And you jump right from “guilt by association” to a straw man. Well done.

This is so spot on. My heart hurts for the parents in these cases. The overwhelming guilt they must feel is unfathomable. Regardless of what the justice system hits them with, they will pay for this for the rest of their lives and it is overwhelmingly true that this could happen to anyone.

Whenever I see someone on FB…

It really depends on context. If you’re strictly comparing USWNT to the USMNT, then yes, in recent years the women have overtaken the men in terms of revenue by a small margin, but the question is more complicated than that as they are effectively paid from different sources . On one side, they are both paid by the…

Apparently 5th all time post season passer rating = mediocre.

In Rodgers’ 7 losses, the Packers defense gave up an average of over 36 PPG. The complaint has always been the defense and the coaching (2015 NFCCG, it was no doubt the coaching). Yes, Rodgers has certainly had some bad games in the post season, but who are…

It was actually a pretty good comparison. Ortiz is a club caddie, which is significantly different than a PGA Tour caddie in many different ways. One major way they are different is in compensation because the jobs are different. A club caddie does not go out and scout the course specifically for the player he is…

This thread is filled with people who either have no idea what their talking about, or believe that rich people should have to hand out money simply because they’re rich. Would it have been cool of Kuchar to pay Ortiz a boatload of money? Absolutely. But he paid the caddie what they agreed upon plus an extra $1k for a…

This is hilarious because this comment reads like you didn’t read the article or the comment that you’re responding to. All the guy did was point out that cruelty certainly occurs here as well, he’s not wrong.

Barry’s post was pretty good. You should read it. I especially like this line:“Make the choice not to be a…

hahaha it was always an argument in semantics, that’s how you staked your claim. You’re funny. Thanks for helping me get through my Friday.

We’re walking backwards here. I said that racism can be (and has been) used for oppression, but it is not necessary to be an oppressor in order to be racist. Nothing about the definition requires that one race holds the power in order to be racist, just the belief that a set of characteristics belongs solely to…

That’s fair, and I honestly don’t necessarily believe Jeong is a racist that should be fired. Was just commenting that I think the reaction has more to do with a perceived double standard, or at the least inconsistent reactions regarding issues like this than it has to do with white people having thin skin when it…

Except one of your points was that racism “is by definition a tool of oppression”. So if we do take the denotative definition and ignore the subjective connotative meaning like you’re proposing, your definition of racism was incorrect and your point was effectively disputed. You can believe whatever you want, but…

The double standard I’m talking about is in regards to how the NYT literally fired an editor earlier this year for something seemingly more innocent, but since she was white, it was an easy decision. https://www.cnet.com/news/new-york-times-abruptly-fires-twitter-posts-quinn-norton-racist-homophobic/

You said that racism is “by definition a tool of oppression”. That was incorrect, so that pretty clearly disputes one of your points.

That was her claim after she got caught...doesn’t mean that’s what her actual motive was. Either way, I think it was a bad excuse since she didn’t @ the people she was responding too, it looked an awful lot like she was generalizing a whole group as opposed to the individuals she claimed to be addressing.

For the…

Most people don’t have a problem with the jokes, it’s the double-standard.  

Racism is not “by definition a tool of oppression”. Can racism be used as a tool of oppression? Yes. That does not mean an act must be used by the “oppressing class” in order to be racist.

Many words have more than one definition, by the way. So even if we decide to validate the definition that you choose to use, an…

Not a nightmare so much as just a really uncomfortable experience. I recently was in the market for a cash-buy used car and went to a local dealer to check out a car that I saw online in my price range (just under $10k). When I met the salesman, he asked me what I was looking for and I told him that I had an…

Waiting on that update....Oh wait, it doesn’t really fit the narrative so just sweep it under the rug.

“We just want to live”....well in this case it would have been pretty easy to go on living if he didn’t reach for his gun while trying to evade police. Whether the police were right or wrong to stop him is…

Cool highlights, and I know I’m being nit-picky here, but to me a buzzer-beater is a shot that goes through the net as time expires. I’d be willing to concede it to a shot that goes in with under 2 seconds or so, but I definitely don’t think a shot that goes in with 11 seconds left is a buzzer-beater, it may have…

I know it’s only .07 seconds longer, but that kiss just feels waaaaay longer.