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The Covington students are not likely to have their summary executions by police officers justified, they will not be separated from their parents for the crime of seeking asylum, they are not disproportionately more likely to be charged as adults for crimes they have committed as children, they are not likely to be stalked in the night and murdered by grown men who become folk heroes for acting out the violent racist fantasies of others. The president’s campaign merchandise remains a favorite of white-supremacist groups, and his name remains a racist taunt for those seeking to antagonize people of color of any age. None of this has changed, and the disgraceful overreaction of some liberals does not change it. If the right extended the sympathy the Covington students are now receiving to children who don’t remind them of their own, this would be a more just society.
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The original contains lots of links to materials expanding on the examples cited.
The point is that over-reaction to the Covington students, and over-correction of that reaction, are both wrong.