Harmless? I get the context she was writing in, and I think her apology is enough and we can move on, but implying that you think an entire group of people should go extinct/live underground like trolls/be cancelled isn’t great, even if it was done as a “joke” in a moment of frustration. If we are willing to excoriate…
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The definition of racism as proposed by critical race theory is not the most commonly understood definition of racism outside of certain academic and activist circles. It’s also arguable as a theory, and can be problematic in how it is interpreted - I have seen this framework turn into white people = bad, people of…
the people you are arguing with are greyed so it looks like you are arguing with yourself which is kinda funny.
It will be interesting to see how these shake out, and how it compares to how celebrities who have committed similar infractions land. Some of it is down to partisanship- sure he was ousted for sexual harassment but he’s a solid R/D, and supports/opposes abortion, so what’s a little hanky panky? Even on this site…
Party of personal responsibility and all that.
What kind of horrendous shithead to you have to be to spend your twilight years making life miserable for people trying to escape war and persecution? My parents are in their seventies and they mostly watch tv and go bird watching.
So this is what is bumming me out - in the same week, two (white?) dudes were killed on bart, also by seeming strangers, one black, one middle eastern. Granted, Nia’s death is incredibly sad and scary, and there might be a racial motivation to the attack, but the fact that the two other victims are basically erased…
This isn’t woke culture. It’s the far right doing what it does, which is to basically say “I know your are but what am I” and accuse the left/center of doing the same shit it does. George Soros became a thing to distract people from the influence of right wing political donors like the Koch brothers who were called…
he didn’t get rich and famous making jokes about raping little boys. I don’t think anyone gets rich making jokes on twitter. He made jokes about raping little boys because it is such an absurd and disgusting thing to make a joke about. Which doesn’t make it all ok, but the intent was clearly, “let’s find the most…
“Despite repeated complaints, he was allowed to continue practicing for years.”
Also they are real worried about (gross, bad, regrettable) jokes using kids as the punchline, totally fine with actually separating kids from their parents.
My aunt was hanging out with red state relatives before 2016, and the ladies were all talking about how a woman shouldn’t be president. Not just hillary, but any woman. And these were women saying that.
“Punk rock has this sort of underground network of DIY venues and house shows. There isn’t the same underground DIY hip-hop shows, and I think that’s partially because law enforcement doesn’t have the same response to young people of color that they do to white kids, unfortunately.”
Yeah, these “Why is this person still working??” posts are problematic, especially when it assumes that any offense is worthy of permanent banishment from employment.
I definitely agree that someone being sort of a cock on twitter means they shouldn’t ever work again.
Same, although I stopped coming here recently because the gawkerness of it all finally got to me. The cross-promotion of sister sites that didn’t really fit the tone or content of the AV Club, the gossipy, bitchy tone of a lot of the news articles, and that thing I hate about all media where it is basically rephrasing…
but if you call out other white people for being racist and problematic, it deflects attention from your own shit.
This article led me to unsubscribe to the AV Club in my newsfeed. I’ve been irritated by their Gawker-esque embracing of bitchy tabloid takes on social justice issues for a while, and this was like the last one for me. I unsubscribed to Jezebel for the same reason. To be clear, it’s not because I object to trans…
I mean, it’s rad they are doing something. That’s great. That’s more than most people. And even if they aren’t engaged a week or month from now, maybe their involvement will help get their fans and followers engaged and do some good.