We Need to Hold K-Pop Idols Accountable For Their Racist ActionsIt’s right there in our name: theUnited books had been published, so no one — save J.K. Rowling herself — knew what was in store for the man who seemed, at first glance, like your run-of-the-mill antagonist. But Rickman explained that what really convinced him to take the role was a tiny piece of advice that Rowling had offered him, cluing him into the idea that there was something more to the character than met the eye.And now, we know exactly what she told him. But we already knew that. We already knew Trump lies and obscures and obfuscates to protect himself. Since his inauguration, his administration has demonstrated a rabid willingness to distort or outright disregard the truth for the sake of engineering a propagandized version of reality. Like reality TV or pro-wrestling, Trump is always trying to work any angle that generates heat, that keeps the base undergirding his power, which is activated and mobilized against anyone who threatens that power. I came to see the Senate as skewed to help conservative senators. The first wave of Black Lives Matter protests started going on, and the Ferguson police officer [who killed Michael Brown] was acquitted. I happened to walk into a protest and a woman was carrying a sign saying “The system isn’t broken, it’s fixed.” I was thinking about what I’d been reading, and it seemed to refer to this higher political system as well — the reason the Occupy Movement couldn’t get anywhere, or Bernie Sanders couldn’t get much steam or was suppressed by the Democratic Party itself. The system was working as it was supposed to. If that was the case and if we wanted to do something about, say, climate change, maybe the Northeast could do something, or the West Coast could do something. Maybe the union is a problem. Maybe it’sthe