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I am allways fascinated by people who just have to do things that will cause them a lot of problems.
I get that they lack empathy, that much is clear, but where is their sense of self preservation?
Part of me is envious that they have so few problems that they deliberately make more for themselves.
What, you're trying to tell us that you were never so comfortable with your station in life that you uh... printed off scrabble tiles to make matching necklaces that spell out a racial slur as a teen??? Geeze what a tragically empty life you must have had.
Compared to others, my teens were what they would call empty, but I had a good and calm time in my teens.
I did some things as a teen that would absolutely humiliate me today if blasted on the internet. I even bullied people as a teen, so we’re talking real dirtbag stuff.
Still. I never was even slightly tempted to take a pic with friends and a slur around my neck, so I guess I have that going for me.
Oklahoma the prototypical red state shithole.
Where if the black community becomes peacefully prosperous, it's too much for the numerous white inferiority-complex shitkickers to take, they boil and fester like an infection until one night they swarm like a biblical plague of locusts to burn and raze the black community to the ground.
Hollow and ignorant, lazy and angry white madness is synonymous with republican-voting states.
Most of my experience in Oklahoma was in Norman, a fantastic college town. When I would go outside of the Norman/Moore/OKC area to visit the families of my fellow students, it was surprising how much and how quickly things changed.
I mean, I know the dichotomy between rural and urban is everywhere in this nation, but it seemed more stark somehow.
My high school from a red state was like 99% white and also 99% conservative and had this attitude of racism is bad but also racism doesn't exist anymore then proceeds to make racist jokes and support racist politics (including students who were very academically focused), although it never evolved to anything as stupid as taking a group photo holding up a racial slur. There was a lot of stuff from there though that seemed normal at the time then after I left realized how fucked it was, and I know of other people who think the same thing.
although it never evolved to anything as stupid as taking a group photo holding up a racial slur
The fundamental difference between the Conservative Citizens Councils and the Klu Klux Klan was the veneer of political correctness the former utilized to make the violence they doled out via the police appear legitimate.
There was a lot of stuff from there though that seemed normal at the time then after I left realized how fucked it was, and I know of other people who think the same thing.
Lots of code words and turns of phrase, intended to alienate certain kinds of people and entitle others. Dog whistles are very popular in conservative communities.
We recently had a high school marching band get selected to perform at the Sugar Bowl in New Orleans. After the students raised $15k to pay for the trip, the Superintendent shut it down on the grounds that "New Orleans isn't a safe place for teenagers". Why was our city safe but the majority African American city dangerous? Who can say?
Imagine this photo popping up whenever any one of these idiots tries to get a job.
That long haired kid looks like he means it the most
Not to defend racists or imply this is acceptable in any way but everybody does stupid shit when they're a teenager and something like this shouldn't haunt them for the rest of their working lives provided they mature into well-adjusted adults.
The bigger problem is the poorly-adjusted adults in the communities that raise these kids and teach them to be hateful towards people with harmless differences.
The letters they are holding were provided by the school for some kind of event. It seems like these kids thought they could be funny by spelling out a no no word. To any rational thinking human, this isn't funny, but teenagers aren't rational think humans. That's pretty much the definition of puberty.
But it's 2024 and kids post everything online, so now it's gone viral and everyone judges them as racist scum that deserve to never get a job in their lives. Off of a single photo.
Some community members on social media said the students depicted are football players for Tishomingo High School and that the photo was taken as part of spirit week for the school. On Monday, students were encouraged to wear a black shirt to receive a random Scrabble tile to attach to themselves.
So the school gave teenagers individual letters to wear, not thinking that they would spell out offensive words? Sounds like dumb kids being dumb kids.
I'll bet $100 right now that they also spelled every curse word under the sun as well.
There is a huge difference between a curse word and a slur.
Yep, agreed, but these are teenagers. I did not have much foresight as a teenager, either.
Teenagers today do. I guarantee there are thousands of kids in that school who know better and would never do this. Being young doesn't make you racist
Yeah, teenagers are often pretty fucking stupid.
Dumb as I was at that age, I can’t imagine agreeing to do something like that or making friends with anyone who would.
Don't minimize and normalize this shit. My teenager curses like a sailor but she would be horrified to say a racial slur like that. A swear word and bigotry are not the same thing
Members of the football team? And that sport usually has the best and brightest of high school students. I’m shocked, I tell you.
Guy 1 and 3 fucked up big time, now their display of love for Christmas spices is ruined. What were they thinking
Guys it was a mixup. They meant to say GINGER.
Filthy, disgusting, subhuman gingers.
As a Texan, in a purple area, this doesn't surprise me from Oklahoma.
I had the displeasure of driving through OK to get to my late father in law's hospital bed before he passed.
I ended up blowing through a toll entry because they didn't accept paper money or cards. Just coins. I went to the little building to try to pay my way, and it appeared to be abandoned.
Mother fuckers, I can buy a legal variant of weed with my fucking watch. Coins? Join this century please.
oklahoma. drop it into a blender and start over.
The punishment fit the crime. Let the picture follow them forever and let their fellow students take out the frustration of losing homecoming on them.
I was really hoping this was photoshop. It is not. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/tishomingo-public-schools-respond-to-viral-image-of-six-students-displaying-racial-slur/ar-AA1qRmlj
Why did they cancel the entire football game and punish the entire school, instead of just disciplining these kids?
Schools usually punish the person who gets bullied while protecting the bully so of course they don't know how to handle this.
Why not? It’s just a moronic football game and maybe it’ll teach them consequences.
Because they want to normalize the use of racial slurs yet again, separating it from "real racism".
That long haired guy thinks he’s the hard G. They should cancel the entire season or kick those dudes off the team. Their choice.
