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Josh Hader and Sean Newcomb are not *victims* for having their old racist and homophobic tweets exposed. And yet, the comments are always the same. Some people see it as attacking and spreading hate, white people are offended at being called racist, when in reality they said shameful things and are being a little shamed for it. Totally the proportionate and correct response. Big societal teaching moment, because kids seeing it in the news may say to their friend “hey don’t say that word; it’s offensive and we could get in trouble…
Read the tweetstream here.
Josh Hader and Sean Newcomb are not *victims* for having their old racist and homophobic tweets exposed. They made those statements. And not when they were 10 or 11 years old; they were 18 or 19. Old enough to know better. Shows how entrenched racism, sexism and homophobia are.
— Michael Kasdan (@michaelkasdan) July 29, 2018
I’m just blown away by the anger misdirected at “jealous losers who look up old Tweets.”
— Michael Kasdan (@michaelkasdan) July 29, 2018
Be angry at the number of racist/sexist/homophobic comments and jokes made by all a huge number of white male athletes.
— Michael Kasdan (@michaelkasdan) July 29, 2018
Saying “it was just a joke” or “all kids say dumb stuff” is the equivalent of “boys will be boys.” It gives a pass to unacceptable behavior and perpetuates racism, sexism and homophobia. Instead we should be outraged and outspoken about it being unacceptable.
— Michael Kasdan (@michaelkasdan) July 29, 2018
Otherwise, it will never change.
— Michael Kasdan (@michaelkasdan) July 29, 2018
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