wilwheaton:

danharmon:

Kids: 

A few hours ago, I landed in Los Angeles, turned on my phone, and confirmed what you already know.  Sony Pictures Television is replacing me as showrunner on Community, with two seasoned fellows that I’m sure are quite nice - actually, I have it on good authority they’re quite nice, because they once created a show and cast my good friend Jeff Davis on it, so how bad can they be.

Why’d Sony want me gone?  I can’t answer that because I’ve been in as much contact with them as you have.  They literally haven’t called me since the season four pickup, so their reasons for replacing me are clearly none of my business.  Community is their property, I only own ten percent of it, and I kind of don’t want to hear what their complaints are because I’m sure it would hurt my feelings even more now that I’d be listening for free.

I do want to correct a couple points of spin, now that I’m free to do so:

The important one is this quote from Bob Greenblatt in which he says he’s sure I’m going to be involved somehow, something like that.  That’s a misquote.  I think he meant to say he’s sure cookies are yummy, because he’s never called me once in the entire duration of his employment at NBC.  He didn’t call me to say he was starting to work there, he didn’t call me to say I was no longer working there and he definitely didn’t call to ask if I was going to be involved.  I’m not saying it’s wrong for him to have bigger fish to fry, I’m just saying, NBC is not a credible source of All News Dan Harmon.

You must go read this whole thing. 

I don’t know WTF they’re thinking at NBC, and I don’t know why they’d be so shitty to Dan Harmon, but I do know this:

WT ACTUAL F.

Leaning Right: How Conservative Myths Stoke Racial Fear (via robot-heart-politics)

This is why I get so sick of white people claiming their ancestors never benefited from slavery or racism. Pick up a damned history book or three and read, or kindly shut the entire fuck up when we talk about white privilege in America.

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-It’s a Jungle Out There: The Feminist Survival Guide to Politically Inhospitable Environments by Amanda Marcotte (via kellytheowl)

TRUTH

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My favorite things about this news are that a) it’s got Huckleberry Finn trending on Twitter and b) the twitter responses to this news.

@JimNorton New editions of Huckleberry Finn will not have THE N WORD in it. Huck’s pal will now be called Talks-Loud-In-Movie-Theaters Jim.

@LouBrutus In forthcoming editions of Huckleberry Finn ”Injun Joe” will be referred to as “Washington Redskin Joe.”

@JimNorton Since they’re updating books, instead of Huckleberry Finn, why don’t they start with the Bible?

@ArchAzrael: This is worse than if they had just burned the damned book

@HardcoreClimax They’re gonna replace the N word in Huckleberry Finn to Slave. Somehow, Nugget would have been my first choice. Nuggy for gangsters.

@LegendOfTheEpic They’re removing all uses of the ‘N’ word from Mark Twain’s “Huckleberry Finn.” Still no word on Nicki Minaj’s “Pink Friday.”

My least favorite thing about this news, of course, is that it’s happening in the first place. “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it” is a phrase that keeps coming to mind here.

I don’t understand how people can decide that this is something important that needs to be made PC right now (when anyone who’s read the book knows that Twain used the word intentionally and satirically to make a point), and yet gay marriage still isn’t legal.