White audiences embrace the limiting vision of diversity Yang, Ansari and others champion, "congratulating" themselves, as Kimmel joked, all the while keeping black and Latino voices safely segregated to foreign lands (Shondaland) and foreign genres (the telenovela), or by couching them in enviable wealth (Black-ish).
All in all, Bolton had a little more to congratulate themselves on than Everton, but, as Moyes said, the Cup is always about getting through to the next round – no matter how scratchily.
But as Labour supporters congratulate themselves on the chancellor's U-turn, and Conservatives cheer on the chancellor's latest bit of political escapology, we shouldn't lose sight of the bad news.
I remember watching the closing moments of the Kyoto conference, in 1997, as delegates congratulated themselves on what President Bill Clinton called "a huge first step".
Look at the way they are congratulating themselves for rejecting Roy Blunt as majority leader in favour of John Boehner, on the basis that he was marginally less friendly towards lobbyists than his rival (the new "clean broom" took a mere $32,000 from Mr Abramoff's clients and rents his flat from a lobbyist).
The movie does not reveal that within Goldman, traders were describing its mortgage offerings as "junk," "dogs" and "monstrosities," even as they were congratulating themselves for selling the garbage to clients.
As city lawmakers congratulated themselves on raising the minimum wage, some council members were circumspect, saying the effects of their plan aren't easy to predict.
But just as BBC executives were congratulating themselves, the sniping began.
Denny is described as having the good looks that people remark upon "in a tone of surprise as if they were congratulating themselves on their powers of discernment".
Then we listened as rich white people congratulated themselves for spending money on an extravagant night in the name of bringing Sesame Street to Afghanistan, because where the troops couldn't succeed, the muppets sure as hell could.
