I think it’s a fairly small impasse.

A lot of these comments make Schultz out to be more perfect than Franklin.

The lines are so much less crisp than just who writes what, though.
If they try, writers can get the bases at least minimally covered in collaborative settings like TV and many movies, but most writing is fundamentally solitary and expressive of one or two people’s worldview. Even making greatly disproportionate room…

It may be obvious to you, but it’s not really obvious from the article taken on its own. Sure Wong considers time and conditions, and gives Schultz his due; but it’s stance is clearly more of takedown than praise.

I read HomerNarr’s point as “Should Schultz have started a fight that black people would then have to finish?” And he’s right- Schultz stated as much: that he was sympathetic, but didn’t want to make things worse through arrogant assumption that he knew how to fix problems that he had little experience with. These…

The hockey one accidentally (?) points us towards a relevant point, though: to do what hasn’t been done before somebody’s got to try against the odds, or it ain’t gonna happen.

Exactly.

I’m willing to consign this to ‘Schulz did about the best he could under the circumstances’.

I think representing diversity is also about paying greater attention to the breadth of the world around you; diversifying your own life so that when you represent your own experience it includes multiple perspectives.

This is exactly the situation of my best black friend. Because he lays out big truth in casual joke form - another trait you might recognize - he “jokes” that he was raised to be an emissary. His grandfather, a domestic servant, would tell him to never let “them” catch him looking dumb or lazy because it would…

That’s damn incisive reading of Glickman’s few short words.

“Marvel seems to outright misunderstand capitalism when it largely limits its marketing efforts to comic-book shops”

This almost read like a real article. Then ends with “It leave film,” revealing it’s true nature as an Amazon description of a chinese knock-off product.

This almost read like a real article. Then ends with “It leave film,” revealing it’s true nature as an Amazon…

He’s got a custom Conti-nen-taaal,
He got an El Do-rado, too.
He got three sharp knives just for takin’ lives;
His little girl only her two.

The problem is that if you stand with a group that’s determined to fuck your community, you’re by definition betraying that community.
You may be doing so for some value you hold higher, but that’s definitely the choice you’re making.

My wife and I had a very unconventional wedding, and the only real objection we got was that my FIL was disappointed he wouldn’t be walking her down the aisle alone as is traditional (my surviving parent accompanied me, and both her parents accompanied her). Yet that was one of the most important points to my wife…

Fair enough.

heh- Your solution to gender is the same one I had to gay marriage 20 years ago ;^) I still think we’d have been better off if we removed marriage from the law.
Gender, however, is even more deeply rooted in human culture, so I don’t see it going away anytime soon.

The press has decided anything even remotely above that absolves what came before.

The draft is the last thing the warmongers want — it’s not like they send their own kids off to die.