Since the incident, Thanasi Papoulias (one of the Greek speakers in the video) has decided to show his gratitude toward the store manager who stepped in to defend him and his wife — by setting up a GoFundMe to send her to Greece. In two days, the fundraiser has met about one-third of its $6,000 goal. Read more
“That language is not allowed in this store.” WTF????????
This was almost certainly Islamophobia. Greek people get hit with it a fair amount in the United States. There was a pretty horrifying example I remember from a few years ago.
That man, a Greek Orthodox priest named Father Alexios Marakis, speaks little English and was lost, police said. He wanted directions.
What the priest got instead, police say, was a tire iron to the head. Then he was chased for three blocks and pinned to the ground — as the Marine kept a 911 operator on the phone, saying he had captured a terrorist.
Anyway, remember when I said that “whiteness is a social construct that can be given and taken away”?
Welcome to that.
YUUPPPPPP^^^ Italians are feeling this shit too.
Eastern Europeans in general….
everyone that aint swedish with a prominent nose and tanning abilities got their whiteness revoked in the U.S
Just a clarification the “that language is not allowed in the store” is not about the Greek . It’s about the racist white women cursing .
The manager was defending the couple speaking Greek and kicked the white women out for profanity
Executive: “I guess movie critics just don’t like DC superheroes.”
The Lego Batman Movie:
Executive: Holy shit.
It’s almost as if everyone’s tired of grimdark, badly written stories and not superheroes.
But I wouldn’t hold my breath waiting for DC to figure that out.
I liked the Dark Knight trilogy, but after that DC just kept trying to force that concept into everything it touched and it got old.
The DK Trilogy was good because it was almost like a deconstruction of dark and edgy Batman and reconstruction of him as a noble hero.
With the way the Jokers worldview was shattered and how it was treated as a character defining moment when he told his mentor executing a captive criminal wasn’t justice.
Now they seem to be missing that point and playing the dark and edgy bullshit straight.
nothing pisses me off more then fiction trying to shove the idea that society is inherently selfish and evil down my throat.
I think comes form a failure to understand the character.
Batman when written right ISN’T an anti-hero. He’s a noble hero (complete with no killing code) that only puts on a fearsome facade to scare the bad guys.
There’s even a point in TAS (which is considered one of the best Batman adaptions ever made) when he tells a criminal who abused orphans into stealing for him that harming children made him “sorely tempted” to break his vow.
My boyfriend talks in his sleep and because he’s bilingual, he says some hilarious/weird/sometimes creepy shit. I ask him every morning if he remembers saying this stuff and he has no idea about any of it.
Here are some of my favorites:
-”Babe, can you please turn down the brightness of your skin” -After stealing all of the blankets: “This is my right as a human” -After I take the blankets back: “I don’t want your freedom, America. Just blanket” -Sometimes he just says “Hello?” as if he’s answering a phone call -One night he just said “Cabbage” which is weird because he doesn’t know the english word for that when he’s awake. -After spooning me: “You have a nice butt” -”Who is that in the corner?” (terrifying) -”Watch out for the red lady” (even more terrifying) -Sometimes he will say things in German and it sounds like he’s speaking Parseltongue -One time I actually think he said something in Parseltongue -One time he talked about buying a ticket to “everywhere” and then just said “hello?” after two minutes of silence -And my all time favorite: ”This is MY yogurt, Satan”
