Well, if what she did was too unforgivably racist for it to be acceptable to hire her for this job it would seem to follow that she was too unforgivably racist for any other job.  Why are you assuming that the “consequences” are going to end here?

“Her decision comes after anti-Asian tweets from 2011 resurfaced, and both staff and readers (including Olivia Munn and Daniel Dae Kim) called for her resignation.”

Well it’s already been established that hiring her will will put your company at the center of public controversy and result in sponsors dropping out... I wouldn’t be so sure that there are other companies excited to hire her now.

How many consequences need to “happen” for sending some bad tweets at a child? Consequences are supposed be, you know, proportional.  You typically aren’t supposed to be barred for employment the rest of your life for saying a couple of questionable things as a literal child.

They’re not really critics.  They’re people who interview celebrities at junkets.

Wouldn’t a show about a vampire who’s eternally 12 be kind of undermined when the actress playing her continues to grow between seasons?

The music video version (at least the official one on Youtube) does the “wet and gushy” line but the even more heavily edited version for the radio (and the Grammys apparantly) does the “wet, wet, wet” line.

It was the fourth highest grossing movie of 2020... kind of an asterisk year, but still.

That first year was actually a thing called The Big Ballot and was given out as part of a show instead of as its own special.  So it depends whether you retcon that into being the first Kids Choice Awards or view the next year’s as the true first.

Fact: the winner for best movie at the first televised Kids Choice Awards was... Beverly Hills Cop 2.

In my day we got to see human tities in PG-13 James Cameron movies.

Not necessarily but I’m also not 100% certain Ozzy has ever met a black person.

So you’re telling me that a 68 year old rich white English lady who’s main claim to fame was having been married to a drug addict who once bit the head off of a dove might not be the next Robin DiAngelo?

HBO Max et al are all still in the “loss leader” phase of their lifespans and are trying to attract new customers by keeping prices low. Make no mistake, their ultimate goal is to be just as user-unfriendly as Netflix once they have you hooked.

They seem to be resting an awful lot of this on that one paycheck in that one episode when the more relevant approach might have been to figure out what nuclear technicians actually make today, which I’m guessing is quite a bit more than $50,000.

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What a tool this fucking guy is.  I half wonder if he’s been acting like an unironic Alan Partridge for the last ten years on purpose on the theory that all attention is good attention or if he really is this out to lunch about how all this comes off.

Is that a Tupac reference?

I don’t know that they were ever trying to fool anyone into thinking “authenticity” was their product... they’re British people playing banjo music, no one was under the impression that they were hillbillies or whatever. And most of their clothing strikes me as fairly typical hipstery menswear of the time, and which…

Eh. Authenticity is over-rated. Very few musicians are truly “authentic” and the few who are or ever were part of whatever socio-economic class is “supposed” to make music like that will quickly stop being part of that class as soon as the become successful. Unless you’re main music consumption comes from listening to…