YES. We see the exact same “logic” coming from the fact averse on both the right and the left (I’m looking at you, anti-vaxxers, trying to drag us back to the 17th century!) Goody Benjamin walked by my cow, the next day my cow died, ergo Goody Benjamin is a witch!

So glad Carroll mentions the debates about Tituba’s race. And yes, the collective memory so often touts the Puritans as champions of freedom of religion. Fuck no! Like the evangelicals today who decry “sharia law” while demanding that everyone study the bible in school and say “Merry Christmas” the Puritans didn’t…

I heard he actually loathes the boys and gives them shit all the time. Belittling them, and embarrassing them in public. But his Ivanka? Well now that’s a different story. He’ll listen to anything she has to say. I am guessing if he was into men, he would listen to his sons more, though. Because that’s how the…

Because this is a myth. The only one he cares about is Ivanka, and it ain’t parental feelings he has for her. Someone like Drumphf only cares what someone can do for them, including their children. As long as his sons kiss his ass, make him money and do their jobs, he is for them. If this works for Drumphf he is for…

Related...There is and has been a disturbing trend of total fetishization of hitler everything. I swear there are multiple history related channels that might as well be called the hitler network. Yes their specials are titled THE MOST EVIL MAN IN HISTORY, but it’s still all hitler all the time in a way that can be…

Though I would have thought Vader would have placed his castle on an Aloe planet...or Aveeno.

Vader in this movie made Kylo look like the whiny wimp-ass bitch that he is.

cuz there’s just so many roles for Asian actors

In the comics, Swinton’s character is a stereotypical “wise Asian” character, which many people find offensive. Rewriting that role as a white woman removes that, and creates a role for a woman. And then, they wrote a new Asian role and cast an Asian actor. No Asian actors lost work, a role for a woman was created, a…

Anakin has always had this need to appear cleverer than everyone else and get the last word in. It isn’t him being cool, it is him being a snide and insecure jackass. Whenever you think you’ve heard Vader say or do a cool thing, imagine Hayden Christensen saying it in his angsty Anakin voice, it actually is a kind of…

I disagree on Vader’s voice, James Earl Jones still works that dialogue like a champ.

Yeah after this I think Leia deserved it more.

I forgot, women are hysterical and our periods make us unable to form coherent thoughts. But a mans gotta be a man. It’s not sexual harassment, just locker room talk.

I wrote a letter to my local councilman in my former city when we were trying to add LGBTQ to the protected classes. I wrote exactly this: Your children, and their children will judge you harshly if you don’t stand up now. It is easy to stand up when everyone has evolved. It matters most to stand up when it is…

If you can rewrite a character to be different and white, you can also rewrite a character to be different and still Asian. I don’t really understand why that should be a problem. The only choices aren’t White or Asian stereotype

“It’s not manly to get sad, but blind seething rage? I’ll take 2 please!”

I think this is where you have a privilege that I don’t. As a white person, please do, please talk to other white people about race whether they “get it” or not. As a black woman, most of the time when I talk to people who don’t “get it” (and I do), I just get shit on most of the time. Some of the comments that I’ve…

I kinda felt like the reasons were legit too. If I am understanding it correctly they changed the white guy into an Asian lead and created a new Asian character? And switched out the overtly rasict depiction of an Asian male for a white female? I can totally understand the Scarlet Jo outrage, but I don’t think this is…

The Force works in mysterious ways

Why? There’s plenty in the lore about Force-sensitives that aren’t powerful enough to be Jedi, like these (blind) temple guardians