Yes, I am right. Because that’s how it works. When you position yourself as a public social commentator, you invite conversation. You can turn down whoever you don’t want to engage, but you invite the approaches.

At a person of color, or just you know a person, YOU sound too sensitive. She asked a question of someone who had been vocal both about the issue at hand and the problem in general over the years. Why are you insisting on making it something it could be, but obviously isn’t.

So we’re arguing over cultural codes of communication...Got it. But not really because I don’t understand the issue you have with active conversation. She asked Margaret Cho-who has made a career of out of examining race, gender, identity and its interplay with popular culture-if she would be interested in having a…

I don’t understand why there is so much hate about people asking question about someone’s culture or sexual identity or anything else. As a heterosexual white male I get the hate if I’m ignorant about an issue and i also get the hate if I try to educate myself about the issue from an actual person. In reality though…

That’s not fair. You’ve already stated elsewhere that you agree Cho brazenly misrepresented the conversation.

She didn’t “summon a person of color to act as her sounding board”. She specifically asked Margaret Cho because Margaret was vocal about her negative opinions regarding the casting in Dr. Strange. This wasn’t a random person Swinton picked just because she was if asian descent and well-known.

I’m unsure why you’re so…

Yes to all this, though I think the “intellectual labor” part goes a bit far.
Good social interaction needs a back and forth. Especially when one person values another person’s experience and wants to make sure they learn from it.
Swinton wasn’t taking credit for Cho’s effort at work. She asked for help from someone…

Please cease and desist. lol

But Margaret Cho was the public lead on the protests about the Dr. Strange casting.

Nah, it’s a lot of fun. I’ve played it. And the people that have actually played it like it. Most of those 1-star reviews are people that don’t want to pay $9.99 for the game (something we’ve all known since it was announced.)

I don’t think it’s that weird for her to reach out to Cho. Margaret was part of the #WhiteWashedOut campaign regarding this exact issue, even regarding Dr. Strange.

They didn’t cast an Asian actor because then the character would read as the Tibetan from the comic books and then they wouldn’t make $400 million in China. It was a marketing choice. Tilda’s point may be a somewhat weak “better than nothing” argument but I don’t think it’s wholly worthless in the context of her point…

Interesting takeaway from this election cycle: Turns out that the GOP, the party that routinely wraps itself in the American flag and the Constitution, not really all that interested in democracy.

At first I bought into the idea that Swinton’s character was “unearthly” and therefore it was okay that she was cast. (No one can do unearthly like Tilda.) After hearing some of the opinions, I have to agree that a Swinton has power and money and should have stepped aside so that an Asian actor could play an Asian…

How is asking questions equated as have Cho do Swinton’s “intellectual labor”? That assessment seems colossally unfair.

I REALLY REALLY hate Cho. She is an asian Amy Schumer, execept even MORE unfunny

Only the incredible bias and prejudice of this post’s author.

I’m old enough to remember the liberal freakout when Reagan was elected and everyone (including me) was utterly convinced that meant sure nuclear war and the world’s ending. Trump is not normal, and will not be a normal president in any sense, but the office is both larger and smaller than he is and that’s not going…

I am seriously sick of this shit. There will be elections in 2 years we can try to mitigate this fucking nightmare by taking back control of the house or sit under our beds crying. If we want control of the house the work needs to start NOW. Indulging in this end of democracy end of the world bullshit does nothing. …

Don’t be apocalyptic. Of course there will. In two short years. It’s hard-wired in the code of our country, nothing Trump can do can stop it.