Where is the hypocrisy in the comments?

The article gives quarter that the comments generally do not (and the writers know that this will likely be the case when posting). There, I do not see grappling or examination so much as excoriation, a hypocrisy made starker by the recent personal experience of suffering injury deemed justifiable because it was in…

My comment and that implication has everything to do with the case in question.

The whole point of this article (to a lesser extent) and the circle jerk in the comments (to a greater extent) is to tear him down and head off his potential success. You could argue that it’s about giving a voice to the people who felt victimized by him, but their names aren’t in the headline, his is. So this is…

This kind of reduction to the worst possible interpretation of what I said is exactly what drives me and people like me away from questioning the gut reactions we have. If I’m a rape apologist, are you a racist? Or are we complex people trying to balance our sense of self-preservation with our duty to respect and…

I’m not; I’m assuming that most of the people commenting are white women (probably true), as is specifically the person I replied to (a fairly baseless assumption on my part, save for consideration of the above, to be sure).

There have been plenty, even though the phenomenon is common enough, and the victims suitably demonized as hoodlums and thugs, that it’s not so often reported as news. This is one of the higher profile ones in recent memory: http://www.theroot.com/articles/news/…

I wonder if you gesticulate so in the comments sections of articles about black men who are beat/killed by police after 911 was called on them by a white woman who was “uncomfortable.” I used to think of myself as a dyed-in-the-wool feminist, but the recurrent eagerness to make villains out of (un-convicted) black men…