Well, yeah. They don’t want to actually change anything. They just want to look like they’re changing so everyone forgets about it. Until the next time a WEEI host says something boneheaded.

I really hope Deadspin does a blog about just the responses.

I’m sure the types of people who listen to this shit and call into the shows will be totally responsive and level headed about this on Monday morning.

Okay. I’m sure 12 hours of forced sensitivity training will have a huge impact on people who have consistently been rewarded and promoted for being bigoted assholes.

This’ll be much more effective than just firing the hateful shitheads and hiring hosts who aren’t.

“Nicholson considers the quickly growing national debt to be a threat to U.S. national security”

Nicholson, who’s running as a fiscal conservative, promises to rein in spending, added that he became a conservative by choice “not because I was born one.”

This is graduate-level shade. From what I can find out, they didn’t say shit; didn’t say he was a bad son, or that they disowned him or out there crying on television about their “lost boy.” Nothing. They just donated, dropped it like it was hot and probably put on the slightest grin for about two seconds, and then…

Apparently that’s part of the requirement to apply for these visas. You need to post the job opening in the newspaper for at least 2 days. So I’d say that law probably needs updating...

It’s worse than that. They didn’t even try to hire anyone. They placed an ad in a newspaper for 2 whole days.

Yeah, I’m a Black woman. 45's base wants me dead. If you support that, you do not - cannot - support me, and it is asking too much of me to ask me to accept that. It’s a ridiculous request, in fact.

That’s like during the election when people started posting about “Not letting politics get between friends.”. That’s all well and good if you’re straight white and moneyed. But when your politics is supporting efforts to disenfranchise me, take my freedom, property, loved ones and life then we aint friends. We can’t…

She seems to think being a Nazi is some sort of quirk you’re supposed to overlook, like your friend who never texts back. It’s pretty simple, don’t be friends with Nazis, they’re Nazis! It’s not something you overlook about someone to focus on their good qualities.

If Stormfront and Jezebel had a baby ...

Nice Spengler Cup reference. But this isn’t about Bettman. It’s about the fact that the IOC wasn’t willing to give the NHL literally anything for the NHL shutting down for 3 weeks (even if the IIHF stepped in at the last minute) and the fact that sending players to the Olympics has netted the NHL almost nothing.

I’m not here to defend Bettman, but let’s not pretend like the Olympics are some paragon of virtue that are automatically entitled profit from free labour from elite athletes...

The harem trope is more predominant in Japan. You know what is also more predominant? Hating on that trope. Your average Japanese person thinks harem manga is for otaku,while you’re making it out as if Japanese people in general all think it’s cool.

Oh god, Takahata’s whole spiel at the end detailing why he made the death game was just the best thing ever.

Do you think it’s a white sensibility to dislike the harem trope? Because there are both plenty of people who hate it in Japan and like it in the West. I mean, it’s blatant wish fulfillment.

I don’t know, take Death Note. I actually loved how they changed Misa and gave her some agency. She wasn’t just a tool for Light, she had her own agenda, and it made the Western adaption interesting to watch.