Kind of beside the point, but it’s pretty funny to see “quote-unquote” in writing, right in front a quoted phrase.  

Yeah, I can understand that. The apparent need to clear his conscience could easily be more selfish than it is noble. I still think, absent the presence of someone who has a more damning story and is threatening to bring it to the public or something, it can’t be seen as evidence of current racism.

He didn’t do anything obvious to atone before sharing this story, so I suppose he hasn’t really earned a positive reaction to the courage it took to share a story like this. Christian Picciolini spends his life trying to atone for what he did when he was far more violently racist than Neeson wandering the streets with…

I don’t understand the strong implication that being honest about shitty feelings he’s had and regrets is racist. I mean, I don’t have any sympathy for however-old-he-was Liam Neeson’s racism, but being willing to cop to it now when there’s nothing forcing him to do so is at least evidence of a profound change of…

Meet the new Dawes, same as the old Dawes.

I find it easier to empathize with those 15-year-old murderers than I do the adult murderers, but as you might expect, I believe all murderers (and thus everyone) are deserving of compassion.

You’re right. The word “responsible” was definitely a poor choice. We’re all responsible for the things we do and say in a practical sense. Maybe anger and hate are decent tools to use against their spread, but they aren’t the best tools. I’m not someone who has sympathy for the argument that they were provoked, even…

He’s definitely past the age where I’d look to see if there was a parent present to talk to before I said something to try to change his mind, but he’s still a kid.

Because it was a direct question and I feel it deserves a direct answer, I have to say that it’s difficult to find equivalent examples within those groups. Tamir Rice and Trayvon Martin are certainly not good correlates because they played with airsoft guns and wore hoodies and were killed for it. Nick Sandmann did som…

I was a kid when these shows were on, and they were terrible. I get the point that they played softball with the little shithead and did nothing but legitimize his parents’ views, but we could show some compassion for him and definitely try to understand that he’s not responsible for the things he says yet. We’ve set…

I think the fact that this show is both fun and accessible and also quite profound is inevitably going to creep more and more toward the former. I’ll probably still love it the whole way through. I get your point, though, I think. Interconnectedness isn’t a concept that meshes well with an Abrahamic conception of…

I mean, there’s a heart emoji after it. The words themselves didn’t make their intentions clear, but most people aren’t good at that. That’s why emoticons and emojis are so popular.

Well, Bryan Singer said that it was “vendetta journalism” and claimed a lack of credible sources as reasons why Esquire refused to publish it. That’s who I was referring to.

Am I crazy in thinking that The Atlantic has more credibility than Esquire? It seems like a weird ploy to claim that a men’s fashion and lifestyle magazine had too much journalistic integrity to publish it, so they were forced to take it to that rag, The Atlantic.

I don’t think the core of NoGas’s comments are without merit, but it’s kind of funny to see someone coming on so strong with the hyperbole and misrepresentation complain about something trying to be edgy and cool.  Derivative, sure, but it was always supposed to be.

It’s not really an admission of guilt. I don’t even understand the tone of contrition. Nobody was going to blame them for it. Seems like a weird, empty thing to declare themselves accountable for to me.

I think you might be right about the doomed part, but the trailer actually gives me some hope. I was distressed about Fuller leaving because I really enjoy his kind of overdone aesthetic, but nearly everyone I talked to about the show were turned off by it (same with Hannibal, actually), so I think Fuller’s absence…

Their Riddlebox album was such a huge thing in my southeast Michigan elementary school that I absolutely had a childhood ICP phase, so I’m embarrassed to be able to share that they were first known as the Inner City Posse. I thought I was so cool for having one of their early albums.

Fakir’s Ornamental Turban Brooch.

No doubt.