THB #7: Listening

“Sometimes when you win, you really lose, and sometimes when you lose, you really win, and sometimes when you win or lose, you actually tie, and sometimes when you tie, you actually win or lose. Winning or losing is all one organic mechanism, from which one extracts what one needs.”
- Ron Shelton, spoken by Rosie Perez

I wanted and expected to write about other things today, but it is unavoidable.

A week ago, Sarah Silverman called out “Jewface,” in terms of non-jews playing important jews and characters whose religion are a key to the character.

Last Thursday, Dave Chappelle argued in his own defense regarding his stand-up special on Netflix, The Closer, with a heaping helping of added arrogance and aggression.

Over the weekend, Matt Belloni wrote about the Diversity Form being rolled out by The Academy, asking submitting entities to define some of their employees by gender, race, and identity in a way that would be illegal for any employer to ask of a potential or hired employee, in ant…