Agreed. If people actually READ the statement the bookstore put out, it’s totally fucking reasonable and something I’d think most people here would agree with. Jez cherry-picked some hot takes without context and put a shitty mocking tang on the whole thing (and most of the comments reflect that attitude). Like, the…

So this asshole is studying for a career in Law Enforcement?

So how come cops always seems to shot and kill the black man without a weapon but the white guy who shot up an elementary school is taken into custody without incidence? Cops seems to inherently see black men as constant threats. I guess maybe they identify with angry white men so they feel more comfortable handling…

It just comes back to, “Do you feel that prisoners deserve basic human rights?” If so, Mannings treatment should offend you, if not, then it shouldn’t.

I’d love to hear someone tell a white woman that she always has the option to shave her head to get a job. Sounds totally reasonable, right?

So the prosecutor doesn’t get death threats from the police union

Betty Shelby is nothing but a low-life thug. Look at her record! She smokes marijuana and has been cited for domestic violence. Was only a matter of time when something like this would happen. Get her off the streets!

So she didn’t just shoot him despite the fact that his hands were up. She shot him BECAUSE he put up his hands?

I’m shocked that the police would lie about why this man was shot to death.

“The video doesn’t corroborate our story, but trust us, it’s our story that’s right and not the video. Because video, much like science and the female orgasm, is a just a bunch of lies.”

Since when does Rolling Stone feature black stars? All I see are white faces on the covers.

It doesn’t matter that the cop was Black. Part of the job of being a police officer is furthering the aims of white supremacy, no matter what race you are. So yes, Black, Hispanic, Asian, whatever--cops are taught to treat non-white and especially Black people differently than white people. Sometimes Black cops are…

That’s fucked. Heroin is destroying lives and this is the response? Not advocating good rehab programs, not railing against a rehab industry that exists only to Hoover up government money by keeping people hooked for as long as possible and relapsing as often as possible...nope, let’s just post photos of people at…

If Britain and the US took these refugees, this story wouldn't exist.

And they’d be wrong:

It’s clear that she didn’t know about the allegations before she signed on to the project, and that she signed on because she believed in the film. I think she is now trying to rectify her participation and her belief in the film with the fact that its creator is a jerkoff and a rapist. I don’t think she wants anyone…

But Parker himself didn’t say stop so, by his own logic, not only should the journalist kept going, he should have invited two other journalists into the room to keep asking the same question.

“Talk down” seems to be a euphemism, here. To condescendingly patronise a woman as to her own experience and that of her gender might come closer.

EXCEPT, if you use a service like AirBnB to do it, you’ve agreed to their terms and conditions.

And welcome to the black experience.