Oh, it was set in Scandinavia? Well that explains everything! And we all know that Disney has followed every other story they have based their movies on TO THE LETTER and have changed absolutely nothing about it! Nothin' to see here!

Yes, and no. It'd be nice if their movies didn't have such a healthy dose of "BTW, did we point out yet that this character is Chinese/Arabian/American Indian? WELL JUST IN CASE YOU MISSED IT."

They don't handle POC characters perfectly, no, but you cannot imagine what a big deal it still was to me to see Jasmine at 8 and hear a Filipino woman's singing voice behind her or Mulan when I was 12, shy and living in Appalachia, or Lilo when I was 16(?) who was weird and hilarious and human and whose sister had…

And what about the millions and millions of vaguely cross-eyed kids out there?!?

Doesn't Disney get some credit for finally thinking of them?

I am white, and I went to a mostly-white, mostly-rich liberal arts college. I did not grow up rich. I got a full ride there because I worked my ass off from the time I was like 7 to get into a good college. When I told people at my school what my dad did for a living, they'd talk about how great it was that I got my…

YES YES YES YES YES. THANK YOU!

there is this book "king solomon's mines" written by one henry rider haggard in the 19th century. it's racist, allright, after all it is written by a white dude who supported the british empire all his life and thought that building colonies is "freeing those people from their heathen selves". but guess what: in this…

It's not your right to say it without consequence, idiot. It's just your right to say it without the government arresting you.

I know - and the worst part is that they act like not being culturally "allowed" to say the n-word is some sort of infringement on their rights. Like it's something they need to do, and society is keeping them from doing it.

I never met a confirmed racist who didn't have a black "friend" who enjoyed the hilarity.

The Lady and Sons is a fucking BUFFET restaurant. 'Nuff said. Fuck this racist old bitch. My grandparents, god or whatever rest their souls, were born on farms in the Deep South long before she was a gleam, and they marched on Selma, integrated medical care in small-town Tennessee, and campaigned for racial equality…

By that logic all oppressed minority groups would empathize with all other oppressed minority groups, and historically that certainly hasn't been the case.

Their justification — and I swear I have heard this MANY TIMES — is "black people say it, so we should be allowed to too." Because Jay-Z singing "Niggas in Paris" is totally and exactly the same as a white guy complaining about the n**gers ruining the neighborhood in their heads.

I'm sorry, but that's a pretty poor metaphor. Paula Deen used racist language in her racist present, not some abstract communal past. Meanwhile, Nazism or any iteration thereof is not tolerated by mainstream German culture and hasn't been for a while. Whereas you could make a decent argument that racism is tacitly…

The flaw in this is that people who say the N-word and other racist shit KNOW THAT THEY CAN'T SAY IT AROUND BLACK PEOPLE, so that means they are completely aware that it is considered offensive and unacceptable. Whether they agree with that is unimportant, because they are not saying it loudly and proudly so clearly…

I don't think it's mra-ish. I say that to people all the time. The only acceptable use of violence is the protect yourself or someone else from violence. And at that point, I don't care if its a woman that you're defending yourself from, go ahead and hit them if its the only way to get them to stop.

I just read an article from the Denver Post about a "hazing" incident in SW Colorado and I'm so glad this article is here, because I really want one of Jezebel's writers to talk about this. http://www.denverpost.com/ci_23505991/so…

Do you see the comments in there?

"The difference is history and power."

At first, I strongly disagreed with this article until I got to this line: "She can play at blackness without being burdened by the reality of it.." Now I get it. As a white girl who grew up in, what i have always called the 'hood, and was the only white girl around, these things didn't feel like black culture or…

If catching the rich kid pot smokers isn't important, why is catching the poor ones?