On that list only Bad Boys and Sonic were released in 2020. Only movies released in January were able to get decent grosses before the shutdown, and January and February are where bad movies are released to avoid competition from good movies. I wonder if some studios will try to get Oscar recognition by purposely …

They are using the old tired trend of adding an “r” to get your app name like tumblr and flickr, but they added it to Parle (as in talk, confer, negotiate), without realizing the non silent “e” defeats the whole purpose and leaves you with a mis-spelled word. If you want to say the new trend is to end your app in “er”…

Yes, the Cleveland Show (or Family Guy) with a Black Head writer and a white voice actor would have been objectively better. That wasn’t happening (and writers don’t write individual characters, so...difficult to enforce). But actors are more “visible” so that is where pressure could be applied, especially since it…

This is basically a bunch of people embracing Nazis because they like their uniforms. It really should be harder for White Supremacist terrorists to recruit than just dressing up favorite cartoon characters in dope SS outfits.

That was the first one they decided was broken. Several of the housemates sat around and did nothing because MTV never thought about labor laws that meant that Americans couldn’t get jobs in England and the unemployed housemates didn’t have the money to do anything in London. It was a very predictable screw up. The…

No one has said the character ethnicity has to exactly match. Certainly not all parts of a multiracial character. Just that people are tired of connected white people being crammed into every role. There were plenty of chances to do ethnicity-blind casting. It never happened and wasn’t going to. So this is the best…

If you had diverse casts voicing diverse characters written by diverse staffs it wouldn’t matter. Jenny Slate could voice Missy if Cree Summer was voicing Jessie. It is not what has happened, and it wasn’t going to happen, especially for the major voice roles for the major shows. The voice casts tend to be…

Yeah, even if Gaetz adopted orphaned Hispanic, Black and Asian infant boys, raised them the last 18 years, posted pictures of them daily and introduced them as his sons to everyone he met, Gaetz would still be in the wrong here. His whole thing didn’t make any sense and we’d be talking about that except claiming his…

There was a time they pretended the animated parts existed on their own as shorts. The live action parts were the revisionist truly gross stuff that was phased out. But the last several years people haven’t been comfortable with the idea of telling Joel Chandler Harris stories to children at all. There is just too…

Hopefully these are temporary measures so that the offending scenes don’t pop up out of nowhere. It takes at least a some time to work out disclaimers and controls. Everyone should be able to see them, but it should require an opt-in where you know what’s coming and aren’t subjected to it out of nowhere.

Scrubs was not a satire of ER. It uses the audience’s familiarity with medical shows to establish its setting. It wouldn’t exist if medical shows weren’t popular, and ER was the most popular at the time, but there is nothing specific to ER. It is a sit-com and it makes comedy while telling stories about its hospital s…

I’d say most Holocaust deniers don’t really care whether the holocaust happened or not. They are just aggrieved by the idea that the Jews get anything out of being perceived as victims or that anti-Semites should face any consequences. The denial is the best way to do that. They like the actual holocaust.

In his head the knowingly was in quotes with a footnote about how no one can prove what he knew, even the girl whose profile said she was 17 in the app he used to ask for naughty pictures. Maybe he doesn’t read profiles. You ever think of that? He finds they get in the way of really getting to know a nice 22 year old…

Because she’s a foreign plant! Nice try Comrade!

How is naming Slave after Slavs not a racial implication? It may not reflect American style black/white/yellow/red racism (Slavs are now considered white), but it is singling out specific ethnic groups as inferior and worthy of enslavement based on group physical characteristics and origin. That’s pretty much the…

The terminology of white=clean, pure, good; black=dirty, corrupt, bad developed independent of race and predates the modern conception of race. It is not inherently racist. But racial concepts were aggressively applied to rationalize and propagate racism. So it is unfair to wrap up this age-old imagery in racial…

How about they call themselves “Lady A 182"

It also hinders our ability to create an inclusive environment for our entire community: Rioters, players, and partners alike.

Isn’t the problem when you use gay characters as plot devices who exist only to serve the hetero characters instead of developing them into real people with their own stories? Or when movies indulge a prurient desire to see gay people suffer? Or when they seem to die as punishment for being gay like horny teenagers in…

Actually you can find “Reconstruction: The Second Civil War” on Youtube for free. I’m pretty sure it is a copyright violation, but it has been up for 3 years. The titles are “Reconstruction Part 1 of 2" and “Reconstruction Part 2 of 2" on the page of someone named Isaac Moffett.