I recently went to see a standup show where Trevor Noah was a surprise performer. His whole set was a joke about Oscar Pistorius and the punch line was that his fiancée had annoyed him so badly when he woke her up in the middle of he night that he shot her.

Well, my guess is that after simply trying to do his job, having a snippet of his email posted to twitter completely out of context, and for that, being labeled a racist and accused of not caring about black people by all of social media, he realized he could never win and said “fuck it”. This could very well have a…

Have you read his full email? I’m curious if you’re responding just to Jezebel’s reporting, or to what he actually said. I think Jez is really misrepresenting the situation in this case.

So he didn’t refuse to accommodate student’s safety? He just said he’d hold class (I guess in his mind in defiance of the bullies or whatever) and students were free to come or retake the test later without a penalty. And apparently the University didn’t cancel classes so... I don’t know. This doesn’t seem nearly as…

Here is the entire message sent from the professor trying to DO HIS JOB. I guess before long there will be no professors or administrators on campus.

Ick, this line of reasoning is just ick. Please treat a 14 year old girl like a 14 year old, ‘cause there are all sorts of social, cultural, economic, biological, and other things affecting her maturity and even if she’s mature on some things she’s not mature on others and a 14 year old kid is a kid, not magically a…

I was that girl. I was deeply insecure and socially isolated in a very unstable, emotionally abusive home whose reality was masked by money. But I had the eating disorder, the cutting, panic attacks, all kinds of red flags that all was not well at home. I was around this age when MySpace was big and I ended up sending…

Seriously, this is creepy as shit to be like, “Imma just regard 14 year old girls like 17 year olds instead. Cause I feel like I can justify that.” A 14 year old WOMAN? Just fucking stop.

As well you should publish different viewpoints even if they are sometimes dumb/morally bankrupt/etc. Whatever happened to the whole, “I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it” idea?

I look at things like this and have to admit to myself that conservatives are not entirely wrong about some issues.

This boils down to “I don’t like that you’re utilizing this avenue for discourse in the manner it was intended.”

Ah, Wesleyan. Keep fucking up, you gorgeous institution.

I eat cereal dry with a glass of milk on the side. I like to eat at my own pace, thank you very much. That cereal isn’t the boss of me.

I find it better to think of it as a dessert than a proper breakfast.

I assume you’re saying that because you’ve seen the film and know that the racism of Hollywood absolutely doesn’t play a factor in it in any way, right? You wouldn’t just be making assumptions about a film which won’t come out until next year, would you?

Holy shit, you’re flooding the entire comments section. Stop it, you nut!

Yeah, it’s almost like it was a deliberate stylistic choice in that case or something...

Can you please post this definition again. I haven't seen it enough times in this thread.

Look, I’m all for calling out the white-washing of film and TV, but this was an era when about five black people got work in Hollywood and the rest were white people in blackface. It’s not a controversy, it’s just sadly historically accurate.

Okay, but if the movie featured people talking on their cell phones despite taking place in the 40s, would you make the same excuse or would you think that was a weird choice to make?