Yeah, I was gonna say. Are people really contesting whether he looks normally dressed or not? He's pretty much business casual for a Facebook or Google kinda office.

"I think this is vaguely condescending 'cause it implies that the people who dissent (who I think are very much a subset of all minorities) don't want their ideas challenged. And I don't think that's at all true, I just think they want a space to do it which they've constructed rather than the one western…

I mean, just looking at all the twists and turns in that response right there, I certainly understand the issue but I mean, Jesus, as, like I said, a straight white dude, I'm most at risk of stepping on the wrong landmine.

Hey, I agree with what you're saying. The stuff about the oppression Olympics especially feels relevant on mediums like Twitter. And when we're talking about law? It's a *very* dangerous path do go down a road to the natural conclusion of a gatekeeper.

"that interplay of "offensive thing/hey that's offensive" is lost and we end up losing the really important dialogue (and teaching moments, which hey academia) that arise from discussing things we don't like."

"..I feel like the whole point of academia (at least when it comes to the liberal arts) is to be exposed to all sorts of thoughts and viewpoints and the like. "

I'd like to nominate basketball writers/bloggers congratulating themselves for WHAT BIG HOOPS NERDS they are.

I've been guilty of this myself, but if reporters were better informed about the actual technical details of the sport they cover in a Zach Lowe-ian kind of way, they'd be able to ask way better questions.

"fixing arguably the league's most serious issue"

This is the second Screamer post I've clicked on today where the goal video isn't working for one reason or another anymore. Get it together dudes.

Yeah, I don't know much about planes, but I tend to feel pretty okay even in rough turbulence if I'm in your standard big-ass commercial plane. They tend not to just crash cause of weather or whatever.

But on a scale of 1-killing a 12-year-old cause he had a toy gun, exactly how pathetic?

"There are many reasons why weaker people dislike strong people"

Haha wait, what, Emirates airlines?

There's an obvious public interest and concern in genocide. There's an obvious public interest and concern in exploitative labor practices.

To be fair, this is probably the worst set yet. More than a few of these (Baltimore, Jets, KC, Green Bay, Dallas, Oakland, Pittsburgh, Tennessee, Giants, Indy) are just the literal team logo with whatever random Disney shit slapped around it colored appropriately. Still others (Jacksonville, Cleveland, Cincy, Arizona,…

Wait did this dude imply Jay Z is a millennial?