That’s where it gets tricky, it’s a great idea if the people were entirely fictional, and if the working class guy wasn’t also a violent deadbeat dad 

IMO a B+ is way generous for this episode. The show’s choice to glorify Fagan as the voice of the working class becomes much more problematic in light of the actual details of the situation. Per the NY Times story on the history behind this episode, Fagan “sat on the bed six feet from the Queen, told her he loved her…

Thing is–and I love Jen Sorensen–you can make a very similar comic about the left and ‘problematic’, which like ‘cancel culture’ is sometimes used rhetorically to reject an idea without having to put the work into making an argument.

Apparently, it’s a lot more complicated than that. Going back to the 18th c., the crown has been allowing the UK to collect the rents on crown family lands in exchange for maintaining them. That alone far outweighs the amount the government spends on the royal family. And that doesn’t factor in the amount of tourism…

I never found that response to work very well. For many people, telling them you don’t want kids is like telling them you don’t want oxygen...they are unable to imagine someone not wanting something that, to them, everyone should want. As far as they are concerned, children are a basic necessity of life and saying you…

Ask some non-progressives (for example) if they feel like ‘woke’ people have made it impossible to say or joke about anything without being labeled as problematic. That's the point. A few examples of people getting sick of ingrained racism--and speaking out about it--has been labeled an entire culture. Perception is…

“Cancel culture” is, primarily, a name given by people who want to continue being shitty to those who make noise when someone is shitty.

Here’s a professor at USC who was fired for saying a Chinese word that sounds like an English slur: https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2020/09/08/professor-suspended-saying-chinese-word-sounds-english-slur

It's a real thing on the left and Twitter. The GOP doesn't give a shit. See: Al Franken getting torpedoed for no good reason . 

Could we have some more excerpts from his interview to get a clear idea of what exactly Fincher has in mind? Unfortunately I am not subscribed to Telegraph.

The only thing more ingrained in American human culture than racism is misogyny.

I can confirm that our goal is absolutely a full-blown matriarchy. First we gain the presidency, then we start oppressing the men.

We start passing laws on what elective medical procedures they can have to erode their bodily autonomy, pay them less so they’re more dependent on us, only test medication on women so it’s …

The only thing more ingrained in American culture than racism is misogyny.

This hurt a bit to read. I feel incredibly old knowing someone who writes for a pop-culture food site didn’t know about McDonaldland.

That’s a level of confidence I’ll never have.

Biden, who has doctorate in education, currently works as an English professor at community college in Virginia

That link to the story about her being Italian-American is really cool. I had no idea that Jill Biden was of Sicilian descent. I am too and I’ve often wondered if I have any distant relatives in the villages my great-grandparents left.

Fuck off. Why should she sideline her own career in deference to her husband’s? The woman wants to work. She earned a doctorate in pursuit of that work. She has every right to keep working and to be paid for that work.

Please shut up. Thank you. 

Maybe save the complaints for when she makes the Secret Service buy merch at the bookstore. You know, like Trump charging them for literal drinking water at the clubhouse.

Not even remotely a close comparison.