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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]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.[/quote]

weak [/quote]

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

He can learn, just not at Harvard. [/quote]

+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.
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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.[/quote]

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[/quote]

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?[/quote]

+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).[/quote]

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