Just to bring some disturbing historical context into this, that’s exactly what some slave masters would do to their biggest and strongest slaves. They would sodomize them in front of the others to “prove” their power and strike fear into them. This shit goes round and round.

ding ding ding. and having black guys repeating the n word over and over in his movies so white bros can quote it afterwards has always been a shitty move.

who’s this “we?” i have hated tarantino from day one. everything you listed plus playing a rape scene for laffs in pulp fiction = not down with his bullshit. never. ever.

I don’t think so. tarantino does not hide his flaws. He broadcasts them openly. This is a guy with a well publicized foot fetish who wrote a scene where salma hayek shoves her foot down his throat.
We were ok with him manipulating her into quasi prostitution on camera, and we just out and let him say the N word as much…

The kind of fucked up where you know you could get him fired and jailed in ten minutes. Crews was 100% on point.

This might be a good reason to retire (or rethink) the “suitor who won’t take no for an answer” trope. It sounds kinda sweet when it’s part of your grandparents’ “how we met” story. But it’s seriously creepy in stories like Weinstein’s.

Batman has always been the personification of America’s “secret” belief that private wealth and violence are the cure for poverty and mental illness. I suspect this comment section will prove how uncomfortable people get when it’s called to attention.

Seriously, Vice has been full of racist shitbags since it started, they’re just reverting to type.

White people: Fighting to remove statues of minorities who offended their flag and anthem, yet also fighting to uphold the statues of men who fought to destroy the flag and anthem. Oh and child molester enablers. They want statues of child molester enablers to stick around too.

“But it got glossed over in every single fucking conversation as if that isn’t the ENTIRE point of Damon’s piece. Like, that’s the WHOLE point. He could have framed it differently, but he didn’t.”

No other team released a statement anywhere near this strong. Other teams talked about their players rights to protest (ie ‘we support the first amendment, but we have no opinion on the subject’).

So how was the theater Jean Val Jean?

I disagree. Trump is bad. I did not vote for him or Hillary. But under Clinton, the white supremacists would have continued to hide & continually spread their venom & do their dirt. Trump dog-whistled them out of hiding into the public where now this 400-year old question of racism is finally being confronted. …

Nope.

While I, too, am horrified by Trump’s presidency and all that it reveals about our nation, it is a good and necessary thing that widespread attention is finally being focused on the enduring reality of white supremacy. We now have a unique opportunity to see and name systematic racism clearly and think strategically…

So the show has basically dropped all premise of making sense and turned into a Michael Bay movie? Cool cool cool.

Since 1775

I have nothing but love for the writer formerly known as Owsley. Creatively speaking, Christopher Priest has Very much had the last laugh over his detractors of decades past.

Chris Priest is a writer.

Why doesn’t this have more stars? Oh right, white tears.