Someone at a state school would have the same thing happen to them if they pulled stuff like this. No reason why they should be treated with kid gloves because they got into Harvard.
Harvard withdraws 10 acceptances for ‘offensive’ memes in private group chat
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#12What you do and say on social media can and will be used against you.
Extend this to any place connected to the internet or other means of collecting information and linking it to you. Social media is just the easy way in.
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#13This is why I like 4chan. I can shit post to my hearts content without getting screwed by the morality police.
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#14Someone at a state school would have the same thing happen to them if they pulled stuff like this. No reason why they should be treated with kid gloves because they got into Harvard.
I think the concern here is that it was private.
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#15We'll have to create a public and a second, private, personality just like in the old days of the police state. Society is more open than it probably was ever before but at the same time, if close minded leaders of fascist political or religious color came into power they'd have their tools handed to them to create an oppressive apparatus never seen before.
>We'll have to create a public and a second, private, personality I thought this was always the case.
If HRC is any indication...
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#16We'll have to create a public and a second, private, personality just like in the old days of the police state. Society is more open than it probably was ever before but at the same time, if close minded leaders of fascist political or religious color came into power they'd have their tools handed to them to create an oppressive apparatus never seen before.
> The students in the spinoff group exchanged memes and images “mocking sexual assault, the Holocaust and the deaths of children,” sometimes directing jokes at specific ethnic or racial groups, the Crimson reported. One message “called the hypothetical hanging of a Mexican child ‘piñata time’” while other messages quipped that “abusing children was sexually arousing,” according to images of the chat described by the Crimson.
You know, if that's your personality, I'm OK with you feeling ashamed enough that you feel the need to keep it private.
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#17another example why shenanigans shouldn't be done on Facebook. if you wanna $#!K around do it on a platform that isn't personal how is this so hard to understand ? (mind you this does seem excessive from what they are reporting)
What platform isn't personal? Sure, you don't use your real-name here or there, but it can and will be linked to you in the future. Any online and offline activity has a real chance of being linked to you at some point in the future.
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#18Someone at a state school would have the same thing happen to them if they pulled stuff like this. No reason why they should be treated with kid gloves because they got into Harvard.
I think the concern here is that it was private.
Nothing on FB is private, which these kids just learned the hard way. Can't say I feel too bad for them given the content of their posts.
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#19We'll have to create a public and a second, private, personality just like in the old days of the police state. Society is more open than it probably was ever before but at the same time, if close minded leaders of fascist political or religious color came into power they'd have their tools handed to them to create an oppressive apparatus never seen before.
>We'll have to create a public and a second, private, personality I thought this was always the case.
Probably even more than 2.
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#20another example why shenanigans shouldn't be done on Facebook. if you wanna $#!K around do it on a platform that isn't personal how is this so hard to understand ? (mind you this does seem excessive from what they are reporting)
How is this excessive? They were promoting the sort of hate speech you find in the darker corners of 4chan and /r/The_Donald. Harvard is fully within their rights to require a certain level of civility and maturity of their applicants.