What's not "white-white" about a Spaniard?
What's not "white-white" about a Spaniard?
Except you're leaving out the fact that one of the contributing facotrs to the blacklist was government pressure on studios. The studios were trying to convince HUAC that they weren't infiltrated by Communist agents so that the US government wouldn't intervene in their activities. That's called a "chilling effect."
Exactly. Protecting speech you don't like now is an insurance plan for protecting your speech later.
It is just as important. Because any law or legal precedent used against a racist group marching will inevitably be used against any number of (often marginalized) groups. That's how governments do it. They nip at the edges of rights in publicly acceptable ways. When everyone agrees that it's okay to tell a white…
1977?
Yeah, as far as hard-hitting news reporting goes, NPR is milquetoast.
Not to mention the Surrealists!
🎶Or have you ever been offended
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There's a poem I read in which a rat becomes the unit of currency…
I keep telling the Powers That Be that there should be an ACLU affiliate in Guam and the US Virgin Islands, but, ah… maybe I shouldn't push that so hard anymore.
I use Apple Podcasts to manage them, since I really only listen to them on my phone. In the car I plug it in to the auxiliary jack, walking or at the gym, I use my headphones, and at home I play it over AirPlay.
Is AV Club going to be overrun with this kind of hyperbole after BIG KINJA gets its grubby mitts on it?
Also, that's a pretty baller list. Can I bring @avclub-853573b5a907ed8b2f4fec25a92406a2:disqus and, if he promises to be good, @avclub-b20754d0f1e8ae843e00a8b39a667112:disqus?
If you want to draw a picture of the future, draw me posting ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ on Kinja — forever.
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Throw in Marah?
FINE THEY CAN HAVE PANG TOO