i do feel like there should be more openness for like. some political leniency
as in, it’s okay that a lot of us have differing viewpoints!! obv i’m not talkin “homophobia is ok” being a valid viewpoint but like. idk my political stance on certain subjects and the nuances thereof fluctuate almost CONSTANTLY. i cant expect everyone, even just all my friends to be 100% on the same page as me
it’s good to talk about these things and see if one viewpoint is more morally right than the other, of course; we should always strive for improvement. but acting as if every unrefined political standpoint is the same as being a Huge Bigot isn’t the way to encourage that open discussion and improvement
the trick to intrusive thoughts is not to try to resist em but like…..let them happen and dont fixate on them…treat them like an annoying friend who’s yelling random shit from the backseat like “hey you could stab yourself in the leg with those scissors” thanks timothy i could also not do that
Vader is not quite okay with the whole Imperial slavery thing, and Sidious gives him a nice rationalization to tell himself when he gets hit by those pesky doubts.
I’d like something like this to be replicated in the new extended canon.
I never once thought about how anti-slavery Darth Vader would be. It makes a lot of sense.
…….are they standing in the exact same place where Anakin had his last civil conversation with Obi-Wan?
“Do you really care about [group] or do you just feel guilty? Can you read this without feeling attacked? If you can’t, the implication is that you don’t really care about [group, which happens to include people I dearly love].”
You’re killing my mentally ill brain here, website.
while the zombie asexual post is rightfully getting torn apart I’d just like to say that everything about the OP’s tumblr indicates that they are probably like 13 years old and public education about the AIDS crisis usually ranges from terrible to nonexistent so let’s please not doxx or send death threats to this person for being smug and undereducated because that’s what literally every teenager is
You’re not supposed to go on the Internet when you’re cast as a superhero. But after taking on Johnny Storm in Fantastic Four—a character originally written with blond hair and blue eyes—I wanted to check the pulse out there. I didn’t want to be ignorant about what people were saying. Turns out this is what they were saying: “A black guy? I don’t like it. They must be doing it because Obama’s president” and “It’s not true to the comic.” Or even, “They’ve destroyed it!
It used to bother me, but it doesn’t anymore. I can see everybody’s perspective, and I know I can’t ask the audience to forget 50 years of comic books. But the world is a little more diverse in 2015 than when the Fantastic Four comic first came out in 1961. Plus, if Stan Lee writes an email to my director saying, “You’re good. I’m okay with this,” who am I to go against that?
Some people may look at my casting as political correctness or an attempt to meet a racial quota, or as part of the year of “Black Film.” Or they could look at it as a creative choice by the director, Josh Trank, who is in an interracial relationship himself—a reflection of what a modern family looks like today.
This is a family movie about four friends—two of whom are myself and Kate Mara as my adopted sister—who are brought together by a series of unfortunate events to create unity and a team. That’s the message of the movie, if people can just allow themselves to see it.
Sometimes you have to be the person who stands up and says, “I’ll be the one to shoulder all this hate. I’ll take the brunt for the next couple of generations.” I put that responsibility on myself. People are always going to see each other in terms of race, but maybe in the future we won’t talk about it as much. Maybe, if I set an example, Hollywood will start considering more people of color in other prominent roles, and maybe we can reach the people who are stuck in the mindset that “it has to be true to the comic book.” Or maybe we have to reach past them.
To the trolls on the Internet, I want to say: Get your head out of the computer. Go outside and walk around. Look at the people walking next to you. Look at your friends’ friends and who they’re interacting with. And just understand this is the world we live in. It’s okay to like it.
