I agree that it does and the fact that he has to do this is a bad thing not a good one

Game, set, match, apparently, by righteous, angry, anonymous internet commenter.

Update: Statement from Larry’s Facebook.

If I’m reading you correctly, you extend sympathy to baristas you do not know yet project upon Larry, an administrator, an image you think feels gives you the right to not extend the same humanity to him. This is what injustice looks like, and where tyranny begins, no matter how well intentioned or…

Your “fuck him” attitude, used to dismiss the national humiliation of a man (you yourself are taking part in!) who may well have done nothing wrong, and your commendable ability to push aside any of the considerations that arguably justify his decisions is tragic to me even if it’s not something you’d actually be…

Called out and nationally smeared after a long life of service to his community are two different things, even assuming he deserves any blame.

My name is Damjan Denoble. I am a resident of Durham, North Carolina. I am a reader of Deadspin, and I understand the nature of the beast here, so I’ll try to avoid being sanctimonious in my defense of Mr. Moneta. For that reason, too, I think it is important that I write this comment without the guise of anonymity so…

“Because there’s definitely never been anything quite like the Boogie Cousins-Anthony Davis duo—and if they can’t make it work, there almost certainly never will be again, and that will be a bummer.”