I see where you're coming from, absolutely.

Yep. This is the issue I had with the essay. Well, that and the lumping a group of people together by skin color. I get the intentional irony, but it comes off as kind of callow and weirdly holier-than-thou.

I agree with you that his work wasn't a problem. But he's not produced anything that is close to medicine or long term good. So I disagree that while being extremely different, these two things can even be compared.

Oh, of course. Because when an article is written with sweeping generalizations, it's so silly to want to react. Who would do such a thing? The irony of the digital age: you can say anything you want about anyone but gawd help you if you respond when someone lumps you into a big pile you've fought to stay out of in…

Fantastic post, Catnado.

And this is probably why he was able to get away with it for such a long time.

Your comments are always so dismissive of others, and I find it really disconcerting. I generally poke my head down in the comments but am not a career commenter like a lot of people, nor am I a troll. I guess you're used to trolls, which is why you feel the need to be so dismissive? It's very strange to me, and…

It's the oldest trick in the book.

The article has the words "good white people" right in the name. The entire subject of the article is "good white people".

So we're supposed to be angry that a group of people are legitimately responding to a completely baseless action against them? They're monsters because they dare to defend themselves against scurrilous lies? We're cool with arbitrary knee-jerk reactions that limit peoples' right to free association?

I generally agree with the article, but I think that by responding with the same hostility that people usually use on someone who is an actual racist is missing the point as well.

"Good white people" demonstrate the qualities that all good people demonstrate: kindness, empathy, compassion, thoughtfulness, unconditional love. These are the values I try to instill in my students; that parents try to instill in their children.

Don't worry about getting Sony on the phone. Just browse through a few other stories around here and email them yourself.

Best.

It's likely more about the educated versus the ignorant. Those who talk the most and loudest are usually those who know the least. The more enlightened a person is, the more introspective and quiet one becomes. Anyone who says "the US is a post-racial society" is proof of that.

It'll just be him sitting in a chair and addressing the viewer directly, as if the viewer were a small, slow child who has greatly disappointed Aaron Sorkin.

"We can't actually PASS abortion legislation because then we would lose that as a means of getting fundamentalists to the polls"

"I'VE GOT IT! We pass it when we KNOW it will get vetoed or fillabustered. That way we KNOW it won't pass but we still get credit for trying!"

Ehh... I hate the Greek system as much as anyone does, but I can understand being upset about being held up as the defining example of rape culture over an incident I had nothing to do with and when the reporter in question never bothered to see if I was involved.

they're indulging in curiously-precise denials.

color me incredibly unsurprised that the Greek system thinks it's the REAL victimized party