Reporter Digs Dirt On A Man Who Donated Over $2M To A Children’s Hospital, People Respond By Doing The Same To Him

I will be forever grateful that social media did not exist when I was a teenager!!!

Even if he was an adult when he made racist remarks, the FACT that he is doing good things now is all that matters. Aren't we Supposed to change racist peoples minds and show them the error of their thinking? Or are they just supposed to stay racist till they die?

Best story ever. #CancelCancelCulture

What the reporter did was nasty, mean spirited and wrong. But I'm struggling to see how other people doing exactly the same thing to him is any better. Two wrongs don't make a right.

I guess he never heard the term, people who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones.

The thought process of the reporter is just astounding. "This guy is doing a great thing! LET'S DESTROY HIM" I don't get it and I wish this sort of thing would stop.

As a 14 year old kid (female) trying to find my way in the world (in my VERY sheltered world, I might add), I wrote Eminem lyrics in the back of my English book as I was trying to learn the words. This was discovered by my English teacher, who had been sexually abused as a child - I did it innocently (I definitely didn't understand exactly what he was singing about), and definitely not in a malicious way. Kids/teenagers do silly things all the time, it's how we learn and grow. The fact that that reporter would go digging for something that happened a lifetime ago for this amazing young man is ridiculous.

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I think there are cases where an 8 year lapse doesn't excuse some behavior, but that's for much older people who are running for office. Stuff a 16 year old said is almost meaningless in terms of who they are when they grow up.

Perfect societal witch hunt mechanism: Allow people the freedom to post whatever they want, 10 years later, make everything offensive.

If we hold people responsible -- across their life span -- for the idiotic things we all do as teenagers...would any of us be above reproach?! Not me, at least. What adults do is very different from what teens do. For all the mistakes we make in life, we can learn, grow, change and go on to do wonderful things. Sadly, this doesn't hold true for everyone. Some people -- reporter in this case -- seem never to learn and hold others to far different standards than the ones they hold for themselves.

This young man is doing a good thing and that reporter shouldn't have gone looking in his past to point out something negative about him. I am fairly certain that he is not the same person he was 8 years ago. No one is. People let's start trying to lift each other up instead of tearing each other down.

If we demand that people who do stupid things as teenagers continue to suffer from their mistakes then where would any of us be? I'm not talking about killing someone, but saying terrible things via social media. Yes, the guy was offensive and wrong and a whole lot more. BUT he is no longer a child, he's an adult who seems to be doing good things. Let's judge -- if we must judge at all -- on the basis of what he thinks and does as an adult. A man who would use what started as a silly joke, to do this much good more than deserves respect and, again if necessary, forgiveness for a stupid thing done as a kid.

We should definitely be held accountable for our actions, we can't just say "whoop I was wrong nvm" and be immediately forgiven but people do change. We learn from our mistakes. Bringing them up again and again won't change anything.

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The reporter was doing his job. This is really shady to me... this guy gets all this money and donates it directly to a university hospital? Nobody is ever going to see that money again. And this happens right after these people completely blew their budget on making this hospital look cool mid-project? It’s too convenient. I’d be chasing down leads as well.

I'm so tired of the trend of judging people based on their past actions. PEOPLE. CAN. CHANGE. If anything be happy that they have moved away from childish hate and improved as a person.

It is stories like this one that make me wish that I had stayed in Kazakhstan. I never imagined when I was a child that Americans could be this cruel.

Nowhere can I find word for word what those "racist" tweets are. People are outraged without even knowing exactly what is said. That said, the reporter looks like a weasel and the type who'd be hypocritically virtue signalling, then claiming victimhood, which he did. He even referenced coloured women in his victimhood statement. Pathetic. Just own up to the fact you're a hypocrite. F**k that guy.

The main point I got form this story is people can and do change. We shouldn't punish people for dumb things that were done in past (dumb does not mean rape attempts or things of that nature) especially when it is clear they have changed. The other side of this coin is that not everyone matures or changes their behavior. If a person is a s****y racist today and you dig up past quotes proving they were always that way then yeah you can use them. The point being your past bad behaviors matter if you haven't done anything to correct or learn from them.

Carson King exhibited immense grace and dignity in all of this. He didn't lash out at the reporter or shame him, he apologized. THE PRESIDENT could learn a lot from him.