Daniel's Incest Article
Someone suggested my brother write an article for his school paper. And he was like, “I don’t really want to do this” and we talked about it, and I was like, “Just make fun of school papers. Because school papers are always about keeping an open mind and diversity.” And he said, “Why I don’t I write an article that’s pro-incest?”
And I said, “Perfect!”
So, he writes this article and it’s really funny and he sends it in. Doesn’t hear back from the newspaper for weeks.
He thinks they read it and clearly aren’t going to publish it because it’s about incest.
But it’s not done. Instead they edited the article and turned it from satire into advocacy.
And everyone read it.
In fact, if you go onto that webpage and look at the most recently commented stories on the webpage, it says, like, “Why we should have heart defribilators in the hallways (1 comment.)” “Music students put on a Mimai-style opera. (3 comments.) “Keeping an open mind about incest 17 comments.”
And this is a newspaper that isn’t even read by the people who write for it.
What’s even funnier is that same day it was published, he got an email from this Honor Council he had applied for and they were like, “Sorry, we have to reject your application.” And he was like, “Is this because of the incest thing?”
And then got an email from a Congressman he had applied to work for during the summer, and it was like, “Sorry, we are rejecting your application.”
He’s like, “Did everyone read it?”
And then he got an email from the University of Miami Academic Ambassadors that was like, “Welcome aboard, brother!”
And he said, “Well, I hope they didn’t read it.”
And here’s the thing it has his photo and name on it. And it’s so widespreed that he went to school dining hall and one of the students serving him said, “Hey, you’re the incest kid.”
I’m proud of him.
And I said, “Perfect!”
So, he writes this article and it’s really funny and he sends it in. Doesn’t hear back from the newspaper for weeks.
He thinks they read it and clearly aren’t going to publish it because it’s about incest.
But it’s not done. Instead they edited the article and turned it from satire into advocacy.
And everyone read it.
In fact, if you go onto that webpage and look at the most recently commented stories on the webpage, it says, like, “Why we should have heart defribilators in the hallways (1 comment.)” “Music students put on a Mimai-style opera. (3 comments.) “Keeping an open mind about incest 17 comments.”
And this is a newspaper that isn’t even read by the people who write for it.
What’s even funnier is that same day it was published, he got an email from this Honor Council he had applied for and they were like, “Sorry, we have to reject your application.” And he was like, “Is this because of the incest thing?”
And then got an email from a Congressman he had applied to work for during the summer, and it was like, “Sorry, we are rejecting your application.”
He’s like, “Did everyone read it?”
And then he got an email from the University of Miami Academic Ambassadors that was like, “Welcome aboard, brother!”
And he said, “Well, I hope they didn’t read it.”
And here’s the thing it has his photo and name on it. And it’s so widespreed that he went to school dining hall and one of the students serving him said, “Hey, you’re the incest kid.”
I’m proud of him.
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