Lots of people going "everyone's done shit like that in their lives!" itt - like dude, if you're talking about publically using racial slurs as a shithead kid, your experiences aren't universal. She shouldn't have gotten away with it at the time, and I'm not upset that she has to take accountability for it now.
The main point of contention for me is that her behavior was known to authority figures at the time, and she got off scot free. That's significant, because unless they were around shithead adults who found racism acceptable, I imagine most people saying that this is standard teenage behavior would have gotten a slap upside the head or an appropriately negative response from an authority figure when they're caught out being a racist dipshit.
This girl didn't - she used a racial slur to be trendy, and despite there being people who were in a position to set her straight who knew about it, nobody did anything about it.
I feel like it would be jarring to see someone who has a reputation for using racial slurs milk a bunch of anti-racist activism posts for social media clout, and while people do change and grow in 4 years, some people don't. We have as much evidence for her becoming a better person as we do for her being a hypocrite who did this for clout.
I think this whole "we've all done bad shit as kids!" talking point is being made in bad faith, and people who are honestly arguing for this being an innocent teenage gaffe are either telling on themselves more than they maybe realise or they realise just how telling their statements are. Either way - I think that the people who were maligned by her prior behavior are right to not be happy with what she said, especially if the slur she used is one that's levelled against them for their race. And as petty as it might be, I don't blame the guy for leaking the video in response to a bunch of dumb social media posturing that her actions don't back up.
Punishing her now is pretty stupid though. Every teen says something stupid, and should have been punished back then. As they grow up and change over the years and doesnt do that anymore, why the fuck waste time and effort to punish her now?
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