The title is, though.

Because he deserves it?

I mean, that part isn’t really at issue here. It’s fundamentally the same technique that’s been used since the 90’s, famously on To Catch a Predator. Seemingly, the “entrapment” angle has been settled.

The correct answer.

He just really wanted to impress his hot cousin!

I had one of those! So cool, loved not having a giant glowing thing on my wrist but still receiving notifications.

Meh, I misread your comment at a glance and thought my misreading was funny. Worth writing a comment, but probably not the Google search to check my spelling.

And maybe JonBenèt!

I think of him as a zillenial version of Ashens.

Creepy???

Probably the fact that we can track the development of modern wheat from a natural grain to what it is today.

A lot of people consider themselves lucky to see a medical professional once a year, so it’d be convenient to be able to get all the requisite vaccines on that schedule.

Literally who?

Fair enough, that person is definitely engaging in hyperbolic rhetoric, but I don’t think their point is entirely wrong. This feels like a classic case of racism and bigotry being seen as all-or-nothing situations. Those character names are obviously not coming from a place of cultural sensitivity (it’s been pointed out that Cho and Chang are both family names from entirely different cultures), and while you refuse to engage with the point, portraying slavery as anything other than abominable is just a terrible decision. I would not agree with the comment OP that Rowling has always been a white supremacist, but I would say that she is/was a rather thoughtless liberal, in the centrist definition of that word.

You’re misremembering how the slavery plot goes, for what it’s worth. In Chamber of Secrets, yes, Dobby is meant to be a sympathetic figure who we’re happy is freed. However, following her pattern of “returning to a plot point that got pushback two books ago to justify it”, in Goblet we learn that Dobby is a little sicko for wanting freedom and payment, and Hermione’s efforts with SPEW (btw that’s slang for vomit in the UK} are consistently portrayed as misguided and naive.

I think it’s incredibly silly to suggest that you can’t make some judgements about an author based on literally a million words that they pulled directly out of their psyche. Another classic example is Joanne’s portrayal of women. If a woman is evil, she’s fat, mannish, and ugly. If a woman is good, she’s motherly and, in the case of Hermione, Luna, and Ginny, not like other girls. Nobody is really saying she was a hateful bigot while writing those books, but the seeds were certainly there.

It’s wild to me that kbin has users, for all the problems it seems to have.

Isn’t the UK’s voting process basically identical to Canada’s?

Not the plague. Other plagues.

Between how long they had known each other at that point and the situation Kirk was in, I find calling him “Doctor McCoy” very jarring.

Oh no, I love Blinding Lights! 😭