Yeah, so that's a series that Netflix is deciding to go with. It is literally called "Dear White People." Like, someone actually approved that. This is not a joke. It's an actual television series. Can you imagine if there was a series titled "Dear Black People"? People would be fired. It'd be all over the national news. Politicians would weigh in on it. There would be protests and rioting. Trump would cum in his pants.
Well, Effie Brown is a producer on the show which is no surprise to me. She was on the last season of project greenlight on HBO and was a humongous pain in the ass about the diversity of the production just for the sake of being difficult. It wasn't even that the production specifically excluded anyone. She was just being difficult.
I mean, it's based on a movie that came out a couple years ago with the same title and is just about black college kids dealing with racism. If you watch the movie, it's actually a lot more about how different groups of black kids disagree over how to deal with race relations and figuring out where they fit in within black identity rather than an hour and a hour of "look at how much white people suck." It's just another thing in a line of a million other movies and tv shows that have dealt with race before. Your stance is basically "why shouldn't there be a White Entertainment Channel?"
No, my stance is it was really fucking stupid to release something like that. Though I'm sure the outrage is part of their marketing plan. Regardless, it at least appears to be an entire series based around, and this perpetuating, a double standard. Besides, we have a white entertainment channel. It's called CMT.
I like how she started off listing things people actually dress up as and then listed something hardly anyone does. The stupidity of identity politics truly has no bottom. Apparently the show is going to be set at an Ivy League college, so the premise is a very privileged person with great future prospects bitching about how bad they have it. That's kind of awesome. I'm not going to lie. I might actually watch a couple episodes because the prospect of having someone traispe around the most liberal environment on the planet that welcomed them in and is filled with people tripping over themselves to show how diverse and inclusive they are while the protagonists complain about not being included has some serious so bad it's good potential. The title of the fucking show is literally based on bitching about white people.
Why do you think it's stupid to release something about dealing with racism and what it's like to be black? Good thing it's not just its title. It's based off that girl's radio show, which is controversial for both the white and black students at the college. But sure, keep telling me what it's about when you haven't seen the movie.
I watched it. It's not what you think it is. It's got some finger-wagging bullshit in it, but also some fair points and criticisms. It wasn't marketed well and the title comes off as terribly condescending, but it's not "all whites are evil." It's critic-bait.
Man, we REALLY like us some drugs in the US, and the Mexicans REALLY want to provide us some. http://www.whio.com/news/national/d...a-found-mexico-border/Jsy6JNSck7hVQNaf1F5mTM/
I just can't help but think that if Trump goes through with the wall, it will be built mostly by Mexicans, and it will be amazing cover for putting in place very sophisticated tunnels and other means of importing things from Mexico.
The wall wil work and keep all trespassers out, because we all know Mexicans cannot climb, dig, swim, or plan things to go around the law at all. It will be a wonderful monument to setting billions of dollars on fire for no reason at all.
There are so many houses or buildings along the existing wall that already look like you could just walk in and there'd be a tunnel to the U.S. Like these two spots in Nogales, south of Tuscon. Instead of building a bigger wall, it still seems to me like it would be more effective and less expensive to add a couple hundred border agents and a half dozen drones. Then, the agents could even use a little discretion when resources are tapped . . . "meh, they're just bringing in some pot, not terrorists - let 'em go."
It's too bad every single representative of the pharmacutical industry disagrees with you for some utterly unknown reason. The 100,000 metric tonnes of yayo that jumps your border is what yanks their dicks. And the money that comes with it.
So Milo has been disinvited from CPAC and may be fired by Breitbart by day's end. That was a remarkably fast turnaround from "Saying that Milo shouldn't have a platform because his views are abhorrent is an attack on free speech" to "Milo really shouldn't have a platform, his views are abhorrent."
Yeah I listened to the whole segment on the subject and cringed. Even if there is any sort of hard 'truth' to some number of post pubescent teenagers being mentally mature enough to consent, you can't really support it in any principled way on any level. Which is in essence what he was doing. His back tracking apology with the line about the nature of late night podcast looks to me like he knew fucked up and couldn't blame it all of it on being edited out of context.