Yes, all the money she’s raised for Democratic candidates in the years since 2016 are irrelevant, only your personal feelings matter. That blue wave that got Democrats the House back, she played a monumental role in helping that along, arguably a much larger role than Sanders, since most of the candidates he endorsed…

Calm your tits, Shirley. I can think that your argument is insipid without attacking you as a person, can you do the same? Naw, I already know that you can’t because instead of arguing the POINT, you tried to make me some sort of racist, sexist, mysoginist whatever -ist so you can attack a straw man instead of…

Yeah, why did Hillary have to defend Rep. Tlaib against Trumps racist attacks? I mean she didn’t have to! She should just shut up and go away because...

Yes! If someone is empathetic enough to understand that it would be hard for Vanessa Bryant or her kids to have Kobe’s rape trial rehashed right now ... surely they’re also empathetic enough to understand that it would be hard for any sexual assault victims (but especially Kobe’s!) to read these fawning posts that…

Kobe Bryant was who he was. An otherworldly basketball player, a seemingly loving father who not only adored his daughters but uplifted them to be as powerful and as great as they could be, but a rapist. It’s how you reconcile with that that will define how you see Kobe Bryant. He did a lot for sports and his…

Washington post fucked up and I hope they’re smart enough to drop the suspension fast.  I hope her fellow journalists rally around her. 

People are capable of recognizing both that the deaths of the other four people are a tragedy and that Kobe was a rapist scumbag who finally got what he deserved. The two views are not mutually exclusive.

Trump responded faster to Kobe dying than he has for multiple school shootings or other national tragedies where multiple lives were lost, which is fucking baffling.

I may be screaming into the void here but I need to let this out.

Nah
This ain’t a timing thing
He got all his endorsements back within a few years, and everyone loved him again

The rape has been pushed to one side by everyone - not much talk of his complicated past when he retired or won an Oscar and all that stuff
Rape doesn’t stick to the rapist, look at the president we got

It is a factoid that should be mentioned as often as his championships. To ignore it does not tell his whole story.

WHAT IF I TOLD YOU, one can be sad for his daughter, and still feel no sympathy for the son of a bitch?

I think it’s too hard for most people to keep the cognitive dissonance of the ‘great man’ and the heinous act in their head at the same time.

People want badly to ignore the bad, uncomfortable stuff.

Here’s your reminder that just because someone died doesn’t automatically make them a good person.

Absolutely.  Kids shouldn’t grow up without a dad (and by all accounts, he was a good dad), but this guy seemed like a POS husband.  I just saw someone compare losing Kobe to the Australia wildfires.  Hero worship is seriously sick.

Yeah Im so disappointed. I hoped there would be a swing back to his actions and how shitty it all played out. Kinda like the revisitation of how monica lewinsky was covered or the bobbit story. I thought Id live to see his comeuppance and thats what Im so sad about. Sucks for his kids but they’ll have his money at…

I’m going into work tomorrow and going to talk about how sad it is for his family every time it comes up ‘cause I don’t want to have to punch out a motherfucker.

The first thing I thought of was when he raped that woman in Colorado. She was not able to push forward with her testimony because of all of the threats against her.  Nobody cared about her welfare, only that of their sports idol.

This right here. Growing up without your dad is hard (said the Voice of Experience). The girls will struggle, and my sympathy goes towards them.

That was my first feeling, too. It’s all I ever thought about when hearing his name. I imagine I’ll have the same cold feeling when Ben Roethlisberger eventually dies.