RE: how much guidance students got:

The word was born from racism. Its use was/is only for hate. Why use a word completely devoid of any respect, and brimming with hate, in casual conversation and commenting? And how does not spelling it out make you forget its power and meaning?

Thank you. At this point, the question of whether or not someone is “a racist” is almost always asked by people trying to get a “get out of racism free” card.

I’m particularly fond of her asking if using the word makes someone racist while repeatedly using it herself. I’m just asking questions, guys! Don’t mind the fact that I’m gleefully using a racial slur over and over again!

Hey - why don’t you stop using the full spelled-out version of the n-word in your posts? That’s the generally accepted custom, on Jezebel and other news outlets. As you probably know from the article above or if you have a working baseline understanding of American race relations, it’s an incendiary racial slur, and…

She’s JAQing off. (JAQ = “just asking questions”, i.e. using leading questions to try to make unacceptable ideas acceptable). It’s disingenuous.

Suggestion: maybe delete the use of the n-word from your post as it’s unnecessary. I don’t think the article argues that Bill Maher is necessarily a racist, but as noted in the article above, the use of the word by Maher comes from a place of white privilege, and as Ice Cube said, the racial slur “has been used as a…

Not an African American person (not American, not Black), so take what I’m about to say with an extreme grain of salt, but:

Look at you JAQing off.

Are you being serious? Legit question, zero sarcasm.

Seems like a lot of untreated “mental illnesses” have been springing up in the white community since Trump got elected...

The person you’re replying to appears to be quite the disingenuous little troll (which is why when I saw them in the grays I left their ass there. There are far too many white people who seem to think that they need to be the center of everyone’s universe and have absolutely no respect for the concept that people in…

DAMMIT, I wasn’t gonna respond to you anymore, but your post is far too hilarious for me to ignore. You believe that one demonstrates willingness to take part in reasonable discourse by simply dismissing a valid point with “it’s never happened”? You believe that bumper sticker worthy phrases like “be inclusive”…

The trolls on this site... SMGDH... They are so obsessed with people of color having *ANYTHING* which doesn’t include them, that they can’t resist adding unhinged comments which are dismissive, insulting, ignorant, and add nothing to the conversation. I genuinely wonder what is wrong with people who feel the need to…

As a white person, this is what’s interesting to me (in the larger picture), that people LITERALLY have little or no empathy when it’s not a white person. http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/science/2013/06/racial_empathy_gap_people_don_t_perceive_pain_in_other_races.html

Pictures of both parties should be furnished as they look today. That’s called ethical journalism.

Clearly you just boxed one section and ignored the top part of my original comment

“Race is only a problem in this country to those who make it an issue.”

Kids can look older or younger than they appear, just like adults can. You’re very upset about that, but you’re much less upset with a cop killing an unarmed kid, apparently.

I don’t know why this bothers people so much. When you are actually a parent raising a child, you don’t keep a box of photos ready to release to the newspapers if your child is murdered. You reach for a recent one. He looks like a middle schooler in that picture. It’s also obviously a family photo. Grieving mom is…