If I was a cop, I’d want police shootings to be such a rare thing that the public would (legitimately) believe that the officer had no other choice.

I’d rather have 100 dead cops than one dead civilian who wasn’t a danger to anyone but himself.

Look, between helmet, bullet proof vest, their car and the ability to call for backup, if some cops are still too scared to face citizens unless they’re white, they can step off and let real men and women join because lots of decent people stay away from police work precisely to avoid dealing with…

At some point we’re going to need to make cops choose between valuing their own lives above anyone else’s, and getting paid hazard pay. The job isn’t actually dangerous if the default response is to kill anyone who looks remotely threatening, and so perhaps cops should be paid like private security guards.

I just need a quick reminder, they took Dylan Roof, James Holmes, and Aaron Cruz alive right? I can’t really remember if these 3 mass shooters were taken alive.

I for one am done giving people a pass for shitty stuff just cuz they did it a long time ago. I managed to get through college without applying a claw hammer to someone’s nuts. It’s a low bar.

Sorry, no. This is not self deprecating humor, unless this person wanted to signal to everyone that they are sooo stupid they would mistake inanimate objects for actual living human people. Why would you want to do that, especially when you are a higher level federal employee in charge of some sensitive shit?

Patton Oswalt has said a lot of things that are problematic, but regarding “respecting everyone’s beliefs”, he’s right on:

“’You’ve gotta respect everyone’s beliefs.’ No, you don’t. That’s what gets us in trouble. You have to acknowledge everyone’s beliefs, and then you have to reserve the right to go, ‘That is…

The obvious problem with it is that it definitely isn’t the most extreme thing he thinks. Everybody self-censors for self-preservation.

I see the humor too, but you definitely don’t post that from your official government account. (He mentions his job in his tagline, etc. He’s a public servant.) That might even be against department policy. This stuff is obvious. The fed interns know it, so this “30-yr veteran” does too and doesn’t care.

Nurse in Sacramento posts insensitive comment about black Kidd who got shot: she gets fired.

I fucking hate even the idea of “oh, just listen to the super far-right dude so that you can be more enlightened before you judge” because it assumes there is any starting point from which we can possibly agree. He doesn’t think women are full human beings or that people of color are equal human beings, so we have…

What funny about this is, a guy mistaking umbrellas for human beings is a profound display as stupidity. And the right wing idiots eating this up read this joke and think the guy is some sort of clever hilarious genius.

There are some points of view that are too abhorrent to entertain. This is one of them. What does it say about this guy he thinks this is a legitimate view of women and abortion? What does it say about the people who are willing to give him a platform to speak?

Fuck this racist, misogynistic dude. You don’t get to call for the murder of women because they exercise their legal choice of abortion just to be edgy. Stating your opinions has consequences, the most important of which for a writer should be denial of a platform. Shame on the Atlantic...

Silly joke, it isnt overly offensive in my opinion. But is has NO PLACE IN GOVERNMENT

Kick the guy to the curb.

Quick quiz, which is stupider:

Uh... anyone else concerned that he openly refers to his official Arab Culture Instructor as “Terrorism Mentor”. As if that’s what cultural instructors are as a matter of course?

The real joke is that white men think it’s funny because they don’t see the difference between a conversation and them talking nonstop for half an hour at someone who isn’t responding.

Even beyond the bigoted message this sent, the crux of this joke has an unintentional grain of truth about the problem with so many in power right now. I will highlight: