Lots of things are bad for your mental and physical health, and we do not ban them. We do not live nor do we want to live in a nanny state
Anti-cult training might be useful (or even anti-cult laws).... Certainly we need a change in society where you can't even criticize.
I'm old enough to have lived through the satanic panic. It was mostly a bullshit witch hunt. Pedos exist, bad parents exist... there is not a large underbelly of hidden ritualistic sex/blood cults in suburban America.
During this time my bother-in-law was taken away from his family because the school took him a slightly odd ADD kid locked him a room away from his Adderall and over the course of the school day convinced him to say his father was abusing him (his family got him back quickly, but It's scary what society can do very quickly when it stops thinking rationally)
A lot of the "evidence" for prosecutions that came out of this panic, were coerced testimonies from pre-teens against their parents. I don't know how many of you have tried to elicit testimony from a small child even about something as simple as who ate the candy, but they are crazy unreliable, even when they aren't guilty.
This is the same moral panic that tried to ban video games and D&D, which have no causal link to violence and/or suicide. Many of my friends could not play D&D because their parents were stupid.
The goal is avoid these witch hunts with all your being whether it's about racism in America, or sex cults in the churches, or even communist supporters in Hollywood [which was probably true, but didn't need the McCarthy response].
I doubt she's talking about in the acting roles, these child stars receive "fan" letters from some undoubtedly unhinged people. These young actors should absolutely have someone screening their letters.
People are dumb and assholes exist on the internet.... this should not be a surprise to anyone.
This appears to be from the interview where page defends Jussie quite vehemently. Jussie just got sentenced. Meaning the law just declared Jussie a liar, and Page was therefore officially duped (or played like a fiddle?) into defending Jussie.
If he listens to Vaush and Hasan and thinks they make any sense what so ever I don't really know what you can do. I can't listen to Hasan for more than 2 minutes before realizing this man doesn't have two brain cells to rub together.
Get him to watch this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ar08OXUam-o where Destiny and Actual Justice Warrior (Sean) basically agree for an hour and hope that AJW can lead him back to sanity.
I have a short (4 letters) very phonetic name, I get cold calls EVERYDAY from Asian sales people who cannot say my name. I have never in my life had a native speaker fail on my name. I'm unable to give any fucks about mispronunciation.
Okay so he made a point to reboot the franchise, which means the original movies aren't cannon to his movie nor his movie cannon to the originals... It almost makes zero sense to include it... . regardless of how well it did. Then if you take Feig's very public and antagonistic fights with the fans of the original..... WTF is this guy smoking?!?
I like the part where she, without any introspection to her current situation, defends the mocking bird character from aggressively defending her private space, while continuing to seethe over being not feeling welcome in this "right wing" mothers' private space.
Eskimo is out of favor for the same reason oriental is. It is a generally non-descript blanket term for a huge range of people that generally don't care much for each other. It is not a term that any of them would use to describe themselves.
The other (real) reason is for the authoritative left to attempt to seize control of language; or at least destabilize rival groups use of it.
I'm really getting tired of the idea that insisting on the truth being a fringe movement.