An investigation before firing is appropriate, because if they wrongly terminate him they open themselves to a lawsuit. The video in question doesn’t prove that he stole the gas, it literally just shows a man filling up a van. It actually doesn’t even show him saying the things you hear on the video - at no point does…

The question from me becomes: “Why does the character’s skin color matter? Does being white define them?” It never really does.

Vanity Fair is not about “runway culture”, it’s about culture in general, and it publishes legitimate journalism and commentary as well as celebrity/entertainment photoshoots and puff pieces.

It’s amazing that a guy can describe something that is textbook, unequivocally racist, and then ask how it’s racist.

Why is it racist to [feel an explicitly racist thing]?

In the spaces where people who would care about a show like this coming out, the reaction has been exactly as described in this article.

I honestly would love to know where you’ve been reading about this show that hasn’t been infected by toxic, racist, sexist trolls who are openly rooting for it to fail, because I find them inescapable.

They have this reflexive need to make others bow to their every whim. You’re right, it’s fascistic, and it’s intolerable in a free society. Police are supposed to serve the people, not lord over them. Whether they have the right or not, they should not have the right to just stop anyone and ask for ID.

I think we have more than enough evidence now to show that enough do not have good judgement that the default assumption should be that.

Two seconds. Literally two additional seconds of observation and caution and the cop who rolled up could have processed that he was looking at a little boy with a toy gun, not a scary man shooting at people.

So, just out of curiosity, do you think that this comment makes you look smart, or cool, or even helpful? Do you imagine that there’s any version of your comment that doesn’t make you look like the biggest asshole in the world? Do you think you’re contributing something good to the world?

The American system of policing is so badly broken right now that just permanently dismissing bad apples isn’t enough. First, all the apples are bad, because they let the bad apples spoil the whole barrel. So all cops across the country need to be fired and all police departments dissolved. Then and only then they can…

You’re missing the point - he never admitted that he did anything wrong, and in fact tried to have his sentence overturned on the grounds that what he did wasn’t actually bad (it’s in the article above, if you had bothered to read it). No one is asking for him to have a press conference where he tearfully apologizes…

Yeah, those links are poison, and you should stop ingesting it.

I mean this honestly: I’m glad you’ve sought therapy and found it helpful. I’ve done myself (for different reasons from you, I think), and it is good and helpful. Now, more to the point, I’ve read most of your posts in this thread and it seems like you’re seeking the wrong things. You’ve talked about what it means to…

“how to pursue women especially in today’s climate”

Exactly. “How to be a good man” and “how to be a good person” are not mutually exclusive. They are the exact same thing, and the same as “how to be a good woman”. 

“...for some people now the idea of a man actually being capable of being good and masculine is an impossibility”

If a guy needs to learn “how to be a man”, he needs therapy, not role models or masculinity advice.

“There are things we deal with, questions we ask of ourselves and discussions we have with our friends, that you wouldn’t be able to understand.”