Epidemiologists can literally map the spread of suicide as if it was an infectious disease. Sharing graphic images and glorifying those who commit suicide via depictions of everyone focusing on them and having cathartic emotional breakthroughs triggered by their deaths is statistically the same as coughing on them…

Ooh, you make a good point - if something totally different had happened we’d probably have reacted differently. Biting insight there.

This seems like it’s merely controversial because Pusha T presented it that way. It just doesn’t seem wild to me. A black man wore blackface as social commentary. I think crazier ideas have been executed just in 2017 alone for the sake of art with less attention than this. This is another one of those non-news type…

This is just dumb.

A black person using it to make commentary on black face is perfectly safe employing it. Drakes problem is that in recent years mixed race people are increasingly being tossed out of the club. In 2007 most of us were fine with the idea of Halle Berry, Alicia Keys, Bob Marley Barrack Obama (!) as black. Something has…

Is this controversial? A black man uses blackface to explore a social issue? Like Spike Lee didn’t already go there? Ready to be educated.

Perhaps someone can educate me...Drake is Afro-Canadian from my understanding and, as an Afro-Canadian, used blackface to make an artistic and political point. In what way is that “bad,” such that he “dare[d] to take the chance of appearing in blackface”? I’m at a loss.

“dare to take the chance of appearing in blackface”... Drake’s been melanated his whole life. He ain’t appropriating shit, just taking it back. Struggling to understand the “Drake’s raciss” takes all over the place.

That definitely sounds like something that might be glossed over for the sake of “teen audience appeal,” considering how eager fans were to embrace Snape as a Good Guy. Speaking of which, he had more than a little bit of Nice Guy Syndrome going on, eh? Ironically, of course, since he wasn’t ever actually “nice,” but…

Oh man, don’t make sex workers deal with incels. They already face high rates of violence, and I have to think that would only be increased by dealing with these violent, entitled dickwads.

Charles and Camilla have always been in love from their youth. He WANTED to marry her but wasn’t allowed due to draconian Royal rules that dictated Camilla wasn’t Queen material. Both, Charles and Camilla chose to remain lovers during both of their marriages as this was acceptable in royal circles and because they…

When my daughter was inducted into National Junior Honor Society this year, I started to notice that the boys walked in alone, but the girls were all escorted by the boys. OH HELL NO! I was so irate, but I tried to set it aside for the moment, so that I could enjoy a proud moment for my daughter who had worked so…

Brits get annoyed at the American obsession with the “German heritage” of the royals, it reflects America’s weird ideas about race, ethnicity and culture, a prime example is “Irish-Americans” who don’t know a thing about the place but go around calling themselves “Irish” because a great great great grandmother…

Damon Young at the Root summed this up pretty well in his piece on Monday.

Even I, the Platonic ideal of a mediocre white man, don’t agree with myself 100% of the time. It’s honestly closer to like 45-50%.

How does one go from “Bush doesn’t care about black people” to supporting the most overtly racist president in US history?

What in the holy blue bananas are you on about?

You used to be able to fire cops for shoplifting? You can’t even fire them today for murder.

When representation of a group is absent or near absent, then any representation will be welcomed at first; even if it is stereotypes and #face-acting by another ethnicity. As time goes on and representation increases so the quality of that representation needs to improve too or appreciation will drop. The Simpsons is…

fuck I hate it when, in order to make one person look smart or competent or whatever, writers can’t think of anything else but making another character look like an idiot.