We see two women in this video. One is working, the other is assaulting and hurling racial slurs at the other. According to the video, the white woman wasn’t even identified as the mother of the deceased until after the police arrived.

I can’t fucking believe people are saying the mom popped off because she’s grieving and saw the reporter, who is simply doing her fucking job, as if that’s somehow acceptable. But then they say that totally doesn’t excuse the racism and assault, and I consider that woman putting her hands on the reporter to be…

I think in a lot of cases, even non white folks have been aggressively socialized to see WW as victims in any situation, and have little to no sympathy for black women. It’s really, really fucked up, and it’s not going away if we don’t call it what it is.

Thank you for saying this. I won’t speculate on why certain people* automatically empathized with the mother/attacker, but I bet it would be interesting if you broke down the demographics. My impulse was to empathize with the reporter.

A lot of commenters are really missing the point that the mothers of Tamir Rice, Trayvon Martin*, Eric Garner, Mike Brown, and on and on and on managed not to attack any reporters even when they began flocking to report on their children’s deaths. There is another factor besides grief here, and it’s called whiteness.…

Grief didn’t turn that woman into a racist sack of shit.

I don’t know how this was disrespectful. Victor and Hayes were reporting facts from across the street of the scene of the incident. How else are they supposed to go about this?

I think the begging and pleading came after the taunting.

I would like for you to point out where I said we should ban anything.

Meh. Saying something ugly and regrettable in the heat of the moment kind of pales in comparison to murdering your children.

Yes, we can apply it to a lot of things. “Everyone is a responsible banana eater until suddenly they aren’t.”

Yep, leave it to a “Mr. Niceguy” to not understand that using rape as a metaphor (for a negotiated trade deal, no less) is dismissive to victims of sexual assault, and to call Joanna “Rapekopf.”

What a surprise! An idiot who doesn’t know what he’s talking about!

I’ve always thought that the people who worship Christopher McCandless are like drug dealers who have “Scarface” posters in their apartments. You want to say, “Did you read/watch all the way to the end?”

Not feeling the outrage on this one. They weren’t lost, they weren’t out of supplies, they weren’t injured. Their mistake was underestimating how long it would take them to make the trip. They attempted a shortcut, realized it wasn’t doable, and went back to their original route. They do not sound like people that…

It’s the kind of usage that makes any reasonably well educated person cringe inside. And I’ve never encountered a male who referred to women as “females” who wasn’t an idiot misogynist.

. . . But it’s not Alaskans who do this. It’s tourists.

I agree with this statement.

“What was the name of that movie I hated about the total idiot?”