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Another classic Tatiana “Please Love Me, Twitter” Hot Take. 🙄

And if this were a faithful retelling of Norse mythology specifically targeted at a Norse audience, you might have the beginnings of a point.

See above.

What a spectacularly bad take. While I agree “Latin” is a bad category, complaining about it being awarded to non-latinos is ridiculous. Can Eminem not win a rap award? Lil-Nasx or Darius Rucker no country award?

but why are you making distinctions between fictional characters? If James Bond can be black (and he can) then there’s no reason Thor can’t be. They’re equally fictional

It’s not straightforward at all. You can increase on screen diversity without bending reality.

All of the genres at awards shows are reductive, that’s one of the reasons why they’re bullshit.

Now I wish a bunch of Gregorian monks dropped a hit music video

I think at this point people are gonna do what they’re gonna do. Folks who got the vax feel confident they won’t get sick, or at least not sick enough to go to the hospital, and are willing to risk it (I get it, I’d go for it if I didn’t have a kid). Folks who haven’t gotten vaccinated will continue to do whatever the…

I honestly don’t really care, but I can’t understand how whitewashing is pure evil, but blackwashing is fine.

How much progress is it really when it’s just a bunch of liberal creatives expressing their liberal beliefs in a liberal echo chamber? Do you call it progress when you’re bullshitting with your like-minded friends over a beer about issues you all agree on? We’ve always dominated the entertainment industry. Making…

Black people being turned away from vaccine drives because white people put on bronzer, braid wigs and backwards baseball caps to jump ahead in line to get vaxxed in black neighborhoods

If someone can’t, and won’t, understand the obvious difference between the government and culture of the time of Tuskeegee and how it exists today, then they are just plain idiots.

Government ain’t great today either, but compared to back then, it’s a goddamn utopia. 

Yeah, the weirdo argument here seems to be that people won’t trust the “drastic measures” the government’s taking because those measures weren’t taken before—when they would have probably been seen as even more drastic? But at the same time, these new measures are the basic minimum a government should take? Okay,…

Oh I’m aware. I just don’t like when idiots get unintentional validation. 

“The bottom line — we’re going to protect vaccinated workers from unvaccinated coworkers,” he added.“

Certainly, if she wants to retain her rights instead of selling them, then she has that right and clearly she exercised it. As for whether it was ‘hidden”, if it is in the contract, then it’s in the contract and it would be her responsibility to know what it says, which clearly she learned before signing the deal.

While good for her and all, but I can also understand why Netflix would want to retain rights to their productions. HBO and Showtime will often sell episodes on Amazon and they will occasionally license them for Prime (or sometimes Hulu) members before a new season drops, but Netflix keeps all their shows to theirself…