Disagree. Maybe they don’t get a gold star, but I appreciate any ally who wants to use their voice to shed light. We have to start somewhere and I feel like if we’re always shitting all over people for trying (well), we ain’t gonna go nowhere.

It’s more recent for the youth, but also it was a crossover hit (not just on the Urban/R&B charts). When I talk to white people that’s like the only R. Kelly song they know, besides "I Believe I Can Fly."

It doesn’t always, actually. People have been demonstrated to occasionally turn down money and their own self-interest to be racist, sexist, or xdnophobic.

I mean, they made that comment in the documentary themselves. You’re not uncovering anything new. It still stands that none of this would’ve happened at all of R. Kelly hadn’t been raping girls.

You realize every time you give him a spin on Spotify, he gets paid the money that allows him to have the influence he needs to rape young girls with impunity, right? It's one thing to say you're separating the art from the artist if you had a bunch of old CDs or something, but you're actively supporting his lifestyle…

Your comment is full of woman-hating and idicoy, so it’s clear where you stand.

Wait...a documentary series exposing R. Kelly for his crimes and giving his victims an opportunity to speak up is contributing to the problem of R. Kelly raping people? How, fam? How else were we supposed to find out the true extent of what he was doing? What method would’ve been pure enough for you not to cast…

I do work on accessibility of technology products/services for people with disabilities. I’ve only started doing this work in the last year or so, but I’ve come to learn how appallingly common it is for tech creators - including myself - not to think about even simple shit that makes their experiences at least usable…

I’m black and queer, and I speak only for myself - but I don’t forgive Kevin Hart. Not just because I don’t think he’s grown at all - I think he’s apologizing because he wants to host the Oscars and if a fake “apology” tour is what he needs to do to get there, he’ll do it. We all know Kevin Hart is mercenary.

I was a Resident Director in graduate school.

I wanted to argue with this comment (I was a Resident Director in graduate school), but there was nothing to argue with.

Why would you party hard the night before a big set, though?

Not every entertainer has to stick around forever. Some people just get their 15 minutes, and that’s it. We fondly remember the quality of earlier times because we simply forget about all the mediocre or flash-in-the-pan celebrities of our earlier decades.

That Mitch Hedberg joke isn’t remotely funny to me. Maybe it’s funnier in context.

“Achoo!” “Cover your fucking mouth!”

If I came to work hungover and blew an important client relationship or research study, I would rightfully expect some kind of repercussions for that. If she was hungover and blew her set - on New Year’s Eve, in a major city - that’s still her fault, and as a famous person, I’d expect it to be news.

Sommore’s standup was my favorite from that one.

I actually work in an industry where it’s expected. Holiday is our biggest time of year and we’d much rather consumers call in their problems on Christmas Day than return their brand new hardware or accessories the following day over some problem we can solve for them. We increase our customer service presence for…

I have always thought Sommore was hilarious and always wondered why we hadn’t heard much of her since Queens of Comedy.

I’ve been reading some of the more local coverage on this and some details are shared in some of the local newspapers that aren’t making it to the national news yet. I remember on the last Root story a commenter who’s been a wrestling coach for a while pointed out that this kind of thing is normally handled at…