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Dude, I *never* said anything like that when I was 16. In texts or anywhere else.
Did you behave like this when you were his age? Did your friends? Because most of us absolutely did not.
Did you behave like this when you were his age? Did your friends? Because most of us absolutely did not.
Now @benshapiro, if you want to argue Kashuv wasn't given a fair chance to rehabilitate himself, and debate how society determines who gets second chances, for what, in what form, and how economic background and race all play into it, that's a conversation worth having. And...
...if you want to argue that Kashuv didn't behave the way he did in a vacuum and we should critically examine the family and social structures that brought him up to think it was okay to spew the N-word for shock value, that is also a conversation worth having. But...
...if your only argument here is that Harvard set an "impossible standard" and everyone spews racist garbage when they're teenagers, that's just wrong on the face of it.
And you're not helping Kashuv or anyone else by saying it.
And you're not helping Kashuv or anyone else by saying it.
