Ah the ESPN comment section. It’s amazing how white sports fans can take any NFL topic and turn it into a discussion about race relations in this country.

It’s a real shame Joe Lacob is getting closer to fucking another trophy.

NBA articles tend to attract a more reasonable commentariat, but their comment section is generally where bigots come to blow off steam and talk football/baseball.

Racist Trump supporters? According to the genius detectives over at the ESPN comments section, this was clearly done by black folks who used racial slurs to throw the police off their scent. Or it’s an insurance scam perpetrated by the supposed victim.

If you want to test your willingness to live, read the comments on ESPN:

Let’s hope the police find these cowards before they sign with the Buffalo Bills.

Racist Trump supporters really are the shittiest people in the world.

Well, we could’ve elected the equally blue-collar working class female from middle America with no links to the economic elite. Oh...

Then goddamnit; something needs to be done about this outrage!

Three of the world’s leading economists who study inequality have published new research that they say provides the first truly comprehensive picture of not just how much inequality has surged since the Reagan era

look at the chart! how is it a myth? oh wait...i’m the green line....fuck

Hillary was a bad candidate who lost to an even worse one. All the shit talking was justified

Ugh don’t get me started on gems like these:

Agreed, there’s only so much each of us can do. But to better understand is to be better and more convincingly able to call people out on their shit, backed with facts and a level-headed argument.

He promised prosperity and security to all. An empty promise, you and I know this. But when you live in areas surrounded by people of your own culture and background, and your industry of generations and income are dying, someone’s positive promises can override their negatives. Better understand why this happened, so…

I like you so I’m going to try to temper myself.

PREACH. I voted for HRC in California even though I didn’t like her. And why didn’t I like her? Because her history shows a willingness to abandon minority communities for political expediency.

I talked shit and hate-voted for Hillary. Am I not entitled to criticize a deeply flawed candidate and bemoan the lack of better alternatives?