This would be like me saying ‘I have no kids, therefore I should not pay any taxes that go towards schools, child welfare programs or anything that has to do with children.’ How did these words make it to Mitch McC’s turtle beak??

These thugs act like they’re in some action film or war zone or something. They were clearly looking to shoot someone. How unbelievably aggressive and inflammatory they were. The way they treated this family like they were animals and not citizens who pay taxes and pay their salary. Treated them like they were the…

I would just like to say that your attempt to compare a rich white fan/owner shoving a player, who had zero interaction with him or his family, because he felt entitled to do so, to a well known black GM being stopped by a cop, supposedly because his visible credentials weren’t visible enough, and then allegedly being…

“It’s not something we wanted to have happen. It didn’t have to go this route,” says spokesperson for sheriff’s office that has chosen to make this happen by going this route.

Seriously?  Why be a pussy about that?  You can get away with shooting unarmed black people in the back...why take a stand on this?

Yeah I’m going to have to disagree with you. Shapiro’s shtick is to pull “facts” out of thin air, to misrepresent the argument of whomever he is debating with, and to yell over someone when things are going poorly. Then he pretends he’s an intellectual because...? He uses his bully pulpit effectively but the net…

“the guy is well-read and seems to at least try to approach questions from a reasonable perspective.”

Nothing Ben Shapiro says has any value unless willfully misinforming the public to support far-right ideology is your goal. That is the only way in which he is valuable. Otherwise, he’s startlingly incompetent. He cites random fringe studies faster than you have a chance to rebut and then has an entire website to brag…

I’m paying attention to him because The Ringer is treating him as a reasonable person and saying his book is worth reading, and I made sure to transcribe the conversation because I know one of the reactions to this blog would have been, “Oh, you’re taking this out of context.” So, there’s the context. I believe it’s…

The issue wasn’t the comment itself though, it was the timing. She said this after years of ripping off the sounds, themes and imagery of hip-hop to further her career, in the middle of an (ill-conceived, unsuccessful) attempt to re-vamp her image into a family friendly country western star. It seemed calculated to…

If she wanted to make non-misogynistic hip hop, she could have collaborated with hip hop artists who don’t make misogynistic stuff. Missy Elliott anyone? She chose the style she wanted because she wanted the shock value of it and to make money and once she was done she not only walked away but shat on it on her way…

I don’t think her calling out the misogyny in rap is the problem. It’s the cultural appropriation and the fact that she was fine with the genre when she needed to escape her Disney Princess roots. She even said to several rap producers, “I want you to make me sound as black as possible.” The second she realized she…

She also used Black Women’s bodies for her aesthetic then threw those dancers to the side when she went back the music that made her money.

Okay, but unlike Miley, there’s no hypocrisy to your dislike of the genre. You and your friends weren’t turning the radio station dial with one hand and cashing hip-hop royalty checks with the other.

I don’t think it’s calling out misogyny that’s the problem with Cyrus, though. She showed up with her Disney princess credibility, stole a bunch of stuff she liked from hip hop (including some fairly gross hypersexualization, in my opinion!), made her money, then turned around and rubbished the whole genre.

I’m also not super-outraged by Miley’s comments either, but I don’t think it was only the fact that she criticized hip-hop that bothered people.

Let me get this straight, these motherfuckers target Black people for harsher sentencing then want credit for letting them out when they were never supposed to be sentenced so long in the first place?

The whole genesis of the X-Men is a ham-fisted 1960s white liberal’s interpretation of the philosophical battle between Malcom X and Martin Luther King, Jr.

^This. Any POC that pulled a stunt like that with a white, male candidate would have been lit up like a WR by Ronnie Lott before he could have taken two steps beyond the stairs.

I saw a lot of commentary about how Karine is about that life but very little about the fact that dude could have killed them all. They didn’t know what his intent was and we live in an age of mass shootings - there was JUST another one in Virginia Beach.