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    1. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 9 Nov 2015
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      3. So there was a kind of student prank where tricksters made it look like exam was destroyed. Carson & others victims.

      1 reply 4 retweets 9 likes
    2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 9 Nov 2015
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      4. Carson as his wont re-imagined a story where he was victim of cruel undergraduate humour to redemption tale of his own triumph.

      1 reply 4 retweets 9 likes
    3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 9 Nov 2015
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      5. Obviously Carson's slippery memory important but let's step back and think about how he must have felt in 1970.

      1 reply 3 retweets 9 likes
    4. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 9 Nov 2015
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      6. Imagine being Ben Carson in 1970. You're 19, black, child of single mom, family in straightened situation, in culturally alien Yale.

      2 replies 4 retweets 16 likes
    5. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 9 Nov 2015
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      7. You don't know the cultural codes at Yale, are very earnest, nerdy. See sign saying exam is destroy & you believe it.

      1 reply 6 retweets 16 likes
    6. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 9 Nov 2015
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      8. Everyone else figures out the joke before you do. And in memory you don't want to remember being the goat, so you turn tale around.

      2 replies 6 retweets 18 likes
    7. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 9 Nov 2015
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      9. Place like Yale, rich in "traditions" & lore, is much easier to navigate if your dad & granddad went there than if your a scholarship kid

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    8. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 9 Nov 2015
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      10. Current struggles over dorm rules & Halloween make much more sense if you realize same dynamic at work of "tradition" vs minority kids

      1 reply 7 retweets 20 likes
    9. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 9 Nov 2015
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      11. Carson's tendency to embellish stories to the point of fabulation is troubling, but the human story of his struggles worth sympathy

      4 replies 11 retweets 21 likes
    10. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 9 Nov 2015
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      12. Same with current Yale students -- who many are so quick to dismiss as PC crybaby bullies. There's a human story at the core there too.

      5 replies 4 retweets 23 likes
      Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 9 Nov 2015

      13. Even Yale students are human beings. That's what I'm trying to say. It's a hard truth, but still true.

      6:16 PM - 9 Nov 2015
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        2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 9 Nov 2015
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          14. Ivy League pranks are the kind of humor that are funnier if you're part of the culture they come from. Otherwise they can seem just mean

          3 replies 4 retweets 11 likes
        3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 9 Nov 2015
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          15. These stories stir a personal memory. I went to University of Toronto's Trinity College, our sad attempt to imitate Oxbridge.

          3 replies 3 retweets 10 likes
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        1. Jane‏ @Jane2McMahon 9 Nov 2015
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          @HeerJeet What you say re Yale may be true, but Ben C. has lied numerous times and I don't care about his story.

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