I just keep reading a story about the Des Moines Register hating kids with cancer. The rest of the story is fluff.
I don't quite understand everyone saying, "Oh, he was only 16 when he said those ****** things on Twitter." Yes, but it's still not okay to say ****** stuff when you are 16. Why can't everyone just look at Carson's own tweets, where he basically said, "Yo, I was wrong to post that crap, I'm ashamed of it and glad that the Register showed it to me, and I'm working on being a better person." Why can't everyone just say, "Wow, look at how far that kid has come?" Isn't that the better point than sweeping it under the rug? It's crappy that it came out, that the Register decided to try and "scoop" a feel-good story of someone helping. But since it is out there, can't we try and make it something better for the current 16-year-olds out there to see?
I agree, which is why I said generally. Also, the DMR was trying to gain points. Calvin isn’t the only one.Cancel culture is huge on the right too. Kaepernick? Starbucks?
It’s a problem across our entire society, and a huge reason that people of ALL political stripes support Carson King.
I think this d bag reporter is hoping to gain points with the far left, but they’re going to eat him up for his recent racist/homophobic tweets and comparing his situation to being a minority.
This is kid (Aaron Calvin) is a first rate twat.
The editor is really where any ire should be directed, as opposed to the writer just doing his job.
They're getting death threats and hiring extra security for their offices. This is Iowa. This isn't what we are. Or at least, it didn't used to be.
I don't get the whole thing about him being doxed. His byline appeared on the previous King articles, as well as the profile. It wasn't a secret who wrote the thing.
Why didn’t Calvin clean up his twitter account before the article was published? Didn’t he anticipate someone checking his history? Or did he think what he had tweeted was okay?
Hmmmmm. I also quoted the "n" word in my dissertation, because that's what we do.
Wow this guy doesn’t get it. He’s taking no responsibility. And comparing himself with women and POC? Yikes. He really wants to be a martyr.
I don’t know what the “right wing” gains politically from taking down a no name reporter. I don’t know how he can twist this in his head and think this is a politically motivated attack.
Except its not like the article made those tweets a centerpiece. It merely mentioned the tweets. Ironically it was people like you who got all outraged about it that made it a bigger deal than it had to be. Otherwise it would have been a one-paragraph footnote -with mitigating information showing that isnt who he is today- in an otherwise extremely positive profile.
The reporter never 'tried to ruin his life' as many morons have claimed, or tried to get him fired or anything like that, so its not like there's some hypocrisy there. Nor was there much damage in the end anyway, other Busch ending its relationship that was likely to be short-lived anyway (and they still maintained their donation). From the tweets i saw, Calvin's tweets were much like the ones that Carson's claimed to be (though we've never actually seen the exact ones from Carson because they were deleted)- mostly just quotes of other people from several years ago.
Ah yes, "call out culture", the buzzword so popular in the right wing that, like "pc culture" before it, basically boils down to "HOW DARE YOU CRITICIZE ME FOR SAYING SOMETHING TERRIBLE"
Thank you for proving my point.
Yes. Absolutely right wing if you followed any of the outrage that developed on this. A lot of people who were angry about past incidents when adults got called out for their own racist or otherwise ****** behavior suddenly decided to take up this as their cause when the real problem with this one was that it got into things that he posted as a minor.
This guy followed the process he was supposed to from his employer, and got thrown under the bus.
Slightly disagree. The research is important. The 'choice' of the integration not so good. They could have even included it, but framed it in a manner beneficial to everyone. For example ... "I think that kind of research is pretty important in a lot of situations. This clearly wasn’t one of those situations though, he wasn’t aspiring to some leadership position or anything like that.
agree!!... and (blowback not being nearly as bad) if it wasn't the 'policy' of the Register to do a background check OR if the Register had 'framed' the content in an ethical manner. Makes one wonder if they're, retroactively, now performing 'background' checks on everyone they employ. If we don't hear of more firings, I suppose that isn't the case. Seems hypocritical if not.Then you need to look deeper, if you can find them.
First, Calvin's were worse than what was implied for Carson. See here for a synopsis: https://heavy.com/news/2019/09/aaron-calvin/
Second, there were more of them over a much longer period of time and as recent as 2016 (as far as I can tell).
Third, this isn't a 'right wing' thing. I have seem many liberal people that have called this wrong or called for his firing including WaPo and NYT. Invoking 'the conservatives are out to get me' and claiming to be the victim in this just angers people more and is not accurate (which you would think a journalist would aspire to be).
Fourth, he wasn't fired for the article, he was fired because his twitter feed was not in line with DMR expectations.
Honestly, I don't think he would have been fired or that the blowback would have been nearly as bad if it weren't for his own checkered twitter feed. And instead of claiming a conspiracy against him, he needs to own that.