So Baron’s journalistic standard is to put his hand on the hot stove before he can write about it being hot. I guess we can’t just infer from all the warning signs, like how you can see that the stove is on, or how you can feel the heat when you get near it. You didn’t KNOW that the hot stove would burn you until it…

I wouldn’t waste my time talking to this articulate good faith troll. Waffle Saddiq put together a list of this dude’s less ambiguous racist comments. It was enough to convince me to dismiss him on sight from now on.

That’s just SOP. If the victim is Black they have to have been doing something to deserve what happened to them. Remember Trayvon Martin was vilified as if the traces of marijuana in his system had anything to do with George Zimmerman being a weak, trigger happy, racist murderer.

Not common but I guess it does happen.

I bet the cops only acted because they felt like they had to. They must have presented the cops with enough actionable info that they would have been negligent if they ignored it.

The fact that the family had to work to investigate Quawan’s apparent murder while still mourning his death because the police wouldn’t, and then getting a suspect after the police didn’t bother is heartbreaking. I wish it hadn’t been necessary for them to have that kind of strength.

“You seem to hung up on that study because it took place outside the US,”

Oh shit, Austin Chenge’s on The Root.

You started with what you thought was gonna be a quick gotcha link to a study that had nothing to do with what you’re now saying, and on top of that you’re still just making up things.

That brand name was way overthought. The history behind it isn’t recognizable or significant to most people and it’s not gonna be a catchy name. They should have just made up a completely new name not tied to the past. Something that immediately invokes the thought of pancakes or breakfast would have been a good start…

So you cited a study that wasn’t related to your point about drug trafficking, and you can’t argue any against the facts that no state that legalized it is trying to make it illegal it again, or how the police’s claims about increases in crime never happened. Instead everything else you said has been “if” this, or “I…

“if they are selling to the youth in the community, they are doing harm according to this study.”

Wait, it doesn’t even say what I first thought you were implying. It’s a study about life outcomes of cannabis users. People who started earlier tended to have poorer outcomes, but those who started using later had more problems resulting from their drug use. And it’s a study of about 1700 Australians. I can see…

I see you’ve made a bunch of contradictory/”well actually” kind of replies to people. I’m going to reply to you just this once.

Those big weed busts for nonviolent offenders are how they justify their budgets. They need their hammers because every nickel bag is a nail. Meanwhile every state where its been decriminalized or fully legalized hasn’t been a spike in crime rates. Also the states that legalized it have seen an increase in revenue.…

I tuned in and out to check the score since I bought some Superbowl squares. I didn’t lose all my money but I didn’t do well. One of the times I tuned in I saw Antonio Brown catch a TD and I was reminded that the NFL is trash.

Oh not the whole thing. She was saying since rappers use the N word in their music then I guess I’m supposed to think her line to me was just good, clean, sexy time, fun.

Get rid of the filibuster, then restore the Voting Rights Act or just replace it with something better. It was a bad decision for SCOTUS to strike it down and we’ve seen unprecedented election fuckery ever since. Democrats pay attention. Still think the country “needs a strong Republican party?” 

I’m sure they’re drafting another concerned, yet sternly worded letter as we speak.

That’s how insidious racism is. It uses language that makes you think it should be taken seriously, like its not just well-worded ignorance. You have already given them more consideration than they deserve.