Everybody online shits on the Oscars so hard it makes me an Oscars defender simply because of the over the top nature of everyone’s complaints.

“Otherwise, a PR “fuck-up” could cost the studio hundreds of millions of dollars, and countless people their livelihoods.”

This is correct. I’d also add that the UN isn’t considered the best source (see- heavily biased) for findings when it comes to the Israel/Palestine conflict.

Exactly. No nuance allowed.

Technically, what happened in Sabra and Shatila was that the Israelis did nothing to prevent (and a little to facilitate) genocidal acts by Lebanese Christian militias against the Muslim Palestinians in the Sabra and Shatila refugee camps. The situation is more nuanced than “Israel has committed genocide before and is…

Nah, the IDF isn’t doing genocide, they’re doing ethnic cleansing in support of apartheid.  Clear and obvious difference, folks.

That’s basically the Internet over the last, what, 8-10 years?

That’s what frustrates me. Both sides of the debate want to turn the conflict into good guys vs. bad guys and act like their side is flawless. 

“being pro-Palestine is not equated with antisemitism”

I can’t decide what’s the bigger political gaffe—taking a few seconds to think of an answer to this question, or his incomprehensible willingness to be seen as the “pro-Israel” candidate in a New York City election.

Laserface:  “Everybody ignore this commenter forever, he said something I don’t like one time.  P.S. cancel culture is fake, you guys.”

Spending hours trawling past AV Club comments for offenses seems like a hellish wasted life.

“want it to exist but don’t think it’s as effective as it should be”

Since Laserface is dismissing comments, you were right about the Rogan post as well-  mountain out of a molehill.

“Cancel Culture” covers everything from genuine abusers and harassers being brought to light in a society where justice isn’t enacted as long as powerful people are allowed to hide in the shadows, to various members of the left haranguing each other on Twitter for perceived slights (sometimes while being backed up by,…

One sales executive alleges she lost half of her assignments after the CEO replaced her with a former colleague from Playboy.

“...learn a lesson about being more particular when choosing who they work with. maybe it’ll help convince those people and systems to change if they know that there are financial stakes to who they work with in addition to the ethical ones.”

Good advice but keep in mind this was written by a person who works for Jim Spanfeller.

Well, let’s see what happens in the actual episode—maybe he gives an answer right after the pause, in which case this is even less of a story than it already was, which would be saying something.

On the one hand, there are a lot of singers and bands I enjoy but I don’t have a settled “favorite” locked into my brain, so I might be tripped up a bit to think of one song. And it’s possible Yang recovered and named some tracks.