It’s a lose-lose-lose-lose-lose, because the opinions on how to deal with racist trolls are not monolithic.
If you turn the comments off, you get Seales’s complaint.
If you leave the comments on & don’t engage with them, you get dragged for giving them a platform.
If you leave the comments on & do engage with them,…

Seems like a good plan to dump the property. The investment value of the property was gone as soon as it was a flash point. On the down side, this means that no local labor will be used to rehab it and no local suppliers will sell materials, but it won’t really hurt anything but the sales prices for any other owners…

I’ve never told this to anyone but feel it’s time to confess:

LOL at the clips playing while Melo is talking.

I’d second that, and add riding a motorcycle.

Nothing I've done in life scares me more than driving a car. 

Yet another gruesome reminder that the single most dangerous thing we all do is drive. Pay the fuck out of attention to not only what you are doing, but what everyone else is too.

I’m also in the entertainment industry, but I develop AAA video games. I’ve worked on multi-billion dollar franchises for multiple companies on multiple continents. We have all of the same representation problems, only they’re far worse because there are increasingly strenuous educational barriers, as well as the same …

“The clear implications of Billups’s statement is that players who did not have two parents in the home—like, for example, fourth-overall draft pick De’Andre Hunter—were not raised right.”

Such bullshit.  I only had one parent in the house I turned out (looks at deadspin commenting history)...touche, Chauncey, touche.  

nope

Yes.

Finally, a video that belongs on Deadspin.

I’m glad you recognize this take makes you a total herb. 

For those who haven’t read it, former Gawker writer Caity Weaver did a nice piece for the NYT Magazine in March: There Is No Reason to Cross the U.S. by Train. But I Did It Anyway

Completely and utterly unexpected for me. A total curveball. It really shocked me for a moment, equally as much as when Thor lopped off Thanos’ head. I really really enjoyed the direction they took him. 

I was going to say “BASICALLY”?
They were literal strikebreakers and antiunion Wild West Blackwater.

So let me understand, when a black person thinks she is white then its “sad” and we need to understand her troubled mental state but when a white woman thinks she is black then its “cultural appropriation”.

So, I'm 4 years too late, but this episode is worth commenting on. Also, I've just been blasting through all 7 seasons, after acquiring the boxset for a very reasonable price, in the space of about 2-3 weeks, so envy me, people!