Kendall Jenner is 21 years old. That's the same age Dylan Roof was when he murdered nine black people in a church in Charleston.
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Obviously, Jenner's and Roof's behaviors are drastically different. But extending childhood innocence to white adults is a slippery slope.
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especially when we see actual children of color criminalized in school & fed into the prison pipeline
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I meant it hyperbolically, deleted as soon as I realized it was being misinterpreted.
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genuinely did not mean to absolve jenner, just trying to prevent deflection from the people who wrote the ad. very sorry.
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Hey, so I'm hardly the person to be apologizing to here, but that's cool. I didn't think it was hyperbolic because...
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you seemed to double down by saying, "the model did not make the creative decisions on this commercial," etc, and absolving her of blame.
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But thanks for checking in. I think it matters if you're sorry about the wrong choice of words, it's just not how I interpreted it.
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I really am. It wasn't even my place to try to interpret where blame should be distributed.
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it's the fact that this 'child' is literally turning 22 this year, is what i find weird.
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I meant it hyperbolically, not as a real defense of Kendall. I am 24 and I literally call myself a child in every interview jokingly
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This doesn't ring true, as you went on to blame every adult involved, reinforcing that Kendall is a child & absolving her of responsibility.
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I think this can be a learning opportunity for you, if you allow yourself to move past your defenses and examine your words and motivations.
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You're definitely right. Thank you for this, really.
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Cool, you're welcome. We're all imperfect ppl who say problematic shit. It is ours to apologize when we mess up & learn from our mistakes.
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Freddie Gray was 21. Michael Brown. The girls assaulted by police in McKinney, Tex. pool party & Columbia, SC classroom were children.
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IIRC Ryan Lochte was described as a "kid" to explain away his BS in Brazil and he's in his mid-30s. The leeway that's afforded to them...smh
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