People who care about social justice and standing up against morality police should be careful not to become morality police themselves. I absolutely support trans rights, but “anyone who... ...is also a transphobe” is just a really harmful rhetoric on its face, despite the best intentions. Purity tests are poison.…

For perspective, it’d be nice to know more about how the 4000 dollar offer compares (days in the studio, typical offers), if it was union or not, and how much they ended up paying Hale.

Article reads like Pratt somehow isn’t a professional voice actor with three big voice acting lead roles preceding this.

Calling something connected to Juneteenth “Bonobo” is abhorrent.

Yeah the treatment you popped in at the end is exactly up the Cobra Kai guys’ alley. It’s almost like they saw an opportunity.

They satirized tokenism by leaning in?

3 years is excessive. It’s a nonviolent Robinhood-style crime. Should just be a fine.

Quotes around “criminal enterprise” imply some kind of ambiguity where there isn’t really. It’s exactly accurate, for lack of a less loaded term.

Crypto could relatively be isolated to a speculative currency. But when they pitched NFTs as this “great thing for artists”, it was a really special way to insult our intelligence and further prey on the most exploited and exploitable.

“Direct dialogue between management and employees” is just an insane thing to say. No employer that size has the time to specifically and individually negotiate in good faith with every individual employee, and every employee doesn’t have the time or resources or experience or leverage to negotiate on their own…

Cyberbully gets deplatformed. What a shame.

I don’t hope that.

I get SUPER tired of seeing opinion pieces in the news section. Even when they’re opinions I agree with (and they often are). It comes off as irresponsible and circle-jerky. I dunno about how other people feel, but it definitely has been putting me off.

Yeah, they totally should’ve hired at least one “female”. Could the article make it sound any creepier? At the very least, they should’ve brought one token woman along in order to deflect criticism, am I right? Absurd.

I’m pretty pleased to hear this... but why is this article labeled “News”? This isn’t news - this is an editorialized rant. One that I happen to agree with, but it should not be calling itself “news”.

Depends on what “real” means. NFTs do have speculative value. They have no intrinsic value. If given the choice, I feel the word “real” aligns more with an intrinsic value than a speculative one.

IMHO, worst case scenario, in pointing a finger at what he thinks is an absurdity, he’s shining a light on where the conversation needs to be. This is so that the people who hold his views can better understand the people who don’t. He likened it to blackface, so the question is, “how is being transgender different…

Like it or not, asking the special to be taken down is digital book burning. We on the left need to get the fuck over it lest we continue to devolve into a hypocritical circular firing squad.

Is this all a side effect of our culture of para-social relationships? People consume internet personality content and don’t realize that they only know the persona and not the person. This feels like a next step. But it’s also not anything new.