Yes well, reality is that there are a lot of people out there who are racists and bigots and they live in the same place as you do. You can either stomp your feet and demand that they stop being racist or you treat them with contempt and hostility. Hell will have frozen over before that actually works. Or you can try…

According to this (no one knows exactly what happened except possibly her) her lie was after the fact in court. If she didn’t tell her husband and BIL about the encounter, then she may have not had anything personally to do with the murder itself. It’s not clear from this article what happened after the third party…

I think all the people saying some variation on “she’s a monster how dare he try to redeem her” are missing the point. Tyson is trying to show you that’s she’s not some extraordinarily evil cartoonish monster; she’s a regular person who turned out to be capable of doing something horrible. The point is the banality of…

If you’re unwilling to deal with nuance, you’re going to have a hard time deciphering people and their real motivations. It’s important for us to recognize that really awful people can also seem ok on the outside. It’s also important to consider that some people do really awful things when they are raised in a certain…

I’m a big fan of his description of moving past white guilt. I don’t feel guilty over the slave trade. I didn’t create the world we live in. What I do feel is an intense obligation to make the world better for other people while I have the chance. My whiteness gives me greater power to do so. Great power/great…

Sorry to double post on you, but I just wanted to mention one other thing...redemption. We have to leave room for even the most vile racist to find and make redemption. That’s the difference between your philosophy and their’s anyway. The racists don’t see anything redeemable in people of color. They would much rather…

Tim Tyson was one of my teachers at UW-Madison when I was an MA student in the department in which he taught. I took a few classes with him something like 15 years ago (one of my fave was a class he co-taught with Steve Kantrowitz). I haven’t seen or spoken with him in ages. This interview reminded me of just how…

Did you actually read what he said? She didn’t get that boy killed, that boy was dead regardless of what she did. She is not responsible for his death. She is responsible for helping the people that were responsible for his death get out of jail.

Daily reader of Jalopnik.. Don’t feel the need to post often to feel relevant.

Oh so now we are name calling? Im an asshole? Hitler? My grandfather lost 3 brothers in WW2 fighting Hitlers army, so Ill stop you there.

Don’t have time for any of that stuff. Ill help a person in need on a train or on the street, regardless of color, especially kids. But its time to start filtering out the immigrants. More quality than quantity. And the hell with being politically correct. Unless we want dumb cheap labor, in which case there are…

I have a bridge to sell you if you think these protests are organic and spontaneous.

Regular person here.

Who cares if they belong to a “camp”. Stop living on one side of an imaginary line, and think for yourself.

It indicates that they feel he was the better candidate for them. Certainly for some it’s the terrible shit he has said but I would say for the majority of people it’s because they thought he was/is the better of the two for them. People are allowed to have strong reservations about a politician and still vote for…

That is a touching story about two kindhearted (I’m going to assume from this point forward) Trump supporters. I applaud their open-mindedness and generosity.

Yeah, how dare they flaunt their white priviledge by being generous to a black waitress! The nerve!

What are you babbling about? The point remains valid. Do you always throw the racial grievance card for every single thing that you read? It certainly appears so, and you revel in it apparently. Self-awareness is certainly not your strong suit.

Since one of them is a DENIIST it is not unreasonable for someone to make that remark in conversation. Sometimes it is better to leave the racial grievance card in the holster instead of tossing it out automatically.

Bless these people