I wish you were right, but I’m afraid my Blue Lives Matter white hillbilly relatives have indeed lost their damn minds about Beyoncé. Because Breitbart told them to, basically.

It’s all well and good to express doubt about this being the white reaction to the song. But by claiming that “most white people have no opinion on this song,” you’re doing the same thing you accuse others of doing, i.e. speaking for a giant group of people whose views you really don’t know. Maybe you should stop to…

It isn’t necessary to tell a good story. I know audiences seem to love it, it’s visceral or titillating or infuses the senses, but it doesn’t add to the story, and in fact it’s usually poorly done and completely gratuitous - that is to say, added only for shock value.

This means Sony is going to make a horrible Adam Sandler superhero movie now.