It's insane and oppressive to rescind college admission on the basis of "offensive statements" teens made on social media. In order to gain admission to elite institutions, teens now have to be career-minded, perfect little angels beginning at childhoodhttps://twitter.com/KyleKashuv/status/1140605133346283521 …
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The affected individual is a conservative but that's immaterial. (Almost) everyone makes stupid, "offensive" statements as teens when they're sitting around BSing with friends. Only difference now is that the statements are preserved in an electronic record
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Our elite feeder institutions are training kids to be terrified of ever transgressing social taboos, even in private, for fear of compromising their life prospects. If those are the types of people you want dominating elite society, congrats, that's what you're going to get
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If a black 16-year-old got caught making allegedly "offensive" statements on Snapchat or something -- say, "fuck the police" or "kill pigs" -- my reaction would be 100% the same. And if your reaction would be different, maybe self-reflect on what exactly you're objecting to
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Saying "offensive statements" in quotes as if its debatable ... here are Kyle's words:pic.twitter.com/Uoem5FxXaA
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Where is this from?!
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It may shock you to know that the vast, vast majority of us don’t talk like that in private, either. Do you?
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The fact he wrote it as "offensive statements", as if he doesn't even believe they *ARE* offensive pretty much says it all, IMO.
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35 years ago during a more permissive time, when I was 16, I knew better. Actions have consequences.
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Good point too, Jennifer. I turned 16 in 1984. My mother grew up using racial slurs, but has told me of the event that made her realize the emotional harm they cause and made her decide to stop using them. She was - wait for it - 16. In all my life the only slur I've heard out++
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Character is what you do when you think nobody can see you.
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The fact that it was private also shows that he knew it was wrong
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Dude, I NEVER used that word at 16, privately or otherwise. I was raised better than that. Kid is old enough to know that choices have consequences.
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I was raised in a neighborhood where people used that word. But by the time I was 16 I knew enough not to say it. Even completely racist people I knew didn't say it over and over, to "practice".
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In my private moments as a teenager with my friends, I never felt the need to repeat the n-word. Not once. Not ever. I knew that it was reprehensible. If all of my teenage BS was entered into the public record, there would not be one single racist utterance. Not one.
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They could search my private messages all day and they would not find me repeating n*****a bunch of times along with other ridiculously racist remarks . ‘Our character is what we do when we think no one is watching ‘
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This all day!



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I KNEW HOW TO BE A NICE RESPECTFUL PERSON AT 16. IN FACT I KNEW AT 13 TOO. OH ALSO AT 8. & AT 4. It’s not hard to be a good person. Once I was told not to say swear words or call people derogatory terms such as the n-word I didn’t.
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He made them in a document available to fellow classmates... but sure “he presumed it was private”.
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I'm among the many people who never use that word. Not in public. Not in private. I think there are many people like me.
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These people act like it’s hard. It’s not. I’ve never used it either in my 54 years. I was raised right.
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