Best reddit comment I saw: “This is like when Obama announced we got bin Laden”

This world is going to shit. Those officers did not deserve to die. Retaliating against good people for something that someone else did will get you nowhere. I hope those responsible are prosecuted to the full extent of the law. I’m so tired of the violence and deaths IRS going to be an endless cycle until someone can…

YOU STARTED THE CONVERSATION.

You were baiting her. And it is still off-topic, cruel, unnecessary, and extremely inappropriate, now that I have seen why you were doing it.

Too much pressure to excel.

Do you understand the concept of irony? You piss and moan about someone derailing another article, only to use this article as fodder for your own derailment.

What? What? WHY?

If they’re Muslim it’s a terrorist attack. If they’re black, it’s BLM’s fault. If they’re white they’re mentally ill. If they’re Mexican, we need to build a wall to keep them out.

Dear 2016,

In several of the Afro-American history classes I took at college we talked about the “chattel principle.” It’s a complex idea, but the short definition my professor gave was that enslaved people had to constantly live with the idea that while their hearts, minds and spirits were their own, their bodies were not. At…

I love my country. I want desperately to love my country. I’m losing the battle. We are an embarrassment to the world, not so much because of this kind of state supported execution of a law abiding innocent man, but because of what we profess to be, and we are nothing of it. We are viewed as the hypocrites of the…

I was holding it together until this. Fuck.

Comment from my bestie on my outraged FB post this morning:

Black folk, it is okay to take a mental health day from reading this stuff. I have to today or I’ll rage stroke and cry in a corner. I’m tired. I’m tired of being tired. And I am tired of indifference from anyone who calls themselves allies.

Sadness and rage is all I feel. Why do they keep killing us is all I keep asking myself over and over.

WHO ARE ALL OF YOU TERRIFYING PEOPLE WHO WOULD LIE ABOUT HAVING GUNS IN THEIR HOUSE TO PEOPLE WHO ARE WORRIED ABOUT THEIR CHILDREN PLAYING THERE??? This is seriously the most fucking insane thing I have ever heard. What is WRONG with you??? Why is your love for guns more important than allowing those who dislike guns…

You are a weird fucking person if you lie to someone about keeping guns in your house.

Trampolines pose a greater risk of death?

Rational risk assessment would include whether there is any benefit to balance the risk. A swimming pool, or trampoline, or jungle gym can be used responsibly by children, typically with supervision. Rationally there is a reward to risk ratio. Given the extreme unlikelihood that a gun could be useful during a playdate…

To be fair, this piece was generally considered to be a fairly unethical hit job (for instance, the writer goaded MIA to have the truffle fries and then used it as a point to illustrate her privilege, as we knew from, as i recall, released tapes of the interview). Also, Ben Bronfman is in fact the son of a billionaire…