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Don Lemon can’t help but attract controversy. The CNN Tonight host waded into the debate about President Obama‘s recent use of the n-word on Marc Maron‘s WTF podcast by holding up a sign with the racial epithet written in large capital letters and then asking the audience whether the word offended them. Lemon also tried…
Just days after a leaked email revealed that Sony would never make Spider-Man anyone other than white, straight Peter Parker unless Marvel Comics did it first, Marvel has done it first. Over the weekend, comics fans learned that Miles Morales would officially replace Peter Parker as Spider-Man in the main timeline of the Marvel universe, which will be rebooted this…
kk / FlickrSlack CEO Stewart Butterfield. Stewart Butterfield, cofounder of Flickr and CEO of the office-communication software Slack, lashed out against a Wall Street Journal editorial in a tweetstorm Sunday night. The Journal editorial in question addressed the recent killings of nine people at Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, South Carolina, saying the event was…
Screenshot/Last Week TonightDear Good People of the U.S. who want to stop The Bad Things from Happening: Great! I, too, want to stop The Bad Things from happening. Most people do. But we have got to talk about this impulse to accomplish good things by simply making all the bad things into federal crimes. It’s…
Published on Jun 21, 2015 Online harassment is a major problem, but it’s rarely prosecuted. If only we’d been warned about this in the early days of the internet. Category Entertainment License Standard YouTube License Last Week Tonight with John Oliver: Online Harassment (HBO) – YouTube.
.entry-header After watching Jon Stewart’s on-point and poignant words regarding the tragic shooting at the AME Church in Charleston, South Carolina, (watch it here before you continue reading!) I was curious about his statement that “the roads [in South Carolina] are named for Confederate generals.” I wanted to see the prevalence of Confederate Generals’ names…
Dylann Storm Roof is a domestic terrorist. He is a 21-year-old White supremacist. He has made it as clear as possible that he hates Black people. He went into Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church, one of our nation’s oldest Black churches, in Charleston, South Carolina, armed with a loaded gun and said to the congregants:…
Larry Wilmore was horrified by conservative reactions to the killing of nine people in Charleston, S.C., Wednesday. And while the “Nightly Show” host said that he was initially reluctant to address the massacre on his comedy program because it didn’t seem like the proper forum for a tragedy of this volume, Wilmore couldn’t sit idly…
I get really really tired of hearing the phrase “mental illness” thrown around as a way to avoid saying other terms like “toxic masculinity,” “white supremacy,” “misogyny” or “racism.” We barely know anything about the suspect in the Charleston, South Carolina, atrocity. We certainly don’t have testimony from a mental health professional responsible for his…
Recently the Guardian published a column by feminist author Jessica Valenti with the brow-furrowing title, “We need to stop rapists, not change who gets raped.” In it, Valenti critiques a New England Journal of Medicine article by professor Charlene Senn, who conducted a randomized control trial assessing the impact of a 12-hour empowerment self-defense program…