I mean is it really our job to be outraged for the citizens of Japan when they seem to feel no outrage at this situation?

Uproar over cultural appropriation is BS 99% of the time. I think culture if too often conflated with ethnicity as well. It’s natural for culture to spread.

I wasn’t so much wondering why his mom couldn’t sponsor him.

I was curious about this, too. What has been published so far suggests that his parents brought him into the country as a child on a valid H1-B visa; then they lost their jobs and couldn’t get another visa, so they stayed illegally instead of going back to the UK. I’m not sure if that information is correct, but…

So his mother and siblings are citizens or permanent residents (unless they were born in the Us and he wasn’t) so he eventually had to know about his own legal status. I wonder is his current status just neglect of his own not to try to take care of it earlier through other means...i am not sure but I believe the…

Didn’t he enter a first offender plea to felony charges? If so, that makes him a “convicted felon” for the purposes of immigration law, and his attorney at the time should have advised him of that.

SNARK ALERT:

Why should I provide you with a link?

Having your record expunged at the state level is basically irrelevant for the purposes of a green card application, which is reviewed at the federal level. He would still have to claim in the application that he was arrested and convicted of a felony drug-related charge.

I hope everything works fine for 21 Savage.

“It was horrible, horrible, when I think back, that I did that,” he says. “And I’ve never admitted that, and I’m saying it to a journalist. God forbid.”

Precisely. He’s brave af to own up to his disgusting impulse. Folks all up and through here acting like nobody else has had thoughts like this. Please. 

Neeson admitted he’s disgusted by that impulse, which he said lasted for a week and a half.

Absolutely, and considering the demographic skew in favor of finding such people [white boys] lurking drunk in and about the pubs he haunted I believe he would likely be in jail for achieving his ends.

Uggh Frida/Jez: Be the changer we want to see in entertainment reporting.

Because she is female and black, all the writers here are terrified to say what is hilariously obvious.

I’ll give you successful but funny and attractive?

I can’t imagine that the number of trans women in anyone’s lives is so great that there is a real threat to be concerned about them taking up space that “should go to a woman.” I’ve spent my life in the theater, interior design and Target HQ (the gay mecca of the midwest), attended Pride with gay friends regularly and…

Is the OP trying to give them a pass? I thought they were advocating trying to understand the hows and whys of the phenomenon and not just lump everything together. 

I first ran into the TERF phenomenon around the Michigan Womyn’s Music Festival in the early eighties. They were called separatists then.