Every Black person within 100 miles of the theater in most parts of North America isn’t very many Black people. If it was only Black people going to see it it would have lost money.

The mistake Johnson made was that he just made what he wanted without giving a single shit about what the franchise was supposed to do next. He basically jettisoned everything that JJ set up in the first movie (because for some inexplicable reason they didn’t have a payoff locked in for any of it). Then, after…

I mean, yeah, it is. Black Panther was a runaway hit that far exceeded expectations; TFA failed to meet expectations. It was Disney either way, but from the suits’ perspective there should never have been a scenario where no matter how well Black Panther did that TFA wouldn’t outgross it.

I would expect if that was the case that his statement would include more language about facts coming out and how many sides there are to stories. I suppose we can only wonder right now.

The Union’s failure to finish the job is the reason America is the shitshow it is now. Damn right they should have burned more. They never should have let those fuckers come back. They should have run those evil fucks right into the sea and given their entire states over to freed people.

An investigation before firing is appropriate, because if they wrongly terminate him they open themselves to a lawsuit. The video in question doesn’t prove that he stole the gas, it literally just shows a man filling up a van. It actually doesn’t even show him saying the things you hear on the video - at no point does…

The question from me becomes: “Why does the character’s skin color matter? Does being white define them?” It never really does.

Vanity Fair is not about “runway culture”, it’s about culture in general, and it publishes legitimate journalism and commentary as well as celebrity/entertainment photoshoots and puff pieces.

It’s amazing that a guy can describe something that is textbook, unequivocally racist, and then ask how it’s racist.

Why is it racist to [feel an explicitly racist thing]?

In the spaces where people who would care about a show like this coming out, the reaction has been exactly as described in this article.

I honestly would love to know where you’ve been reading about this show that hasn’t been infected by toxic, racist, sexist trolls who are openly rooting for it to fail, because I find them inescapable.

They have this reflexive need to make others bow to their every whim. You’re right, it’s fascistic, and it’s intolerable in a free society. Police are supposed to serve the people, not lord over them. Whether they have the right or not, they should not have the right to just stop anyone and ask for ID.

I think we have more than enough evidence now to show that enough do not have good judgement that the default assumption should be that.

Two seconds. Literally two additional seconds of observation and caution and the cop who rolled up could have processed that he was looking at a little boy with a toy gun, not a scary man shooting at people.

So, just out of curiosity, do you think that this comment makes you look smart, or cool, or even helpful? Do you imagine that there’s any version of your comment that doesn’t make you look like the biggest asshole in the world? Do you think you’re contributing something good to the world?

The American system of policing is so badly broken right now that just permanently dismissing bad apples isn’t enough. First, all the apples are bad, because they let the bad apples spoil the whole barrel. So all cops across the country need to be fired and all police departments dissolved. Then and only then they can…

You’re missing the point - he never admitted that he did anything wrong, and in fact tried to have his sentence overturned on the grounds that what he did wasn’t actually bad (it’s in the article above, if you had bothered to read it). No one is asking for him to have a press conference where he tearfully apologizes…

Yeah, those links are poison, and you should stop ingesting it.

I mean this honestly: I’m glad you’ve sought therapy and found it helpful. I’ve done myself (for different reasons from you, I think), and it is good and helpful. Now, more to the point, I’ve read most of your posts in this thread and it seems like you’re seeking the wrong things. You’ve talked about what it means to…