It's funny because if you actually read this article, Q Tip's comments were assembled altogether into one quote/essay at the top.

because he wanted to.

Collins is a pedophile...he's just as bad if not worse.

This "devils advocate" bullcrap is one of the main reasons why people like O'Reilly has an audience.

It is changing the subject. In your analogy, no one was even talking about Jordan. They were talking about LeBron.

Bill should wear a shirt that says "maybe I shouldn't sexual harass my coworkers".

It's not that fucking hard to be an ally. You all are acting like it's being mother theresa.

Thank you.

If you think the criticisms are basically telling white people to "shut up", it shows you don't listen nor want to listen to PoC.

You seem to miss the point of being an ally, which is being altruistic.

But where has Doug Gottlieb been when it comes to the issue of police brutality and racial profiling? I haven't seen him make any gesture or stance on solidarity. People in glass houses shouldn't throw stones.

Our feelings and experiences with oppression are not fodder for "civil discourse". It's real life.If a Person of Color is telling you, as a white person, how something involving racism (that said person of color faces everyday, not you), is offensive or fishy to them, and you are consistently arguing for that fishy or…

The intended audience doesn't matter in this case, if the actual audience includes people of all races, not just white people.

You going to a holiday party is different than a national or public forum about racism (ie what happened on social media last night) where there are White people and People of color.

Seriously! If you have a vendetta against an author that's not related to their post, then dont.comment. Especially on a rape post. People sitting here made over tv spoilers (and a convo about how "watching TV on time" is part of privilege, which I understand in part and I fucking think is stupid and frivolous at the…

No, I don't see your perspective. I don't really care for your perspective, but okay.

What does the Oppression Olympics have to do with you going off topic on about some damn entertainment spoilers on an article about the mishandling of a rape case?

"There is nothing that speaks more as a visual image of what's wrong with this country than watching protesters chanting for injustice on one screen and celebrities singing about their warm and fuzzy Christmas feels on another. Seriously, this cannot be real life."

But Taylor Swift has done things for publicity and clout and to look "cool" (align herself with the Kennedys, align herself with Lorde and any other popular figure, dances awkwardly and really gets into hip hop amd rnb songs, pull a Katy perry/cultural appropriation with her Shake it Off video) for people to believe…

I have no words. Just *claps*