on, please, tell us how this is exactly the case.

oh no, cold water! Nothing I can do but sit here and talk!

ok. I forgot that fresh water fisherman save countless lives in pitch black swamps full of gators with their bare hands with no gear

Non sequitur much?

Pro tip: If you take a story about drowning and make it about guns...it’s not the other person is thinking irrationally about the gun issue.

Bobby your reaching so hard. Do you think the cops knew the race of the suspects when they crashed into the pond? Also rescuing someone from a car in the bottom of a muddy murky and dark pond is difficult as fuck, even Michael Phelps himself couldn’t have saved these girls. I feel sorry for the girls parents but this…

Don’t question him. He fresh water fishes so he’s the ultimate expert on this situation.

I like your posts BobbySerious, but you’re wrong on this one. How did the cops know the occupants in the car were black? It was 4 am....

So you would blindly wade into pond with muck that can trap you and could potentially have extremely dangerous animals inhabiting it? I sure as hell wouldn't.

Here’s an idea, maybe we shouldn’t be looking for “fault” after a tragedy?

Given the shit-sandwich that is our current presidential race, I’d gladly hand things over to a moistened bint what lobbed a scimitar at me.

And watery tarts lobbing swords.

Also rednecks with shotguns ;()