Came back because I didn’t catch this the first time around. The New York Times has a great article about it they released a few days ago. Really shows the consequences and ramifications for both sides.
This is crazy !! I went to Albany high school many years ago and everyone was very nice and even though at times they were fights , I remember well the nice and cordeal teaxhers and seeing various cultures hanging out together .. miss Albany
I'm black and from Berkeley. This is ridiculous. I highly doubt any of this shit even mattered. This was probably the most anyone ever at this new ass school went through. Back at Berkeley high, you'd just get your ass beat for talkin all that nonsense.
The student protesters and the students involved in this cluster we're not even the creators of the account. Some of them had merely followed the account and not paid much attention to it after the follow. The creator of the account who made the posts was not even on campus the day this happened. The students who were attacked had actually been voluntarily attending a sort of reconciliation mediation meeting when this all went south. The protesters should have been disbanded sent back to class or sent home. Those who were attempting to reconcile instead were forced to walk the gauntlet. The school district deserve to be sued after they allowed their students to be publicly harassed and assaulted.
How on earth you follow a page like this without paying attention? Well I think it’s was a normal thing…! To not paying attention it was Whatever, at the end of it all, we will be judged in the same way! Think about it.
@nunoteixeira6260 The New York Times magazine August 20, 2023, had a long article about this incident called the Betrayal by Dashka Slater. My comment was a summation of the article said and my opinion as to what the article reported to be the facts of this situation. As to your question how can someone not pay attention? I follow hundreds of people and groups on other platforms. I see what the algorithm brings me. I don't scroll through everybody's feed to keep tabs on whether they've said something stupid or not. The adults in this situation had a chance to use this as a learning opportunity. Instead they let things continue to build until they got out of hand.
What they didn't say is that they took four people that commented on public posts and paraded them through the school and had other people scream and swear at them as a "healing" process. They even allowed some of the onlookers to assault them to the point where one had a broken nose. And when I say they I mean the school officials. When they FORCED four people to submit to insults and abuse at the hands of other students and faculty they committed heinous crimes of hate. If it were my child he/she would not have to work the rest of their lives. Kidnapping/assault/inciting violence/constitutional rights abuse
Some of them never commented or liked anything on the account. They had clicked follow but not paid much attention to it afterwards. The account was mostly typical high school inside jokes and some ignorant racist BS. messed up but not a bunch of budding white supremacist either. Considering everything that's happened over the past few years looking back on this it hard to fathom the administration was not able to foresee the potential for violence. Even worse was that the violence was perpetrated by those who were supposed to be the toleranant anti racisists.
God damn. I remember when I was in albany elematry school and I heard that the high school got o the news. I was so jealous. Cant wait to go there soon. Im in 7th grade now. I hope that when i go there, the school will get to be on the news.
