Are you insane? You think they should stream lossless FLAC files over a mobile network? Sorry, I'll take lossy files (not that I can tell the difference in quality anyway) over taking an hour to stream a song.

Idiotic? Because America's values—glamorizing the super-wealthy while ignoring the poor—are so much better? Your Farsi translation is good, but your knee-jerk worship of the rich (I suppose you probably call them "job creators") is beyond pathetic.

What? Jay-Z doesn't have any other kids...

"I don't think I've ever encountered a woman who was like 'Evo Psych, YEAH!'"

I understand that you are not trying to blame the victim. But saying that Rihanna could have acted differently and then not been harassed implies that she was insulted partially as a result of her actions, which is blaming her for her harassment.

You said that the mag wouldn't have called her that if she'd spoken in a way you found "respectable." Do you really not see how that's victim-blaming?

Fair point, but that's actually not what the article is saying to do "the Dutch," though I can see how it might seem that way. Generally speaking, you should always try to understand peoples' actions in cultural context; that means you don't automatically assume that speaking in a dialect of English you find foreign…

"Language, as we know, is not static and is very dependent on context."

"If they did, then the magazine wouldn't have stooped to using the word in the first place."

Not particularly. I actually find it refreshing; I'd rather read her candid, clearly emotional statement than bowdlerized bullshit from her PR team.

I didn't mean that a higher percentage of entrepreneurs are college graduates than non-college grads (though that's true too), but that the percentage of college graduates who are successful entrepreneurs out of all college graduates is much, much higher than the percentage of non-college graduates who are successful…

Thank you! The disproportionate praise heaped upon entrepreneurs without formal education is incredibly deceiving and counter-productive.

"I believe it is still notable to point out that the majority of game-changers such as this man are either college or high school dropouts."

I think OP is assuming the persona of an ignorant suburban housewife who believes everything she hears on the local news. I don't think she actually believes that's how you do cocaine.

I see. When you said 350:581 was a Department of English course, without specifying it was a graduate course, I assumed it was undergrad. Sorry about that!

Being well-educated (in general) and being a bigot are not mutually exclusive. But you would think that getting your PhD in race studies and being an ignorant racist would be mutually exclusive.

Perhaps the department shouldn't *discipline* the student, but they certainly have the right to comment on it. Or do you not believe in free speech? ;)

"Doesn't she see that as a woman she has more in common with black people than she has with white men?"

"Does the average black student in the class experience racism in a much more profound, life-altering manner because they are a minority in society than the average white student in the class does? Undoubtedly. But that doesn't mean that the black students aren't just a racist as the white students."

Wow, those clarifications are incredibly important. (That's not sarcasm.) It's one thing for a graduate student of race/ethnic studies to send that email, which implies the department has no standards for admissions or is very bad at teaching their subject. It's another thing for some racist undergraduate to host a…