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Saw it written elsewhere:

We live in a world where a crime you committed as a teenager is washed away but not something you said.

> I don't understand the thought process that leads to Calvin publishing (well, submitting to his editors for review and publication) King's quotes in a negative light when he has said similar. Wouldn't you just chalk those kind of posts up to "meh, I'd do that, nothing to see here"?

Hubris, presumably.

"I'm not the subject of the story. Why would anyone go after me?"

Try entering politics. People complain about the quality of politicians in the electorate, but that’s because a lot of people just don’t want the scrutiny that will inevitably come should they seek office.

I'm mostly surprised that, in reporting on it at all, he didn't also think to himself, "Oh crap, I've said some bad things too. I should clean that up first."

Do as I say, not as I've done.