Does that strawman come with the blinders? I couldn't care less about Bernard.

Yah makes sense

imo saying that she's on Putin's payroll isn't much different from believing that vaccines cause autism or whatever.

/rail against conspiracy theorists
/"paid Kremlin spokeswoman Jill Stein"

This has to be a parody, right? It sounds like a Nathan For You plotline.

Did you watch until the end? I don't think that's what the director wanted you to get out of this film.

Sure.

This is proof that many white liberals really didn't get that Jordan Peele's Get Out was about them.

Sure, "Islam" is not a race inasmuch as "Black people" aren't a race. 'Human races' don't exist in biology, they exist in a sociological sense. Racialisation, the process of defining a group of people as a race, happens when said group is ascribed an inherent identity. 'Islam' as a religion is established in several…

He was using the library wifi to make the call via an app. It all checks out!

I really don't understand your image of her, as though all her actions were justified. Nora is probably my favourite character on the show, her huge hypocrisy being one the reasons I like watching her. She openly mocks and ridicules anyone who even shows a speck of metaphysical beliefs (or anyone who shows sympathy to…

Referring to the practise of female infanticide prevalent in Arabia and other places at the time. But yeah, context and rhetorics, whatever, right.

Its audience was really super tiny, though. Doesn't seem likely.

The Cleary and Harry twist was really wicked and it did seem out of character at first, but when you think about it, is it really? A man subtly manipulating a woman and taking actions on her behalf, in what he believes to be her own interest without asking her at any point, for utterly selfish reasons - it doesn't…

The fact that most of the old crew work on late night shows now is… something. I don't know. Definitely not a fun fact.

I think this view of all-encompassing whiteness in history is problematic in itself. Like, if we take Pally's example, Sephardim as a distinct ethnicity originated in the Iberian Peninsula during a relatively peaceful time and enjoyed a few centuries of social and economic prosperity, relatively speaking. Women were…

Yeah, if you're into indie films. I liked Night Owls.

I'd call what you described just plain Liberalism, in the classical sense that is still used in Europe and that should absolutely be distinguished from Leftism, as seen during the recent protests and shut-downs by leftist activists to which mainstream liberals reacted with utter distress.

I can't speak to the motivations of everyone who opposes Israel, but the scholars I've read who have published on this and the people I know or I am friends with, including those of Jewish and Palestinian origins, are at the least left-leaning, have a general interest in human rights and are critical of violent…

Paul Rust in real life is a charming and funny man. Gus is just a black hole, devoid of any winning character traits.