No idea what that means. Sorry.

> You’re free to do it, people are free to react.

That’s a separate issue. That’s not cosplaying; that’s attempting to lighten their skin in “real life”, chasing some questionable cultural value of lighter skin being deemed more attractive. 

> Blackface was once used in a way that dehumanized the people it was portraying: it is a part of a racist legacy.
Trees were once the main prop used for lynchings, but I’m not planning to ban trees from my garden.  

> People shouldn’t tint their fucking skin for costuming.
Why not? Why are your arbitrary rules the ones that need to be obeyed? If someone was cosplaying as Oola from Return of the Jedi, they shouldn’t be allowed to tint their skin green? It’s fucking ridiculous.  

Why would Europeans need to follow the cultural mores of a country with an unusual history of racism? This feels more like an allergic reaction than an immune response.

It is complicated. But you don’t want it to be complicated, because that requires effort. And people are generally lazy. 

Yep, and this is a real problem in the modern age: Americans imposing their own cultural values on other people and demanding that they acquiesce to the parochial concerns of the USA. 

> As it stands, white people wearing dark makeup to appear black is the continuation of a practice tied to the mocking of black people

This is overfitting. It’s a lack of nuanced thinking and/or a willingness to just acquiesce to the demands of people because they’re part of a group that was treated badly in the past.…

I remember setting up a download to get the first trailer of Phantom Menace, in 240p, over dial-up. It took around three hours if memory serves. That was all charged at local rates at the time (this was in the UK). I can’t remember how the cost compared with going to the cinema to watch Jan de Bont’s The Haunting.

The Bruins have been a dirty team as far back as I can remember. 

So odd, because almost all of the major delays I’ve had have been with Delta. To the extent that I will avoid them if possible. I guess I’m just a statistical freak. 

It’s not just TLJ, though. It’s the trilogy as a whole. Poorly conceived, with all the wrong people being hired. 

Problem is JJ has no track record at finishing long form stories. He just coasts by on a wave of design debt that other writers have to deal with after he’s buggered off. The Bernie Madoff of screen entertainment. 

A fair summary. 

I can’t wait to see all the people who seem to lack the cognitive capacity to see utterly basic plotting problems, with which TLJ is replete. 

But he put the big bad into power, and billions of people died before he corrected his mistake. So not really a huge win. 

No, it’s rubbish. 

I would imagine just getting a competent screenplay with basic plotting, logic and coherent character motivations would be a step in the right direction. 

Correct. It was a team effort between Johnson and Abrams.