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Elite Brooklyn private school has been thrown into chaos by a racist video filmed and circulated by students
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I grew up in Indiana outside Indianapolis (class of '03) and in my 4-star suburban middle and high schools kids were aggressively using racist, misogynistic and homophobic language all the times. Hell, they even bullied the mentally handicapped kids and got away with it.
I think it was probably always there...now everyone has a camera in their pocket though, so it's on full display.
I teach 15 year olds. It's the internet. 4chan, youtubers, memes, etc. It's extremely complex, but I'd argue a lot of it started with gamergate. There's a huge movement to radicalize young white men on the internet.
Important edit: Not say that it hasn't always been there, just saying why it's getting more attention and seems to be more widespread lately.
These are young women, though. Are they going to these sites? Those sites seem heavily male. Maybe there's spillover.
It's not just that. Kids these days have many more avenues to ingest and get influenced by racist beliefs.
You'd think they'd at least not record themselves doing it. Zero brain cells in their heads. Punishment for things like this need to be severe and across the country. There was some other video just yesterday of someone in blackface saying the n-word. Like c'mon! Stop this shit immediately!
Let me just say that I'm not shocked all that much here. I'll leave it there.
Hopefully they get it together because the school is - or at least has been in the past - better than that shit.
Hopefully they get it together because the school is - or at least has been in the past - better than that shit.
But its so easy. Every girl uses thoses black charcoal face masks and snapchat. How could they resist such a hilarious combination? I'd feel bad for them if they weren't racist assholes. Its almost like dumb racist entrapment at this point.
This sort of behavior is pretty much the norm in schools like this I'd imagine. I went to a fairly expensive high school like the one described here and was pretty much 100% white. Racism was already rampant then, there just wasn't any Snapchat or instagram to leak it...
Racism won't die with the older generation.
Actually I'm not sure if it ever will.
And if it does, it will take muuuuuuuuuuuuuch longer than we think.
Actually I'm not sure if it ever will.
And if it does, it will take muuuuuuuuuuuuuch longer than we think.
Nah I respectfully disagree, people don't magically become racist because of websites. It's the parents. Your personality and moral compass are moulded, in part, by them. If their parents objectify certain people, their kids pick up that behaviour and follow suit. Couple that bigotry with privilege and entitlement and you get these idiots mugging for the camera without any self awareness or fear of repercussion.
The USA is a very young country, born through oppression and enslavement of minorities. All these threads on Era lately is us still seeing the aftermath of that birth. These kids great-grandparents owned slaves. That's how young the country is, and how recently the slave trade was outlawed. Bigotry isn't going to filter and get weaker through the generations quickly, it's going to take a long time. And unfortunately the current administration isn't going to implement policies to make the country more progressive, improve the education system, make cops face punishment for their actions, etc, etc. The exact opposite in fact. :|
racism is traditional like our holidays and names of our streets. Yes, the internet is a very effective tool for radicalizing but racist mocking like this is American tradition that has never really gone away. and it's definitely not just "low class" whites who embrace the tradition of racism; it's America
It fucking sucks though. For the vast majority of American history, Black people have just being trying to survive and this stuff is what we have to deal with on top of life itself being hard.
It fucking sucks though. For the vast majority of American history, Black people have just being trying to survive and this stuff is what we have to deal with on top of life itself being hard.
I guess there's always some desire for younger generations to be edgy and countercultural. Not being racist is PC now, so teens choose to be racist to "stick it to the man"? As fucked up as that is.
Heh, I also went to an elite Brooklyn private school where an extremely similar incident occurred. Was half expecting to see that schools name show up.
My elementary classes in the mid 90s in Tucson were definitely filled with proto-Nazis and lost causer kids
https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/education/ny-metro-poly-prep-blackface-20190119-story.html
the editied video snippet is fubar
idk what the original includes
For 100s of years, there have been numerous accounts of tes doing racist shit all over
Internet + racist president + a political party that doesn't denounce it. These dumbshits just keep trying to outdo one another.
On the other hand, those avenues have also provided opportunities to be able to expose these incidents on a much wider, and more public scale to be scrutinized by not just their racist friends, but everyone.
I'm in my early thirties, and the one time I got into a fight in high school was when a kid came up to me during PE and asked me, seriously (or jokingly, don't care), if my skin color washed off when I showered, as if my skin naturally secreted dirt.
This was in Los Angeles.
This ain't new.
This was in Los Angeles.
This ain't new.
There's many answers to this question that all maybe valid but it's important to know that racism never disappeared.
It has always been there, but I think once Trump got elected, everything just got heightened in a sense. Someone needs to just hit the reset button on humanity.
Being racist used to be a good way to find yourself with no friends. What a slide into shit this last decade has been.
Yes. The catalyzing event for the private education boom was desegregation. It is an indelible component of the history.
I graduated in 94 from a very nice suburb outside of Philadelphia. Racism was looked down upon where I grew up.
Well that's complete bullshit.
When we lived in South Carolina, my son attended an amazing private school that was not religious and super liberal
Yup, and that fact should be apparent to anyone who has attended one or worked in one.
Racism was always there.
When I grew up in Germany, in the '90s, it was frowned upon to be racist (at least in my part of East-Germany). That doesn't mean that there were no racists, just that they weren't openly racist. They didn't want to be associated with skinheads, who were seen as imbecile no-gooders.
Don't know how it is now in the schools.
When I grew up in Germany, in the '90s, it was frowned upon to be racist (at least in my part of East-Germany). That doesn't mean that there were no racists, just that they weren't openly racist. They didn't want to be associated with skinheads, who were seen as imbecile no-gooders.
Don't know how it is now in the schools.
Blaming racism amongst the youth on the internet is some short sighted poppycock. The internet has just allowed the racism that's always been there to be more easily propagated and publicized.
Teens have never had a problem with racism. It's always been cool to punch down. It doesn't matter the time period teens have always made racist "jokes" with their friends it's just now that you can have hundreds of "friends" on social media the likely hood of one of them ratting you out increases.
I went to both public (mixed) and private (mostly white) schools in LA and never experienced this type of shit.
