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I understand how @NFL jocks didn't understand Ideal Gas Law, but not a SINGLE reporter did? Or even looked into it?

I'm pretty sure a lot looked into it, and ripped Goodell, and he won't take questions, so...

But you avoided my question: where was privilege for TB? Your article suggests white athletes get benefit of the doubt.

I don't think he got the benefit of doubt. And I said I thought the whole thing was absurd in a big piece about him.

So not all white athletes get the same privilege? The media chooses who gets treated softly & who doesn't?

Maybe! It sounds like one instance of uber celebrity might invalidate the the whole premise! Bummer for me.

Pouncey didn't get suspended at all for #Bullygate but Incognito was suspended a year. Fair?

Nope. But again, @DVNJr and @SethWickersham, like them or no, laid out the facts. Deflategate was Roger's makeup for Spygate.

"We need a white guy to weigh in. Who's the whitest person at ESPN?" GET ME THE GOLF WRITER FROM MARYLAND

It helps that I also know a lot of Drive-By Trucker lyrics!

all the Isbell ones, I assume? This was a good piece. Hope it was worth your mentions becoming a klan rally.

Oh I'm prepared. And I know all the Isbell ones, certainly, but most of the others.

3. there's a broader tendency for media to latch on to easy narratives that often go beyond simply race

good work. Speaks to me and my experience with my own kids.

Thanks Jamie. Feel like the Olympics are a good opportunity to talk about complicated but important stuff.

You trying to make a run at Eric Adelson for Social Justice Warrior Sportswriter of the Year?

Is that an award? Exciting. Any award @eric_adelson has won, fake or no, is good by me.