From driftglass:
Today’s inciting incident was Harvard’s revocation of Kyle Kashuv’s admission to their university based on some incredibly racist and antisemitic (h/t Yastreblyansky) things he wrote when he was in high school and which have only recently come to light.
For Kyle Kashuv, this means he has once again joined the billions of human beings on Earth who won’t being going to Harvard. Sad! After all, Harvard is a Privilege Factory with more money than God and Mark Cuban (it is frequently referred to as a “hedge fund with a university attached”) and when it comes to admissions it can do pretty much whatever it wants to do.
But for David Brooks, this is his nightmare scenario.
The nightmare of a Conservative who had made his way into one of America’s most elite Privilege Factories —
Most of the famous Parkland students lean progressive and support gun control laws. Kashuv leans conservative. He’s appeared on conservative media, got to meet Donald Trump and lobbied for the STOP School Violence Act, which would create an annual $50 million grant to schools for training programs and reporting systems. He became a student face for the gun rights crowd.
— only to find himself suddenly kicked out because of things he had written in the past.
The nightmare that someone other than a few nobody Liberal bloggers might actually take a look at the shit David Brooks has actually written over the decades — the saccharine schlock, the incompetently researched/cherry-picked propaganda, the hypocrisy, the venomous hippie-punching and the interminable Both Siderism.