Interesting, that's where my wife went to school (we don't live in NC anymore). It sounds kind of ridiculous, but I have heard stories about kids being overtly racist in a school setting, which is apparently okay now.
It's not okay now, I just think it's being reported more now. "Kid writes N word in bathroom stall at local high school" wasn't a story a story a year ago, but now that the national conversation is focusing around Trump, and racism, and xenophobia, those stories get published and broadcast. bfv below linked a story from Minnesota, where I live, and I don't think that is acceptable by any means. The vast majority of people don't. We would have never heard that story a year ago, but if we were to look at all middle and high school bathrooms, I'm sure we could find plenty of edgy kids who wrote the N word on something, or drew a swastika, etc. It's entirely wrong, no disagreement there. I just think it's another one of those things that's going to be over-reported now.I have heard stories about kids being overtly racist in a school setting, which is apparently okay now.
So we shouldn't call people out for this kind of thing?I just think it's another one of those things that's going to be over-reported now.
Said nothing of the sort. I was only replying to the "Apparently this is okay now" comment, like kids never did this shit before. It's not "okay now", because it was being investigated and being taken VERY seriously by the school. It was just that sentiment of "Well Trump is president I guess it's okay to be racist now" type part that is kind of annoying, you know? Yeah, call it out. Everyone should. I do. It was just that passive aggressive part of the comment that gets to me. NO, of course this isn't okay. That being said, because of the whole race issues being in the media thing, it's going to be over reported. So no, it's not okay, and people should call them out. My comment was not condoning these actions and I'm sorry if that wasn't clear. When I'm using a stall at a bar, me seeing the words "faggot" or "nigger" written on the wall generally don't make national news. THAT is what I was getting at.
When I was growing up in cali hate speech against whites was both common, "ok" and accepted and it was always funny to see the flight between the two protected race groups play out as both were engaged in racists graffiti against eachother but could not be touched because they were protected minorities.