Colleges should be required by law to turn over rape investigations to police.

They may not have been guilty of *this* offense, but that shouldn't preclude the school establishing better rules to help prevent future crimes.

>I honestly don't know why the article has such a derisive tone.

Banks is certainly not the only person who talks about race. If you want to narrow the field to artists who talk about race and about Iggy specifically, Q-Tip is a better person to embrace than Banks. Even if you limit your endorsement, as this article does, to saying that Banks's criticisms of Iggy have always been…

They both use the term dyke. Banks uses it quite often, in fact.

A bad joke can be racist or homophobic. In many instances, that's why the joke is bad. However.

Some of those (the "Indian" one stands out most) are legitimately bad, and more objectionable than anything Gawker's articles highlight. However, most of them are bad jokes, whereas:

I'm judging Iggy primarily on the contents of this and other Gawker articles, and judging Banks based on the tweets of hers that people have highlighted in comments. Here, Iggy's worst offense seems to be the "slavemaster" lyric, yet rap is a genre rife with provocative lyrics that make light of systemic oppression. …

So has Banks. Banks also throws in some over-the-top antisemitism.

No, I'm not saying we shouldn't call out racist white women — we should support women as a general matter, but call out racists wherever they're found. Banks is a far worse bigot than Iggy, yet the callout she receives in this article is phrased exactly as I phrase my post above. If Jezebel is taking sides in a…

Why not just post this:

Yeah, I agree the criticism of him is overblown and he's generally a reasonable, well-intentioned person. Nonetheless, it's considered poor form for venues like Jezebel to uncritically applaud, side-with, or even mention him. So if we're being that unforgiving, then to completely gloss of Azalea Banks's bullshit is…

Yeah. This is Jezebel's attempt at not coming off like a stereotypical "white feminist" blog, but to treat black people with these condescending kid gloves — must hat-tip everything they do; can't criticize anything they do — is not a form of respect. And it implicitly treats assholes like Banks as reasonable…

Jezebel's repeatedly appearing to side with Banks, while failing to address the horribly problematic things Banks herself says about gay people and ethnic minorities, is not a good look. You would never celebrate a statement by, say, Dan Savage, without some hedging to this effect, and Banks's sins are 100x worse…

that screencap is glorious

The problem is that if we acknowledge this excruciatingly obvious fact, we must also acknowledge that progress has been made, things aren't as bad as they were 200 years ago, and some people — white and otherwise — are indeed better than other people. Without the ability to draw some wishy-washy and meritless…

There's also an Asian model.

We spend billions of dollars annually in this country searching random people. Stop-and-frisk was one of the most successful, statistically-justified variants of that. If you're against stop-and-frisk, you should be against the NSA and TSA, too.

I don't think stops should be driven by race, but I do think that in a country where we invasively search innocent people at random, it's not shocking to also stop people disproportionately in apartment complexes where high levels of gun and drug crime have been reported. This was a big part of stop-and-frisk in…

Nearly nine out of ten are innocent — in other words, hit rate > 10%. So, I thank you for the link, and I agree that 20% seems to have been misremembered, but that's still a far higher hit-rate than TSA or other administrative searches generate.