At a recent event, one of the more well-known faces of the post-Parkland gun reform movement, student David Hogg, told Axios co-founder Mike Allen that the biggest mistake the media made in covering the Parkland shooting was not giving his black classmates a voice.

here’s a little colin:

Yeah many of them think that Elvis is still alive too.

Did you manage to catch the comments over on Splinter about this issue? Someone was all in their feelings that their child didn’t get into an elite school. It was quite entertaining. And by entertaining, I mean sad and pathetic.

Listen white people just because someone black brown or yellow was hired instead of you doesn’t mean you were discriminated against, it just means you’re not good enough.

Please, show me this quota system. It’s a fucking myth used to keep white workers in line with the right.

THIS! See I call this the “bad liberal gene” that infested the pool of liberal types a long time ago. It’s all about how we “say things...” not what’s really in our hearts or minds, not what we really feel or think to ourselves but never say out loud because SAYING it is racist. It’s all about using the right words,…

Too many of us white people believe all the racist bullshit we’ve been told about black people without doing our own research. Most white people have no reason to get out of their bubble and realize how deeply white supremacy really goes. Getting offended is much easier.

How, other than both being in the very broad ‘comedy scene,’ could she know that he was doing a bit? This was the first time they met, and apparently he didn’t preference his “jokes” in any way to give her context. Why the fuck would she call someone that threw a barrage of racism at her the moment they met to clarify…

I went to school in Maryland and had similar experiences. While I too could differentiate between malicious racism and “joking” racism, it still was racism at my, your, her expense, no matter how blatant or subtle. In fact it’s the subtle racism (and sexism) that’s the most insidious.

I didn’t take her statements as her thinking, “David Cross, the actual David Cross, acts like this and meant everything and so i can never forgive and have to publish this account years later.” Don’t forget that she said something like, “This was 10 years ago so I hope he’s changed since then, but it was still…

Who is “we”? I don’t feel I am at all.

Rule of Goats: if you fuck a goat, and then explain that you were doing it ironically, you’re still a goat-fucker.

Goddamnit, why the fuck are some people even trying to justify this? This is not acceptable, even if an Asian person wasn’t present.

Nobody cares what his intent was because his intent doesn’t matter. He singled out a minority because of her race and chose on purpose to make her feel othered because of it. His intent was to do that. He intended to do it. I don’t see how you can say he doesn’t “seem racist” to you when he flat out said something…

The main problem with irony and sarcasm is that the joke part only works with people who know you well. To everyone else, thats just who you are.

Yessss, I love telling minorities how they should feel about racism. Now tell me that my getting upset at being called a fag while walking on the street is overblown now too.

Exactly. He could have tried to make his “big Southern dumbass” accent/character funny for someone that barely knew him without resorting to ironic/in-character racism. But no, to the one-dimensional hack comic mind, “Southern” automatically equals “full-tilt bonkers racist”.

If I meet someone for the first time at a hotel bar and they try a character out on me that’s ironically racist or sexist of homophobic, how am I supposed to know that? The irony requires knowledge of the person, knowledge that I do not have. So all the “irony” and “humor” is lost, and all that remains is deeply…

As a corollary to that, ironic racism only works in a performance setting if the goal of the racist statement is to make the person saying it look bad (see Archer Bunker or the “It’S Always Sunny” gang). So unless David Cross was trying to make some point about white people or Southerners being assholes, which I…