Harvard RESCINDS admission of right-wing, pro-gun Parkland Survivor Kyle Kashuv

What a dweeb.

Stupid racist who wants other kids to go through the hell he went through (which is the best outcome of such events) gets shitcanned from Ivy League. Good but not too noteworthy. What is noteworthy is the Nazi civil war in that story. You've got Lunatic Loomer and Jacob Woo-woo HATING him, why I don't know, but Benji Shapiro is still pinning for his 19-year-old cock defending him. There's the REAL story.

Maybe they could have educated him. You know, the purpose for which they exist.

Kashuv actually came for Loomer in the past, so when news of his n-wording dropped she went after him. She was a loud proponent of him getting kicked out by Harvard, which is mind-bogglingly hypocritical considering her entire campaign is about how wrong it is to kick people off platforms due to their speech. It's just another example of how these loons are all about pretenses, they stand for something wholeheartedly only when it suits them.

Every time you see/hear a story about how colleges are oppressing conservatives, remind them that conservatives have their own colleges — they’re called Bible schools, bible colleges, yeshivas, and universities named for evangelicals like a Bob Jones & Jerry Falwell — and as soon as those colleges start hiring liberals, socialists and atheists to their teaching staffs, other colleges will hire rightwing lunatics and evangelical preachers.

Works both ways, yo

Colleges like diversity among its student body, but his presence would certainly be a very divisive problem and something that the university probably doesn’t want to have to deal with. I’m sure his past wasn’t clearly exposed during the admissions process and now that it’s known, they are cutting their losses. I don’t blame them one bit.

Is the N word the NRA?

I can’t find out how old he was when he wrote these things. Was he 11? Was he 16? Kids start the process of applying to colleges when they’re 16, which would mean he knew he was going to apply to Harvard when he was calling athletes “n....r jocks.”

He was 16, it was just a few months before the Parkland shooting.

I would have a problem with such a person teaching there but not as a student. That's the kind of person that needs a good liberal education.

[quote] Maybe they could have educated him. You know, the purpose for which they exist.

You mean liberal indoctrination?

Much as I loathe everything he stands for, this is complete bullshit on Harvard's part.

The comments were made in text messages and in some Google Doc.

I suspect a goodly percentage of the entering class would be kicked out for all of the various racist, misogynist, homophobic comments they'd made privately as teenagers. Including many of the same administrators who are behind this.

He was 16 when he said it and he publicly apologized. What more do they want?

What's bullshit is that I guarantee you Harvard admitted him because of the PR value it would get them. But he's screwed now, unless another school that he's already turned down, allows him back in.

R12 Ten other applicants have been kicked out on similar grounds, so sounds like if Kashuv was kept it would be showing favoritism

He also posted about killing Jews at his school His former friends turned on him because they think he's a racist. I get why Harvard took a pass on him.

Where did you read that R13?

Ten other applicants this year?

What were his SAT scores?

It's also odd that all these random conservative "activists" are treating this high school kid like he was a serious adult, advocating publicly for/against his admission.

And even douchier for Harvard to play along.

Princeton would never play that game ;)

If his friends hadn't shared the texts no one would know about this. Obviously they think he's a bad guy. This is a grey area but once the info comes out, it puts the school in a bind.

R15 the example I know of is from two years ago but it seems very consistent to this one, and I presume cases of this have came up every year because of the reach of social media

So I did a little googling-- yes he also wrote "KIll all the Jews"-- but it seems he is Jewish. Wikipedia says his parents are actually Israeli immigrants and lists him as being Jewish. (Kashuv is a Jewish name and Parkland is, if not majority Jewish, then a pretty large percentage.)

Seems more like he's just as asshole and that's never stopped Harvard before...

His parents didn't pay enough in bribes to get him in.

Surprised he was smart enough to get into Harvard in the first place. Hitler's musician went to Harvard and based the Nazi Anthem, the Horst Wessel, on the Harvard fight song.

That seems a lot more egregious R19 especially since it came after they were admitted and thus older, plus, it was in a FB group aimed at a whole bunch of people

As heinous as they were, Kishuv's racist words were in private messages, not on social media

R10: Please. He would shrug it all off, just like the bitch at R11 did, with those exact words. You can't reach people like this, any change will have to come from an inner realization of what a douche he has been followed by a desire to change himself and his politics.

[quote] Princeton would never play that game

Princeton is the great university that people think Harvard is.

[quote] He was 16 when he said it and he publicly apologized. What more do they want?

When did he apologize? Where? I'm not seeing an apology.

