I'm totally with you on all the people you mentioned! Benedict Cumberbatch is all "Stop discriminating against the posh! We can't help it. We were just born that way." boo hoo. It's hard to be rich and privileged! And I'm not a beyonce fan. I wonder if she's a jerk too. Lorde seems wise beyond her years. Hope she…

Found the Black Guy!

SNIPERS on his front lawn? For (what turned out to be false) alleged robbery? Jesus Christ.

Yes. And even though we account for only 5% of the world population, we comprise roughly 25% of the world's prisoners. And most of them aren't locked up for violent crimes, either. This is the fruit of the Drug War, and the for-profit prisons that (via the 13th amendment to the constitution) use legal slave labor from…

of course he is. he's a WARRIOR, this is the WORLD CUP, etc.

How many people telling you that it was an inappropriate, jarring, and disrespectful way to write about the topic will it take before you actually entertain the concept that you're wrong on this one? Why are you holding on to this with such an iron grip when a simple edit would fix the problem?

Your post is now second from the top. Prepare to be deleted.

you are not doing us a favor.

it stinks of a wealthy upbringing to me.

This is one of the most self-righteous things I've seen you write. Commenters don't owe you anything because you took a few journo classes and if many people are saying that there is something wrong with the article it might be because the article is poorly written, not because they are all wrong and don't understand…

Change Gawker Media to Fox News, and Denton to Ailes and you could say the exact same thing about another outfit known for shoddy journalism. Anyone who writes misguided editorials could hide behind the same excuses you're using.

Ummm, no. Misogyny is hatred of all women based on the fact that they are women. Feelings of rage towards one woman because the killer feels like they've "lost control of the relationship" is based in jealousy, as you correctly point out.

The officer didn't say that crimes committed against Trans people are not hate crimes, he said that without further investigation we won't know if this specific murder is a hate crime, because we do not yet know what motivated the killer. What if the victim was killed out of jealousy or vengeance or for monetary…

It was flippant.

I really don't even know where to start with this. Do you really not see how condescending your tone is?

I'm not sure if you misread my comment or are ignoring my points. I clearly stated I understood if vulgar comments were removed, and obviously when spammers were deleted. That was not at all the question I was asking. I have noticed far more non-spam non-troll comments just disappear from your articles than any other…

Seriously people, get off this. Nobody is going to be shocked if his turns out to be a hate crime. But making blind assumptions when you know nothing about what happened is foolish. Anything could have happened that night. Wanting to find out facts is not a bad thing.

"Obviously it's a hate crime"

By the way, stuff like this:

"Do you typically see non-hate crime related homicides that end with burning the already dead body and then dumping it like worthless refuse in a garbage bin?"