It's really annoying how this kid's defenders are distorting the case, and what people are saying. Considering what a 19 year old *candidate for office* did when he was 12-14 is not holding it against him "in perpetuity."

1/ https://twitter.com/thomaschattwill/status/1297224790403670017
And TCW must know (or if he doesn't know, then he hasn't read the arguments he's criticizing) that people are objecting not only to what Aaron Coleman did five years ago, but also to how Coleman is dealing with it now (specifically, saying his victims should get over it).
I absolutely believe that people should eventually be able to move past the bad things they did in their past. But "eventually move beyond" and "be honored with a position of public importance after only five years" are not interchangeable concepts.
And the refusal of Coleman's defenders to acknowledge that these are two different things seems disingenuous at best.
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