The way they value fictional animal lives higher than REAL LIFE human deaths is on some level psychotic.

Having worked with animals for years, this is par for the course. There is a rather large subset of people in this field who are extremely progressive when it comes to the rights of animals but are otherwise psychotic fascists on a host of other issues.

The funny thing is, Tony Soprano himself has long been noted for his fondness for animals despite otherwise being a total sociopath.

Tragic but not surprising considering the circumstances this was discovered (the alternative was she abandoned her child in the middle of lake or was kidnapped).

I want to be all smug and go “I knew it” but I’m pretty sure literally anybody could’ve told you they probably wanted that name change in 03.

Yeah, the headline plus the first paragraph really made this seem like it would have to do with some sort of racism or sexism. Very manipulative of Mr. Colburn, the AV Club should do better

I think it’s still just hitting people that—after many years of believing the opposite—this person is awful. A lot of people aren’t ready to fully accept it yet.

He’s a die hard Trump supporter, I bet he’s doing this to pull votes from Biden to ensure a Trump victory.

I read to see what kept the guy’s sister from watching the movie thinking she might have some kind of visual impairment but no, she just doesn’t want to be bothered with subtitles. Oh fuck off.

I have now seen thousands of words written about 19 words in a tweet. And seen how they are a rhorshach test for people to see in them whatever they want. If you hate Zack Snyder, Fisher is a Snyderite who is trying to slag on Whedon. If you’re still mad at Whedon for cheating on his wife, it’s proof he did any number…

I’m not the biggest fan of the way certain writers on here frame their stories but, to be fair here, looks like they were working with what they had (and I also think this is worth reporting, even if Fisher’s tweet is incredibly vague).

It’s all being done so people don’t come after them with torches and pitchforks next. None of these companies care. There is no social justice reckoning, it’s just one giant PR exercise. 

Was there a major charge in favor of removing those scenes/episodes or was it just to pre-empt any potential backlash?

Most of the examples of blackface being removed are either 100% harmless or are actually a commentary on racial dynamics and the stupidity of blackface.  God this push this week to remove these particular episodes are dumb as fuck.

I guess nobody told them that “Chicks” can be a derogatory term for women.

It’s just a matter of time before the Franklin Delano Bluth episodes of Arrested Development are pulled by Netflix. The past week has been the best advertisement for DVDs since the existence of DIVX at the very dawn of the format.

In fairness, I think he’s trying to atone retroactively for that.

Well one side is making up shit and engaging in victimhood whining and the other is the North.

Oh for sure. That whole documentary needs to be remade or seriously edited with all Foote’s Confederacy fetishism. Hell, in the 1990s, Shelby said that he would have fought for the confederacy if he could. To give that abject racism such a prominent voice in one of the touchstone documentaries devalues the whole…