The experts™ skipping Xi variant name in the Greek alphabet so not to offend the country that started this sums this entire thing up perfectly. It can't be topped.
They got away with it.
"Well going by alphabetical hierarchy, the only natural and logical name for it is the Hitler variant"
I saw this and haven't commented because I just don't know.. Just because kids liked Ghostbusters 84 doesn't mean it was a kid's movie... Then they do the absolute one thing I predicted they would do, but thought "No they aren't this dumb.. No they aren't going.. oh god they did"
It's still not *horrible*.. It's not 2016 GB and Mckenna Grace genuinely is great.. but god... I just... Fuck... They actually did the thing...
I can't help but notice that our media is all but ignoring defendants of color who were also acquitted yesterday while doing wall to walk coverage of white defendants.
I call this white defendant syndrome. Hopefully defendants of color who are acquitted will one day get the media coverage that white defendants get.
It's the height of white defendant privilege that our media constantly pays attention to white acquitted defendants while cases of defendants of color who are acquitted continue to go ignored.