“approachable Asian in films expert” doesn’t mean “hey, unknown person, send me an email with question you could easily google”

lol. Say it a few more times, maybe a genie will appear and grant your wish that Karl Amadeus Mordo is Asian. It’s the key to all the time you’ve spent trying to convince everyone here that the casting was “blackwashing”. It would be a *shame* for that time to be so obviously wasted.

LoL ok man. I’m totally comfortable knowing what people are going to see in those pictures. You keep being you.

Official Marvel Page:

So which image from Marvel’s page on Baron (with the traditional Asian first name “Karl”) Mordo looks the most Asian to you?

Having worked with several Australians over the past couple years, I think his opening sentence checks out.

More like Andrew Bigot, amirite???

Schilling looks like the truck driver at the counter in some diner in the middle of nowhere ready to tell you how the world REALLY works, which they aren’t gonna teach you in some fancy college.

Knowing who she is adds no meaningful appreciation to her work. This “know the author, know the work” school of literary criticism, while popular in the 19th century, is now largely discredited.

And there’s a difference between being a writer and a public figure. Ferrante did not seek publicity and her writings are…

I think the central mistake made by this article is that it thinks information about celebrities is “news.” It’s not. It’s trivia, and we’d be better off as a society if more journalists understood this distinction. The real identity of Elena Ferrente is not news. It doesn’t matter. If you’re happy telling people…

Sorry, I don’t buy this bullshit. I’m an author who uses pseudonyms for a variety of reasons. For one thing, I definitely want my work to be analyzed apart from my data. Additionally, an author’s name is a brand and I write a few different genres of fiction; as well as, my first love, poetry.

“She is, by any standard, a public figure.”

Not that I have a better way* to go about things but the problem or truth is that “The public has a right to know true things that are important to the public.” is actually “The public has a right to know somewhat true things that we as reporters for any reason we want get to decide are important enough to the public…

Your staff thinks the sexual orientation of a non-famous person is news. So forgive me if I don’t give a fuck about your news judgment.

Having worked at Gawker Media and seen what writers — particularly women — are subjected to, you don’t think maybe we should respect someone’s desire to be anonymous when their real identity has no bearing on anything?

while i find the overall proposition this piece enticing from a logical standpoint, i find the argument that supports it entirely lacking.

yes, the point of journalism is to convey truth and true things to the public - that is what makes journalism a civic pursuit, and an admirable one. however, there’s a big…

The very general proposition of journalism is this: The public has a right to know true things that are important to the public.

I think you are really stretching this one.

oh shiiiiiit I didn’t see this!

It’s pretty fucking rich that people are cool with consuming and confronting slavery in the form of entertainment while gasping at the horror of it all, but refuse to budge when it comes to things like criminal justice reform, income inequality, etc., and acknowledging the lingering effects of a country built on the…