Also it was the half I liked.

There’s racism, of course, but also perceptions that are often supported by the media.

Stop complaining. At least that makes ONE ending where the protagonist doesn’t chase the baddies away by re-enacting a comfy childhood memory.

It’s a complicated question, actually. First of all, the Holocaust took place after things had already got pretty bad. Pogroms, violence, discrimination, were already making Germany absolutely unlivable for Jews. While some people kept thinking that “it won’t get even worse, it can only get better from now on”, others…

“Person of color” is a dumb denomination on many levels, and many are (“hate speech” is a real thing but shouldn’t be called like that as it’s quite distinct from hate speech). And as the experience of a person of Asian descent is fundamentally different from the experience of a person of African descent (in Geneva,…

Being a “republican” or “conservative” (or “democrat” or “progressive”) means supporting a package of policies and outlooks that include a lot of different things on a lot of different matters. Even with the usual caveats (“I agree on most things but not on everything”), it means greenlighting the whole. When this…

Or a Battlestar Galactica without Muffit II.

Just tired.

I assume he’s a human just because “they don’t know” makes for a more amusing ending than “he doesn’t know”.

Wrong birthday gift.

Segregationists versus nazis. It’s hard to grasp the 30s and the 40s beyond the thick curtain of our glamorous WW2 fictions. How commonplace racialism was. How “common sense” antisemitism was. How exactly things were similar and different.

Hm. Disappointingly, not very motivating. I was hyped : I liked the pitch and the idea of seeing The Good Place’s Adam Scott in a more ordinary role. I guess I’ll go back to Parks and Recreation for that. As for Ghosted, I may pass, at least for the time being.

You’re right when saying that it’s an issue of perception. The zoom factor. Basic exemple : A person brutalizes anther person, you’ll want to intervene to help the victim. zoom out, the victim is actually an outlaw that was apprehended by the police. So nope, you should be helping the police catch him. Zoom out,…

Well put. But that’s also (partly) because, most often, no path out of that corner is offered. For a few honestly stretched hands, there’s an avalanche of hostility defining you as the incarnation of the eternal adversary and the essence of evil and stupidity. From there on, all you’re supposed to do is to concur with…

It’s strange to me how american superhero comics downplay the dual identity aspect that seem so central to their concept (costumes, masks, etc). One thing that prevented me to get into superhero universe was this normalcy of innumerable characters casually strolling and flying around in ridiculously colored spandex.…

I never heard of Ghosted. Is Ghosted good ? Should I watch Ghosted ?

Acknowledging “normalcy” isn’t necessarily conservative. It’s basically acknowledging expectations and acknowledging ethnocentrism. We have to be aware of our social and cultural programming, firstly to be able to interact on common grounds with people from this culture, secondly to be able to distance ourselves from…

I was about to answer the same thing as OHWHATDA, but without the sarcastic phrasing. In a “communicating vessels” situation, the flow goes one way. Proponents of “equal share” and proponents of “one vase full one vase empty” both cheer for opposite directions of flows, but both wish very different things to each…

That trans person’s comment was a bit dumb, but not too offensive. It’s like saying “you were subject to homophobia but at least you were gay, I was subject to homophobia by people who only assumed I was gay” or “you got beaten up by nazis because you were a foreigner, I got beaten up because they merely thought I…

Even though they tend to flock around few defined political identities, not all people are simple “progressive” or “conservative”. You can be sexist without being a racist. You can be an islamophobe and either be homophobic or not. You can be an antisemitic socialist, you can militate for or against capital punishment…