Well here we are, the year is 2019 and if you haven’t figured out how life goes now a days let me fill you in: the moment you start to get a little momentum in life, start getting a little fame, maybe start getting some twitter followers, thousands of internet trolls will start to scavenge the Internet in an attempt to ruin you and everything you built. If you’re a normal person they will try to get you fired from your job. If you are an athlete they will try to get you cut from your team. There is no end game, they don’t care about an apology. As long as you go back to having nothing while they rack in some Retweets then mission accomplished.
This has been a wild trend for a few years now but we haven’t had anyone ruined for saying dumb shit when they were in high school in a while. It was only due.
Carson King made this sign for ESPNs College Game Day a few years back and it immediately went viral because college kids asking for beer money on national television is always funny 
The people sent him money and he began raking in the dough. Instead of doing what I assume every other kid his age would do with that money, buy beer and cocaine, he thought it would be more beneficial to donate it to a Children’s Hospital. Venmo and Anheuser-Busch thought that was a great idea and decided to match his donations, a combined total of over $1 million dollars. Pretty cool huh?
Now we skip to this month when a small paper blog company the Des Moines Register was doing a story on this guy and in the midst of a thorough background check dug up some old tweets of his from 2012. Now according to my research, Carson King is 24 years old. In 2012 he was probably 16? Junior in High School? Not sure exactly, but he was in High School!
Im not sure what his tweets were exactly because they haven’t been reposted on the TL yet, but whatever it is I don’t believe that Carson King believes those things. Based on other tweets and such it is led me to believe that these tweets were taken from a stand up special from comedian Daniel Tosh. Not if anyone remembers 2012, Tosh was the king and he would be on TV and make incredibly offensive jokes and everyone would laugh because they were funny jokes and he is a great comedian.
Carson King was one of those people that thought it Tosh was funny and one day just tweeted a exert from the special to his 300 Twitter followers (I’m assuming). 300 followers that probably grew up in the same small town and probably saw the same special so they understood the reference he was trying to make.
Now go back to his interview with this newspaper, which I assume he thought was a puff piece praising him for raising a fuck ton of money for sick kids. No it was a GOTCHA piece that was on a mission to expose King for who he really is.
He knew his days were numbered so he held a press conference explaining the tweets and all that, backlash ensued and Busch decided to sever ties with him.
They will honor the first pledge they made to help him donate but not any more, no more money for the kids.
This whole post isn’t me calling the world soft or trying to be Anti- PC or anything like that but it is to highlight this one fact, trying to go back in time and pull up insensitive things that people said to try to tarnish the person in the current time is counterproductive and really only hurts the world more than helps it. Most high schoolers are dumb and anything they say or do should be ignored then, let alone 8 years later.
All we are doing with this is distracting from the real deep seeded racism that actually exists in this country. For every kid that tweets out a rap lyric or tweets a joke from their favorite comedian, there are 3 kids telling their friends to “Turn off that n-word shit” when someone tries to play Lil Uzi. That is the issue.
By digging up old tweets you are saying that humans don’t have the mental capacity to grow from the time they are 16. That is why I don’t want to mention the fact that the dude who wrote the piece about King had dozens of insensitive tweets where he actually said the n-word.
I agree that tweeting offensive things is bad and you shouldn’t do it but doing this, going on an Internet outrage just to get an unnecessary apology isn’t solving the actual problem. So stop it.
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