“Words Matter” and What We Do Meantime That’s Not Medical Appts or Chores We Don't Like – Sat Night OT

 

Loaded this ^^ because as much as I appreciate both Jimmy Kimmel and David Letterman, I really did not want people thinking it was either one of them who came up with this first 

Also a few challenges putting something up not bc "was forgotten" so much as  "not trying to overwhelm everyone else with all that's going on especially when I'm not sure where myself to begin"

Looks as if there are at least two places to start, both overflowing with irony but not so much that they don't still have the potential to inspire

Dan Gilroy, who won the writing Emmy last Sunday night for Andor (I know), wrote this for Deadline

Artists Are Censored First Because They Fear Us Most

[The] aim is to control what we make and say. The concept seems far off and abstract. Neither is true. Is it hard to conjure a new oversight office or cabinet seat? Is it difficult to picture Trump toadies deplaning at LAX with binders of banned topics and mandated alternatives? You’ll meet them when you have to pitch for approval or get grilled about subversive co-workers.

Our industry faces the most sophisticated, venomous, creeping evil in America’s history. There’s no standing above this conflict. No impartial observers. If you’re on the sidelines you’ve made a choice and must live with it.

 

And talking about being on the sidelines, not being on the sidelines, and recognizing when it's not you they're hunting right now but even if you don't look like current prey why in a supposedly free society it's still imperative to pay attention 

When I heard that one of the largest media corporations on the planet had turned its back on one of its outlets’ most beloved hosts, I was shocked. Still, I did not blame cancel culture. I don’t expect loyalty from corporate oligarchs, network executives or white people. Media conglomerates are run by white businessmen who are only concerned with profits and shareholder returns.

I knew the white decision-makers were bowing to pressure from federal regulators, right-wing outrage and personal attacks by Donald Trump’s social media accounts. The C-suite (you know what the C stands for) understands that even the most progressive white liberals don’t care when a Black woman loses her job.

Oh, wait … did you think I was talking about Jimmy Kimmel?

Nah, this story is about Joy Reid. Or Tiffany Cross. Or Tamron Hall. Or Melissa Harris-Perry. Or Mehdi Hasan. Or Ayman Mohyeldin. Or Amber Ruffin. Or Karen Attiah. Or Jemele Hill. Or any of the not-white people who were ignominiously kicked to the curb by cowardly corporate executives who capitulated ...

Black Women, White Apathy: Jimmy Kimmel is the Perfect Example of What Happens When White People Are Silent in the Face of Racism

I also want to ask folks what they're taking up in this timeline where people seem even more inclined to yell "IT'S SO SIMPLE, YOU CAN JUST" at you when literally nothing about this is simple at all, really

It *could* have been much simpler and we could have had more time to grow new flowers & veggies and try new recipes -- but the other thing is that I feel like I'm learning more every day about how that's not quite how Americans work 

To move the brain into using "both sides", though

lol