These deranged takes, and their unnerving proximity to online monetization, are case studies in the way that our world—digitally mediated, utterly consumed by capitalism—makes communication about morality very easy but makes actual moral living very hard. You don’t end up using a news story about a dead toddler as a peg for white entitlement withou

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In fact, in the Hollywood culture, it was business as usual. The question of irresponsible, demeaning, or degrading content and its effect in the world is simply not a topic for conversation in the movie business. Money so dominates the landscape there that it provides all the rationale anyone needs to do anything, even something that conflicts wit

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