It’s insane that people here are suggesting that. Deescalation, yes. But racist deescalation? I cannot see any circumstances beyond some manufactured extremes (KKK member with a gun refusing to put it down unless a white police officer says something racist) where any officer should himself engage in racist speech in…

But I can somewhat excuse him

All I can think about is Michael Che’s comment on cops being put on “administrative leave.” “You never hear McDonald’s putting Carlos on ‘administrative leave’ while they investigate whether or not he put his pubes in the fries.”

“In context, his comments were clearly aimed at attempting to gain compliance by using the passenger’s own statements and reasoning to avoid making an arrest.”

Well, that’s the thing about Trump, is that he lives up (or down) to the hyperbole. “He’s such an insane narcissist, he’s going to run this country like his old game show!” someone shouts, and you think, “Okay, ha ha, but seriously, let’s focus on the real stuff.” AND THEN HE GOES AND BRAGS ABOUT RATINGS.

Ratings and wealth are the only metrics Trump understands. Any time he wants to insult someone, he says they’ve got low ratings or are losing money. Unless it’s a woman, of course, in which case he just says they’re ugly.

Fun fact: you can say “cunt” on Kinja.

Kristen, I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but 15 years from now, Thiel is going to secretly hire someone to identify someone to hire someone to find a friendly, frequently-overturned judge to agree to ignore a federal court ruling to allow someone to file a lawsuit to bankrupt you for publishing something that…

That’s why they’ve been hammering these stupid fucking bathroom bills so hard the last couple of years, in direct contrast to the overwhelming consensus of their constituents. Even traditionally conservative voters generally see it as anything from a non-issue to a waste of time and money.

Mattis said this wasn’t a problem, and in fact welcomed transgender people into service. I’ll take his side on this issue over anything coming out of Trump’s mouth, especially considering that changing things because of cost concerns is nonsensical when the costs have not been a concern for the better part of a decade.

This is a guy whose greatest desire is to respected by as many people as possible. He’s going to walk out of this with 70% of Americans thinking he is a PoS, 90% of the world thinking the same way and will be written up in the history books as one of the worst Presidents of all time. I’d be surprised if he didn’t kill…

“I am deeply concerned...”

“A.V. Club commenters want Univision to come clean about about its alleged Kinja misconduct”

I know the noteworthiness is gone if we assume pocket tweet, but that analysis of the keyboard is weak - he claimed pocket-tweet so we can assume mobile device, which generally default to initial caps. And given the small keyboard size and equal chances of any particular corner being triggered by your body through…

Considering how many students have found themselves bending on a professors table/bed/whatever while he’s humping away at them, I think you are very, very naive.

I wrote this comment above and I believe it kind of sums it up. Sexual harassment and general sexism is a massive problem in STEM and a lot of it starts when students are just undergraduates. A sleazy 19 year old eventually grows up and has people working under him and the cycle continues.

I wouldn’t be so sure. Some professors are open like this and perhaps unaware of the signals they’re sending. Many of us have the sense to not appear like we’re flirting (*raises hand*). Others are flirting; I can count three professors from my PhD department who did this. Two of them married the student after they…

But now Allie Vandee, 16, is telling BuzzFeed News that the pair were part of a group of 30 teenagers on an organized trip to see sites in Washington and, get this, they were led to Howard by their school chaperones.

Good to know. In the same breath, Howard is a place where one’s hat may get touched for certain reasons. That’s my point—there’s much to learn. Now, on to the other social, educational, political, and artistic things we can learn about the institutions...

Whites live for passive aggressiveness. They get their “self worth” only from bringing others’ down.