Fair enough but not everything destroyed were chain stores, one was a low income housing unit under construction.

Where’s the proof that violent protest works in an American context? Hard to come by.

Good luck with your race war.  Funny though in the quote above, I highly doubt he’s talking about stealing toasters.

You are retweeting someone from Houston, TX who also has an admitted rapist as their twitter background.

Cancel culture is just annoying as all fuck. The number of self-anointed morality police, judges, juries and executioners has made the concept a joke, and themselves look like morons.

I’m so confused by your comment. Are you complaining about TCM movies, or the people who watch them, or anyone in this age bracket, or Fred Astaire, or or all of the above? They play plenty of Woody Allen movies, and I don’t think that’s changed, so I don’t get that either.

Ferrell basically built his career on playing gross, stupid characters so people never really have felt like they know him. Jimmy’s career has basically been built on an image of himself, which is probably why he’s so polarizing and something like this gets more attention. That and the perpetual outrage assembly line…

It would be weird that Twitter dug up some garbage from 20 years ago to get pissed off about, but we’re talking about Twitter, where not all that long ago people got all pissed off about a John Wayne interview from 1970 or something.  God cancelled John Wayne back when Carter was president but still, somehow, we got a…

Isn’t actually doing X obviously worse than saying “What’s the big deal about X”?

I’m not sure if you’re playing devil’s advocate or if you sincerely don’t know the difference between blackface, which is a shitty thing for an actor to do, and playing the role of a creep, which isn’t inherently shittier than any other role but sure does become shittier when you realize the actor is also a creep. You…

I’m gonna live forever.

WE tell you what’s offensive. Don’t get yourself cancelled.

Nice try at what exactly, introducing further context into this discussion?

IDK, I’m not defending this but I’m pretty sure that when people heard “blackface” prior to, like, 2015 they were thinking about something more akin to Al Jolson putting shoe polish on his face, redding up his lips, and singing about “mammys” and shit, not people wearing realistic-ish makeup to do impressions. There…

That skit was written by multiple people, read at a table reading, approved, and then rehearsed before it made to air. Like EVERYONE is at fault here.

That’s called “nuance” and it’s been dead for years. 

There are a few instances - like Will Farrell as Goulet, Sarah Silverman as her idiot character on her show, or Tropic Thunder- where the horribleness is the point. That’s not to condone it or say it wasn’t a bad decision, but it feels (in my straight, white, male mind) less egregious than performers who treat it as…

Or how about we engage with the fact that all these impersonations were obviously and deeply respectful and reverential, that these jazz musicians he’s paying homage to were a very important and personal part of his childhood, and that Muhammad Ali himself was a big Billy Crystal fan?

Armisen’s parents are Venezuelan and German-Korean, which is apparently of-color enough to get him a pass.

Did anyone ever have a problem with Darrell Hammond as Jesse Jackson?