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Gainesville High School Students' Racist YouTube Rant Forces Girls To Leave School

Unrelated to the actual incident but in the article.... a Minnesota high school had a homecoming event called a "Wigger Day". Wow...just wow....
 
In their defense they just got done listening to their representative Corrine Brown give a speech on the floor of the house of reps.

I keed I keed.
 
I don't think I've ever seen comments coming so fast as they are on that youtube video right now.
 
shurato said:
Unrelated to the actual incident but in the article.... a Minnesota high school had a homecoming event called a "Wigger Day". Wow...just wow....
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According to liberals, anything anti-white is not racist.
And if the school and students were OK with it, I dont see the problem. Its dumb, but no one was offended. Of course they will have difficulty when they leave school and enter the world.
 
Hayabusa Rider said:
I'm not clear on why they are no longer students.
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I'm under the impression that they were concerned about death threats and harassment.

I don't see how the school can punish them in any way for something they did off of school property. The First Amendment applies when you're not on school grounds.
 
WhipperSnapper said:
I'm under the impression that they were concerned about death threats and harassment.

I don't see how the school can punish them in any way for something they did off of school property. The First Amendment applies when you're not on school grounds.
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Schools have a right to discipline students for off campus activities outside of school hours too. At least in California they do. Get into a fight off campus a mile from school and an hour after school ends, you can be expelled.
 
DCal430 said:
Schools have a right to discipline students for off campus activities outside of school hours too. At least in California they do. Get into a fight off campus a mile from school and an hour after school ends, you can be expelled.
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Offensive speech is Constitutionally protected. A public school which decides that it's policies supersede the First Amendment does so at it's peril. If the school kicked the girls out they had better hope a lawyer doesn't come calling.
 
Hayabusa Rider said:
Offensive speech is Constitutionally protected. A public school which decides that it's policies supersede the First Amendment does so at it's peril. If the school kicked the girls out they had better hope a lawyer doesn't come calling.
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It's been happening more often that schools will punish students for IOC campus behavior including social media posts. I'm not sure the legality has been worked through yet. Similar to videotaping the police.

In this case it sounds like the girls left school due to the reaction of their classmates. Which they brought on themselves IMHO
 
Paratus said:
It's been happening more often that schools will punish students for IOC campus behavior including social media posts. I'm not sure the legality has been worked through yet. Similar to videotaping the police.

In this case it sounds like the girls left school due to the reaction of their classmates. Which they brought on themselves IMHO
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If they left because they got grief from their peers then I they got what they deserve, however it's hard to imagine if burning a cross is acceptable legally that two girls off campus would be denied First Amendment rights. Sure they deserve all the ridicule they get, however that is completely separate from Constitutional issues.
 
Hayabusa Rider said:
Offensive speech is Constitutionally protected. A public school which decides that it's policies supersede the First Amendment does so at it's peril. If the school kicked the girls out they had better hope a lawyer doesn't come calling.
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Yep. The article doesn't make it at all clear what actually happened. If the girls' peers are ridiculing them or they feel ostracized, that's simply the result of their own actions and I have no problem with that. If the school tries to kick them out or otherwise punish them, I have a big problem with that because like their speech or not, they have a first amendment right to free speech and if I were them I'd be hiring a lawyer and suing the school. The article is terrible though (no surprise, it's huffington fail) so we don't really get the details.
 
HomerJS said:
My faith in the people of the United States is improving. These dopey girls got what they deserved, ostracized and ridiculed. The less tolerance we show for this kind of stuff the more the nation will be the better for it.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/02/21/gainesville-high-school-s_n_1290929.html
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So the families got death threats in response to something extremely stupid two teenage girls (not exactly a group known for well-considered actions) posted on youtube, and your faith in the US is improving? I agree that the comments were offensive, but death threats? Sounds like something that might happen in some Middle Eastern country.
 
Hayabusa Rider said:
If they left because they got grief from their peers then I they got what they deserve, however it's hard to imagine if burning a cross is acceptable legally that two girls off campus would be denied First Amendment rights. Sure they deserve all the ridicule they get, however that is completely separate from Constitutional issues.
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So we toss out the entire anti-bullying curriculum and programs when it would require applying the standards they teach to 2 girls who made inappropriate comments? Unless you are actually employed by a school system you may not be aware that the anti-bullying efforts are a booming business in education much like diversity training or sexual harassment training are in the business world. Allowing students to harass fellow students to the point of forcing them to withdraw from a school most definitely goes against everything they put out in programs like Olweus.
 
From the article:

Just last summer, 18-year-old Kymberly Wimberly of Arkansas filed suit against McGehee Secondary School after four years of nearly straight-As, honors and Advanced Placement classes had placed her at the top of her graduating class. The suit alleges that though she earned the marks, the school denied her valedictorian status because she is black.
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Yeah, like THAT's a real name...

😀
 
Linflas said:
So we toss out the entire anti-bullying curriculum and programs when it would require applying the standards they teach to 2 girls who made inappropriate comments? Unless you are actually employed by a school system you may not be aware that the anti-bullying efforts are a booming business in education much like diversity training or sexual harassment training are in the business world. Allowing students to harass fellow students to the point of forcing them to withdraw from a school most definitely goes against everything they put out in programs like Olweus.
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I'm not sure why anyone would be forced to keep their disapproval to themselves. If the girls left because they felt like idiots because they were, then that's on them. If they were threatened then that would be unacceptable because we've gone into the "swinging the fist beyond the end of the nose".

The reality is that we really don't know what's going on and we're speculating.
 
boomerang said:
Here's some more racist talk.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=f3PJF0YE-x4
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Real talk.

A guy made a video reply to her video explaining why it wasn't racist. He just so happened to be black as well and reiterated that there is a difference between normal black people who are active members of society, and the ones who choose to separate themselves from society.

Nothing racist about that. I've been in line at the grocery store and seen a lady using her food stamp card to get cash back and then buying god knows what with it.

People need to stop crying racism everytime something racial pops up.

Just look at that ESPN guy who was suspended for using a well known saying in reference to 'linsanity'. Lots of people have chinks in their armor... some don't. Move on. Learn the difference between racial and racist. Learn what context is.
 
airdata said:
Real talk.

A guy made a video reply to her video explaining why it wasn't racist. He just so happened to be black as well and reiterated that there is a difference between normal black people who are active members of society, and the ones who choose to separate themselves from society.

Nothing racist about that. I've been in line at the grocery store and seen a lady using her food stamp card to get cash back and then buying god knows what with it.

People need to stop crying racism everytime something racial pops up.

Just look at that ESPN guy who was suspended for using a well known saying in reference to 'linsanity'. Lots of people have chinks in their armor... some don't. Move on. Learn the difference between racial and racist. Learn what context is.
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I don't know why people have a hard time understanding the concept of context? "beloved patriot in the armour" when describing weaknesses in the military not racist. "beloved patriot in the armour" when describing the play of Jeremy Lin, racist.

Those girls were just trying to get internet famous by being hateful. They had no clue society would object.
 
HomerJS said:
My faith in the people of the United States is improving. These dopey girls got what they deserved, ostracized and ridiculed. The less tolerance we show for this kind of stuff the more the nation will be the better for it.
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What makes your lack of tolerance any better then the girls in the video?
 
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