Anyone going to say something about how this was caused by republicans and islamophobia this time?

Possible, but I think that she banned me right away (within seconds of posting the first time), and when I incredulously reposted, to test out my status, I reposted in that no-man’s-land where your posts go when you’re banned. So I think Ms. Brown banned me in response to the criticism itself, not to my reposting the…

Kara is the most thin-skinned and juvenile person writing here, and that’s saying a lot for a website that also employs Jia Tolentino.

It’s how the grey/banning system is wielded around here. It’s completely silly.

Oh, I’m not just grey, I was banned! So I made a similar handle so I can still talk to you guys.

I suspect the comment is directed at the cool fool who more than suggested that this double homicide was tied to Republican rhetoric.

Yeah, I want Squarr and those who starred their comments to tell us what they think, but I think I know it’s going to be an off-topic deflection.

So...not Republicans’ fault?

I didn’t watch The Office, but that was definitely the basis for the jokes on Parks & Recreation as far as I could tell.

I kind of think that was supposed to be the joke - the homogenous white folk of Pawnee and Scranton wouldn’t know what to make of “biracial”. I could be wrong, though.

This is a ridiculous non-story. They’re being cast for their acting ability and/or their voice in these types of movies. If you were talking about rom-coms, horror movies, or historical epics where they were the nerdy fat character the whole movie then had a huge makeover to be hot at the end, or the guy on the phone…

But Gamora IS green (just like Rocket IS a Racoon, Groot IS a tree and Drax is uh, whatever Drax is ) It’s not like they retconned her that color

I mean she has her art history degree from St. Andrews, which is a pretty great university, so I’m assuming her thought process is a bit more complex than “is it pretty.”

You make it sound like he is claiming the Chinese people will be so infuriated by the presence of a Tibetan they will shun the movie. What he is actually saying is that the notoriously authoritarian and censorship happy Chinese government will stop the film being distributed. It is not outlandish at all, it’s probably…

But come on: here’s a country of one billion people who you see as so powerful that you’ll change a character’s ethnicity to fit your perceptions of their taste, but who you also see as so incredibly stupid that merely “acknowledging that Tibet is a place” will render them so apoplectic with politicized rage that…

I believe the concern is that if the character is Tibetan then the Chinese government will not allow the movie to be distributed in China at all. It’s not a free market, they have a limited number of slots for non-domestic films and they have to be approved by censors. So they’re not worried about how the Chinese…

The issue of whitewashing aside, this may be totally valid. It likely would have banned in China if they lead cast were Tibetan. If the lead were Chinese, people would bitch about it, and rightly, because it’s not like China hasn’t done a great job already trying to erase Tibetan people and Tibetan culture. Cast…

Maybe wait for some more details before you jump on this as some kind of republican inspired hate crime.

No, it’s not. If 100% of the people best qualified for the cabinet are women, that’s perfectly fine.

Bollywood heavily imitates and borrows from Western Media, no problem with their Bollywood style dance.