Among the many damning details in this @DavidLat interview with Trent Colbert: other members of the Native American group chat had liked his messages using "trap house." If the term had racial connotations, Yale's Native students weren't aware of them.
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@DavidLat "I had been calling our house the 'NALSA trap house' for months before this incident. I had been calling it that in messages with other NALSA board members for months, and nobody had said anything to me about it."
@DavidLat A friend of Colbert's, also interviewed by Lat, alludes to an important point: the internet has sped up the pace of memetic evolution to such a degree that a 3-4 year age difference can completely change how one uses and perceives certain slang. 
@DavidLat Colbert: "Nobody reached out to me before filing their complaints...I received one message two days after my original invitation was reposted into the class GroupMe. By that point, I had already been reported by at least nine students to the [Office of Student Affairs]."
@DavidLat Colbert's friend: "I really admire Trent’s courage and willingness to say, 'Maybe this will be painful for me, but the potential effect on the whole climate in our society could be far worse than what I’m going to endure—so someone needs to stand up, and that someone is me.'"
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