A lot of people flip what you're saying into an argument against providing prisoners with basic necessities, as you noted. I think it's a dangerous argument. I also think it's an argument not grounded in the reality of life for most prisoners. The reason why some prisoners have access to hormone therapy or gender…

The Norwegian man you're referring to will most likely spend the rest of his life in prison, his rehabilitation will be evaluated in 25 years and specialists will consider whether or not he is at risk of committing crime again. He will most like be re-sentenced to another 25 years and this process will continue until…

Thanks for sharing your point of view. I think it's a bit crazy that people in this thread are saying it's only "speculative" that Castro had a serious mental illness, when the prison saw fit to put him on suicide watch (they only do this for the mentally ill).

Prisons are horrific places. To say that prisoners have a better quality of life than those on the outside is to be blinded to reality. There's a reason why people in prison have much lower life expectancies than those on the outside and too often die of treatable diseases (not to mention those prisoners who are…

I think it's debatable that Macklemore is a hip-hop artist. http://noisey.vice.com/fr/blog/mackle…

I've never heard of a court ordering *international* charity work. But I admire your cynicism! lol

This article did not talk about the things that you said it talked about. This article was about how some of the people at Fox News and our dear old Supreme Court Chief Justice are racists. They reject MLK's message wholesale. They may say that MLK had a "conservative" message, but they're lying. They're just racist.…

I want to break down your argument a little bit.

Thanks very much for that! I'm due for a Gawker media hiatus. I hope you get better soon!

Can you tell me another site that has thoughtful discussion on these issues? Because this one ain't it.

I am all for criticizing (mostly) white people for creating mass incarceration, keeping the working poor poor, supporting the racist drone strike program that has murdered hundreds of brown-skinned people, supporting the racist death penalty that has murdered thousands of poor people, denying health insurance to the…

People also ignore his activism around labor rights for poor people.

This post wasn't written about MLK. It was a rant against racists and against Macklemore. The author through in a quick list of civil rights heroes who were murdered at the end, but didn't talk about them or the hundreds of others who lost their lives during the movement. Commenters are simply responding to what the…

Your argument is too simplistic here. I'm getting really sick about the boiled-down, unhelpful, racial discourse on this site over the past few days. It sucks because I've really enjoyed your other articles and think you are generally very much on point.

He's literally dressed as blurred lines. Give the man a fucking break!

Astute analysis. I hope to read 10 more articles on Jez today concerning how Robin Thicke is responsible for #rapeculture, #solidarityisforwhitewomen, and the failure of the Equal Rights Amendment to pass.

I must have blocked out of my mind Catherine McKinnon and the french feminists who are Islamapobic, but you're right that there are self-described feminists who deny women agency wholesale (while also being racist and classist IMO).

You can't just deny women agency like that. You're saying that these women were reduced to mere objects because of the patriarchy and MLK took advantage of this this very blunt patriarchy, which means these women weren't consenting in some fundamental way. If you've read any of the fundamentals of queer, feminist,…

That's absolutely not true. I have studied the Civil Rights Movement and am fully aware that MLK was not without faults. But I think he was a very charismatic, handsome, and effervescent individual who women were very attracted to. I think it's really silly to say that he took advantage of women without any…

There's also that famous Stokely Carmichael quote about the only good position a woman should be in is the "prone" position.