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The NYT Helped a Vindictive Teen Destroy a Classmate Who Uttered a Racial Slur
- raidicy 6y agoThis event and the NY Post shaming a sex worker are painting a funny picture of news outlets in my head. Where once it seemed drama and other random internet bs wouldn't even interest a paper, now I see tweets and viral oddities more regularly. Is this purely a result of click-bait/shock news pulling in more readers?
- IndySun 6y agoQuoting random tweets from the public as opinion in news articles (from arson to zebra rearing) has crept in to all news outlets. "Over the garden fence" reporting. Fear is winning.
- leetcrew 6y agoit's the natural progression of "someone's wrong on the internet" syndrome (https://xkcd.com/386/ https://xkcd.com/386/) as more and more people use and care about what happens on the internet. I'd also guess the ratio of effort to page views is especially high with these sorts of stories. the outrage is already happening on twitter/fb/whatever. all you have to do is take some screenshots, summarize them, and maybe add a generic blurb about the greater context. you already know there's an audience, so there's very little risk involved.
- notananthem 6y agoReason and NY Post are both right leaning newspapers. Reason doesn't like racial equity free speech and NYP doesn't think sex work is work. Both are actually practicing cancel culture for those articles.. the irony is delicious
- 93po 6y agoAll social media and news these days are machines designed to manufacture outrage.
- koheripbal 6y agoI would argue that paid news organizations that still maintain a paying subscribership, still do have high-quality reporting. The Wall Street Journal and The Economist are two I use regularly.
- loopz 6y agoNews compete for attention in a free marketplace.
- orf 6y ago> Mixed race teen at predominantly white school has to put up with rife use of racial slurs amount students, ignored by leadership. Seeks well-timed revenge and thus target of revenge has life impacted. Meh. It’s vindictive, don’t get me wrong, but should he have just ignored this forever? I feel kind of bad for the girl, but at the end of the day she said what she said. And maybe that’s a lesson for others.
- notananthem 6y agoI don't feel bad for the girl, its a great opportunity for parents to review what they're instilling in their kids or what they're learning from peers. She learned it from somewhere.
- 93po 6y agoConsidering she was quoting a rap song, it would appear she learned it from rap music
- orf 6y agoAnd which specific song was that?
- krapp 6y agoShe was 15. She was old enough to know what that word means and whether or not you should use it, or quote it from a rap song.
- loopz 6y agoWhich word do you mean?
- imbnwa 6y agoCan you point out where in the article you read that or where you got that information? I just came from reddit where a post about Chinese fishing boats fishing quasi-legally off the coast of Peru has a top comment where someone is seemingly making up a Chinese proverb that magically explains Chinese power projection, so I'm a little iffy
- notananthem 6y agoReason is a right leaning (by media bias) libertarian magazine who loves free speech unless it goes against right wing ideas of who can have free speech. They drank the alt-right kool-aid a little while ago and began to spiral. The student they're trying to cancel-culture in this article is also a teenager who highlighted another student liberally using hate speech?
- leetcrew 6y agobefore we draw an equivalence, maybe we ought to see if the "vindictive teenager" actually gets canceled?
- klyrs 6y agoAh, a good ole cancel war. Which side will win? Does the victor win, or lose? Or does tribal affiliation of the reader determine who's winning, and whether that's virtuous? Or is this just more fuel for the dumpsterfire?
- smt88 6y agoThis headline is a flat-out lie. They know their readers won't actually read the whole NYT article in question, so they shamelessly misrepresent it. NYT is reporting on something that happened and providing context. They interview the girl who got cancelled, which means she gave them permission to use her name and direct quotes. They paint her in a very sympathetic light. They don't demonize her at all. They allow her to repeatedly say that she was young and behaving like a typical thoughtless teenager. > The New York Times has opted to assist a teenager's desperate quest to ruin the life of a young woman who said something stupid when she was 15. So what does Reason want? Should NYT ignore the story altogether, even though it's of public interest (as a microcosm of cancel culture)? Should they write it only from the perspective of the girl who was cancelled? They did what they should have done, which is try to get into the heads of both students. Their attempts to sympathize with the white student will anger some liberals, and their attempts to sympathize with the Black student(s) will anger some conservatives. This is just Reason intentionally ignoring half the article to throw some rage-chum into the water for their readers.
- imbnwa 6y agoReally curious how you're this deeply downvoted without a reply
- gremlinsinc 6y agoTIL: Going to community college is synonymous with ruining your life. Seriously, the worse penalty this girl gets is going to community college. Which we really need to stop this elitist bull-shit of degrading community college as something "beneath us". Other people really did have their lives ruined this year: Died of covid, lost both parents, lost all income, became homeless, died by gunshots from police while sleeping. Somehow, being forced to attend community college (well it isn't fascism, she's not being forced), is hardly a 'ruined life'. Suggesting otherwise, is almost if not more racist and elitist than the girl's slur.
- gnusty_gnurc 6y ago> Which we really need to stop this elitist bull-shit of degrading community college as something "beneath us". I call BS on you! It's almost assuredly the overrefined and effete that would argue this; they've got theirs and they'll justify whatever tragedy befalls a person with a certain sanctimonious, boundless, superior empathy. You go to community college first.
- sgammon 6y agotrash article, reason.com as for the cheerleader, well well well, look what showed up. it’s your own bad decisions!
- Simulacra 6y agoSomething just seems awfully cruel about all of this.