I think part of the blowing this off may come from a way to cope. I know first hand having been called a nigger to my face that in recounting this to my friends said the guys who did that were idiots. They are worse than that but the humiliation and pain that causes, sometimes you don’t want to admit that something…

I plan to ban all white people from any political events I organize. I will show leadership by not showing up myself.

Well as a gay man, he didn’t recognize Elton John. While he is only 23, Sir Elton John won for The Lion King. Now how daft do you have to be?!

It’s not that they didn’t believe her. ESPN/ABC/Disneeeeeee wanted the revenue this would generate. Rat Bastards. They wanted extra programming they knew would get play and ratings. Play and ratings not covered by any sports commitment = mo’ money, mo’money, mo’money for the network.

Except that Oprah could have realized what Erin was going through and made her producers make a back-up plan where if Erin still seemed too resistant, Oprah could have insisted that she not go on to do the interview and instead run reel tape of what Erin had gone through, had a psychologist on to discuss what happened…

Probably because he isn’t American and that’s a fairly American-centric story, despite the LGBT connection.

I’m a moderately intelligent, 39 year old adult. And yet, I just learned from your comment that the cookies are called Tagalongs.

Damn. Forced her to do the interview because they didn’t believe her?

I really think people should stop criticizing Sam Smith for what was a simple and understandable slip of the tongue. And I can say that with a little bit of gravitas as the first openly gay man on the internet.

Agreed. He talked about white people lynching and raping black people, on stage, on a telecast watched by millions. When was the last time that happened, if ever?

I found her to be the worst contributor during to the live blog.

Haven’t you heard? Anti-Asian racism is the racism that’s still ok! It never goes out of style!!!

Yeah but tbh. I’ve always halfway rolled my eyes at #askhermore. Like yes #askhermore absolutely, but if I was a designer and I just gave 100,00 dollars worth of free shit, and you’re so above it all, that you can’t say a simple Mjones designs, then you know what? Give me my shit back, and pay for his 50,000 dress.

Yup. I was thinking that too. It was almost like he was chastizing blacks for caring about the issue.

Award shows in general make me uncomfortable, what with all the patting themselves on the back. They don’t have to apologize, but as participants, maybe they should be more willing to hear criticism, and use their voices to bring attention to it? I don’t know what the solution is. I just don’t like watching people…

“setting up all those white people to laugh at a lynching joke.”

I’m just glad white and black people could finally come together over mocking Asian people.

Yeah Cruz is a true believer. Trump doesn’t really believe in anything but his own ego.