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Mob: She's a witch!

Accused: Hold on. Let me explain. Some frogs hibernate and it was merely awaking after...

You: Just apologize. You were holding a frog that reanimated. Whether you intended to appear a witch or not, the mob thinks you are. That's what matters. So just bend to their demands and all will be well. The mob won't grow in power with yet another victim. Certainly they will never come for me. I'm an ally. Educate yourself. Be better.

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Be honest with what the situation is. This is completely about whether he used language that some people found offensive. They have the right to be offended, have the right to ask for an apology, and have the right to ask the university to demand an apology. No one is threatening death or bodily harm. It’s not a witch hunt.

shadowgovt phrased it well lower in the comment section:

> Honestly, Yale's administration is trying to help.

> This individual's major risk surface isn't what Yale will do to him... It's that his peers have filed his name away in their personal Rolodex-analog as "Someone very, very clueless about tone and reading a room." i.e. "Someone I don't want as partner in my law firm."

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