That would make it a 100% accurate adaptation of the book, then.

That doesn’t in any way diminish my point. See Komori’s response. Stereotypes may have a shred of truth in them, but it doesn’t change the fact that they’re lazy, and a poor substitute for actual critical thinking or creativity.

You seem to under the impression that I am somehow defending the entire story, when all I have been talking about was the reveal of Shelby being the killer not being total bullshit.

Your single anecdote does not justify the continued use of a tired stereotype.

Funny how I was able to suspect him, then, even with only viewing about a quarter of the game over my wife’s shoulder.

Sure, they gave plenty of hints to make you suspicious, but those hints weren’t the result of an “unreliable narrator,” they were the results of shitty, incomplete storytelling.

That was word for word my reaction to this picture.

the deep state

if you can’t legitimately rest the case for reparations on current oppression and rely on pre-Civil-War slavery (which, in the U.S. technically cannot have lasted more than 89 years, horrific as that is, not ‘centuries’

This and the story about the BMW hoarder are two of the finest articles I’ve read on this site. You have a real talent for bringing out the humanity in the stories of regular people. I really appreciate you sharing these with us.

As has been said many times over, Socialism never took root in American because Americans see themselves not as an oppressed working class, but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires. The “American dream” is a fake carrot dangling at the end of a very long stick.

I’m all for this kid protesting as soon as he clocks out.

Lot of gay couples out there practicing systemic discrimination and murdering black folks in the streets?

If nothing else, any politician proposing reparations to African-Americans should have to stand in front of caucuses of Asian and Latinx voters and explain why they have to pay, and get nothing in recompense for the discrimination they experience right alongside African-Americans.

You should read the books after this season and then you’ll understand the Ice King and his army.

Did you not see “Hardhome”? The Walkers laid waste to an entire army of Wildlings and then immediately raised them from the dead.

And yet the game of thrones is what’s interesting, and the walkers are just set dressing.

So then nothing is actually being “banned.”

So no one is being held to these standards, then? So who is doing the “banning?”

Not trolling? You were the first comment and made a point to complain about why you hate stuff like this.