#RememberItsPublic

If you have a public Twitter at this point, you’re a brave — or stupid — soul.

We’re a few years deep into this grand social experiment we’re calling Twitter, and it’s clear we’re all going to mess up at some point.

The latest victim to social media stupidity is now-former Ball State Student Body President Malachi Randolph, who “was stressed and frustrated with his boss, who is Asian.”

A lot of us are stressed. A lot of us get frustrated with our bosses. Many of us may even have bosses who are Asian.

But a lot of us probably view our bosses as our bosses, and when we get frustrated with them, it’s usually not because they’re of Asian descent.

That wasn’t true for young Malachi.

Randolph, stressed and frustrated, took to his Twitter to expound so eloquently that “It’s so hard not to let national pride turn into arrogance, when arguing with a Chinese person #Americaisbest.”

“I hate when Chinese people make me write emails in Asian speak. They think they know English better than me #childish,” he continued, apparently without any sense of irony.

Randolph has since resigned in disgrace, presumably to have an awkward conversation with his boss, “who is Asian.”

Now, here’s the thing — people, immature college students included, are allowed to say whatever they want on Twitter. They just need to be prepared to face the real world repercussions.

Back in the day, you had to speculate what skeletons might hang in peoples’ closets, or what their dark side was.

Today, thanks to Twitter, they broadcast and hashtag it for us.

Anthony Weiner tweets pictures of his Anthony Weiner. Do you remember back in the good old days when we had to actually do the investigative work on sex scandals ourselves?

Imagine the Lewinsky memes we missed out on.

Or Marilyn Monroe subtweeting JFK about his poor performance in bed — in the middle of the Cuban Missile Crisis. Imagine the gold we could have seen on our Twitter feeds.

“Thirteen Days? More like thirteen seconds.” — @realmarilyn

Benedict Arnold would have gotten drunk one night and retweeted King George III and saved us all a lot of pain and feelings of betrayal and heartache.

One of the Roman Senators would have probably accidentally mentioned they were trying to kill Caesar, and Brutus would have been at the very least unfollowed.

We could have stopped Chris Brown from ever happening.

Randolph — and whoever else — is allowed to think, and for the most part, say whatever he want.

But social networking, when unlocked and open, makes the private become public.  

And, as it should be, Randolph didn’t face any legal or academic repercussions. We just all know he’s a giant tool, and that’s what’s great about Twitter.

­— opinion@idsnews.com
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