The death penalty seems a little silly here.

My biggest fantasy is that he wins the republican nomination handily, then says such ridiculous things in the primary that hillary wins in a landslide, and then after he loses says “yeah, i just thought she should be president so I made up the most ridiculous things I could. Republicans are idiots for believing me.”

Calling the guy who just demanded the families of his enemies to be murdered a “relative moderate” should really tell you everything you need to know about american politics.

The precedent already exists for court orders, subpoenas and warrants to access the contents of property, phone records, etc. This is just a smartphone. Legally speaking, this isn’t breaking new ground.

“Because the Feds want a tool they can use to bypass all that and use it whenever they feel necessary.”

How are you going to fit a whole clown up your ass?

Job 5:31: and lo the Lord didst punish Job by forcing him to drink only the coffee left in the Starbucks at 9:00PM, and wouldst not allow him to have a fresh cup.

John 6:55

I don’t know. They may have a point. Those cups don’t look anything like the ones Jesus drank his Gingerbread Lattes out of.

"It's so far removed from any of this that it's safe to say it's completely irrelevant."

It's sweet of you to be concerned but, if it doesn't interest you, why not just move on? The ones of us who do want to read it can do so and you can feel less oppressed.

Should we not explore American history then? Or you know, pretty much any history involving Colonial powers? Should we not learn about WWII?

Or people like learning and discovering weird things like the truth or irony? Perhaps you feel this history had no repercussions or is not relevant to race in society currently? Let me guess, you're white.

The point is that the majority of the U.S. population associate racism almost exclusively with the south, and that is inaccurate.

That would be the case if some of the impacts from these stories didn't have long term effects.

I think the point is that what we perceive as a liberal enclave has a racist past more associated with Southern backwaters, and that in some part it has the luxury of being a liberal enclave in part because of that racist past.

It must suck to hate every single Gawker article but have the severe OCD that forces you to read them all anyway...

I think part of the point is to demonstrate how an area's racist past shapes it's current form. There seems to be a very strong urge among many to dismiss any disadvantage minority groups have today by saying things like "that was 60 years ago!" but articles like this show that even policies made out in a state 160…

That's like saying "People played football in America? No way!" At the end of an article giving lots of very detailed and specific insights into how the NFL came to exist.

The point, informative. Like how it informed me that they had a law that forbade black people from living in their state. I had no idea, I know I can not be the only one.