I'm certainly not suggesting it was a *nice* thing to do.

But it is what it is.

I'm less invested in defending Cosby's conduct than I am in critiquing the response to it on the Internet where it often seems that like 70% of the content therein is dedicated to snark and humiliation of innocent people in general.




(That being said, American kids are way soft and we as a culture have come to worry way too much about protecting their "self-esteem." If Cos and the kid had been Chinese, nobody would probably think twice about it)