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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The person who took the video and ruined the lives of some extraordinary immature drunk young men should have the courage to identify themselves. Yes they are idiots and likely racist. But public shaming in front of 300 million seems like too much.[/quote]

Yeah, right.  He's the bad guy.  Guys like this never end up doing anyone any harm.[/quote]

They also end up growing up.[/quote]

Which just means they'll be more discreet with their bigotry[/quote]

eh.  I personally feel sorry for any dumbass young kid who gets labeled anything, even if apparently deserved, at the age of 19 when drunk and immature.  Social media sucks.[/quote]

Honest question.  Were you one of the many posters who declared Trayvon Martin was a thug based on his facebook postings?  He was between the ages of 15 and 17 for many of his postings.

BTW- I don't think all the guys on that bus were drunk.  The voices were clear and not slurred.  The ringleader did not appear drunk from what I could view.  Somebody had to drive that bus.  All college kids do not drink to excess.  All nineteen year olds are not immature.  Maybe not in the flush DMV, but at nineteen, many kids are financing their own lifestyles, college degrees, going off to war, working full-time jobs, have their own kids, etc.  [/quote]

Have you ever been to a frat event? They hire a driver to drive. It's like one of those large tourist busses you can rent for group events. And I'd bet money that they started drinking before they ever stepped foot on the bus.[/quote]

Has anyone else found themselves wondering the race of the bus driver, and whether these kids even knew it at the time?[/quote]

reading between the lines....you think the driver was black? How racist of you to make that assumption.[/quote]

Actually, I didn't have any assumption about the race of the driver, the thought just popped into my head. It wasn't even the primary focus of the thought -- the second part was. I'm wondering how blind these kids were in their belief that this was okay that they assumed everyone around them would be okay with it. The bus driver came to mind for me because that was the one person who truly was not part of the scene voluntarily. If it was a chartered bus, he was just given an assignment without knowing that he might be subjected to this. Obviously it would be that much more egregious if the bus driver were black, but really it just goes to the deeply-rooted ignorance and racism of these kids, that they wouldn't even think about how the bus driver might feel about that, or perhaps thought him so far beneath them that his opinion didn't even matter.

But perhaps your own bias is showing that you made that assumption yourself.[/quote]

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