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writeswrongs:

Black Man to Lose Scholarship For Refusing Racist Assignment

Timothy McNair is a graduate student of opera at Northwestern University’s famed Bienen School of Music. McNair is at the school on a full scholarship, but the 25-year-old is standing up to his school after his professor, Donald Nally, gave him an assignment to perform a song created by a racist American poet named Walt Whitman. McNair asked his instructor if he could be assigned to perform the work of other artists but Nally denied him the opportunity and told him if he didn’t turn in all of his completed work by Friday, May 17th he’d receive a failing grade. McNair refused.

“Certainly I do not deserve to fail this class.  I have a 3.7 GPA.  I’m an officer on three committees of this university.  So what is deserving for me?  Is to be able to perform two pieces and have the third piece removed because of the insensitivity,” McNair told Chicago’s WGN news station. Although the piece McNair is instructed to perform does not contain any blatant racism, McNair believes it is still offensive that he was asked to complete the works of a devout racist. “We know (he) was historically racist.  He’s called African Americans ‘baboons’ and was for oppressing voting rights,” McNair said of Whitman.

But let a white person had to sing a song written about Osama or Sadam that shit would have been on every new station.

I didn’t realize Walt Whitman had written such racist stuff (that wasn’t covered when we read his work in high school, SURPRISE) (if you’re curious, his archive has a super-apologist piece about it - along the lines of “well sure he was racist, but everyone was racist back then!”), and this is super fucked up.

Way to go, fine arts professors, just ignore your responsibilities, that’s totally OK. It’s not like art is supposed to question anything.

Also, holy crap, I didn’t know that about Walt Whitman

How is this corg even real?

paxamericana:

i watched one episode of adventure time and hated it and this is what you give to me

I’m glad I’m not alone in this struggle against Netflix’s dumbass algorithm.

ourlightsinvain:

zerostop:

pyropancake:

kiokom2:

*FLORP*

Roll Roll

this will always be one of my favorite tf2 comics

my new cat

Why have I not been sent pictures of this new cat?

lemondifficult:

bidenette:

Le boom.

Reblobbing just for the Biden gif.

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rhamphotheca:

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asezawesome:

wilwheaton:

jenniferdeguzman:

He said Star Trek is too “philosophical”? Screw that noise.

mechcanuck:

I don’t know when this interview happened but I AM SAD AND ANGRY NOW 

The philosophies in Star Trek are kinda part of the actual setting. If you don’t get that, why are you allowed to make Star Trek movies.

Sigh. The whole point of Star Trek is that it’s philosophical. If you don’t want philosophical Science Fiction, there’s plenty of that for you to enjoy, but Star Trek is philosophical. Philosophy is part of Star Trek’s DNA, and if you’re given the captain’s chair, you’d better damn well respect that.

And thus it all becomes clear. He disdains the philosophy that is the underpinning of Trek, therefore hasn’t bothered to try to understand it or engage with it critically.

What gets me is the arrogance of this. If Star Trek is too philosophical for you, if you cannot connect with its fans, if you don’t have an understanding of the foundation of it, let alone a love for it, why do you agree to take it on? Why don’t you say “you know, maybe I’m not the guy for this job, maybe someone who’s always felt connected to this material should be the one to bring it forward in time.”?

And this guy gets to do Star Wars too.

What pop director in their right mind would turn down a reboot of Star Trek? In the words of Krusty the Klown: “They drove a dumptruck full of money up to my house! I’m not made of stone!” Even if he wasn’t a  fan of the source material, he’d still do it. Hell, if I were him, I’d direct a reboot of Casablanca if they paid me for it.

Trek as a show has been philosophical, but the movies? Not quite so much, because when you have a big budget spectacle movie, you have to deliver the big budget spectacle otherwise no one will show up.

I guess I’m sort of accidentally defending Abrams here. Which isn’t intentional, because I agree with the feelings of WTFitude expressed above. I just don’t think we should be surprised. I’m gonna treat it like Indy 4, post-2000 Die Hard movies, and the Star Wars prequels: really expensive fan-films.

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ajaypay:

I’m pretty sure this is how everyone feels like when this happens…

PokéJokes!

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sorveharth:

livinginheadcanon replied to your post: i would just like to take a moment to apologize to…

RE: lead writers - Moffat commented recently that he is getting tired of working on Who and it sounded very much like he may leave soon, though he didn’t give any definites. Sooooo… here’s hoping?

oh good! if he can manage not to completely ruin it before he leaves that would be great

This sums up how I feel so well.