NYT article on LCPS high school re: racism

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:“ Are you willfully obtuse?! Several posters, including yourself, are defending this girl. You are desperately trying to shift the blame off her and anywhere else. The person responsible for this girl saying the n word is herself. She said it happily. She posted it on Tic Toc. Rappers didn’t make this girl say the n word. In fact you don’t even know if she listens to rap. All you know is that she uses a vile, racist slur in her daily vocabulary. She’s so comfortable using the word that she recorded herself and posted it for everyone to see.”

I’m not PP but you are treating this kid as if: 1) she was a grown adult when it happened and 2) she hurled the word as a slur to hurt someone. Neither is true. No one is saying it I just fine for her to use it. What many of us are saying is that kids do dumb stuff and this falls in that category - not the “she’s evil and deserves serious harm” category.

And i never said she was evil. However, unlike you and too many other posters I’m not giving her a pass and blaming everyone around her. She isn’t an 8 year old. She was 15 and that is old enough to understand the slur. The issue is she is too comfortable using a slur. Doesn’t matter in what text or tone. Is it ever alright to use a gay slur? Or an anti Semitic slur?

[Anonymous]

She did not use it as a slur. She ignorantly used a word that she should not have but it was not used/meant by her in a derogatory way. It was also when she was a freshman in HS!! I cannot get over how people think a freshman doing this stupid thing should mean the consequence of being dropped from the college she intended to go to. That is just so wildly disproportionate. Continuing to try to tar and feather kids for doing dumb sh*t when young puts the focus on the wrong thing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:She did not use it as a slur. She ignorantly used a word that she should not have but it was not used/meant by her in a derogatory way. It was also when she was a freshman in HS!! I cannot get over how people think a freshman doing this stupid thing should mean the consequence of being dropped from the college she intended to go to. That is just so wildly disproportionate. Continuing to try to tar and feather kids for doing dumb sh*t when young puts the focus on the wrong thing.

There is NO other way to use it. It’s a slur.

[Anonymous]

I think there is room for a lot of folks to be wrong here, but let's at least try to have a fact-based conversation.

She didn't post the clip to Tik Tok. She sent it as a SnapChat to a single friend, who then forwarded it around. This is a GREAT lesson for any kid tempted to send a provocative video to "just one person."

There's actually no evidence that these two knew each other, nor that the young woman was actively racist, either in general or toward the young man who ended up posting the video. Maybe she was, as she seems a little spoiled and clueless, but there's nothing showing these two had any interaction before all of this.

This wasn't vengeance at her. It was vengeance at white people writ large, in a system where he and his Black peers had tried to effect change through official sources and been stymied by bureaucratic indifference.

Basically, we need to spend way more time looking at the system in which this happened rather than the individual players in this particular episode.

[Anonymous]

And the players include the parents who raised them who absolutely bear culpability in this ^

[Anonymous]

What was her horribly racist George Floyd post?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What was her horribly racist George Floyd post?

Um, my understanding is that she posted in support of the protests, and the young man called her a hypocrite because of her use of the n-word in a Snapchat video four years earlier.

[Anonymous]

When you say the N word as a white person, you are literally demeaning an entire race of people. If you’re a grown adult raising kids and you don’t know or understand that, you are a problem.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:When you say the N word as a white person, you are literally demeaning an entire race of people. If you’re a grown adult raising kids and you don’t know or understand that, you are a problem.

Our kids are smarter than us. Smarter than this.

[Anonymous]

This strikes me a more toxic masculinity than a noble pointing out that white folks in LC are racist (which, true.) We have an 18 year old man basically ruining a 15 year old girl for nothing but his own benefit. She shouldn't have used the n word on a snap to a friend, but his behavior borders on psychopathic.

Likely she will be fine in a few years...he's probably going to be worse off. Who the heck would hire this guy? He's unemployable.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:When you say the N word as a white person, you are literally demeaning an entire race of people. If you’re a grown adult raising kids and you don’t know or understand that, you are a problem.

No you aren't.

Also that is so racist that it implies that an entire race of people can't distinguish between singular and plural.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This strikes me a more toxic masculinity than a noble pointing out that white folks in LC are racist (which, true.) We have an 18 year old man basically ruining a 15 year old girl for nothing but his own benefit. She shouldn't have used the n word on a snap to a friend, but his behavior borders on psychopathic.

Likely she will be fine in a few years...he's probably going to be worse off. Who the heck would hire this guy? He's unemployable.

He lives in a $1.2 million dollar house in Loudoun county so I’m sure he’ll be fine too.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:When you say the N word as a white person, you are literally demeaning an entire race of people. If you’re a grown adult raising kids and you don’t know or understand that, you are a problem.

No you aren't.

Also that is so racist that it implies that an entire race of people can't distinguish between singular and plural.

Omg shut up . You and your bratty kids can say it all you want but people get to decide how to respond to you when you do.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:She did not use it as a slur. She ignorantly used a word that she should not have but it was not used/meant by her in a derogatory way. It was also when she was a freshman in HS!! I cannot get over how people think a freshman doing this stupid thing should mean the consequence of being dropped from the college she intended to go to. That is just so wildly disproportionate. Continuing to try to tar and feather kids for doing dumb sh*t when young puts the focus on the wrong thing.

There is NO other way to use it. It’s a slur.

there obviously is another way to use it. it’s constantly used.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:When you say the N word as a white person, you are literally demeaning an entire race of people. If you’re a grown adult raising kids and you don’t know or understand that, you are a problem.

No you aren't.

Also that is so racist that it implies that an entire race of people can't distinguish between singular and plural.

Omg shut up . You and your bratty kids can say it all you want but people get to decide how to respond to you when you do.

What is it that we teach children?

Oh yeah, sticks and stones....