Criticizing the government of Israel is not an attack on anyone’s religion and the fact that so many people think it is just underlines the problem.

From the Spyglass quote, it seems likely that someone up top absolutely could not handle the use of the word “genocide” in describing Israel’s actions. If so, that’s absolutely deranged.

She has to have grounds for a wrongful termination lawsuit, right?

Amy Schumer and Sarah Silverman made far more incendiary comments than those. Even if you don’t agree with Barrera, this feels very post-9/11 not supporting the troops enough. Those vibes didn’t age well. 

What the fuck is this. God forbid you call a spade a spade or look up at the sky and say that it’s blue.

Fuck off with that shit. The simple truth is that CIVILIANS are being massacred and it is plain as daylight, the entire history of the conflict does not change that simple truth and that is what people are reacting to.

Or, alternately, they aren’t buying into excuses like “well, Hamas is making us kill all those civilians,” which is an absolute nonsense argument.

nothing she said quoted here is wrong or antisemitic. It’s just the plain old obvious that everybody with eyes can plainly see.

She wasn’t fired “over comments about Israel” as the headline states, and framing it this way makes it seem like she went off and said something crazy anti-Semitic.

It’s amazing how adept Gizmodo writers are at pissing ‘n’ moaning over some trivial aspect of _____ (here it’s “action movies” filling in the blank). If there was only 30 seconds of gunplay, the writer would still be generating hundreds of words about Cameron’s alleged hypocrisy.

Nice undeclared spoiler for a movie I haven’t seen yet. I really appreciate you ruining a major plot point for me!

Reboot it with a WW that doesn’t ignore the Palestinian oppression by Israel. 

This is incomprehensible.

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Here's a question for my fellow scholars: is Weird Al's "Fat" a celebration of body positivity, or an insensitive insult? 

Fine. Then we all just stop humoring him and pretending his name is pronounced ‘Rafe’. He’s American style Ralph with a heavy ‘L’ sound now.

What’s interesting is how the debate has shifted in the minds of the Terf mob, so the issue is no longer about “trans rights” but about “JK Rowling and her hurt feelings.” The other week, Graham Norton pointed out that if you want to discuss trans rights, you should talk to trans people instead of random hetero…

“It’s just a woman saying, ‘I’m a woman and I feel I’m a woman and I want to be able to say that I’m a woman.’”

I’m very much over her complaining about people being mean to her on the webspace and other people rushing to her aid because she managed to crap out a series of okay-ish YA novels.