How, as a suburban white male, is it possible to engage black culture in a respectful manner? By this I mean, how can a white person engage in the sharing and ever shifting facet of a culture they are not a part of (not only black culture) without bastardizing it or seeming to be appropriating said culture? I see a…

I think it is more appropriate to say all his voters didn’t think he was racist. Part of the conversational breakdown these days stems from a misunderstanding of what racism really is, who is capable of being a racist, and an eagerness by those who don’t want to be labelled as racist to label others to appear “woke”

Though I think there is enough evidence to speak to racism being an issue with the treatment of Cutler vs Kaep I think there is a point people often overlook. The main issue surrounding the Kaep issue, is that kneeling during the anthem, whether correctly or not, was that it was a disrespectful gesture to those who…

-100 George RR Martin

I think his original intent was to do what every player does in that position and to try and take away the board play from the goalie, and normally goalies will make an effort to get back to the net, allowing the player to move between them and the boards to prevent so the goalie doesn’t get caught out of position.…

You are a good person, and I sincerely mean that in no sarcastic sense. People should just hear that more often.

Might be weird when she starts insisting we refer to them as fireworks though...

I submit that Katy Perry should be the number 1 choice as she’s been a bombshell for years, so could most immediately relate to her new position.

It’s not that much of a stretch to reach that conclusion as Perry’s reputation with the oil industry is literally his only “qualification” or association to the Department of Energy that I am aware of. Even so, I think it’s ok for the author to make a jump within the comment section so long as he leaves it out of the…

Thank you. This is a good article, one of a species of articles that used to be regular to Gizmodo and io9, but for some reason has gone by the way side to sensationalist garbage. I don’t feel any better about the appointment, but I’m now more informed as to the role at which Perry will let us all down doing.

I do have an issue with the article, I don’t think it does anything other than to point out racism. I don’t see the benefit of simply pointing out the fact that someone said something racist.

I think we’re both talking in different directions, I’m not so much applying thought to the specific instance as to the practice of pointing out racism. I don’t mean to be defending Lulic or condemning him or his actions/comments. I merely was remarking on a problem I see with the way we talk about racism. My…

My problem is how the conversation is approached. Racism is a huge problem but the conversation is not always actually a conversation, nor is it always productive. If there is no real educating happening, or acceptance that something may be done out of ignorance rather than intent to wound, then we’re not getting…

Not really what I was saying at all. My point here was that the comment can work as just an insult of someone new to the league, without being racially charged. Understanding someone’s intent and the cultural forces behind comments is very important, so maybe an article that is less reactionary that in the beginning…

Honest question: is it worth pointing this out as a racist comment? Being an American, I’ve never heard of anti-immigrant slangs about being street dealers (I assume this is wildly recognized in Europe and elsewhere as a slang) but on my reading I don’t see a racist comment, rather just one saying this dude hasn’t…

I think you’re 100% right. I think it all needs to be talked about, but we need to talk about the issues that are actually the issues as you did, rather than just talk about how people are scared, like this. We’ve gotten to a point where people say something out of ignorance, and they are immediately vilified as a…

No not at all, I do not like that this is our president and do not like the direction I see things lining up to be. The point is this is a news source that utterly fails at giving information, and if you want to call the subject matter of this article as information that it is manipulated information to leave out the…

Yes, but relaying the actual fear of people (whom I believe to be justified in their fear) to others, without presenting the ideas of those who are not afraid is not good practice. Now if this article was just a bunch of random people’s thoughts on Trump without any sort of balance that’s one thing, but by saying…

hahahahaha, I do like that idea, and you’re 100% right, but the goal should not be “give them a taste of their own medicine” it should be let’s come up with the right way to disagree in a democratic fashion, this is just yelling at each other.

It’s imperative to continue to report on things Trump says, but this article isn’t about what he said, it’s about 5 people in the military’s opinion of him. And it’s only 5 negative opinions, it doesn’t add anything to the discussion to present these letters, or emails, or whatever they were as anything more than the…