for like half a second I was like “who is that advisor I don’t recognize him”
I should probably get out more
If you were wondering why the new House bill on bank bailouts seemed like it was written by Citigroup, it’s because it was literally written by Citigroup.
Data released Thursday by the defense from slain Florida teenager Trayvon Martin’s cellphone includes texts with a friend about fighting, smoking pot and being forced to move out of his mother’s house because of trouble at school, as well as photos of a gun and what looks to be a potted marijuana plant.
in which they are honestly trying to make it out like a kid killed in cold blood for walking while black must’ve had it coming to him because he smoked pot and got into some fights and his mom made him move in with his dad
and before anyone gets all heated over the “photos of a gun” comment, let me remind you that the 2nd Amendment ought to work for POC just as well as it works for white people.
seriously though, the “Bigotmagnet Castingfail ~protected you from racist attacks!” line of defense regarding Khan is the most weirdly paternalistic crap
like it would be one thing if the character had a. always been a terrorist and b. never had a race attached, and so one could argue that the casting was done due to sensitivity (although I could even then still see the argument that it should not be a whites-only role, because there really is a conversation to be had there)—but Khan wasn’t a terrorist before ST:ID and he was very much also not a white man, so maybe the answer is to update the character to be even more nuanced or just not use him at all
not this bizarre twisty thing where you just want to pretend that casting a white male as a multi-layered genetically superior character, who used to be a man of color, is somehow progressive
You all do realize this was a no-win situation, yes?
I’ve read enough “white-washing” arguments to make my head spin. And god knows while some of the points of very valid, and indeed I still have my own issues with the whole matter, consider: what if Khan HAD been played by Indian man?
No, the arguments wouldn’t be
-“of course the white guy is the one made physically and mentally stronger- grr, white superiority”Instead, they would be
-“of course the racially diverse character is the terrorist hyped up on steriods- grr, white superiority”
the win-win situation would be to not write Khan as a terrorist in the first place by creating a script that wasn’t some shitty 9/11 allegory, or not use Khan at all if they wanted a terrorist played by Benedict Cumberbatch
that’s it, that’s how you win everything. I’m tired of people telling me and people who look like me that we’re supposed to be happy that we got “protected” from potential and plot-dependent racism (that could have been at least mitigated through the use of a nuanced story) by use of actual racism. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, the solution to us being subjected to racism is not to exclude us from stories. The solution is for white people to stop being so goddamn racist.
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I think my favorite MJ song is ‘Break of Dawn’
What’s yours?Liberian Girl. Fight me.
Wanna Be Startin’ Something
It’s…
Human Nature, I mean did you hear his vocals in that? and Heaven Can Wait, gotta love the older Mike!
seriously you cannot go wrong with any of his songs, I don’t care what era we’re talking about
Freeway bridge collapses into Washington river
AP: A major freeway bridge in Skagit County, Washington, collapsed Thursday night, dumping people and cars into water.
The portion four-lane Interstate-5 bridge that passes over Skagit River fell about 40 feet into the water at around 7 p.m. local time. The Skagit Valley Sheriff Department initially reported three people were rescued from water.
The bridge is a steel-truss bridge with a sufficiency rating of 57.4 out of 100, according to federal records.
Photo: North end of the I-5 bridge over Skagit River collapsed Thursday night. (Gina Cole / Skagit Valley Herald)Hey, remember how nobody wants to pay for infrastructure repairs because they claim that the debt we’d have to take on is dangerous?
yeah. About that.
I’m really surprised this hasn’t happened in Texas yet. Down here in Dallas , there are some bridges that haven’t been repaired since my mom was in elementary school. It’s beyond ridiculous.
I’m surprised it hasn’t happened in a lot of places, tbh. It happened in Minnesota a few years ago, and an absurd number of our bridges and tunnels are borderline unsafe
