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No, really: where were you seventeen years ago?

I've been reading a lot of criticism of Nicki Minaj recently, and it sort of makes me uncomfortable. Not because I'm the biggest fan of Nicki, but because it seems to me that too many of us are just bashing on her, throwing around terms like "racist" and "orientalist," and failing to look at the big picture.

No, not Chan. Chain. This guy:

So, this Arizona law is alternately familiar and weird to me.

When I first heard about it, I got this weird déjà-vu feeling where I kept thinking that I’d seen this law somewhere before. Then I realized that I had.