Being raised in a Catholic & Jewish family and watched Mr Rogers growing up, I always believed what he said is how every religion should be preaching.

Damn right. I’m an atheist (sometimes a pretty militant one, depending on my mood), but if I had kids, I’d probably *make* them watch Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood. Yes, the guy was “preaching” but he was doing so with his heart and mind firmly set on reaching humanity, not just Christians. He was and remains one of my…

Interesting article. Though I am familiar with Mister Rogers’s, M.Div. and am aware of his religious persuasion, I see his values as humanist. This partially explains his lasting influence, as they weren’t really religious, they were shared human values with which all can relate.

A minor quibble to add to the big-picture criticisms others have already expressed so well, but where’s this coming from?

After having read all this, I don’t really have much to add. Society and the marginalized LGBTQ groups is a complicated topic, and I’m not really qualified to come to any definitive conclusion.

CDAN has very little credibility - and I know this because I once made up a story about a celeb, emailed it in, and they printed it (but omitted one bit, and added their own embellishments). Even made it a “revealed” story a few weeks later.

I’m old enough to remember the rumors that Morgan Freeman had an inappropriate sexual relationship with his step-grandkid, so I’m finding it hard to be surprised he is a creep.

As a science educator, I disagree with you. The people that push for this language in science standards have a political and religious agenda to downplay the importance of evolution and natural selection to biology. They’re just smart enough to couch it in ambiguous terms that some people can argue doesn’t do exactly…

Lol, you have no idea what the fuck you’re talking about.

Who is the “she” you are referring to? The high school kid? Of course she was ignorant! Who wasn’t as a teenager! Come on. Were you an expert on bump stocks when you were a kid?

Yes I do, you think any woman of color is light enough to be mistaken for dark tan Italian doesn’t count as a woman of color. That is a hell of a lot of women and not just indigenous women but also black women. The fact that they are light skinned doesn’t stop white people from being racist ass-hats to them they just…

Yeah because its less racist to have your ethnicity ignored by everyone as it suits their needs. Not white enough to not be followed around stores but white enough to not be counted as a woman of color when people want to make a point.

This colorism shit has got to stop.

I’m not white enough to be called a sp*c, have…

Counterpoint: Stick to one issue at a time. If you try to attach Michael’s laundry list of wishes to your goal, you’ll accomplish nothing and the odds of you accomplishing anything are pretty thin to start with.

It’s not policing of freedom of speech. Twitter is a private platform, with terms of service everyone agrees to when they sign up. Violating those terms of service allows them to suspend or delete the account.

Love Jez- but can you take more than 5 minutes to full understand the story you’re writing about before making a clickbait/false headline?

Good riddance. I don’t care if he didn’t actively molest or abuse a child, he’s still complicit in the production of child pornography and the abuse that entails.

I... what?

Ordered to complete his GED? Did I read that right? How is that a prerequisite to getting this guy off the street and away from kids? Also, “May” end up going to prison? He made a sex tape with a kid! WTF is going on in that courtroom?

We’re looking to define Ansari’s behavior in concrete terms: rape, sexual harassment, groping, blackmail, etc. The problem is his behavior lies in limbo between a specific crime and accepted social behavior.

Do you really think there weren’t woman that were willing to fuck him for roles? Its all shades of gray, don’t exclude the shades you don’t like. It all fits together into how a man could of gotten away with it for so long. If all sides of this aren’t acknowledged, the problem will never go away.

So in the cases that the woman said no and he forced himself - absolutely rape. 100%, can’t agree with you more.