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Cake day: June 14th, 2023

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  • One thing I’ve not seen anybody mention along with the rape allegations is that he was 13 when he allegedly did this. While 13 is probably old enough to know better, are we going to start holding everyone accountable for things they did as children? I think the whole world is in trouble if we start doing that. At 13 I was fist fighting my younger siblings and broke at least one of their bones. I faced no repercussions then but I have long since been extremely remorseful. Should I be cancelled for such a thing were it to come out after I became famous?


  • Before implementing things like affirmative action or reparations, do any of us have any idea in mind for when reparations will be done making things “fair”? Or is the intent to have it go on forever? I’ve never heard this argument before and I’ve never heard of anyone having a set date for the end of affirmative action and the like, so it sounds like a slippery slope to future discrimination. This is probably what at least some of the “racist against white people” (and asian people) crowd are complaining about. I know I would be miffed if I lost an academic or career position to an objectively lower quality candidate due to something like government mandated diversity, regardless of how much I support civil rights. Obviously, ideally, everyone should have equal access to these opportunities and no one should be unable to get the education they want but that isn’t the kind of world we live in (at least in the USA).

    Also, why can’t there be other ways to level the playing field in terms of environment, such as funding better schooling or housing for disparaged individuals, regardless of race? Despite black people having to fight an uphill battle in life, these things that uplift across the board without racial or ethnic discrimination would naturally end up helping them out more than others before leveling out as equality is achieved. The only problem, as always, is the bureaucracy involved.