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How hard is it for a kid smart enough to get into Harvard to know that he shouldn't spout vile reacist and anti-Semitic epithets?Especially when he's Jewish.

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That boy would have been murdered on the first weekend of the semester if he'd been allowed to go.

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I saw him crush somebody once. Paul Wolfowitz. It was really something.

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Unless of course it's a black kid!

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Jedi would have cut the kid down when he first opened his mouth. Or typed his emails, or whatever. He would have been doomed.

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If I were his mother, I'd be counting the minutes until he got his shit face out of my house, so I'd be both happy and sad that Harvard refused to accept him. But if his academic record is good enough to get him accepted by Harvard, then I'm sure FSU will take him, and then he would not be my problem anymore.

I am SO glad I never had children. Being a parent always involved a lot of sacrifice, and these days it can involve humiliations that weren't even dreamed of when I was growing up.

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The Wicked Witch too!

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David Brooks made my head explode.

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I know, right? KK (I'm tempted to say KKK but that would be too easy) has grown up with the Internet; it isn't some interesting scientific gadget that was just invented last year. To use that kind of language shows he's a racist; to use it in a public space where it will live forever shows he's a racist too stupid to breathe. And he's surprised that Harvard didn't want him?????!!!!

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Right? How is it fair to all the well-qualified applicants who didn't go on racist & misogynistic tirades at the age of 16 to have to give up their shot so that this little rule breaker can get in?

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As an old, by the time South Park was around, I was no longer what I consider "growing up" and I have also heard it in the hipity hop, but again after I was a grown up.

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No, White Devil, Ethics Specialist, Merit Badge Man, National Honor Society Runner-Up Brooks, can't you ever jump back? And stay there-- like the giant sissy you are?

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It works for brooks, he responds to his shitty columns by writing more shitty columns, see growth!

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can’t an educational institution understand that children are different from adults and that a truly enormous amount of growth can occur in a short amount of time — especially when that growth is spurred in part by enduring horrific trauma? I remember when all the conservatives were standing around asking the same question after Michael Brown was brutally murdered, said no one ever.

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"White, racist male" is not an identity in this worldview. It is a default. Conservatives judge you by how far you deviate from the default, with exceptions made for public self-hatred (see also: Candace Owens, Clarence Thomas, that one Asian chick). I am one standard deviation from the default (not male). They assume the racism, although I believe their word for it is "freedom." Therefore, I get a pass and deserve to be placed at Harvard.

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how the fuck does a Jewish boy be a fucking racist?i dunno you think maybe given yall peoples history, that even if you aren't real Jewish like practicing the religion, not eating pork, etc etc, STILL, secular Jewish, i'm just like ok maybe this is me being a lil racist, but Jewish people would be the last i would suspect to be a racist fuck.

but oh well, i guess it is in all of us. but....

and then i remember one thing: Florida.

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