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    1. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 23 May 2019

      Jeet Heer Retweeted Robby Soave

      1. Can I explain all the ways this is bullshit?https://twitter.com/robbysoave/status/1131596506602049537 …

      Jeet Heer added,

      Robby SoaveVerified account @robbysoave
      Since the media gleefully rejoices in the opportunity to destroy teenagers, I'm not surprised they are coming for @KyleKashuv. Villager, if you are reaching for a pitchfork right now, think about how you'd look if everything you'd said as a high schooler was preserved forever.
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      Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 23 May 2019

      2. So here's the situation: Turning Points USA hires Kyle Kashuv to be poster boy, a valuable asset since he's a Parkland shooting survivor. But it turns out there is a long record of Kashuv using n-word & other slurs so TPUSA cuts him lose.

      1:32 PM - 23 May 2019
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        2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 23 May 2019

          Jeet Heer Retweeted Robby Soave

          3. So Kashuv was hired & promoted mainly for something that happened to him as a teen, to be part of a youth organization said to be the voice of young conservatives, but we're told we can't judge him for his behavior at age 16.https://twitter.com/robbysoave/status/1131596506602049537 …

          Jeet Heer added,

          Robby SoaveVerified account @robbysoave
          Since the media gleefully rejoices in the opportunity to destroy teenagers, I'm not surprised they are coming for @KyleKashuv. Villager, if you are reaching for a pitchfork right now, think about how you'd look if everything you'd said as a high schooler was preserved forever.
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        3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 23 May 2019

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          4. Further, it's ridiculous to treat this event in isolation. Turning Points USA has a long history of hiring people who use n-word & other expression of anti-Black racism. So this isn't just about one 16 year old kid but an organization. https://twitter.com/AlexMLeo/status/1131551078695276544 …

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        4. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 23 May 2019

          Jeet Heer Retweeted Osita Nwanevu

          5. Also: Soave says we shouldn't judge the 16 year old Kashuv for using the n-word but he's built an entire career upbraiding slightly older teens (17 plus) for being PC or going to far left politically.https://twitter.com/OsitaNwanevu/status/1131627216545157120 …

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          Osita Nwanevu @OsitaNwanevu
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        5. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 23 May 2019

          6. The deeper problem is that Soave's argument involves a normalization of teen use of ethnic slurs. A story: a friend has a 10-year old son, who heard a classmate use slur. Son politely but firmly criticized. By Soave's standard how can we praise that son?

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        6. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 23 May 2019

          7. When I was in high school, some kids dropped the n-word (& other slurs) like they were in a Tarantino movie. It was upsetting to me, moreso to the (few) black kids. Does Soave's empathy extend to non-white kids who hear racial slurs or just to white kids who use them?

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        7. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 23 May 2019

          Jeet Heer Retweeted Robby Soave

          8. Imagine thinking its a grave injustice that a kid who used the n-word & joined an organization well known for employing racists (Turning Points USA) doesn't get into Harvard. I live in a world far worse things happen to far better kids.https://twitter.com/robbysoave/status/1131661638099243008 …

          Jeet Heer added,

          Robby SoaveVerified account @robbysoave
          Replying to @HeerJeet @KyleKashuv
          Of course I do. I think it’s terrible they hear things like that—they shouldn’t have to. But I suppose I’ll turn the question back to you: Do you have any empathy for someone who said some really terrible things, and now might lose his chance to go to Harvard because of it?
          5 replies 44 retweets 328 likes
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        8. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 23 May 2019

          Jeet Heer Retweeted Robby Soave

          9. Finally I would question the premise that Kashuv is being destroyed by this. Trump is president & Ralph Northam is governor. Kashuv will be fine. In 10 years he'll be an editor at Reason with a Koch grant to write a book on the glories of the n-word.https://twitter.com/robbysoave/status/1131596506602049537 …

          Jeet Heer added,

          Robby SoaveVerified account @robbysoave
          Since the media gleefully rejoices in the opportunity to destroy teenagers, I'm not surprised they are coming for @KyleKashuv. Villager, if you are reaching for a pitchfork right now, think about how you'd look if everything you'd said as a high schooler was preserved forever.
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        9. End of conversation
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        2. George Gillard‏ @RealGGIII 23 May 2019
          Replying to @HeerJeet

          You might think you're making a good argument here, but referring to a child who's a mass shooting survivor as an "asset" isn't a very good start to any twitter thread. Regardless of context.

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        3. paramore fan account‏ @Vndr3w_ 23 May 2019
          Replying to @RealGGIII @HeerJeet

          Well it’s the truth so

          1 reply 0 retweets 8 likes
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