Sure it could be written better but it’s not as horrifically confusing as the original angry comment made it out to be.

Okay, but what do those facts actually result in? Can you honestly say the movie would look or feel any different if Killmonger was from Harlem? It’s not like the brief scenes in Oakland are in any way specific to that place.

i would even say the thor thing is a very specific example where they had a franchise that people didn’t seem to like very much, but starring a character they needed to keep, that just so happened to have an actor who had recently proven comedy bonafides.

“I don’t get offended at jokes about people like me, so why are you upset about endless political attacks against people like you that attempt to erase your sense of identity?”

“I still think anyone demanding that Netflix pull it is wrong.”

this is what comedy is, laughing at mostly stupid things youre not supposed to laugh at

“You can’t punch down if you don’t believe you’re above them, if you respect them as equals.”

they can go buy tickets to his shitty show, there is no need for netflix to broadcast this into homes, just pull it.

You brought up something I touched on awhile back (the centrality of a group identity to the character) on an article about gay actors and the roles being written and offered.

As much as we talk about representation (I’m black and gay myself), the reality is that historically, there aren’t that many notable people…

I find it weird that the actor portraying Mrs Maisel is not Jewish when the character herself is very Jewish. I wouldn’t go out of my way to argue it has to be a Jewish person, but I’m also not Jewish. I could definitely understand an argument that the portrayal is borderline offensive especially because it’s not a…

I agree with at least one thing you’ve said above, that cancel culture or microagressions are both abstract. Much of how social interactions operate are abstract, but there’s an ocean of difference to what either are. Microaggressions are ways to identify subtleties in how we communicate and how we affect other…

It’s not about conversion, it doesn’t need to be.

You didn’t ask me, but i’ll answer, as my experience was similar to halolds’.*

additionally, referring to Kevin Hart as a “comedian” is stretching things a bit to begin with.

And like half those Netflix specials have names like “Triggered” or something similar that seems to indicate some white guy is specifically getting paid to say stuff they publicly handwring about being “cancelled” for.

In all honesty “cancel culture” isn’t real in the sense that it’s basically a right wing buzzword like “SJW” or “Virtue Signaling”. “Canceling” once meant something within black spaces which then got appropriated by white people and then “cancel culture” become the go to buzzword for assholes to shout like a “Get Out…

You mean all the barn doors and shiplap didn’t disgust her already?

Seems fitting. Whenever I saw a Chadwick Boseman performance, I’d say to myself, “That man truly embodies what it means to be non-fungible.”

It’s hard. I feel you on that. I am also tired of the constant “fix things...no not that way”. While its totally appropriate sometimes, it has started to feel like a purity competition where we fail to consider that the person trying to fix things (even if they are not doing a great job) might have the best intentions…

I would like you to know that I was not ready for this, emotionally.