And now, because everything apparently has to be a thing these days, here is the latest thing the interwhatzis and ESPN is all over as a Major News Story.
Heavens! You mean Josh Allen, a prospective big-time NFL quarterback, tweeted some racial slurs and other offensive nonsense five or six years ago, when he was in high school? And not even a senior in high school?
Well, this is big news (excuse me, BIG NEWS). Or at least it is for those of us not inclined to step back and consider a few cogent points:
1. To reiterate, Allen was a high school kid. And not even a senior high school kid. High school kids are frequently nitwits who do dumb stuff.
2. It's highly unlikely Josh Allen is still a nitwit who does dumb stuff, having been through four years of college. Four years of college frequently cures people of nitwit-ery.
3. After the NFL's exhaustive, and at times absurd, vetting process, there isn't a whit of corroborative evidence that Allen is some sort of stealth bigot. There is abundant evidence he is, in fact, what he is: A mature young man and not still a high school nitwit.
So why is everybody talking about this?
Simple, boys and girls: Because they've got 24 hours of programming to fill, and they have to talk about something.
And because they, too, are frequently nitwits.
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