So now the camps we can put people in are: ‘Progressives, Nazis, or idiots.’ Whelp.

Dev F pretty much said it all, but I’ll just clarify:

I disagree. I think you get to do that when you’re a conservative or when you’re advocating for the status quo/regression, because you can befuddle people into retreating to the comfort of pre-existing notions and ideas about how the world should work, or romanticized conceptions of the past. But if you’re trying to…

We can’t bring ourselves to believe that moments like this represent anything more than a moral victory; demonstrations of hypocrisy only affect those inclined to shame.

If this were a live-action movie, casting Pratt would make total sense.

Hot take time: Jupiter Ascending got panned so badly was because it wasn’t attached to a pre-existing IP.

I only noticed this a few days ago, and it definitely gave me Mandela Effect vibes. But it is, in fact, Courteney Cox.

This is gonna be great subject matter for next week’s South Park episode.

I mean, I thought she was advocating for selective edits too, at first. But it turns out that what she was doing was a classic Jordan Peterson-ing of the conversation: Drop a bunch of statements that clearly point to a normative position while attacking everyone who offers counter-arguments to that normative position;…

And who could forget at the end, when Willy Wonka declares: “I have had it with these motherfucking children in this motherfucking factory!”

If you asked me the question: “What major film franchise of the past 30 years is least in need of a reboot?” I would’ve said “Lord of the Rings.”

I usually argue to the bitter end, but I gotta say, it felt really good to just scroll straight past all those paragraphs.

This is a tricky question to answer but, first off: yes, it is absolutely racism.

Can confirm this is true. 大鼻子 in China and 阿啄仔 in Taiwan are both pretty well-known phrases. Both mean big nose, and both are used for generic ‘foreigners’ (which really means white people), but not specifically for Jewish people.

Sure. Whatever gets me out of this conversation faster. Take it easy

Jesus Christ, still?

The single sentence “This is not a real thing that happens” is what qualifies as “incensed” to you? That’s a very low bar for incensed.

No, you’re right. I actually don’t know what your solution/point is, because you’ve been acting so weirdly incensed about my post from the outset, and have been using half-baked snark in place of an actual argument. You’re also outright ignoring the parts of my post that contain the main thrust of my argument, which I…

Yes, I’m sure this disclaimer will make a lot of sense to a 7 year old, and as they read the book they’ll know exactly what parts of the book are “old-fashioned and problematic/prejudiced,” because they definitely know what “old-fashioned,” “problematic,” and “prejudiced” mean.