Agreed! Good thing she deleted and apologized for them in 2019.

I understand where you’re coming from, but I just see a difference between speaking up when you see racism, speaking up when you see racism from 10 years ago when the person was 17, and jointly posting something on Instagram where you openly question someone’s job qualifications over racist tweets they made 10 years…

I agree with much of what you said. I just hate the fact that who you are as a person today matters less, to a lot of people, than whether or not there’s evidence of something dumb (and in this case racist) you said as a teenager. I get that that’s how it is, and I should clarify that I don’t think there’s any way…

Fitting that you bring up The Good Place, a show whose entire message is rooted in the beautiful idea that people can grow and change, and that we are not all the worst thing we’ve ever done.

I didn’t mean to imply that white people can’t, or shouldn’t, speak up when they see racism. But I also don’t think that her Tweets from 10 years ago when she was 17 deserved this type of reaction to begin with, so her white underlings questioning her qualifications to be their boss over said Tweets seem like more of…

So a group of mostly white (I don’t know that for sure but feel pretty comfortable assuming) employees, at least some of whom presumably wanted the job that the outsider Black woman got instead, were able to get her fired from one of the very few high profile EIC positions held by Black women, over racist but…

I would love to know the racial composition of the group of Teen Vogue employees who are probably patting themselves on the back now for getting a Black woman (and an outsider at the company to boot!) fired from a high profile EIC job before she even started it, based on racist Tweets that were clearly more ignorant…

“Hurls verbal abuse”. Figures, a guy who spends all his time trying (and hopelessly failing) to dish it out, can’t take being called out for his own inexcusable, easily avoidable and repeated fuck ups.

Yes, by criticizing a Black woman, David Simon, and the AVClub for interviewing Alice Cooper, you are definitely doing more to solve racism than the people who criticize you for being the living embodiment of the turd in the punch bowl that you are.

Actually the worst thing I can think about you is that you spend all of your time trying to find the broadest and worst brush you can paint someone with, often failing miserably, so that you can pat yourself on the back as an “anti-racist”, and the fact that you can’t even recognize why you keep fucking up by not…

Actually I’m just a-ok with having a world view where everyone isn’t viewed solely through the lens of the worst thing they’ve ever done. And I’m much happier being the type of person who’s ok with the AVClub doing a harmless interview in 2021 with a musician who voted for Bush, than the type of person who thinks they…

“a hypocrite who wants to weaponize fake outrage” will be a good line in your obituary after what is hopefully a long and healthy life.

Well you are definitely lying by saying I defended a war criminal, the hilarious disparity in the number of stars we get in each of our exchanges suggests that I am not in fact losing these arguments, and I’m actually only jumping on people whose entire online persona is a holier-than-thou schtick and yet can’t even…

I guess it’s easier to deflect and whine about “concern trolling” (coming from the living, breathing embodiment of a concern troll that’s pretty rich) than it is to acknowledge that there is no excuse whatsoever for not knowing that capitalizing Black is the appropriate and respectful way to write it.

I mean, this entire article is about people questioning a Black women’s qualifications for her job based on tweets she made in high school, and you clearly aren’t on her side here.

Please, tell us more about how much you know about Black women in a comment section where you are 1) taking the stance that a Black women should have her career prospects curtailed because of bad tweets she made in high school and 2) repeatedly refusing to capitalize Black when everyone to the left of Newsmax agreed…

It’s not that he is impervious to criticism. It’s that you, who seem to only understand race as something you can get internet points for if you say the right thing about it, are decidedly unqualified to provide criticism about the creator of The Wire’s ability to make a nuanced show about the systemic racism driven…

Yes, one bad tweet from 6 years ago definitely means that the guy who gave us multiple profoundly nuanced and sympathetic portraits of various Black communities and the systemic racism responsible for the problems they face, based on his own experience working within those communities, needs lessons from recognitions…

Something less than 27%.

What’s frustrating for me is that I think we can have a very interesting and productive discussion about gender equity in sports, but it has to start from a place of acknowledgment that top level male athletes have an insurmountable advantage over top level female athletes. If you acknowledge that reality, you can…