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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Replying to @robbysoave @KyleKashuv
When I was in high school, some kids dropped the n-word like they were in a Tarantino movie. It was upsetting to me, moreso to the (few) black kids. Does your empathy extend to non-white kids who hear racial slurs or just to white kids who use them?
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Replying to @HeerJeet @KyleKashuv
For some reason I suspect this was not a good-faith question.
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Replying to @robbysoave @KyleKashuv
No, it is. Do you have any empathy for non-white kids who are called the n-word or (as I was) "paki"? Are they part of your calculation at all?
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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?
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Replying to @robbysoave @KyleKashuv
Kashuv will be fine. He'll be an editor at Reason in 10 years and get a Koch Brother grant to do a book on how great the n-word is.
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Replying to @HeerJeet @KyleKashuv
So when you asked me whether my empathy had limits, you were projecting, since it is your own empathy that has limits. Glad we settled that.
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Replying to @robbysoave @KyleKashuv
If Kashuv had used anti-Semitic slurs and was denied entry into Harvard on that ground, would you extend the same empathy?
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That’s apples and oranges. Anti-semitism is always unacceptable.
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But racism is sometimes acceptable. Cool.
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In America, “Racism” is a word that deserves 150 different words like the Inuit have with snow.
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