I know it's easy to say, "Oh, the West is the worst," but these kinds of "outsiders carry disease" attitudes aren't unusual to the big bad West. Japanese even today believe that HIV is a "foreigner disease" even though the HIV infection rate in Japan is on the uptick among Japanese themselves. These problems are…

A really interesting article with a lot to think about.

As a longtime bleeding heart liberal, this article is so unbelivably self-serving and disingenuous.

A lot of the supplies sent by western governments have gone missing due to diversion, or been held up by lack of transportation infrastructure and resources.

Seriously. These images of children and dying and medical interventions and "invisible suffering" are not convenient metaphors for some writer, comfortable in her desk chair, to craft some moralistic allegory: they are the realities of this disease, of how it is handled in the US/Europe vs. Africa, of how medicine has…

Cue the race-baiting, preemptive attacks on anybody who might critique the article's premise.

Jesus Fucking Christ. Leave it to Gawker media to find a racist lining in the Ebola outbreak. Kudos, you morally relativistic fuckfaces!

People on my facebook feed are saying: "He's also worked with Katy Perry, how come she hasn't come out with anything yet?"

You mean she tries to rap in a rap voice? Jay Z doesn't sound like he does on his rap albums. Rapping is an art so you have to change your voice. It's entertainment people. Singers don't talk like they sing and rappers don't talk like they rap. It's ridiculous to say that it's the voice of a southern black women…

Meh. Once you market a certain culture, and then that culture becomes a brand (of sorts), I don't think it's fair to consider it "cultural appropriation" anymore. Being ignorant of the history of what rap is and is not is one thing (it's poetry,plain and simple. Whether it's good or bad poetry is something else…

im a pretty big fan of iggy, not going to lie, so it bothers me when people say shes not genuine and compare her to the present-day nicki minaji. Does anyone remember nicki circa 2009? She was gimicky as hell, she made a shit ton of money and now wears actual fashion and not crazy wigs/eyesore outfits #neverforget

Its Wasco, it's ok if you do.

"So instead of working to be a better news station that is attractive to advertisers, let's just say 'fuck it' and run some music. Oh yeah, we've fired everyone."

What's the problem? After all, 100% white = 0% cultural appropriation.

A lot of the "Nice Guys" end up becoming feminists. In fact plenty of the "Nice Guys" I know are feminists, they're just complete introverts so they don't say it much. Most of them claim to be nice guys because they've been told they're ugly, fat, awkward, geeky, etc.

Pretty much any guy whose not traditionally…

This book clearly tries to invoke a narrative style reminiscent of the gangster rap that helped to popularize the term "thug". It uses lots of swear words, and feels boastful (e.g., "and guess who ain't getting none"). But is it racist? I mean, are they trying to sound like "black people" writ large (the racist…

I was about the write the same thing. True, she should not back down on demanding high standards from the people she works with and venues, she has every right to tell journalists to not ask about her personal life. But when your demands start to include things like "you may only photograph the left side of my face,"…

Agreed. There are lots of areas where I agree that there's a double standard against female performers, but I'm really not seeing one here. Ariana isn't being criticized having detailed backstage riders (which Van Halen actually had a good reason for including, as they'd been having problems with venues not complying…

Ok. Honestly, I don't understand why this article is basically saying "ok, go be rude." Yes, there's a double standard for women when it comes to being assertive, but there is a WIDE difference between being commanding and being rude. Good manners, saying please and thank you, treating others how you want to be…

Because they're not black. Right? I haven't read the article, but I'm pretty sure I'm right. Why use terms like "diverse" or "revolutionary" instead of just saying what you mean?