America's prestigious Harvard University has rescinded its admission offer to one of the survivors of the February 2018 shooting massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School outside, Miami, Florida over online racism and sexism.

18-year old Kyle Kashuv is not one of the teens campaigning for gun control on TV or at rock concerts around the US.  He became a conservative celebrity because of his activism for gun ownership after the shooting, during which a former student came to the school and opened fire killing 17 students and teachers.  That sort of extra-curricular activity and good test scores got him accepted by Harvard.

But the Ivy League school cancelled that after his online behavior became public.  In a leaked Google Doc - a forum that teens often use to escape online monitoring - Kashuv repeatedly uses the "N word", and demeans a female classmate by saying she only "goes for ni**erjocks", suggesting that she would prefer such black men sexually.  The online conversation happened when he Kashuv was 16 years old.

While conservative pundits decried Harvard for that ol' demon "political correctness" and Kashuv complained that the school wouldn't allow a young conservative to apologize for past misdeeds, they glossed over the role the far right played.  When the offensive chat became public after being published in the Huffington Post in May, a coalition of fringe right internet personalities began a campaign to pressure Harvard to un-admit Kashuv - one even starting an online petition.  This wasn't out of any concern for the offensive, racist chat:  the far-right recently grew disenchanted with Kashuv, seeing hem as a sell-out to the Republican Party establishment.

Harvard hasn't commented.  But two years ago, Harvard rescinded ten other students' admissions after it found out they were participating in a Facebook group that involved swapping racist and anti-Semitic memes.  Unlike Kashuv, they weren't friends with top right-wing pundits or have 200,000 Twitter followers.