I normally enjoy reading Angry Asian Man, but I don't feel like he understood who the butt of the joke of that poem is supposed to be. When I first read that poem I was 95% certain it was mocking the practice of white urbanites/hipster/foodie types Columbusing ethnic cuisines to feel culturally superior. I feel like…

Josh Hamilton’s 10th inning HR, Game 6, 2011 World Series

Marcus Paige’s three-pointer

There’s nothing wrong with the comment, except that it was phrased in such a way that “news” sites were able to take a snipit of it out of context and make her look bad. Like a real life version of this.

A journalist lied. And now other journalists who are reporting on the first journalist’s lies say only that it’s “not exactly” how things really happened. Y’all are disgusting.

Outrage is so much fun!

It’s a little more than “not exactly what happened.”

That’s not true. Racism is prejudice against someone based solely on his or her race. Power isn’t part of the definition.

You can say that “racism is prejudice + power” as much as you want, but “racism” is an actual English word with a defined meaning. A meaning that I googled.

Here is what others are trying to tell you, abliet indirectly: You’re being pendantic, and without focus here. Words matter, and the word ‘racism’ and your fierce hold on it are ill visioned in this particular context. The definition you’re using isn’t given but a proposed idea — one I agree with but nonetheless an…

I don’t understand the problem. They were expensive, OK, but so are a bunch of other things - cars, jewelry, wedding dresses. Etc... It’s worth what people are willing to pay for it, and obviously some people were able to pay for it.