Bigotry implies that I purposely discriminate, which simply isn’t the case. And I’m pretty aware of how my comment is being misinterpreted.

Yeah, pretty much changed the entire tone of the comment. Only part I regret writing and I’d edit it out if I were able to

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You can like both without giving into the immature bullshit of barstool or the better than thou bullshit of deadspin. Both are entertaining in their own right

That it’s not a surprising thing to see coming from Barstool, given their history of this kind of humor from the writers and the commenters. That she unwisely made the comments thinking she was just going along with the usual immature Barstool shit. Not saying it’s ok, just that it’s not shocking

Oh ok, well then I better go delete all the other comments I’ve made today saying that she rightfully should be fired for it.

For the 100th time today. I never said it was ok, I said she probably did it thinking that’s what they wanted to hear. Not excusing her, nor defending her, just offering up a reason as to why she’d say that shit.

Was my comment really an excuse for her to say that, or an explanation of why she felt comfortable saying that, given the company?

Wouldn't be the worst idea

meh, better than being labeled a bigot i guess

Yeah, i don’t care

Not so much the commenters, rather the website itself, which doesn’t exactly discourage this behavior. Why wouldn’t they want to write something about it? Barstool is a website they compete with for pageviews, and they’ve taken their potshots at Deadspin writers in the past.

I wouldn’t necessarily say that. I don’t support the comments she made, I’m just not surprised. I probably could have worded it better in my original comment, because I certainly didn’t want to come off as being supportive of hate speech. On that website, it’s pretty damn common though and my original comment was…

Did not watch the video, only meant to explain why she’d feel comfortable saying those things, pandering to the barstool crowd, which if you want to see the dumbest mother fuckers alive, you’d check out that comment section.

Yeah, but in the context, this is a site that pretty much revolves around it. It’s basically the sports version of the yahoo comment section

Thank you

Settle down. I’m not defending a thing, I am saying that she said these things to pander to that audience. Doesn’t justify her racist comments, just gave her the audience she was looking for. And yeah, you’re exactly the kind of person that needs to lighten the fuck up. Getting all up in arms over an internet…

Yeah, at no point have I defended her saying anything. It was dumb, she is dumb. All I’ve said is that she was pandering to an audience that revels in that humor. She’ll be rightfully fired. So which am I, ignorant or a bigot?

Yeah, I am not justifying anything that she said, I am saying that she was pandering to the barstool crowd that eats that shit up. So what you’ve essentially done is completely misunderstood the point that I was making, all in the hopes of doing a “HOT TAKE!!” comment. And if you honestly believe that my original…

I mean, the previous owner just sold it for $15 million... As stupid and immature as the website is, it found an audience that made the guy rich.