I know I check Wikipedia every time I see a character on a tv show that seems like a stereotype, just to make sure that the show runners  have fleshed him/her/them out as fully rounded human being over the course of years of episodes. Then I can watch comfortably.

This is the most Kinja comment ever.

Yes, the “Indian” community of 1 billion+ people around the world is completely in agreement with the one Indian guy who made the documentary.

1). Calling things “takes” and ranking them good, or bad, or hot, is really annoying. Sorry, that’s a tangent.

Dr. Hibbert and Karl are black guys voiced by a white man and are also sometimes portrayed as stereotypes. And Cookie Kwan too. Where is your outrage there? Where does the line get drawn?

Are any of the voice actors yellow?

Do we need to bring in a Scottish actor to play Groundskeeper Willie? Or a black guy to play Hibbert? Or a Jewish guy to play Krusty? A gay man for Smithers?

It’s about time they get an Indian actor to play a character that has been so unfairly stereotyped as a, *checks notes* successful business owner with a PhD, Springfield’s most eligible bachelor, youth hockey coach, volunteer firefighter, member of Homer’s bowling team, barbershop quartet, and vigilante group, and a…

I disagree that there’s no need to play devil’s advocate. Basically everyone’s received wisdom needs to be put through its paces. Ideas with genuine merit will rise to the top; the rest will deservedly sink. Or, more often, just be retooled into different and hopefully more evolved ideas tomorrow.

Well, maybe it’s on me. No, really. I just want more/deeper commentary than this site gives most of the time. These little news blurbs with a side of snark, usually leaning hard left by default, do nothing for me. I don’t feel entertained and I certainly don’t feel intellectually stimulated by them; instead I just get…

Sure. But I also think this point has also been made extensively (this is the 7th article posted here about a show that was never even made); that the only reason they’re beating it into the ground is that post-GoT hate and white-dudes-making-bad-choices are things that get clicks; and that it’s still not too much to…

It would just kill you to admit I have kind of a point, wouldn’t it? This show had two exec producers and lead writers of color; why does this article pretend like they don’t exist? The obvious answer is that it doesn’t serve the only story they think their readership wants, which is “widely-internet-hated white guys…

I think it means a much bigger point of divergence than The West Wing.

How much different was the history in that show? I don’t think a better version of our current reality is an alternate history.

Woke Club found their narrative and they will beat it until it dies, then beat it some more. They are not interested in untangling the strands of complication that make this sort of worth discussing.

In this alternate reality would things be better than in reality? I ask because I think people generally find it depressing to contemplate alternate histories where things are better than in real life. Why do you think alternate histories where the bad guys won are the most popular?

I can’t even with this, you guys! I... I’m just... WOW

once again john boyega has been sidelined into a story with kelly marie tran that nobody is interested in

So that’s Boyega and Daisy Ridley cancelled this week.  Adam Driver better watch his mouth.  

Jesus Christ, just mute your notifications if people are being assholes.