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She's a future "police brutality" victim who commits a minor crime, gets stopped, and then belligerently refuses to cooperate with officers, gets tazed, and makes a huge deal about it in the media.
This was her problem. If you're elected Student Body President, you're elected to represent everybody on campus, not just the people you like and see eye-to-eye with. That she was openly biased against a large chunk of the student body and saw no problem with speaks volumes about her mindset.
Look, i'm not gonna argue about it. It's not a big deal to me. But that statement wasn't offensive at all. It was truthful more than anything else.
Look, i'm not gonna argue about it. It's not a big deal to me. But that statement wasn't offensive at all. It was truthful more than anything else.
LOL it's not offensive at all.
Unless of course it's a statement about blacks, or muslims, then hellll no, let's call Jesse Jackson and the NAACP, ACLU, and President Obama and go to town on those bigots!!!!
This was her problem. If you're elected Student Body President, you're elected to represent everybody on campus, not just the people you like and see eye-to-eye with. That she was openly biased against a large chunk of the student body and saw no problem with speaks volumes about her mindset.
Keep in mind that this statement was to Buzzfeed after she resigned over the Instagram furor (not that Buzzfeed makes it terribly clear in their article). From what I can tell, she was required to resign over the Instagram photo that heads the article and its caption about how she is dressed as a "Lawrenceville boi." I don't see the problem with that photo and caption.
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Reason: It was Buzzfeed, not Gawker
Keep in mind that this statement was to Gawker after she resigned over the Instagram furor (not that Gawker makes it terribly clear in their article). From what I can tell, she was required to resign over the Instagram photo that heads the article and its caption about how she is dressed as a "Lawrenceville boi." I don't see the problem with that photo and caption.
If she had on a sombrero would you have a problem? Such crap. She was stereotyping, a girl who graduated from the most prestigious, exclusive high school in the USA.
I have a son who graduated from there and another who may be there. It was, of course, majority White but not overwhelmingly so a decade ago.
The article I read put the White demographics at around 80% 10 years ago, it's now barely 50%. People were complaining about that and they wrote a letter to the school.
If she had on a sombrero would you have a problem? Such crap. She was stereotyping, a girl who graduated from the most prestigious, exclusive high school in the USA.
If she was white, had a fake afro, some black face paint, and was holding two fried chicken drumsticks, this would be national news, and every liberal on this forum would be asking for a 10 year jail sentence.
Truthfully, i don't see what she said that was offensive at all. I can see how what she did manage to say ruffled some feathers, but that's about it.
But in any case, i'm not gonna get up in arms about nonsense at some prep school. Besides, she seems pretty happy with what she did or said and doesn't seem to mind resigning. Guess she feels that it was worth it.
I actually don't find another wrong with what she said nor do I find anything wrong with the people complaining about the over emphasis about diversity. People are too wound up these days.
If she had on a sombrero would you have a problem? Such crap. She was stereotyping, a girl who graduated from the most prestigious, exclusive high school in the USA.
What's funny is her bashing on the other rich students but her family is able to afford about $50k a year in tuition, which has been confirmed in other stories about this.
I came from a poor immigrant family, I don't think my parents even made $50k a year combined...at least not early on in high school.
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