Ridiculing is fine. Calling them out on ignorance is fine. Dude's an asshole who doesn't know reality and is clearly delusional and/or paid really well to ignore reality. But avoiding racial slurs is not part of the "PC game." It's human decency. No need to stoop to anyone's level. That ain't colorful, it just makes…

Are you under the impression that rape on campus is rare, inevitably treated with the utmost consideration to the victim, and prosecuted to the full extent of the law?

this is it. this is the one. here we go.

Bah~ though this is just a clip I nominate this entire climax

And thank you, and all the volunteer mods. I know it gets bananas down here.

Jesus Christ. This is a great article (you are becoming one of my favorite writers on here) and I'm so sorry you're going through all this.

Anna, thank you so much. I have loads to say and this is perhaps not the best place to say all of it. In my years of moderating Jezebel and Groupthink (nowadays Groupthink), I've faced a lot of horrifying trolls myself. The other mods and I have had to contact police before, block doxxing attempts, take care of…

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For serious, I don't think it's out of the realms of possibility that there are people who get worked up over, essentially, molehills, but I'm generally wary of calling people out too hard on that because I'm always very aware of the possibility that these people are actually just seeing aspects that I don't see. And…

Not at all. Jonathan Chait, for example, seems terribly oversensitive.

I can't believe I read that whole Jonathan Chait piece! (There were a select few things I agreed with, but not very many, and it was so fucking needlessly long and repetitive.) Your article was a great response.

Complaints about political correctness always, always boil down to 'Boo, I'm now expected to think about things before I say them! I have to consider the feelings and experiences of people who aren't me! I can't just stomp around saying and doing whatever I like any more, except actually I can, because there is literal…

I'm sorry, but you can't have this convo without props to Prime Suspect — you just can't. If you like Stella Gibson you'll love Jane Tennison. The character had a motherfucking abortion, sans emotional torment (!) — in the 90s (oh and did I mention she's played by Helen Mirren).

The bit I replayed was when she's surrounded by that group of thugs near the Brawley house and she just makes the tiiiniest lunge towards the Head Thug ... and he reels back in disbelief. I had to watch that over and over.

Can we not give any clicks to Blatchford? She's a tired old irrelevant crank who routinely victim blames and is just generally a terrible person.

Christie Blatchford also wrote a glorious column defending Jian Ghomeshi. She's a rape apologist and a national embarassment.

"I will not live with the guilt of someone passing away."

There are more important points to be discussed, certainly, but I would like to note that Christie Blatchford is basically Canada's Ann Coulter. Please don't anyone think her narrative is representative of how Canada feels about the multitude of crimes committed against Rehtaeh Parsons.