Beyond this, hate crimes simply aren’t always about race. The modern concept of hate crimes came from the murders and torture of Matthew Shepherd, a gay teenager, and James Byrd Jr., a black man.

You heard it hear first gang. According to Kotaku, the hate crimes in the Holocaust against light skinned Jewish people, European homosexuals, Romani, and the mentally challenged, were “as the kids say... alright.”

Yea because a multimillionaire 80 year old director who is recieving royalties on about 10 of the Top 100 movies of all time, and who directed movies like The Last Waltz, Kundun, The Last Temptation of Christ, and After Hours, is mainly concerned with the profitability of the gangster genre.

2) The MCU is getting kind of bland but at least they’ve never made a mastrabatory, self-important period film about “the magic of the cinema.”

Can you produce anti capitalist work in America that isn’t inside of a capitalist framework?

He wasn’t even talking about Marvel movies specifically. He made a comment about how bad the 80's were as an era for film, and then compared the current era to the 80's.

Yea there were dominant genres in each era of film. That doesn’t mean that that average quality of movie hasn’t changed over the years.

Remember the good old days when we all forgot this woman existed? Let’s get back to those days.

Umm no?

I guess Sonic Frontiers inspired more positive passion than BotW or Elden Ring for whatever reason.

Important context from that article.  A big factor for this spike is that more trans people are correctly identified by the media and police as trans now than in previous years:

I wouldn’t assume that because he played American games that a 50+ year old Japanese man gets the full nuances of post-2010 American diversity ethics. Just as I’m not going to understand the full sweep of Japanese cultural issues, and what the polite stance on them is today, because I played a ton of Persona 5 Royal.

“Congrats for forcing an 18-year-old to out himself”

Is Ridiculousness the one where The World’s Oldest Skateboarder says “daaaamn” and claps a lot?

Wow I hope you get some help for whatever did this to you

We’ll c’mon, it’s not like it’s the media’s role to do some basic verification of a claim before using their platform to amplify it.

I think it’s less self-righteous and more frustration with the people here that immediately attack anyone who applies basic skepticism to stuff that people say on Twitter. That’s a much worse form of self-righteousness.

You can go ahead and apply the ethics of this story to nearly every true crime podcast.

There’s a way to have it both ways in an article. That way usually involves humor, as in lightly teasing both sides: Swift for fishing for Body Issue sympathy while having a perfect body, and Twitter for being offended at the depiction of the super relatable concept of Scale Dread. And you can show empathy to both…

Its almost worse. It’s feeding the dog pile, for money to profit GO Media awful exectutives, while pretending to be above it.