It definitely can be called that, but it will be so quickly spun as "Charles Barkley thinks slavery is worse than the Holocaust, says is worst think that has ever happened." Just like this article originally suggested he doesn't think slavery is bad. You have to be ultra-careful with what you say nowadays, so it's…

You're intentionally misquoting. He said he shouldn't say that "slavery was one of the worst things ever," because then it invites comparison to all the other massively horrible things that have happened throughout history, and it's treacherous to make that sort of statement when so many uber-sensitive people with…

So the opinions of black people who don't want to use the deaths of Michael Brown and Eric Garner as evidence of racism in "the system" are absurd, misinformed, and should be dismissed without serious consideration of their arguments, right?

This can be applied to ANYTHING. Don't like rap? Don't listen to it. Don't like gay marriage? Don't marry a gay person. Don't like eating meat? Shut the fuck up about it and don't eat meat.

Credit where it belongs.

Hmm, I've been part of email conversations involving Dan Gilbert (as recently as half a year ago), and there was no Comic Sans anywhere.

It's not a globe on his head, it's just Reggie Watts.

What you're arguing has no significance whatsoever. The point is that Top Gear knowingly used the word "slope" to refer to the man. They called the man a "slope." That's it. I hope that's not too hard to understand for you.

So do you see now that the joke intentionally relied on the double meaning of the word?

Do you really refuse to acknowledge what you typed in your earlier comment? Here's what you said:

>Maybe it's time to accept Americans aren't the best at taking a joke

You said the joke is NOT that "the man is some kind of a slope," while their apology says they used the word "slope" to refer to both the bridge and the man. They were not aware that it was offensive, but they were aware of the double meaning of the word.

The apology explicitly said the word was also referencing the local Asian man walking across the bridge. There is no doubt that that was the entire comedic value of the joke.

"...while everyone who isn't a racially divided dumbass is laughing at the joke"

I guess how high his speed seems is relative. He may have been going 30, but on a street that narrow with cars parked on the sides, it looks like he's flying by.

I'm not good at visually estimating speed, and I don't know what the speed limit on that type of street would be. But to me, it just seems too fast for such tight streets with cars parked on both sides and pedestrians likely to be crossing the street.

Yes, totally exonerated. The fact that he was going far too fast for that street (and probably breaking the speed limit considerably) was not a factor at all in this incident.

Here's video of the incident:

Not to clump myself in with the rest of the Internet tough guys, but I personally find it difficult to get offended. But I'll chalk that up to having the privilege and luck of having lived the majority of my life without being exposed to any meaningful discrimination, which is why I can't think of anything you could…

The lean is much more subtle than their intention to use the word "slope" to mean more than just the lean. It would be too much of a coincidence for them to try to make a fairly meaningless point at the exact same time as the man is crossing the bridge, in addition to saying it awkwardly ("slope ON the bridge").…