ok, I was way off. I was thinking the green was meant to imply this warped corporate version of the garden of eden and that the book was red because it represented temptation and was the innies’ version of the tree of ‘knowledge’.

I think the show’s strengths are on the emotional level. I think the actress was going for a child who’s emotionally stunted after a childhood spent with absent parents who basically parked her in activities, then the apocalypse, then isolation with two adult strangers upon whom she had to rely and who themselves…

let me see if I have you correct. You’re proposing to further sub-divide Black people so that the people who’s skin and/or features aren’t stereotypically Black enough can’t get benefits you perceive that Black people are receiving?

Please provide more details and, more importantly, more specific details.

No, no, remember his brilliant stipulation: Must be from the blackest part where they ...*checks notes* ... they ... *re-checks notes* are not wearing clothing all day thus developed all that melanin.

Having watched it today, I’m relieved it was so pedestrian.

I share your ambivalence of having enjoyed the episode throughout while being acutely aware of each seam. The performances were good but off as you could see the dialogue doing breakneck delivery of resolution. The comedy was forced rather than feeling well-timed as in previous episodes making it feel out of place.…

Snark about these zealots was a lot more enjoyable when they weren’t succeeding in all their goals, seemingly unimpeded.

he’s basically a disposable anti-kanye and this keeps the brand in the news cycle. And he understands the assignment, competent dick on demand, be a distraction when needed, be out of the way when not. And when it’s time to retire the narrative, no mess.

I keep waiting for someone to make black licorice flavored candy corn.

Well, first, you’re ahead of me as I was a couple minutes ago old when I heard of the platform. Second: it has become fairly clear in recent years that at the very least facebook and twitter can be influential and damaging platforms for spreading misinformation, disinformation, and propaganda. So, I would lean away…

Well, this was disgusting to read and now be aware of as one more shitty thing people are doing for clout.  I can’t decide if we are actually living in a dystopia but it sure feeeeels like maybe we are.

She didn’t say she wasn’t. She says she identifies as black because that’s her identity and experience particularly culturally.

I like it.

As a book reader I can’t think of a way to snark about this, so I’m just going to make this meta comment and move along.

I mean, you’re on Bumble. That’s a dating platform that invites exactly the mentality in this article, aspirational dating in gaming format.

So ... both camps invest all this time and energy on this “game”, then they presumably end up in relationships, right?

While I recognize the gulf of difference between the white greek system and BGLOs, and while I agree with the need for a dismantling of what is functionally connective tissue for various pools of privilege and power for young whites, I worry that the moment something like this gains steam and makes headway, Black…

fuck R. Kelly.

Your disagreement is based on a definition of “simpler times” different from what I’m addressing. The “simpler times” of which I speak is the “dog whistle” of the time period for which the original show was set, rather than some sense that there weren’t issues the adults dealt with.

I hate to say I called it, but I called it.