As a journalist, who is probably on that list, I don’t think the concern is (just) doxxing. It’s the flood of phone calls I will get (and already get to some extent) from vendors pitching their products.

60? That is a generous number. Listen to all the classic hip hop from 80's and 90's the following artists were all “sampled” from without any form of compensation as the law hadn’t caught up to the art form: James Brown, George Clinton, Otis Redding, Most of Motown and Staxx. For all the talk of people of color…

For real. Like 60% of hip hop beats are lifted from old funk/soul/pop songs (although I admit to pulling that figure out of my ass.)

I always thought that Marvin Gaye ruling was crap.

Hooray overreaching copyright rulings, I guess.

Agree 100%. Garbage people were involved, but the ruling was garbage.

Appropriation is bullshit and should be called out, and I’m hardly inclined to defend someone like Dr. Luke or Katy Perry, but some of these recent copyright rulings are basically pushing the idea that someone can own very basic, simply music ideas and styles that aren’t at all creatively unique.

IMHO they sound similar but not that similar, I mean I hear tons of rap songs everyday that sound somewhat interchangeable.

Kids are also remixing the hell out of it and making tons of videos with it on YouTube and TikTok. (My two kids are obsessed with it as a result.) It’s a perfect storm of a good-to-goodish song, technology and a great story.

it’s pretty good! it’s catchy and it pisses hicks off! i appreciate its existence.

The quickest way for any of us to win an Oscar is to make short films that appear to make some kind of statement. As long as the title and chosen screenshot imply “this is an important short about an important subject,” it has a chance at scooping up a nomination because...sorry, short film makers...absolutely no one…

I for one am sick of this anti-neo-nazi bias!

And even some of us who were ‘Carefully Taught’ manage to grow up unsoiled anyway. Once you’re an adult, you alone are responsible for your actions (barring actual mental illness). 

My dad was a Klansman.

I disagree on the “carefully” part. Most people are bigots of one stripe or another, it’s just that most don’t put it into active public practice. All THAT takes is reinforcement and organization, and the feeling of strength from having allies who hate the same way you do. Human hate requires no special cultivation;…

But the question of how millions of people manage to live through abusive childhoods, abusive relationships, and other traumas without picking up Tiki torches and chanting “Blood and soil!” is one that Skin never ponders.

“After all, Nattiv (also responsible for the execrable Oscar-winning short film of the same title) has spent most of Skin’s running time telling us, in one form or another, that it’s what’s on the outside that counts.“

I thought this was based on the doc Erasing Hate, which maybe wasn’t great but damn, did it make getting tattoos removed (especially from your face) look painful as shit.