I believe you are conflating the AV Club's use of Disqus (and, for hard news, ABC's filter of the AP wire, a changeover that fundamentally changed the quality and utility of commenting) with the Uproxx comment system as the Onion-based newsletter provides links to both.

I've no problem but one with your last post:

Since we have clearly are seeing things differently, allow me to cut'n'paste the sub-thread in its entirety as it appears to me right now (almost 7pm EST):

OK at least we're back on track here; the word "positive" never appears in the interview, which is almost entirely devoted to whether Obama should be viewed as part of the black community (yes yes, the word community never appears either) as his ancestors were never enslaved, and to a lesser extent whether not having…

No, some of my comments were outright removed. To quote the first paragraph, cut'n'pasted straight from my Disqus dashboard from 12 hours ago (c. 6.30am EST Mon 24 Feb 2014):

[downvoted due to schmuckitude and uselessness]

The Blacklist pilot was so pathetic I couldn't make it through to the end. I have no idea who watches such pathetic "drama".

It just occurred to me that this is a wonderful workaround for the idiotic, autocratic decision by Disqus to not display downvotes: reply to the comment with content saying this is where the downvotes should live (but not why), and the upvotes for that reply would effectively show the interested parties how many…

A truly stupid and autocratic decision on the part of Disqus. They should have at least left it to the moderators to decide whether downvotes were displayed or not. If Disqus wants to be the comments section of the internet—and when it replaced abcnews.go.com's comment section, it made a serious stride towards…

Apparently you chose to ignore my last paragraph. I don't recall her ever trying to create a positive cultural identification for what it means to be black. Again, her thesis was whether or not Obama was black, and nothing or next to nothing about a positive cultural identification.

and now we're back?

It's definitely the moderator. Our tete-a-tete is now completely scrubbed from that article, whereas my continuing exchanges with Carlos the Dwarf remain therein.

To your first question, I would say yes. However, my experience is that is precisely how the black community primarily views itself—as a minority oppressed based on the color of their skin, with a long historical (and continuing) record to support that stance. I don't see any valid counter-argument to that assertion.

The hockey was great except for the officiating at the end of the Women's Gold Medal game: with the goalie pulled, an official gets in the way of a Canadian player which in turn allows a shot on the empty net (which hits the post), in OT the phantom slashing call that negated the U.S.A.'s well-earned power play, and…

This is easily the best AV club piece I've ever read, and I'm not a Jeopardy fan at all (but I have competed in various other tournaments, particularly chess). Thank you Mr Chu for your insights into both the game and the reality which is clearly different than the televised impression one is left with.

@VanDerWerff: After checking my Disque dashboard, there is definitely something askew with the sub-thread in the Tonight Show thread between us. I should have used the word "removed" rather than "deleted" because the content posted, re-read, left and returned to find missing is simply gone on all fronts.

an hour after I replied to your post, the reply is simply not there. Either Disqus is screwing up big time or your moderator is playing games.

No, before that there's was a reply regarding lukewarm praise, a funny bone transplant, Kickstarter and the author of the review of South Park's Ginger Cow episode. It's not there now, and was removed sometime on Sunday.

I understood her point just fine, it's just an extraordinarily fallacious one. Racial bigotry (in the U.S., at least) has little to do with ethnic history or your genomes, it has just about everything to do with the color of your skin. It's only once one opens one's mouth that an ethnic history can come into play;…

Soooo many comments I couldn't find my old one. But skimming through a few hundred, it's clear there's one glaring omission: the multiple guitar solos slammed together on Starz, the Dio project that was the U.S. & British metal response to We Are The World.