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    1. Michael Tracey‏Verified account @mtracey 19 Jan 2019

      Teenage boys in large groups often tend to behave cruelly. It's no excuse -- they should be reprimanded and made to understand why what they did was wrong -- but the scene itself is really familiar. Just happens to have a political overtone in this instance.

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    2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 19 Jan 2019
      Replying to @mtracey

      Why are you so reluctant to use the words "racist" and "racism" to describe racist acts?

      23 replies 33 retweets 882 likes
    3. Michael Tracey‏Verified account @mtracey 19 Jan 2019
      Replying to @HeerJeet

      Why are you so insistent on imputing some kind of intention to absolve racism? There is absolutely no way to fair-mindedly read my tweet in such a manner.

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    5. Michael Tracey‏Verified account @mtracey 19 Jan 2019
      Replying to @MazMHussain @HeerJeet

      yes

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      Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 19 Jan 2019
      Replying to @mtracey @MazMHussain

      There, that wasn't so hard!

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        2. Michael Tracey‏Verified account @mtracey 19 Jan 2019
          Replying to @HeerJeet @MazMHussain

          You're right, it wasn't. My tweet was an observation about the tendency of teenage boys to behave cruelly when in large groups, and in this case the cruelty manifested as racist taunting. As usual, your first instinct was to engage invidiously.

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        1. Epoch Philosophy‏ @EpochPhilosophy 19 Jan 2019
          Replying to @HeerJeet @mtracey @MazMHussain

          This kind of language policing is weird as fuck

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        1. Thanked more than God‏ @ZyriabBulerias 19 Jan 2019
          Replying to @HeerJeet @mtracey @MazMHussain

          Clearly racist.

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        2. ronnie james diogenes‏ @dogpants2000 19 Jan 2019

          Their actions were so overly racist that it seems purposive to describe them as "political" instead

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        1. ronnie james diogenes‏ @dogpants2000 19 Jan 2019
          Replying to @HeerJeet @mtracey @MazMHussain

          I would speculate that their insistence was predicated by your initial avoidance. Unless you were not choosing your words carefully, "political overtone" would appear to have been carefully chosen.

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        1. 忍者の神 Marxist-Yeagerist ⌬‏ @delmoi 19 Jan 2019
          Replying to @HeerJeet @mtracey @MazMHussain

          What's up with demanding everyone list every qualifier in every tweet?

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        1. DRAYMOND GREEN IS A WALKING SINGLE DOUBLE‏ @kobegot81 19 Jan 2019
          Replying to @HeerJeet @mtracey @MazMHussain

          How is it racist when someone walks up to you beating a drum and you just stand your ground and stare at him. Are you required to dance along ?

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        2. a boy named Sue Donym‏ @Stephen21695073 19 Jan 2019
          Replying to @HeerJeet @mtracey @MazMHussain

          How does the original tweet excuse racism or pass this off as not racist? Hes describing a racist act as cruel, and saying groups of teen boys are prone to such cruelty. I.e. a suggestion that theres maybe a big problem to be solved with boys..@gillette can you help me out here?

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        3. a boy named Sue Donym‏ @Stephen21695073 19 Jan 2019
          Replying to @Stephen21695073 @HeerJeet and

          one might even be daring enough to use their own mind to think and expand beyond his 240-character tweet and wonder if addressing this problem in boys might be a place to stop the normalization of racism at the source...Or one might just use the opportunity to flex on the guy?

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