*fewer* criminals will find a way. No one has ever argued it’ll be 100% effective.

I came in to read all the response and yours got me really good. Take my star!

They struck gold with “Wet Dream Team”, and then let their hubris get the best of them.

Absolutely! It’s totally possible someone set this up thinking it’d be funny, that person could be a few things: Super immature and a dickhead, an actual racist, a troll. Those are all different motivations. It’s also possible that doing the bare minimum and not critically thinking is like SUPER common in the…

The overlap between H&M employees and shitty sports fans is small, and trying to live in a world where “ZERO way” and NONE of them” exists is not actually reflective of the gray areas this world is defined by. Come back to reality, where there isn’t an intentional racial slight put into a marketing campaign by a…

It can be both true that there are racist assholes in the stands at soccer games and a bunch of designers and photographers for H&M are clueless. Racism exists and should be stamped out, but claiming it is ubiquitous just provides ammo for those trying to claim it is overblown. This is internet outrage, which…

You can’t know that for sure, and I doubt someone did it intentionally for that reason, but I can’t prove my side either. This can be unfortunate and unclear. The world works like that and we’d all be better off reminding ourselves of that.

Yeah, you’re probably right, but I just choose to not live in a world where I profess to 100% know someones intentions. Instead I live with the understanding that a shitty thing happened, but there are also scenarios that I described above that portend an actual post-racial future in the distant future.

I really enjoy the chart that assumes all women are crazy and women less than an 8 on the hot chart are not deserving of relationships. Very funny, good stuff. Haha!

While I think this is a mistake, I am also going to take a little solace in the chance that it never occurred to these people that a little black boy and the phrase monkey have anything to do with each other. I see that as a future I’m looking forward to. It’s like when you see the video of the little white and black…

I thought Drew’s family still lived in Minnesota. And if not, how have you not been back since 1991??? No excuse in 26 years?

DENTURES! Thats how old he is! He has fucking fake teeth! In case it isn’t bad enough having the country run by 70-80 year olds, he still manages to be the worst one of the bunch.

I was one of those people who said we shouldn’t jump to resignation, but I always caveated it with, if this turns out to be a pattern than GTFO. Just baggage now.

Empathy is the obvious reaction throughout most of these comments. I don’t come to the comments to repeat the exact same thing, because it has already been very well stated, but to have hard and complicated conversations. I’m wondering how we build a response to this that is useful and measured. And that means really…

Leeann accepted his apology. I’m trying to understand how punished you think he should be? I believe in rehabilitation of all our criminals, which means you have to be able to forgive people. If this wasn’t a pattern, then it was a mistake, and we should weigh his public service v. his actions.

You were the only response I got, you’ll see I said in another comment that we should do the right thing and be very clear with our actions to set a precedent we can rely on going forward. That means believing the accusations as they stand, and giving Franken the chance to justify why he shouldn’t be forced to resign.

Those are fair points. Especially if any other women come forward. I think this investigation will have to actually have him defend these very arguments publicly, let’s see him answer this accusation in full and then tell him to GTFO if he needs to.

I guess I thought we agreed that she eventually said yes and then he went overboard. Let’s see how the ethics investigation he himself is encouraging shakes out? Unfortunately I don’t think age guarantees anyone truly understand these concepts. Some people never grow. Maybe Al finished growing when he entered politics.

Sorry, I don’t mean to seem like I’m downplaying the kiss. He badgered her until he got a yes (what I was alluding to) and then took it a big step further (also what I was alluding to). I’ve done that exact sequence, I’m super embarrassed by it, but I didn’t have ill intentions. It is the difference in getting…

Maybe our disagreement is an assumption of intentional motive and doofus motive, the latter being just how clueless guys seem to be about their actions.