It’s very Trumpian. When confronted with the errors in their thinking and their assumptions — not to mention their racism — they double down.

What is it with Boston? I’ll never forget taking some out-of-towners to a Yankees-Red Sox game at Yankee Stadium, sitting in the bleachers for the “cultural experience,” and being horrified at the racist shouts coming from the Boston fans. It was directed not only at players; a few times, when a black spectator stood…

In one respect, you are right, barely: The data that are available show that in violent encounters between police and the public, whites and blacks are roughly equally likely to be shot.

I might give you that, except:

If by that you mean calling out someone who thinks its perfectly acceptable to pull out and start waving round a lethal weapon to deal with life’s little frustrations, then...thank you. I accept your judgment.

Actually, I love it. I read most of the posts, and I agree with most, and thus don’t comment. I hold those with whom I am aligned politically to a higher standard than, say, the neanderthals over at Breitbart. We are better than them. You seem to extrapolate from my comments on a small number of posts to make a larger…

What’s most appalling about this: Angela Helm’s tone. Read the post again, then read The Root post the other day about the calm, collected fast-food worker with the gun held to his head by a single-digit IQ patron, and compare the tone of both pieces to the post about the Delta pilot’s slap directed at a woman…

Sorry, I can’t go there with you. If they had been Krystle Carrington and Alexis Colby going at it, they still would have deserved more disciplinary action than what they got. A plane crew’s top priority is the safety and security of all passengers, and that pertains up to the point where the jetway meets the terminal…

You choose to see what you want to see and not to see what actually happened.

Sorry, this isn’t in the same category. Two “adults” who couldn’t keep their shit together on the plane continued their violent stupidity on the jetway. They didn’t get enough “de-escalation,” in my view.

To all of you explaining away the horror of this scene by guessing that the gun wouldn’t have fired: Please reference The Root’s earlier post about the 17-year-old Floridian charged with manslaughter for “accidentally” blowing his sister’s head off. You miss the insanity of the larger context; idiots and children…

Why does The Root devote so much copy to Hernandez? Honestly, I’d like to know the perceived connection to your site and its mission?

“If Hernandez carried on this thug image in order to hide his sexuality, then this story is even more tragic than initially thought because it means that America, and all the toxic masculinity and male fragility that it perpetuates, is at least partially complicit in these crimes.

Terrible choice of a springboard for your otherwise compelling analysis. Prison is also a violent, dangerous place because it houses irredeemably violent sociopaths like Aaron Hernandez. He was, by many accounts, a sadistic bully utterly lacking in conscience from the earliest days, and he spent his life shooting at…

Thanks for that. What good is forgiveness when forgiveness is deemed the only option? It allows those without a conscience, those without empathy, those who aspire to power through violence, to achieve their selfish ends at the expense of those who will always determine, in the end, that all they can do is “forgive.”…

So we’re on the lookout for a man with an unkempt beard and the most fastidiously groomed eyebrows since Lana Turner.

You present a false spectrum — from more forgiving on one end to more vengeful on the other. One can decline to forgive and still not harbor an iota of vengefulness. Justice is not revenge. The relatives of Mr. Godwin can demand the justic be served under the law without be vengeful people. The sort of forgiveness I…

Very Trumpian.

“Hours before the game began, Thomas was caught balling on the sideline.”

Your point in generally is well-taken. However, are you aware that the animal who did this was a mental-health case worker, with plenty of access? Some people are just mean, selfish, devoid of empathy. This one fits that bill. He couldn’t have the woman he wanted, so he decided to slaughter strangers.