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    1. Michael Tracey‏Verified account @mtracey Jun 17
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      Michael Tracey Retweeted Kyle Kashuv

      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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      Kyle KashuvVerified account @KyleKashuv
      1/ THREAD: Harvard rescinded my acceptance. Three months after being admitted to Harvard Class of 2023, Harvard has decided to rescind my admission over texts and comments made nearly two years ago, months prior to the shooting. I have some thoughts. Here’s what happened.
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    2. Michael Tracey‏Verified account @mtracey Jun 17
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      The "offensive statements" were made in what the teen apparently assumed to be a private venue. Imagine if your BS sessions with friends at age 16 were all entered into the public record, and used to change the course of your entire life trajectory. School-marm surveillance state

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    3. Michael Tracey‏Verified account @mtracey Jun 17
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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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      Michael Tracey‏Verified account @mtracey Jun 17
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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

      7:00 AM - 17 Jun 2019
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        1. Michael Tracey‏Verified account @mtracey Jun 17
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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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        2. Ellen Clair Lamb‏ @ECLamb Jun 17
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          I'm fine with this. We tell kids not to do things because they'll become part of their permanent records. That's what this is. Nobody's entitled to a Harvard education.

          2 replies 1 retweet 90 likes
        3. Amanda Lee‏ @Aleehogan325 Jun 17
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          Yes exactly, we tell 16 year old girls that get pregnant that it’s their responsibility and they should of thought of that before opening their legs but I’m supposed to have empathy for someone who chose to say this like a defiant child for kicks....please.

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        2. Eric Peterson  🐢‏ @DiversityEric Jun 17
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          Harvard is a private institution; they reject way more people than they accept, and can afford to be choosy. End of story.

          2 replies 1 retweet 24 likes
        3. Imperious Cassette Bureaucracy / Mark Esperanto‏ @Iheartnoise Jun 17
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          Yep - and conservative love to yell "free market" until one of them gets a boot from a private entity

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        2. (((Kobayashi Saru))) 🖖🏻‏ @3illSweet Jun 17
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          I’m fine with kids being scared of saying the N word. Seems a pretty low bar

          1 reply 0 retweets 112 likes
        3. (((Kobayashi Saru))) 🖖🏻‏ @3illSweet Jun 18
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          Imagine the horror of living in a country where people realize bigotry isn't something countenanced in civil society.

          0 replies 0 retweets 20 likes
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        2. Tommy Coughdrops‏ @PointyChicken Jun 17
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          I'm fine with racists getting weeded out of higher institutions. I support their diminished life prospects.

          1 reply 1 retweet 58 likes
        3. Stormy Peterson‏ @Stormaculus Jun 18
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          Same.

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        1. D Zinger‏ @ZingerLearns Jun 17
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          Replying to @mtracey

          Racism is not a social taboo. That's something someone who fully benefits from white privilege would say.

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        1. Mediawatcher #CTR Nitro Fueled!‏ @Mediawatcher36 Jun 17
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          I love how you keep trying to defend racism by calling it a social taboo!

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        1. Finn Naked Leaking Bag (What)‏ @nathanielrohan Jun 17
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          100% confirmation that he uses the N word with a hard R while talking to his friends

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        1. Rosemary (Romi) Hill‏ @RomiDesigns Jun 17
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          Kids SHOULD be afraid of saying vile racist things, and their racist entitled parents should also be afraid enough to teach them what is racist and what is not. The things said in private are a true record of who this person is, and that’s exactly what colleges are interested in

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        1. Moderately Priced Pumpkins‏ @drunkandcoding Jun 17
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          If the future rulers of the world are scared of the N-word — or scared, period — that’s a good thing.

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        2. Peggy‏ @peggystramel Jun 18
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          Replying to @aFAYamongUs @mtracey

          So true, but look at the shining example we have pretending to lead our country. His actions don’t appear to have consequences and we see more and more of it...Every. Single. Day.

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        1. Mike Dole‏ @beatleggs Jun 17
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          Combatting uncivilized behavior requires mandating consequences for it.

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        1. Brian Anderson‏ @btanderson72 Jun 17
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          1. Racism isn’t a ‘social taboo’, it’s a moral failure. 2. For all of their history up to now, those same elite feeder institutions were teaching kids that there were NO consequences for racist acts. That kid just learned otherwise.

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        1. Maggie Jordan‏ @MaggieJordanACN Jun 17
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          Maggie Jordan Retweeted Kendally Brown

          These racist comments are now being referred to as ‘transgressing social taboos’https://twitter.com/kendallybrown/status/1140643928196157440?s=21 …

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          Kendally BrownVerified account @kendallybrown
          TW: Extreme racist language Here's some of the racist language 16 y.o. Kyle Kashuv used, resulting in Harvard rescinding his admittance. Colleges take into account a student's entire high school record when making decisions, and using slurs is 100% fair game for consideration. pic.twitter.com/fWssTqHzhl
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        2. Lu Zhang 张沁璐‏ @_luzhang Jun 17
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          These kids today you speak of grew up in the age of the internet so they are even more well aware of what transgressions to leave up on a Google Doc or Messenger. If he wanted to keep his N-word rants to himself it’s called a diary bro.

          1 reply 0 retweets 5 likes
        3. Aaron Beau‏ @aarondotawesome Jun 17
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          Replying to @_luzhang @mtracey

          Or in his case, a manifesto

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