Sometimes all the things are true. The tweet was dumb; the response disproportionate. The hurt had a history; the defense was elitist but also clumsy, panicky. People get scared of saying the wrong thing. (Maybe they should.) Twitter makes it all feel like shouting thru straws.
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Re Lipton, not a reporter or anyone really but had reaction kinda similar to his: kids in red FL, in the county of hanging chads, could be so articulate, bright and insightful. Didn’t know how to say it w/o sounding like a jerk so didn’t. He did. *shrug*
Just praise the survivors that have spoken out, and then say it's a reminder of all the potential their classmates had stolen from them. The implicit comparison to other, less "articulate" kids is the problem (a "greater" always implies a "less," right?) not the observation.
