Black (and, largely, half-black) Germans were actually not subject to the Holocaust as a class - the best numbers we have (see Richard Evans) suggest something like 1/200 black/half-black Germans spent any time in a camp. The general Nazi party line was that they were all the product of colonizing rape - German women…

Maria tweeted, “do children actually like jack black?” Do adults actually like lil’ xan? Is everything else in the word just so totally perfect that we’ve come to the point where this is the last remaining story? Or is it just the sort of cheap article you can write in 3-4 minutes and call it a day? 

Why is anyone rewarding them with making this story a deal? Neither of them is particularly talented, one of them is here by way of nepotism, the company is trying to force everyone to let them be famous by running half-assed soap opera stories, and jez’s reaction is, “yeah okay we can be pawns in this story that…

Also your conversations with a lawyer are only subject to privilege to the extent they deal with legal advice. PR strategizing is not legal advice. As it turns out, in a shocking development, the Hollywood Reporter is not a good source for understanding the law of evidence. 

Okay, my bad. I was off by 2%.

And I’m from America, but if I wrote a book depicting an all-white America we wouldn’t say “still progressive; buddy was born there”. 

Bingo. This is a story about Singapore as one imagines it living back in America - https://www.vox.com/first-person/2018/8/17/17715124/crazy-rich-asians-movie-singapore - NOT a story about Singapore from a Singaporean perspective.

You guys know Singapore is about as Chinese as America is white, right? Depicting an entire Singaporean story as all Chinese is the same as making a movie about America with only white people. It’s not progress, it’s a step backward.

Truly we live in a golden age of culture and art.

Is that the pedophille. That Rose McGowan defends? 

Hey so obviously what this guy wants is publicity and fame. Maybe don’t give it to him.

Wait. “Depending on your ethics”? How is knowingly causing (or risking) someone that much pain ever a moral choice?

That’s a great example of it right here. We’ve had anti-Semitic shootings in NY too, but you don’t hear me saying that all Jews are under threat to their lives at all times. Because extrapolating statistically small violence to a general risk to millions of people is panic-level irrationality and scare mongering. I…

No, I didn’t. A few acts of violence do not constitute a risk on the lives of all Jews, nor a few acts of violence a risk on the lives of all journalists. That is hyperbole. It is a dangerous American tendency to explode small acts of very horrifying violence into a feeling of enormous epidemic-like risk to oneself.…

I used to work at a Jewish Community Center. We had bomb threats and shooting threats about once a month. It would still be absolutely bananas to say “our lives were at risk” - some nutcases threatened us, and yes from time to time there is the odd anti-semitic murder, and that’s not nothin’, but it’s also not a…

That’s a good point. Oligarchic wealth should be celebrated as long as the oligarch comes from a class of people we like. The point of progressive politics is definitely - no sarcasm intended, of course - to make an inequitable society that benefits us and disadvantages people not like us. Definitely makes sense.…

Surprised it took this long for him. 

Wait hold up. So you’re angry that NBC will lie and act unethically to advance its own interests because...that enables conservatives to argue that NBC will lie and act unethically to advance its own interests? Why not just be angry that they’re unethical?

Also wait...so how did you like phantom thread? Which is just a movie about how white men can also be terrible people and it’s okay as long as they’re very talented. At least Armstrong was, by all accounts, a nice guy. 

Boo. I agree LaLa Land was both not a very good musical and also a bizarre story of white supremacy in jazz, AND ALSO I have obviously not seen First Man and can’t comment, but...