I feel like you're trying to make a joke here, but you're essentially saying 'It's fairly likely that my dad would murder an innocent person, given certain circumstances'. And that idea is just so alien to me that I don't know how to respond.

Wow, that's terrifying. It's appalling how many people don't realise just how recent all this stuff is. As in, within my parents' lifetimes.

That's appalling.

Oh that's so sad. That poor family.

Everything you have just described is illegal where I come from. Surely even in the USA you can't fire someone for having a baby? Or being sick?

Oh my god, I want to go back in time and slap your manager in the face.

You make good points but I don't want to argue with the people who don't see this as a tragedy. I definitely don't want to argue with people who are secretly cheering another black life lost. I just want them to be so outnumbered by everyone else that they become politically and culturally irrelevant and I never…

No matter where you live, having a gun in your home puts you at greater risk than not having a gun. It's far, far more likely that a gun will be used to kill or injure a member of the household than an armed intruder.

And these stories, ladies and gentlemen, are why we need unfair dismissal laws, unions and occupational health and safety regulations.

I wouldn't go that far. People don't get shot in Australia as much (because gun laws, for starters) but look into Aboriginal deaths in custody, why don't you?

Even if he is punished the victim will still be dead. Her death is in part attributable to a racist culture and a gun culture. Simply punishing this one man will not make these factors go away.

I think the point is that you being white invalidates your decision to make this post about your fears.

Precisely. Absent some bizarre extra facts missing from this report, this is murder. To claim self-defence it's not enough to say that you were afraid of the person you killed. The fear also have to be objectively reasonable. If a jury finds self-defence in this case they're basically saying that it is reasonable…

I don't need a defence. I'm telling pockyordie to get a grip and to stop trying to make 'kink-shaming' a thing. I never actually said anything bad about kinky sex (or the consumption of cheese or wheat). I just said that the fact that some people do not like kinky sex does not mean that people who do like kinky sex…

True. I don't like the gendering of inanimate objects in other languages.

You can't legally consent to sex if you're incapacitated. You can be incapacitated for many reasons, including alcohol. Too drunk to consent to sex doesn't mean tipsy. It means flat-out, falling down, black-out drunk. Unable to talk without slurring and so on. If you've had sex with a girl after a night of…

Yeah, why point and laugh at this dude? Far as I can tell he's done nothing wrong. This is just highschool-style bullying.

No, of course it's not ok. But I also wouldn't be saying that that hypothetical person should be tarred and feathered. This woman is getting death and rape threats and her parents are getting harassed because she wore an offensive costume. Do you realise how messed up that is?

I think I understand the distinction you're making here. You think it's ok to dress as a mass-murderer but not as a victim of mass-murder because dressing up as someone means that you're mocking them. Therefore it's ok to mock Osama but not terrorism victims.

Well, dealing with sexism or racism makes something more clearly a 'hostile work environment' and can result in lawsuits. And there are practical considerations. A racist would not be able to deal effectively with his or her black colleagues, for instance. A sexist person might not promote women even when they are…