I think the problem arises when white people wear it expressly trying to "feel" black or something. I've met white people who refer to themselves as "Rasta" for wearing dreads. Which is stupid and racist and just generally ignorant. Or when you see the media treating white people wearing dreads as "edgy" or "cool" or…

Well, he is mixed, although that’s not mentioned very much (and I don't know if he's ever said how he identifies). But you are totally correct that race is the big motivator. The only 3 candidates that had challenges filed for the 2016 campaign were Cruz (for admitting he was born in Canada), Marco Rubio (whose…

Okay, let me try to work this out:

This is true. Part of the tragedy of this is that, after it happened, women who were genuine rape victims at UVA came forward, with some of them saying, “I would have talked to her.” Erdley wanted the most outrageous, most twisted story she could find, damn the consequences. She didn’t even fact check the most basic…

How can it not be “reckless disregard?” That review that was done stated plain as day that Erdley failed to do the most basic of journalistic fact checking and the editors failed to do just about anything. I don’t know if they’ve attempted to settle with her or not, but if not, they should probably make her an offer,…

Unfortunately, there’s plenty of fodder here for those that would discredit her. Admits to drugs, saw him again after the first assault, etc. I hope she has people around her who can steel her for what will probably come.

That’s true. But that doesn’t mean he did the robbery just yet. Maybe he did, but you stated as a fact that he did it, which is not proven yet.

Except you have to presume that as well about addicts. Like I said, I’ve spent time amongst addicts. They are not zombies or animals. They are certainly compromised by the addiction, but they are still people, with faculties. A great number of those I’ve met still had great concern for their loved ones, especially…

They have not established if he actually did the robbery. They approached him about it and he ran. I think it might be a little early to be calling him a robber.

I did not say he did. I said it while discussing the hypothetical 13 year old of your example.

Except I never said my personal opinion mattered. The man objectively placed a child’s life in very serious danger. That is not an opinion, that is a fact.

I do disagree that 5 and 13 year olds are the same (at least legally speaking). 13 year olds are generally swearable, for example. 5 year olds are not. And most 13 year olds do know that pointing a gun at a cop is generally a bad idea. The law has long acknowledged an increasing scale of responsibility for children.…

True. But that doesn’t mean a police officer should defer to a person pointing what sure looks like a very real gun at them. A child can pull a trigger and end your life same as an adult. This child made a very, very stupid decision that, as far as I can tell, left the officer with little choice. One can both mourn…

Just to clarify - BB guns are not “toy” guns. They are generally considered to be “non-lethal” but there are cases of people getting hurt pretty badly with them. And they can generally kill small animals. They are not a joke or a toy. A person under 18 should have no means of getting one. Where I grew up, BB guns were…

To me, no. I have met plenty of addicts. To equate most of them with this man is to, frankly, to me, defame them. The majority will do anything to protect their children from their addictions. Most of them are decent people with serious issues, but the decent part remains. There is nothing decent in this picture. It’s…

But yet social conservatives will create mental pretzels trying to justify it!

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No, I do understand that addicts often don’t think rationally (that’s often a big reason for why they become addicts or stay addicts). My point is that it shouldn’t matter. What they did (or at least the man, as I stated before) was reckless, blatant disregard for the life of this child. It’s recklessness to a degree…

I’m not saying addicts can’t make bad decisions (heck, that’s probably part of the initial problem). But there’s bad decisions that harm you, and then there are bad decisions that are so bad they can kill innocent people. Driving high with a small child is the latter. Again, I’m still struggling to come up with ANY…

I think the difference is that you and I disagree other whether there can be any “good reason” placing a child in a car that is going to be driven by a person under the influence of heroin. What “reason” are you thinking of, exactly? I would have more regard for them if they had simply left the child home alone -…