I'm the wrong person to write it, but there is a good essay to be written about the era on Twitter where a ton of people adopted terms from social justice and mental health lexicons to weaponize them against reasonable social accountability behaviors that they did not want to experience.
Crary@crary.bsky.social · 2h ago100% this. If you send abusive email to a total stranger, you are entitled to zero expectation of privacy. I actually believe the world would be a better place if more prominent people did this.
![send his sons to the United States.!9! At age nine, Jensen, despite not yet being able to speak English fluently, was sent by his parents to live in the United States. 10] He and his older brother moved in 1973 to live with an uncle in Tacoma,
Washington, escaping widespread social unrest in Thailand. [' Both Huang's aunt and uncle were recent immigrants to Washington state; they accidentally enrolled him and his brother in the Oneida Baptist Institute, a religious reform academy in Kentucky for troubled youth,!!!] mistakenly believing it to be a prestigious boarding school. [12] In order to afford the academy's tuition, Jensen's parents sold nearly all their possessions.
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![When he was 10 years old, Huang lived with his older brother in the Oneida boys' dormitory. [12] Each student was expected to work every day, and his brother was assigned to perform manual labor on a nearby tobacco farm. I13] Because he was too young to attend classes at the retorm academy, Huang was educated at a separate public school— the Oneida Elementary school in Oneida, Kentucky
-arriving as an undersized Asian immigrant with long hair and heavily accented English" [12] and was frequently bullied and beaten. 14) In Oneida, Huang cleaned toilets every day, learned to play table-tennis, o] joined the swimming team, [16] and appeared in Sports Illustrated at age 14.[17] He taught his illiterate roommate, a "17-year-old covered in tattoos and knife scars,"!! how to read in exchange for being taught how to bench press.
[12] In 2002, Huang said he remembered his life in Kentucky "more vividly than just about any other".
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