Citation needed. Very badly.

You’re missing the point entirely. Kingsley is half-Indian—Gujarati to be specific—meaning that it wasn’t an impersonation of an ethnicity that isn’t his. It is his ethnicity. If anyone, you’re the one trying to whitewash history here: you’re trying to label a mixed race actor “white”.

Except Ben Kingsley didn’t do brownface because in Gandhi because Ben Kingsley (Or should I say, Krishna Bhanji?) actually is half-Indian on his father’s side. He is exactly as Indian as Barack Obama is black.

Moral Orel was better.

You’re actually right about something: my Italian ancestors are from Southern Italy—the very heel of the boot, matter of fact. You’re saying they weren’t really white? Gee, then that means I’m not really white, am I?

[Insert Jersey Shore Cast Photograph Here.]

That’s entirely dependent on how you define “white.” My Italian immigrant ancestors weren’t considered white when they came to America in the 19th century, the Nazis considered Eastern Europeans to be racial inferiors, and if you asked most Americans if a North African was white, they’d think you’re nuts.

And considering the Roman attitude towards and relationship with the Germanic peoples, portraying Romans as English people is almost as insulting as depicting ancient Egyptians as unambiguously white.

Romans were white?

London Was Diverse In Its Early Roman Days, Until The Romans Left And The Angles And The Saxons Arrived From Germanic Europe And Started Slaughtering Everyone Who Wasn’t An Angle Or A Saxon. Or A Jute, But Who Gives A Shit About The Jutes?

Judging from the bloody tears, I’d say he’s come back as one of the vampires from True Blood.

He got better.

You mean this guy?

Jaws had a lot people getting chomped on by a shark for a movie rated PG.

Am I crazy or was this the song they were playing over that final montage?

I am David! I take care of the planet while the Engineers are away!

Unless he uses his powers to bring Lead Belly back from the dead, I’m not interested.

James Bond movies are generally ridiculous, although they run the gamut from Casino Royale (the remake) to Casino Royale (the original).

And that’s where BDSM comes from.

It’s hard to believe anymore that there was a time when The Simpsons were ever considered “controversial”. It’s just been on so long, and has become such an influential (and so, inescapable) fixture of American popular culture that its “bad boy” days have all been forgiven or forgotten.