Then why wasn’t Chris Mercer labelled a terrorist? Or Vester Flanagan? Or Chris Dormer? If skin colour is the crucial variable and motive is irrelevant then surely they’d have been labelled terrorists, too.

Trev-G’s Guide to Halloween for White People:

Saying someone isn’t informed enough about issue X to discuss it intelligently is emphatically NOT the same as saying they’re unintelligent in general. I doubt Stephen Hawking is informed enough about Juggalo culture to discuss it intelligently. Does that mean I think Hawking is dumb? Of course not!

Why the fuck is Jezebel publicising tweets from a racist piece of shit woman-hating troll like Tariq Nasheed?

Three points:

For the past few weeks I’ve had this really stubborn itch on the inside of my asshole. Scratching it couldn’t help. It was too far up, I’d have needed a frigging back scratcher to reach it. Suppositories just made it worse. Even sitting on one of those special cushions shaped like a donut didn’t do anything,…

Banning guns in the UK was easy because we didn’t have that many guns floating about in the first place. In the USA, there are more guns than there are people. How can you ban 326 million guns?

If a crime is politically or religiously motivated, it’s terrorism. If it’s not politically or religiously motivated then, no matter how awful it may be, it isn’t terrorism. Until we know WHY this psycho did what he did it’s absolutely right not to call it terrorism.

I wish I shared your optimism. Based on most of the comments I read here, the majority of posters have absolutely no interest in discussion whatsoever, and are happy to treat The Root as nothing more than a consequence free environment in which to shit on white people (or wypipo, to use their preferred nomenclature).…

So...you were colonised by Neanderthals in caves? That doesn’t seem right...

Meaningful discussion?!? Dude, this is The Root. If you want meaningful discussion you’re in the wrong place.

Yeah, y’all kinda peaked early.

Because whites are roughly 80% of the population. Blacks are THIRTEEN percent. THIR-FUCKING-TEEN! Do you honestly not get why that’s important?

If you keep insisting that white people are the scum of the Earth, are responsible for everything bad in your life, and constitute an ever-present threat to your safety (y’know, the usual Root shit), why is it unreasonable to suggest you’d be happier in a country with fewer white people?

Upvoted for sterling use of the word ‘cuntery’.

There were plenty of citations. Unfortunately, sites like Gizmodo (where I’m guessing most people here read/skimmed/cast a prejudicial eye over the memo) stripped the citations out. The original document is actually well sourced, and doesn’t say anything particularly controversial. Its conclusions were actually…

“I’ve read the fucking memo”

“The memo was a long, pedantically “logical” argument that women were biologically incapable of doing the heavy rational work of being tech employees, thus justifying the massive hiring biases that’ve made Silicon Valley a bastion of institutional machismo”

This is some seriously weak sauce. Ooh! Ivanka Trump posted a syntactically ambiguous tweet. Quick! Better fucking blog about it for posterity, lest its Earth shattering importance be blunted by time.

Yep, she does. She lost to Trump, and for all the pious bleating about whitelashes and male privilege, the main reason she lost was that she ran a shit awful campaign and has about as much personal charisma as a stack of gas bills.