They’re journalists, not musicians.

As others have noted, this headline was almost certainly constructed this way to improve its SEO scoring. People searching on “Michael Phelps” would see this in their search results, which would drive more readers. Fewer people would be searching on “Simone Manuel” (remember, NBC didn’t even show her medal…

Oh, give me a break. This was an innocent, clumsy mistake. The person who wrote it was trying to emphasize the fact that a black person won a sport in an area where blacks are stereotypically considered not to be strong. The phrase, “blacks can’t swim,” has always been a common trope. Bad writing, but in no way mean…

sounds like a good plan - stop asking old people what they think, discount their opinions, after all what do they know? they don’t get “it”!!

It means you are hyper sensitive and let other people decide how you feel. Be a fucking adult and quit crying for safe spaces and calling everything a trigger word. Jesus, grow the fuck up and quit being such a baby. Or don’t. I don't give a shit. You can be a constant victim and miserable for the rest of your life. I…

I’m an old lady, you delusional turd.

I think it’s a mistake to treat this as an either-or, i.e. either you embrace racism or you embrace political correctness. It can be true that Trump openly panders to bigots *while at the same time being true* that a segment of our culture is extremely trigger happy in labeling people as bigots of one sort or another,…

White men getting offended over other people getting offended is the most pussy shit of all. Just fucking get over it.

He was married to a black woman, so unless he was living out some weird slaver fantasy, he’s not a conventional racist. I’d agree that he doesn’t “get” institutional racism, but he’s...well...complicated.

White men getting offended over other people getting offended is the most pussy shit of all. Just fucking get over it.

That’s edgy stuff! Wishing death on an elderly man— actually, an elderly genius— but your tough guy facade goes out the window the minute you demand counseling at your university because somebody wrote “Trump” in chalk. A millennial pretending to be edgy is fucking laughable. I could bring you to the verge of cutting…

If... and IF.... its true that she was waving a loaded gun at the police and threatening to shoot them, I think they would have shot her no matter what colour her skin was...

I fully agree that it sounds like a mental health issue, combined with paranoia that was no doubt fueled daily by social media. Regardless of what origin brought this situation to be, when you point a weapon at cops and threaten to shoot them, it’s lights out, and its justifiable.

Ugh. She sounds like a Bundy.

other sources say that people on her feed were encouraging her to shoot and to resist arrest. Perhaps the police wanted her feeds shut down so that the situation didn’t escalate.

Agreed with you until..... “She had a gun, so what?” What in the hell do you want police to do? They apparently tried to deescalate this for 7 hours. I know there examples where guns where involved and no one got shot and killed. One can argue that as a race issue, aka, white sovereign citizens get away with it all…

To all the people saying what a waste... She clearly thought of herself as a martyr (take a look at her other videos). She also taught her son that every interaction with police will be a life and death situation simply because she felt the need to escalate it to that level each time. She was delusional and this was a…

There’s a huge problem with people of color getting shot by police in this country.

Ok she shot at cops and used her son as a human sheild...fuck this shit

This headline is rubbing me the wrong way - it insinuates that this is somehow on par with other senseless murders. You can’t point a gun at the cops, I mean, what the fuck.