exactly, people are claiming to be protecting survivors privacy, but it’s some shady disguise against just asking for whistleblowers to be protected.

hire people back when they talk about on set abuse, because when people come forward they often aren’t given the same opportunities again. I don’t think you need to do all these analogous hoops you’re jumping through.

“I personally don’t think there are many circumstances where it’s appropriate to joke about sexual abuse and pedophilia…”

“We don’t know shit about her experiences”? She told us explicitly about her experience was wanting out of a contract because she heard news stories about Franco and agreed to accept a raise instead. That is not called being abused on set. If there are more experiences, then we should here them.

I understand where…

Oh please. The butt of the joke was the Royal Family, not any victims. Punching up. That’s the difference!

“Yi also posted a checklist of what she feels is necessary for Rogen to do in this situation, which reads..”

Because in the arena of public opinion, expressing a dislike of Ms. Yi is taken as opposition to those ideas.  

It’s okay to stand against abuse, to agree Rogen should do everything on that list, and to still dislike Ms. Yi.

but she’s later seen approaching mounted police officers

“Getting caught up in the ‘oh that’s nice’ detracts from the ‘holy shit,”

“This isn’t a heartwarming tale, this is a damning indictment”

All of this because he lives in a country where the cost of healthcare would kill him otherwise. This is all great and warm and fuzzy, but let’s not forget that this would not be necessary in a country with a working healthcare system for its citizens. 

Yeah, she said “I hope a bunch of assholes on the internet don’t whataboutism their way out of the real conversation, but I’m sure they will.” 

It’s partly America not going ‘all confederate shit is banned’ and part not letting Sherman hang all of the plantation owners for funding the Confederates, dissolve their financial holdings and turning the land over to the freed slaves. The man had a plan, but Lincoln was desperately trying to do what he saw to ‘heal…

Can I quote myself? I love to quote myself!

CNN is the basic bitch of cable and are as much “journalism” as Fox. They exist more for “controversy” than news. They fucking LOVE that Santorum said that shit and couldn’t wait to get him back on the air. They slap five guests at once on the air, let them all shout over each other and call it “debate.” And their…

the CIA has dismantled many democratically-elected governments throughout the world in order to enrich themselves. this was done with plenty of oversight, generally approved by the president. transparency (which we only have in hindsight) does not change the thousands of people who are dead as a direct result of what…

“We donate to anything that helps educate people about the horrors of the Holocaust, as long as it is apolitical.”

“She is one of the most innocent little girls in the whole world, and she has friends, Black and white kids in her classroom, and she doesn’t see any difference,”

we’re sending our kids there to be taught basic math, history, science