Harvard Rescinds Admission for Parkland Student Over ‘Offensive’ Comments

[Anonymous]

Every single person I grew up who was racist at 16 are racist to this day and I am 60 years old. Not saying people can't change, but it's unusual and it damn sure doesn't happen in 2 years time. Harvard did the right thing.

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I white and have managed to get through my entire life without using the n word. My parents--Bernie and Biden's generation-- were Civil Rights workers. They never used that word. The FACT is, if you don't think it, you won't use it. And making excuses for bigotry is a terrible look.

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Anonymous wrote:I white and have managed to get through my entire life without using the n word. My parents--Bernie and Biden's generation-- were Civil Rights workers. They never used that word. The FACT is, if you don't think it, you won't use it. And making excuses for bigotry is a terrible look.

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And the racists I know who use the N word have used it all of their lives. Counting down the days...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Things conservatives don’t have empathy for: poor people, hungry children, gay and trans folk, immigrants, people without health insurance, asylum seekers, pregnant people.

People who conservatives have empathy for: racist antiSemitic white boys who Harvard rejects.

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[Anonymous]

When I see white folks up in arms about something as clear cut as a student getting a college offer rescinded because they were racist, I can't help but wonder what they would do if something truly unjust happened to them daily.. like oh idk *spins wheel* police brutality

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I’m confused by white people who say it’s normal - even for teens - to use the N-word. That’s not just stupid or offensive: it’s white supremacy. If parents aren’t teaching kids that, then the lessons and consequences will truly feel harsh. But isn’t that the point of a society?

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Anonymous wrote:When I see white folks up in arms about something as clear cut as a student getting a college offer rescinded because they were racist, I can't help but wonder what they would do if something truly unjust happened to them daily.. like oh idk *spins wheel* police brutality

you know what they'd do - blame the person who was brutalized

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Anonymous wrote:This is so unfair. What about freedom of speech?

Why are we living in a society where you can’t be forgiven? He was sixteen for GOD-SAKE. Imagine if everyone knew what everyone said behind closed doors. Harvard allows convicted felons in, but not a kid who said something stupid once? He apologized. Move on.

Not once. Repeatedly. And still doing it.

[Anonymous]

All the 16-year-old kids I’ve represented who ended up in jail for things like weed because they were tried as adults in NY are going to be thrilled that Republicans think what you do as a child should not have a negative impact on your future opportunities.

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Anonymous wrote:Maybe when the N-word is stopped being used ENTIRELY by all cultures. In all songs, movies. Maybe when NO ONE uses it ever, maybe then we should take away admissions to colleges.

Hi, "we" didn't "take away" an admission. You make it sound like he was wronged, or something, rather than he was wrong.

HARVARD, a private institution of people who are smarter than you and me and the collective "we" did this. There's a reason they're elite. And you cannot complain about their superiority and covet it at the same time.

[Anonymous]

Look, people, this is 2019, not 1939, and everyone with HALF A BRAIN does know that using a n-word can and will have negative effect on one's public image and subsequent career prospects. If a 16-year-old doesn't understand that, he doesn't belong to Harvard, not just for 'being racist', but for being irredeemably stupid.

I don't care what you think or say in your backwoods environment but if you put it online in writing... Duh!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is so unfair. What about freedom of speech?

Why are we living in a society where you can’t be forgiven? He was sixteen for GOD-SAKE. Imagine if everyone knew what everyone said behind closed doors. Harvard allows convicted felons in, but not a kid who said something stupid once? He apologized. Move on.

Freedom of speech? He has freedom of speech. What the hell are you prattling on about? It's not like he's been imprisoned for saying it.

Harvard did move on. Why do you think Harvard owes this kid anything?

The kid is a piece of excrement. The good news is, he will NEVER be able to get a job doing anything outside the right-wing griftermill now. His life is over. Good. He deserves that not just for the anti-Semitic and racist remarks but also for his impulse to lobby for the NRA after his classmates were gunned down. He's a garbate American and a despicable human. He's just biding time now until his soul will rot in the burning flames of hell for all eternity.

[Anonymous]

So what happens if Harvard discovers that an Alum said sick racist stuff before or after they got their degree. Do they rescind his or her degree?

What happens if a student does what this kid did two years into their program.

I don't see a consistently enforcible principle here. Just a lot of virtue signaling and trying to avoid shaming

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Anonymous wrote:Maybe when the N-word is stopped being used ENTIRELY by all cultures. In all songs, movies. Maybe when NO ONE uses it ever, maybe then we should take away admissions to colleges.

weak

I think it’s weak to just dismiss someone for their mistakes. Learn from it

He can learn, just not at Harvard.

+1 Get some perspective, he's not being sent to prison. He's just being rejected for insufficient moral character from a university that rejects thousands of qualified applicants per year.

This. Such manufactured outrage over a teenager who did himself in by ranting violent thoughts about jews and N*******. As someone pointed out upthread, 14 year old kids in Florida can be sent to prison having been tried as adults. Now, that is a tragedy.

That is wrong too. Back to original topic. If people do not stand up and say kids say horrible things and there is a reason why a record is expunged at 18 then it is a huge issue for majority of parents. Lots of self righteous folk. This all makes me cringe-anyone who says my kid would never is clueless

Wait. What record is expunged at 18? And what, pray tell, would you like colleges to base their admissions on, if they're not allowed to count whatever happens before you're 18?

+1 Juvenile records are not necessarily expunged, and sentences given at age 14 can last well beyond the age of 18 (and not expunged). And well, you know, the kids have spent years in jail by then, and people view that as a bigger punishment (than say not being able to go to Harvard for example).

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Anonymous wrote:So what happens if Harvard discovers that an Alum said sick racist stuff before or after they got their degree. Do they rescind his or her degree?

What happens if a student does what this kid did two years into their program.

I don't see a consistently enforcible principle here. Just a lot of virtue signaling and trying to avoid shaming

No, clearly Harvard has never rescinded degrees for doing racist or illegal things. But as a private university, they have a say on who enters. And if they want to reject a boy who said sickening things about blacks and jews in a public forum, that's their perogative. They certainly turn down thousands of qualified candidates a year. Not sure why there's so much handwringing about a boy who tanked his own admission.