Rather than resort to facile sanctimony and ad hominem, why not expand? In what way is it not tragic that a woman trying to better her life was entangled with a man who, among other things, left a dead body in a car he made her rent, and ultimately led the police to her door?
Anyway, a lot of people in the comments today still don't seem to know all of the details. Here is an authoritative account: nytimes.com/2020/08/30/us/…
Also, what does this even mean: "if black lives matter to you ... you must upend your comfortable white life and live it in deference, in prostrated honor, of our existence."
what does it mean?
what does it mean to ask people to defer to you and live in "prostrated honor" of your existence, for real? does it mean that any inconvenient information must be downplayed or ignored?
(i would be interested to read a new yorker essay expanding the line of argument.)
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