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
Can you honestly look at Donald Trump's America and think there is any lasting penalty for public racism? And do you think the libertarian movement isn't part of this story? https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-insidious-libertarian-to-alt-right-pipeline …
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Replying to @HeerJeet @KyleKashuv
This is a weird moment to invoke the specter of the alt-right, since they are currently the ones trying to get Kashuv preemptively kicked out of Harvard
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Alt-right seems to feel that they are often punished for ideas that are widely shared on the right but go unpunished.
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