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Man Who Raised Money For A Children’s Hospital Apologizes For Offensive Tweets At Age 16

"I am so embarrassed and stunned..."

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By PAUL BOIS

 @PAULBOIS39

September 24, 2019

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It seems that the commissars of cancel culture have run out of comedians to embarrass by surfacing old tweets and are now moving on to men who raised over $1 million for a children's hospital.

Earlier this month, Iowa resident Carson King became a media sensation when "ESPN College GameDay" highlighted him holding a sign that read, "Busch Light supply need replenished. Venmo Carson-King-25." When his sign went viral, donors poured in all over the country to contribute to the fund. After raising over $1.14 million, King decided to donate the money University of Iowa Stead Family Children’s Hospital.

Unfortunately, what began as a positive story quickly turned into an ugly one when a reporter with the Des Moines Register dug into King's Twitter history to find offensive comments he made eight years ago when he was just 16.

"A routine background check of King's social media revealed two racist jokes, one comparing black mothers to gorillas and another making light of black people killed in the holocaust. The joke tweets date back to 2012, when King was a 16-year-old high school student," wrote Aaron Calvin of the Des Moines Register. "When asked about the tweets, King was remorseful and thanked the Register for pointing them out, saying they made him 'sick.' He has since deleted them."

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Greta Thunberg, schoolgirl climate change warrior: ‘Some people can let things go. I can’t’

Jonathan Watts

The G2 interview

Greta Thunberg

One day last summer, aged 15, she skipped school, sat down outside the Swedish parliament – and inadvertently kicked off a global movement

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Mon 11 Mar 2019 02.00 EDTLast modified on Thu 19 Sep 2019 02.04 EDT

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 Greta Thunberg … ‘I have always been that girl in the back who doesn’t say anything.’ Photograph: Michael  

Greta Thunberg cut a frail and lonely figure when she started a school strike for the climate outside the Swedish parliament building last August. Her parents tried to dissuade her. Classmates declined to join. Passersby expressed pity and bemusement at the sight of the then unknown 15-year-old sitting on the cobblestones with a hand-painted banner.

Eight months on, the picture could not be more different. The pigtailed teenager is feted across the world as a model of determination, inspiration and positive action. National presidents and corporate executives line up to be criticised by her, face to face. Her skolstrejk för klimatet (school strike for climate) banner has been translated into dozens of languages. And, most striking of all, the loner is now anything but alone.

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On 15 March, when she returns to the cobblestones (as she has done almost every Friday in rain, sun, ice and snow), it will be as a figurehead for a vast and growing movement. The global climate strike this Friday is gearing up to be one of the biggest environmental protests the world has ever seen. As it approaches, Thunberg is clearly excited.

“It’s amazing,” she says. “It’s more than 71 countries and more than 700 places, and counting. It’s increasing very much now, and that’s very, very fun.”

A year ago, this was unimaginable. Back then, Thunberg was a painfully introverted, slightly built nobody, waking at 6am to prepare for school and heading back home at 3pm. “Nothing really was happening in my life,” she recalls. “I have always been that girl in the back who doesn’t say anything. I thought I couldn’t make a difference because I was too small.”

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She was never quite like the other kids. Her mother, Malena Ernman, is one of Sweden’s most celebrated opera singers. Her father, Svante Thunberg, is an actor and author (named after Svante Arrhenius, the Nobel prize-winning scientist who in 1896 first calculated how carbon dioxide emissions could lead to the greenhouse effect). Greta was exceptionally bright. Four years ago, she was diagnosed with Asperger’s.

“I overthink. Some people can just let thin