I’m pretty sure the Groupthink title is ironic on purpose.

the “leaders” are just your starting places when you have no idea what to do yet, either to help you get a basic handle of the basic issues, learn to how reach out to the community itself for feedback,

Her pieces frequently include anti-woman or anti-PoC statements. This is not the first time commenters have called it out. This schtick is wearing thin.

reached out to several community leaders about facilitating a discussion

Exactly. Pictures of the damage done to the home would be no problem for me. This feels like exploitation.

This woman is obviously dealing with mental health issues. I don’t know how I feel about taking, and then posting a picture of her on instagram.

I need an explanation. That can’t possibly mean what I think it means. I just noticed the hot sauce comment. So it is exactly what it looks like.

I think it’s interesting that people think Gawker comment section is unbearable. I actually feel that way about Jezebel’s.comment section. Gawker has obvious trolls that you can basically scroll past or flag. Jez has people that legitimately believe their bigoted ideas are true, tone policers and a whole long list of…

She did not say a politican should cheer on riots. Hillary said that maybe the mayor should be as impassioned about the police murdering people as she is about people rioting.

The Christian right has been violent for all of America’s history and frequently supports violent invasions of other countries.

Black police officers can be, and often are, complicit in institutionalized racism. Intra-race racism is a thing.

I provided a reasonable response to your comment. I’m not going to deal with aggressiveness and cursing. No. Mature adults don’t behave that way. If you disagree with a comment, fine, but cursing, personal attacks and saying I have “misguided issues” is inappropriate and unintelligent.

When did I call you a racist? I’m engaging in polite conversation and debate. The cursing, aggressiveness and rudeness is not neccessary. I’m not going to deal with abusive comments. I’ll entertain classy and appropriate convo only.

Yes, “REALLY.” “Allllll” kinds of people shop there. I don’t know what kind of heterogenous cities a lot of you live in, but in mine, there are more than just white people. Forever 21 is popular amongst all teens-20 somethings, including guys in the stores that have a men’s department. And even if it were only white…

There is no way of knowing how many teens that saw the shirts will go the website. If you think a storefront in the NYC was only seen by 3 people, ok. But it is now covered on Jezebel. I think we can agree more than 3 people have seen it now? Which would make it successful.

I’m aware of that, obviously. I think it is hyprocritical, but predictable, that commenters here giddily support envelopes full of arts & craft supplies, or trolling Yelp reviews, but they don’t “get” this. Either this is outside the collective realm of comprehension, or a bunch of people won’t be honest and say they…

They are trying to raise awareness amongst their peer group. The living, breathing Forever 21s. You know the ones that we keep discovering are just as racist, if not more racist than previous generations? They want them to know about the dead Never 21s. They aren’t under any illusions that this will automatically fix…

Is this sarcasm? You don’t “get” the connection between Forever 21 and Never 21? That doesn’t make sense, even though it was explained here? Forever 21 is a place that lots of ages/classes/genders/races visit. Their customer base covers a pretty good swath of the young adult population.

Maybe they should start sending envelopes full of glitter to people. That seems to be a Jezebel commenter-approved form of protest.

So it’s puzzling because...? If someone looked at the storefront and saw the shirt, then this particular protest was successful. Awareness is important to protesting.