This is the first middling review I’ve seen from a site I’d consider having an opinion worth noting. I’m taking this review with a grain a salt until I see this for myself. I’m pretty excited based on the other reviews I’ve read.

Your last two comments are right on point and I think you conveyed more precise sentiments than I was originally going for. We are on the same page.

Well said. All the idiots replying to you with straw-man arguments are just proving your point. Also I don’t know why we’re so quick to assume The Rock is referring only to the left with these comments. The right has proven itself to be extremely sensitive to language and gestures that don’t fit their worldview. I…

Malcolm X was outraged. Harvey Milk was outraged. Maya Angelou was outraged. James Baldwin was outraged.

I’m clearly against those things and if you read my post you know that’s not what I’m talking about.

As a pretty liberal person, I don’t disagree with this. I’m reminded of the demand letter that circulated around Oberlin a few years back calling out racial discrimination. They made some really legit points (clear discrimination in tenure decisions for faculty, and a lack of diversity among faculty as well), but…

Eh, I don’t think Rocky is too far off (NOTE: not talking about voting here, or the center, etc.). We *DO* live in an outrage culture. Outrage is used as grist for the 24-hour news cycle mill, and has been effectively weaponized by a handful of bad actors.

Yeah, I’d agree about that: more free time and more personal access to an exponentially larger media. I mean, I’m 45, and [HANGS ONION OFF BELT] even when I was in college, people still read newspapers, watched a half-hour news broadcast, etc., and then went on with their lives. I’m not saying it was better, just…

Didn’t say that. That’s what you call an over simplification.

I suggest that people on the left not attack each other for not being “left enough”. Let’s have a reasonable discourse and not weaken ourselves with some of the infighting I’ve seen. Pretty much my sentiment here.

People who believe or profess something that is clearly wrong like that are just using that as an excuse.

Sure, but there’s arguing for gun control and then there’s getting mad at an X-Men poster, or complaining that Iron Fist is a white guy, which I would say is definitely comparable to something like Fox News complaining that the coffee cups at Starbucks aren’t Christian enough. Jezebel just wrote an article condemning…

If you don’t think we live in an outrage culture right now just waiting to pounce the moment anyone says something that doesn’t 100% line up with what they believe, you’re either being disingenuous or you’re living in a cave.

Totally agree with your comment and the OC’s “There is a segment of the left that is as bad as the right”. Combining that ancient discord and the recent visibility of said discord, it creates a division between left and right that keeps expanding equally purely to one-up the other side.

I agree with you, and I share your politics. I teach a book in my class in which the author cites numerous studies that show trends in how men and women tend to respond in emergencies. The author repeatedly qualifies the examples and notes that they are not absolutes, but every year, a group of students rush into…

Stories are being generated with the sole intent of getting people offended.

For the most part, these are the same people that use “centrist” as an insult. They have no interest in convincing people that they’re right; they just want fascism in a candy-coated shell, called by a different name because the F-word has been co-opted by people who don't know what actual fascism is.

Well maybe he's onto something guys.

I liked the ending of Season 1. For all the feints the show takes towards the mystical and supernatural, at the end of the day it’s a more-or-less realistic depiction of the world, so of course the villains are going to turn out to be disgusting but conventional humans. Also, if I’m not mistaken, the series ends with…

Still watching it because of whatever “weaknesses”, to witness great acting by Mahershala Ali and supporting players, solid film production and mysteries to see unfurl is a great way to spend a Sunday evening. Everyone knows lightening can never be bottled again like the first season. But HBO still delivers adult and…