“And does it really matter anyway? There’s no excuse for this. None.”

I’m discouraged by the number of people here who defend their attitude toward short men by falling back on some variation of the “Napolean complex” stereotype. It reminds me of whites who complain of “angry black men.” Here’s the line: we don’t really mistreat you, in fact it is your indignation at the false…

I agree that HowardC’s remarks are wrong-headed, but not because “choice” is the significant difference between being talented and being Asian. By that reasoning, you could just as well say that being bullied for being gay is less serious as well, since gay kids can pretend to be straight. The idea of choice seems to…

I’m really confused by what you’re trying to say. That since little kids pick on each other for being different in all kinds of ways, they can’t be genuinely racist? That’s so egregiously false that I think I must be missing something here.

I agree. Most of the attempts to make Game of Thrones serious and dark seem played out to me. Scenes like Sansa’s rape are arguably problematic in a graver sense. But even if we set that aside, the violence and cliched cynicism (I’m looking at you, Tyrion) in the series are repetitive and boring by now.

By that logic no ethnic group is truly “native” to anywhere but east Africa.

The "real" dress is irrelevant. It's trivial to simply find a different picture of it with standard lighting to see what its actual colors are—-if you think that's what's really what's at stake, then there was never any significant disagreement to begin with. The picture is only notably because it apparently elicits…

I don't find this kind of "free market" defense convincing. Nor is it convincing to say that feminist advocates should simply go make their own games, and leave other developers alone. If a game trafficked in flagrantly racist depictions, we would have good reason to criticize and discourage it—and it would not matter…

Katai didn't say that Walter White is "portrayed" as sympathetic or a victim of circumstance, but rather that viewers "find" him that way, which is undoubtedly true. Most fans of the show find White tremendously appealing despite all of the straightforwardly evil things he does. Anna Gunn's piece in the New York Times…

I don't think many people outside of the Reddit demographic view Tesla as anything like the most prestigious car brand.

When people point out that whites are wrong to think that Jesus was white, they mean that if those people actually met the historical Jesus they themselves would not view him as white. The sense of "white" here is still the colloquial one, not any technical definition of "Caucasian" that would include Arabs.

In my experience, "to be fair" is irksome because the person who begins their remarks this way knows that what she's about to say is derailing or beside the point. If it weren't, they wouldn't have to be deprecating. It's like opening with "I'm not racist"—the only people who feel the need to say this are racists.

Being within one's rights to do something and being justified in doing it, all things considered, are obviously different. I really doubt anyone here thinks that allowing the students to wear protest shirts carried significant risk of inciting a riot. And unless you think that, I'm not sure what the justification for…

If the players had wanted to wear NYPD shirts, I doubt they would have been kicked out for making the inverse "political statement."

Probably because this is a sports site, and Ed Werder is an ESPN reporter and therefore a sports figure, whereas the Game is not.

He wouldn't. But Keith Law's remarks on what should be the uncontroversial fact of evolution are more defensible than Werder's derision toward police brutality protests.

I don't think you understand that the probabilities given by the NYT blog purport to give the ultimate likelihood of victory given either choice. You're talking as if we can consider the 4% advantage as part of some larger analysis in which we determine that some other factor "outweighs" it. But by hypothesis there is…

I mean, it's apt, but probably not in the way RJarosz intends.

If you don't think that that "4% improvement" justifies going for the touchdown, then you don't understand what the probabilities in question here actually describe.

Yes, because she should not be exposed to retaliatory abuse, which is a certain result of being outed in a case like this.