The best part is this: > "In interviews, current and former students of color described an environment rife with racial insensitivity, including casual uses of

The best part is this: > "In interviews, current and former students of color described an environment rife with racial insensitivity, including casual uses of slurs," notes Levin. "A report commissioned last year by the school district documented a pattern of school leaders ignoring the widespread use of racial slurs by both students and teachers, fostering a 'growing sense of despair' among students of color, some of whom faced disproportionate disciplinary measures compared with white students." > Levin connects the outcry from aggrieved students to the broader Black Lives Matter movement and protests that occurred this summer following the deaths of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor at the hands of police. But nowhere does his article reckon with a very basic fact: 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. The entire place is rampant with racial bullshit and the article writer is like, "But this poor girl's life is ruined!" They then equivocate the experience of racial prejudice with cheating on a math test, amongst other relative frivolities: > Or better yet, he could have simply not written this story, which concerns bad but by no means uncommon teenager behavior. If Groves had cheated on her math test, or planted a kick-me sign on a rival's back, would this constitute national news? No crime was committed; the utterance of the word did not even take place at school. The only thing novel about this situation is that it attracted the national media's attention. Like, you just got finished explaining there's a whole big racial problem at the joint, confirmed by third-parties and yet we're still talking about how there's "no crime" and "it didn't happen at school"... like, what? Amazing feats of hand-waving going on. I'd take the writer more seriously if they gave any kind of weight to the racist experiences occuring there, but those just aren't actual problems to them. Like, where do you think racist behavior comes from? This entire culture of looking the other way when casual racism is happening is a massive problem, and I've seen this stuff from educated, affluent people (whom apparently are also the subjects of the article). You can't really talk about how society is crumbling when you don't give two shits about recognizing the qualms at hand.