All jokes aside, there is a line of legal reasoning that excludes employers from responsibility for when their employees do horseshit like this, because their shenanigans aren’t within the scope of their employment. No one seems to ask the next question, which is, “Okay, but if that’s true, doesn’t that mean that no…

I think the article here does a pretty good job of explaining, even without clicking through to the links.

Not that this is surprising, but apparently a number of commenters on the Fox article about the sentencing accused the justice of posturing for attention and inappropriately making the sentencing about race. Because there’s no such thing as racism, unless it’s against White people....

I work in a library, which means I get to interact with irate people on a regular basis. Most of these are men, who enjoy being verbally aggressive to a woman, since they presume there will be no ramifications. This creep would never have approached a male commentator like that, because he knows he would have had his…

But he wasn’t perfectly harmless in any case. He behaved threateningly.

Random crazy generally just goes about their business and rarely get in your face to tell you what they plan to do to you. This man sought her out to let her know she needed to know her place.

She genuinely felt threatened. She expressed how his muttering triggered her. She told how her friend/student notices and jumped to action. I would say that it was more than just the random NY looney-tunes encounter, respectfully.

On behalf on my state, please accept my apologies. Also, fuck that guy.

Stuff like this is so unsettling. Maybe he was perfectly harmless. Or maybe he was going to whip a gun out of his pocket and start shooting. Or maybe something in between. You just don’t know so all you can do is assume the worst and *try* to protect yourself, which as Ms Perry’s story illustrates, isn’t easy to do.…

Right. It’s not just civil disagreement, they have to hate the very existence of those with whom they disagree. You read in the history books about genocide, violence and other unspeakable acts, even amongst neighbors or fellow citizens. It seems so bizarre and demented. And yet here we are watching in real time folks…

Absolutely terrifying. And what a professor!

Imagine being told that if you worked hard just like your parents did you would get the same opportunities they would, so you go into life expecting that just by the sheer power of your effort you will succeed. Only now ten other people are vying for your job who grew up hearing the same thing.

Starred for the abd. I think he just home-schooled in jeeeeesuuusss.

How awful. I am so glad she is okay and was able to continue her lesson.

A man who had to be clinically insane came into the legislative office where I worked one day. Since it was during the lunch hour, I was the only person in the office. I really believed I was in legitimate danger. He wanted to talk about a bunch of his “concerns” - crazy things like that the government was following…

That and the part about her friend jumping between her and the guy got me.

i am a leftist, but sometimes i watch fox and read conservative news online to have some idea of what such a large chunk of america sees. the vitriol with which they refer to msnbc reporters in general is borderline incitement of violence, and it’s even worse when the report is a woman, let alone of african descent.…

How bizarre to suggest that Melissa Harris-Perry is going to usher fascism into America (I assume that’s what the man meant, unless he was saying something pro-Nazi). Trump threatens the press and condones violence at his rallies, but his supporters (again, I’m assuming this guy was a Trump supporter or at least a…

Harris-Perry worried that if the man harmed her, she writes, her students wouldn’t get to complete the Wake the Vote program

This has me shaking even reading it. How terrifying to be trapped in a public space, unsure of what is going to happen next, unsure of potentially “making it worse” by telling the guy off.