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** "Make Them American, Even if They're Not" is #3 of [http://www.cracked.com/article_19183_6-tricks-movies-use-to-make-sure-you-root-right-guy.html 6 Tricks Movies Use to Make Sure You Root for the Right Guy].

** In [http://www.cracked.com/quick-fixes/the-5-most-insulting-defenses-nerd-racism/ The 5 Most Insulting Defenses of Nerd Racism], J.F. Sargent defends the practice of sacrificing fidelity to the source comics in superhero films.

* Mashable used an image of YouTube shooting suspect Nasim Aghdam "whitened up" to the level where in other circumstances this paint job could get her a role as Snow White… and with ''bright'' green eyes (seriously). Since other media used unedited version of the same photo, this was immediately obvious, and after an ensuing tweetstorm Mashable itself quickly ~~made news.~~ [http://www.informationliberation.com/?id=58209]

* Mashable used an image of YouTube shooting suspect Nasim Aghdam "whitened up" to the level where in other circumstances this paint job could get her a role as Snow White… and with ''bright'' green eyes (seriously). Since other media used unedited version of the same photo, this was immediately obvious, and after an ensuing tweetstorm Mashable itself quickly [http://www.informationliberation.com/?id=58209 made news].

* ''[[Madden NFL|Madden]] 20'' got the player profile for Christian McCaffrey "a little" off (copy-pasted some black athlete). Much amusement ensued.

{{quote|'''SLAM Gaming‏''' (@SLAMftw): Can someone tell me what’s wrong here? 😂(via u/fasteddeh) <screenshot>

[about 400 replies, mostly pictures of surprised black men or humorous "[[Comically Missing the Point|guesses]]", such as noting that in statistics on the screenshot "his weight is off by 5 lbs"]

'''Christian McCaffrey''' (@run__cmc): I don’t wear a hand warmer over my belt cmon Madden 🤦🏼‍♂️ <retweet>

'''George Kittle''' (@gkittle46): Biceps aren’t big enough honestly

'''Madden NFL 20''' (@EAMaddenNFL): Biceps looking on point over here...💪 #Madden20 <screenshot with patched model>

'''brian combs''' (@brianc253): Why does he still have his hand warmer 🤦🏻‍♂️

'''Matthew MaCoy''' (@YaBoiMaC0y): Because it’s [[EA]]. [[Failure Is the Only Option|They can’t get EVERYTHING right]]

[about 1900 other replies of this sort]

'''Lisa McCaffrey''' (@LisaMcCaffrey6)<ref>his mother</ref>: Sorry you had to find out this way. @87ed may not be your real dad. 😂 <retweet> }}

=== Western Animation ===