@Bobbybob444555 You can learn alot from older people. Someday you will understand.
@STEM2017 Yes, I will learn “alot” from older people.
@Bobbybob444555, “Prestigious universities won’t expect much ap classes freshman and sophomore year.” You should watch your own grammar if you are going to criticize other people about theirs.
^good one
Try that at your next job interview. And bring along some of your memes.
Good luck.
I won’t bring any memes to my job on interview @STEM2017.
@Bobbybob444555 I’m a younger person who loves memes. Doesn’t make what these students did any less egregious.
Such a shame that 10 exceptional and qualified students got rejected from Harvard to admit these 10 instead…
Freedom of speech is dead on campus folks. You are only free to say the “right” provocative things.
10 kids having a laugh in a private chat at some edgy content & the pc police believe they have the moral authority to pass judgement on them
no wonder we’ve got people getting arrested for “manspreading” now we’ve gone off the rails
tragic
The fb group was private, true. But it wasn’t that private. It was for the admitted class. So it wasn’t a joke shared between a couple of friends in a restaurant booth. It was shouted to an auditorium full of people and tied to the university by the name on the “auditorium.”
That distinction is easy enough to comprehend. At least it ought to be.
When my employer offered domestic partner benefits several years ago, some people protested. The company said basically that as long as the protesters didn’t identify themselves as representing the company there would be no problem. Sounded fair to me.
The military was similar. You could walk around in pretty much whatever peaceful, legal protest you wanted. What you could not do was violate the law or identify yourself as a member of the armed forces.
The fact that there are young people in this comment thread who are trying to normalize racism, child murder and bigotry is disturbing. Because older folks “don’t understand memes”. Wrong. We understand them perfectly. Promotion and sharing of these images reflects on one’s character. Admission to Harvard is a privilege, not a right and the administration did the right thing.
And stop hiding behind “it’s only free speech”. That’s true, they are not being prosecuted by the government, however a private university has determined that these kids are so lacking in character that they will not be part of their institution.
These memes don’t reflect on their personality. They were just having a laugh, not normalizing racism or other things. The content itself wasn’t even that funny honestly. That’s the whole purpose of the memes. So not funny and edgy teens like them.
^^^They can laugh to their heart’s content. Just not at Harvard.
Unfortunately @Bobbybob444555 , one is what one does.
Or, in a much older phrase “when we are young, we make our habits. When we are old, they make us.”
Part of the problem is the perceived anonymity of the internet. I wonder how many of these students would circulate these same memes in a room full of their new classmates. “Hey, Juan, take a look at this piñata meme! Omar did you see this meme about the kids and goats?” But on the internet kids can picture someone just like them as the audience. They don’t have to face the people they’re insulting and can imagine that anyone who’s insulted is overly sensitive or “doesn’t understand memes.”
I think they’re just trying to get a rise out of parent posters, honestly.
I have to wonder if the Harvard Lampoon (known for edgy humor) ever included racial stereotypes, hinted at inappropriate sexual arousal/behavior/bestiality, or used the term “gas chamber.”
If so, Harvard has some glaring hypocrisy to answer for.
You think?? 
And they’re the first generation to try that!
@Sue22 Of course. It’s cowardly. None of these kids would share this kind of stuff to the face of the people they are making fun of, unless perhaps in a group of kids IRL. Maybe that was H’s concern, actually, that these would be the “desperate to go along” kids that would join in the email list ranking of female athletes and throw the “pimps and hos” parties once at H.
Sadly, as a member of that generation, I do not think they are saying it to get a rise out of the older posters; many, although certainly not all, really do have that sense of that entitlement.