What about being honest, and asking questions to clarify and show the person you are talking to interest?

Besides the amazing item itself, my favorite thing about this is the Cardinals fans with their arms open screaming at the umpires to do something about all the unbroken rules that were broken. #bestfans

What the fuck are all these words?

To me, the best thing his new swing gave him was more confidence. Technically, it’s helping him get in front of balls better and drive with more velocity, but beyond that, dude just looks like he’s ready to hit every time he comes up.

Word salad much?

puh-EEEK UUUuuup truuuUUUCCKKK.

That announcer emphasizes weird syllables in “pickup truck,” right? There’s no way he pronounces “pickup truck” the same way every time.

That announcer sounded exactly like what i expected someone calling a Mulerider Softball game would sound like

In his defense, Minka Kelly is very, very pretty.

Why you mad? Would it be better if his rebound looked like a foot? Let the man live

That doesn’t make it racist. You’re literally saying that dissing an entire state is racist if they have a non-white population. But Texas probably has just as large a non-white percentage as Hawaii, and in sheer numbers has more minorities than several Hawaii’s. But nobody has ever said criticizing Texas is racist.

Not to be that guy but manhattan doesn’t sit in the middle of the Hudson River. The Hudson runs on the west, but the east river runs on the east. To the north is the Harlem River and south is New York Bay.

I really like everything you said. People are so beyond angry now, they’re taking everything to the extreme. People are outraged by something new daily and WILL find something to moan about with every news story. The fact that the most comments on this site are exteemeley negative tells you something.

Perhaps to the average Jezebel reader. But not someone like myself. Who’s become a cynic due to the neverending uptick in news stories of exagerrated and/or unproven allegations of racial hatred. The way I see it, being a poc doesn’t insolate against criticism. And when such criticism is made, it doesn’t necessarily…

Yeah I wouldn’t say it was a racist comment, more of a dismissive prick comment. He makes it clear that he thinks so little of Hawaii that he wouldn’t consider it a real state.

The argument appears to work like this -

Former Hawaiian resident here and I agree with you - it was not racist. Everybody claiming that it was racist is lolo - looking for something that isn’t there simply because the guy is a certified racist. Hawaii is seen as exotic and detached from the mainland - because it is. When you live in the Pacific, you aren’t…

Yeah I get your point... I really do.

Actually I was in the middle of writing a similar question because I was wondering the same thing, then I happened too come across this thread.

I’m not getting the racism, either.  He was a total d-bag for saying what he said, as Hawaii is a real state, with real Americans living there, with real senators and congressmen and voters and a governor.  But, I thought he was being dismissive of Hawaii because it’s 1) a small state and 2) outside of the…