Something like this happened to me. I had a group of guys I met on BF4 and we meshed well as a team. They were brothers, and they ended up introducing me to some of their other friends. We all got along really well in chat and became social media friends.

I would have liked to see the end have them all play D&D. Since at one point they talked about which roles they play as a secret ending after the credits of the last episode. But that’s just me.

My first impression was she was describing them as seen by her congregation (the blonde, blue-eyed child was beautiful), but then she tried to describe her adopted black children as beautiful too (dark glossy curls and deeply colored skin sounds beautiful to me) so I thought, oh ok, she’s describing them according to…

I wish they could see it’s the best fit for their white family, too.

The degree to which white people everywhere are unaware of the normalized racism all around us is one of the greatest obstacles to achieving meaningful and lasting progress. I grew up to liberal parents five miles from Stone Mountain, Ga., and I was basically an adult before it occurred to me how screwed up Stone…

I totally agree with this. I believe every word that Cross says here, it makes perfect sense. It is also totally offensive in the context that it happened, so he still should be apologizing for coming off as a racist, not simply explaining it away and insisting he isn’t racist. The recipient is the one who was…

It’s definitely an “I’m an asshole, not an overt racist” defense. Which there is probably a lot of truth to. But also thinking you can just goof about racism without seeming racist is a hell of a white privilege thing to do.

I hate to be part of the mob mentality, but this excuse/hamfisted apology strikes me as BS. Firstly he denied having made the racist insult, now he suddenly recalls that he did, but hey, it was part of a skit, a skit Yi apparently wasn’t in on. And to make matters worse he says that because his friend and colleague…

And there you have the problem with “ironic racism.” You may be intending to make fun of “actual racists,” but to the person on the receiving end of your comments, it can be no different than if they’d gotten those same comments from an actual redneck. I mean, honestly, what is the difference? Whether you’re mocking…

I think the bigger problem is that the adventure seems to be set up so that the characters are mainlanders (ie. whites from fantasy Europe) only in Chult to kill monsters and plunder treasure. You’re essentially reenacting colonialism. There’s very little in the way of content for people who want to play local heroes…

I immediately believed her, and am saddened that once again, a Black man did not come to a Black woman’s defense. Not at the time of the incident, and even going so far as to say she lied about what happened. So white bros before hos, it seems.

Too banal to be shamed into believing its equivalent to actual misogynistic language that peppers our vernacular.

“The first thing I’m thinking is there’s some pedophile trying to buy my grandson an Xbox,” Watts’ grandmother Saundra said. “So I’m like, I’m going to bust up in there and bust his bubble.”

I mean, let’s be honest. There are very few anime let alone new anime that sustain a solid and tangible symbolism. I can’t exactly put it into words. It’s almost like anime goes through the motions of telling a story but never takes itself serious enough to fulfill it with substance. As if it’s too focused on…

I think many - perhaps most - projects addressing opulence and capitalist inequality from the perspective of the opulent struggle with this. The creators are depicting a likeable protagonist in an enviable position, and they tend to stumble between projecting sympathetic qualities onto the lead and negotiating their…

Jason, I’ve been reading your book, and it’s clear that a big part of game development involves deception. I’m sure developers consider it a necessary evil since they are constantly trying to get funding for their current and future projects, but they put no small amount of effort into spectacular (but unrealistic)…

Because the trophy for Oppression Olympics is usually death.

I think people who have only one part of their identity holding them back often go hard in the paint regarding their issue, but often fail to understand intersectionality.

Burn the heretics (literary scholars)! Kill the infidels (teachers)!

You strike me as an explicitly boring individual. Does it hurt your brain to analyze and fantasize or what? Man people are lazy. If you don't want to think, or think about other things then don't. I'm sorry other people's creativity and independant thought strikes you like a needle in the eye. (Truly, I am sorry).