Yep r18, even this guys friends r18 obviously think he is a douchebag and were happy to let everyone see his racism. Says a lot.

Did he get in in the first place because of his celebrity after the Parkland shootings. If he did, taking his admission away after his comments came to light is just fine.

As a private institution, Harvard can accept you or dismiss you for any reason.

[Quote]Maybe they could have educated him.

He was 16, not 6. He knew damn well what he was doing.

[quote] If his friends hadn't shared the texts no one would know about this. Obviously they think he's a bad guy.

LOL! Yea or maybe his "friends" were jealous.

R3 It is not the job of colleges to teach 18 year olds not to use raise language. If they haven't learned it by then, they probably don't belong in college and certainly not Harvard. Maybe send him to Howard or Morehouse where he will learn the consequences of such language.

R11 Yes, teaching young people not to use the "n" word--the very definition of "liberal indoctrination." Because, you know, all conservatives think it's just fine to use such language. (Nope--I was raised by two Republicans and would have had hell to pay if they ever heard me use that language.)

Turn up your sarcasm meter, r32.

[quote] It is not the job of colleges to teach 18 year olds not to use raise language. If they haven't learned it by then, they probably don't belong in college and certainly not Harvard.

Nonsense. That is exactly the purpose of higher education. To broaden your mind and leave your old prejudices and ignorance behind

[quote]Surprised he was smart enough to get into Harvard in the first place.

I assume you were floored then, when David Hogg, who can’t even correctly write a complete sentence, was admitted.

R32 subscribes to the type of cancel culture that needs to be stomped out. It also has to be one of the more ignorant posts I've read on DL in a long while.

[quote] Princeton is the great university that people think Harvard is.

Princeton caters to the cream of America: the thick and rich. Kashuv is certainly thick enough for Princeton but not rich enough.

R35: David Hogg is incredibly smart, is ten times the man that this racist shit is, and 30 times the man you'll ever be, troll. Oh, and he's NEVER EVER gonna fuck you. But keep pinning away for him....

Womp womp, Trumptard.

For the moron latecomer

[quote]Much as I loathe everything he stands for, this is complete bullshit on Harvard's part.

It absolutely isn't R12.

Any current student would be booted out for doing this as well. They make the rules. They're not required to admit him.

[quote]The comments were made in text messages and in some Google Doc.

And he should know better than to write anything down on the internet in 2019 that could potentially hurt him.

[quote]I suspect a goodly percentage of the entering class would be kicked out for all of the various racist, misogynist, homophobic comments they'd made privately as teenagers. Including many of the same administrators who are behind this.

Maybe they made some, maybe they didn't. They weren't stupid enough to put it on the internet and get caught. It also wasn't just a slip.

[quote]He was 16 when he said it and he publicly apologized.

Every 16 year old knows better than to use that language, period.

He was 16 and he knew better.

Also he's 18 now so this wasn't a lifetime ago.

[quote]What more do they want?

For him to go somewhere else, which is exactly what he'll have to do.

R41 Right? Where is the injustice here? This kid can go to some other school(someone else WILL take him, I don't care if it's even a community college or whatever) and get on with his life. Actions have consequences and life teaches everyone tough lessons. He's learning one now. Not going to some ivy league school is no tragedy.

The best part of this: rightwingers' heads are exploding all over the place, which is rather hypocritical, since most of the time they talk about how much they hate Harvard and how liberal universities are ruining America, and that they would never, ever send their kids there.

R38

Oh, dear.

Oh Dear indeed. Maybe he should give him a lavalier, isn't that what frat boys in love do?

I really don’t understand the right wing opinion on this. They think that it should be okay for a business that ostensibly serves the general public to deny service to people because those people offend the business owner’s privately held beliefs but a private college, which openly chooses who it admits and doesn’t take all comers, doesn’t have that same right?

Is "cancel culture" the new alt-right social warfare phrase? It's popped up a few times here on DL very recently.

r16, according to a Forbes article, he got a 1550 on the SAT.

Joy Reid never got her degree rescinded.

2 800s doesn’t get you into Harvard, you also have to be a HUMAN BEING!

What does that have to do with rescinding admission...r49? Back to drawing board.

I’m glad they rescinded this twerp’s acceptance. I highly doubt he’s changed in two measly years despite his ordeal. So, some privileged white kid wont get to go to Harvard? Boo fucking hoo. Maybe next time he’ll think before saying something so stupid and ignorant.

R49 = Mooghan McCain taking on as many Joys as she thinks she can.