Wow, you are really falling all over yourself so you don’t have to feel so bad that you were so wrong about this story. You sum it up as one basic failure, but that “basic failure” was encompassed at *every level of the journalistic process,* which you yourself lay out in your summation of the analysis. Further, while…

Farts. You posted farts all over the internet. So much for that Master’s degree. From Columbia, no less.

And you can’t prove that something doesn’t exist. That’s basic logic. Erdely was supposed to be finding evidence, and she did not find it. You then called upon her critics—who pointed out that she could not find any…

I bet you feel like a fart now.

How can you know those facts and still believe her? Or maybe you don’t know those facts. Read the Washington Post article. But really, just based on the *Columbia freaking School of Journalism* shedding extreme doubt on her story (though they are diplomatically not speaking to it directly), that’s enough. You still…

I saw that too in the amazing Columbia analysis! There was also a second new one: She also fabricated two other women who were supposedly raped by Phi Psis and sent in a fake anonymous report on behalf of one of them. Not that the very diplomatic report said she faked them, but they also said, “Neither woman has been…

Jackie’s a pure fabricator and a malignant liar. Nothing happened to her. These are the facts of the case, based on follow-up by the Washington Post: She liked a boy who didn’t like her back. So she made up a boyfriend—using the photo of an old classmate and the name of another—and bought a burner phone, and texted…

Plenty of people questioned the account prior to the details of its being false came out because that is what thinking people do: they question. Her story, on its face, demanded questions due to the severe nature of the claims and the context presented by Jackie herself (e.g., she liked a boy who didn’t like her…

That’s such a leap. Kylie Jenner is not Richie Incognito.

I’m on both sides on this issue because of the context clues. It’s too arty to be “make me look like a black person,” but she did say “I wish I looked like this all the time.” Given her many relationships with black people, she may have been saying that wishfully that in a naive sort of way, which does in effect make…

Thank you for this. Identity politics is not a progressive mindset.

Thank you. “Privilege” drives me nuts. Because while it’s real, it’s not used as a tool of discussion, it’s used as a dismissal of the opinion of anyone white and/or male. The word has been bastardized as a tool of identity politics and stripped of its nuance.

I agree with you like 90% on whether this is blackface. Because she said the thing about wishing she looked like that all the time. Given that a lot of her peers (isn’t she dating Tyga?) and relatives (Kanye, Lamar Odom) are black, I wouldn’t be surprised if it was wishful thinking about being black herself. Filled…

At the Starbucks I go to, the manager was really defensive when I asked questions about this project. I asked: how do you choose which customers to speak with? Have you had diversity training? What do you do when something goes wrong? I pointed out a lot of people are cranky before coffee.

Lawsuits are about proving damages. So the mental health records of someone who was claiming sexual assault would be pertinent to the case. Therefore, those records are going to be turned over, FERPA or not. No judge is going to quash the records regarding emotional damages when those damages are central to the claim.…

omg they did name all their kids Atticus, Finch, and Scout. And if they don't have kids, it's their dogs. Thank you so much for sharing this, because I felt really alone in my irritation at this. Yet another one popped out an Atticus just last month. The same girl who copied one of my poems into her class journal once…

I appreciate your larger concern, but I don't think it's applicable in this situation. Tyler wasn't humiliated or taken down. He made an entitled complaint; that's what Harvard kids do, but that's the extent of his embarrassing behavior. Our fascination is actually with the guy who responded. Who does that angry…

Aww, that's so cute coming from an internet bully. You have no idea who you are talking to. ::pat pat::

First, my commentary was not ironic. I write pretty good comments. I'm not sure how a racist like you is in the black (no pun intended) when I am in the grays. I guess it's because Jezebel is an echo chamber for stupid people who think that saying racist things is somehow progressive "because not white." Second,…

People with your attitude are tedious, racist, and immature. Being white doesn't mean your life is easy. There are plenty of ways to be marginalized when you're white. So why don't you STFU and listen to people's actual lived experiences. You have nothing of quality to contribute, so be quiet.

I took a a RAD course. I thought it was really useful to learn and practice defensive techniques. There's some scare-mongering, but you take the good and leave the bad. I'm glad to have taken the course. I used one of the techniques on a guy who was getting too sexually aggressive once. He said, from his new position…