The morality of a slave.

I think this is a good time to sing the refrain that is used so often on this site and Gawker:

“How To Mind Your Own Damn Business: An Ode To Tact”

“It’s not a problem for me.”

Wrong.

Then why are you trying to judge 19th century slavery with 21st century practices that are totally different?

Wrong.

You'd better be careful who that non-nonviolence is directed at then.

You say this as if you are in a position of authority to give him or anyone else a “pass.”

Chait is completely correct throughout that essay, and while it would be easy to write a lengthy post about all the ways he is correct, I'll instead just say this:

The sufferers, one and all, are frighteningly willing and inventive in their pretexts for painful emotions; they even enjoy being mistrustful and dwelling on wrongs and imagined slights ... they rip open the oldest wounds and make themselves bleed to death from scars long since healed, they make evil-doers out of…

As I said when Gawker posted this same bullshit the other day:

Wrong. Any institution that can exercise control over content can censor.

"covering an ongoing story that's unfolding on the Internet and therefore newsworthy"

Casual cognitive dissonance and rampant self-entitlement can be found in damn near every post submitted to Gawker and its hegemony.

Your description of the NY Post is a perfect description of Gawker et al.

I'll give you a false trilemma, since Gawker et al isn't capable of rational thought.

I don't know who Ed Sheeran even is, other than being the red-haired man in the photo up top, I assume.

Sure you can. You don't have to be fair. Everyone does not have to be judged by the same standard.