I agree. It’s depressing, It’s already s far from the frontier it was just a decade ago. I find myself pining for the BBSs and Geocities pages, but I sure love my Netflix too (however much I also fear the effect they and all the other streaming platforms are having.)

Collectively, the world is going to have to choose some sort of course of action. The internet was predicated on the idea of total freedom, of information and ideas, problem is, as Jaron Lanier, one of those gleeful proponents, has now realized—all computers are not created equal. The internet now is controlled by the…

I’m not being nihilistic or proposing nihilism, I’m just not gonna assuage your bruised ego because someone made a generalization about you.

That would likely take more than 15 minutes. Better to just watch it. Though it is pretty depressing. Maybe don’t watch it.

Morally and ethically acceptable to whom? I’ve got no problem with it—your skin dictates your experiences—but it doesn’t matter anyway. There’s no one-size moral authority. There’s no god, and surely you’re too old to expect a teacher to intervene and finalize what’s right and wrong then assign you a grade based on…

Background and ethnicity have an enormous effect on a person’s experiences. No amount of ruminating on inequality by a white westerner will match the experiences of inequality that every single non-white westerner lives with. That’s because of their background, which leads to their experiences.

Quietness, it’s more and more evident, is exactly enough complicity for this situation and many like it to have continued on for decades.

“It’s ridiculous. What’s next? Does his first grade teacher rescind his A for effort.”

If, say, you had more experience in it—the contentious to adversarial relationship some Jews have with their god—then of course your more informed opinion on A Simple Man would carry more weight than someone who, oh, had never even met a Jew. Neither of these opinions are superior to or inferior to another,…

A Lubavitcher!

Well of course you “saw a film filled with generalized fear of white people for vaguely defined reasons...” you’re obviously neutron star dense.

“Oh no, he’s serious”...links to the joke.

Fuck off back to Storm Front.

Don’t kid, Charlemagne

Walla Walla!

That person with the moustache sure sounds like an asshole, I don’t know why we’d want to listen to him!

I love that your gate-keeping, pitch-perfect asshole post even includes some tossed-off sexism. Of course it’s a woman in your asinine example of fake metal fans, right, ‘cause chicks, right, man. Zappa would be proud. You have a goatee, right?

Try going to kinja.com first, tapping the menu in the top right and seeing if you can log in there. Then from there to the A.V. Club.

And I’m not trying to be aggressive or confrontational, or taking CK defenders particularly to task. It’s a problem we’re all running up against, in every aspect of life.

Rumors are what the allegations get filtered down to by the time they make it through the defensive wall of money and power people like him can build around themselves.