Yeah, if I be honest here for a minute, (and I could be wrong, but whatever), I think a lot of the people who are on this "we can't make fun of minorities in comedy" bandwagon don't actually know a lot of minorities. I get this feeling because anybody who's been friends with someone of a different background knows…

Yeah, I appreciate your stance here, man. I'm about as big a bleeding-heart liberal pussy as one can get and even I get annoyed that nobody can be made fun of anymore. I'm Hispanic but I agree with you that rich white dudes shouldn't be the only people who can be teased.

I was a 2nd-degree murder trial a couple of years back and I would say at least 3 of the jurors were ready to vote "not-guilty" walking into the first day. I honestly don't believe any amount of evidence would've swayed them.

Chicanos are specifically of Mexican descent (as opposed to Hispanics or Latinos). There's a big difference in some (very important) ways and there are some ways where there's not much of a difference. If Speedy were an insulting character, both groups (i.e. Mexicans/Chicanos) would probably be about equally insulted…

This is a legit movie. It's not a classic or anything like that, but it's interesting on several levels.

For whatever it's worth, as a Chicano, I can promise you that I've never met another Chicano that didn't love Speedy Gonzales. I'm not even sure what's stereotypical other than the accent. He's not lazy. He doesn't work on a farm. He's not a criminal. He speaks English. He's a sprinter instead of a distance runner.…

The point is we're all against victim blaming except when the victims are people we dislike or disagree with or otherwise look down upon. You want me to move on because your cognitive dissonance is showing.

So they're "asking for it" then?

This should've been the thread-stopper here. This nailed it (semi-pun semi-intended)

I mean, it sounds good and all, but you're basically promoting victim-blaming.

Except for that, you know, Bane was an actual threat and the Mandarin was pothead British actor.

Yeah, I don't understand that criticism either. If anything, the only real letdown was how unceremoniously Bane was killed, but the fact that Talia was the "big boss" didn't lessen Bane's impact for me one bit.

I know nobody will agree with me and I might sound crazy, and I'm not saying it's a perfect analogue, but I think Lucha Underground does a fantastic job of being a "dark and gritty" wrestling show while also embracing the fact that professional wrestling is inherently silly. Obviously you wouldn't want to embrace the…

Well, I mean, do you watch Hannity. I'm stereotyping, but I'm guessing I'm right that the vast majority of AV clubbers don't watch Hannity. And it's probably because they disagree with him. I do. And I don't watch him.

Chris Thompson at deadspin wrote the following about "fan service":

Do you have access to any?

When did he recant? The closest I've seen him come to "recanting" was in a documentary about Eminem he stated that Elvis was a genius but that he never gave credit where credit was due (i.e. to the Black forebears of his music).

God, AV Club, get a real hip hop writer. Jesus. Public Enemy has never been seen as "Stodgy Uncles" in the hip hop world. They're well-respected and praised even by artists whose music seems to stand against everything PE stood for. And their songs/albums are still played regularly in the inner cities and amongst us…

It's a comment on how Elvis exploited and profited from "Black" music. Now, we can debate on whether Elvis's appropriate of R&B and soul and Gospel qualifies as "racist" but that was what the lyric was about.

Hey, I never said it was easy. I did say it's getting redundant and stale and it compromises the feeling of there being actual stakes at…well…at stake.