Recently, the user @natalieironside put a screenshot with the beginning of my description on her blog and blocked me. I am not able to comment on the thread this screenshot spawned. These are my responses to the people who have not blocked me but have still commented on the thread.

@squirreltastic​ No, I don’t believe adults get touch-starved. If an adult is not being touched by literally anyone else in any manner, that’s on them.

that’s a tough one, there’s always “blackfella” but you can only say that if you’re willing to sound like Crocodile Dundee, and given the influence of America over popular culture and since the majority of Australians live their lives without ever seeing someone of obvious Aboriginal descent it’s common to assume that “black” is short for “black American”.

I think there’s a place for a lot of different solutions, and that one can work. I’m skeptical of “grade skipping is the perfect solution in every case.”

One thing that gives me pause, for example, is the idea that a class of all different ages might vary wildly in maturity and experience levels. 

the fact that it has some uses definitely helps to keep it in circulation, although I think its use as a common currency for scams, extortion, and purchasing other varieties of cryptocurrency might outweigh its usage for drugs?

you could loosen it slightly by saying Harvard has entertained more war criminals, whether it’s Kissinger (graduate, faculty member), Bush Jr. (Harvard as well as Yale), or Obama, but yeah you’d really have to include the elite educational institutions as a group.

although Harvard Business School putting a profile of Donald Trump under GREAT AMERICAN BUSINESS LEADERS OF THE 20TH CENTURY is still pretty funny: