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- 0:03So here we've got a refreshing bit of sanity and are otherwise insane. World.
- 0:07Here's the headline, teens forced out of exclusive California Catholic school for doing
- 0:13blackface or awarded one million after proving it was green acne medication. And I
- 0:20guess the moral panic overstepped itself a little bit on at least this one occasion.
- 0:25So what happened? The controversy started when the boys were accused of performing
- 0:30blackface and were ultimately pressured into withdrawing from the prestigious Mountain View School. Quote,
- 0:36it was quite clear that the jury believed these were innocent face masks.
- 0:41Attorney CHRISTA Bauman told the San Francisco Chronicle after Monday's judgment. These are young
- 0:47kids. Their internet trail is going to haunt them for the next sixty years.
- 0:52Now they don't have to worry about that. So here's the picture that
- 0:55caused all of the problems that got them accused of doing blackface. And as
- 0:59you can see in this picture, it's pretty clear that what they've got on
- 1:03their face is not black. It's green. It's dark green. And by
- 1:07the way, teenagers putting on acne cream not really that shocking. Now here's
- 1:12an earlier picture where they're putting on a different acney cream. This one was
- 1:17white, so it all seems fairly obvious. Not that that would matter,
- 1:21of course, let's see. According to documents reviewed by dailymail dot com,
- 1:26another student obtained a copy of the photograph from a friend's Spotify accounts and uploaded
- 1:32it to a group chat in June twenty twenty. So this is while all
- 1:36of the George Floyd moral panic was happening. The students insinuated the teens were
- 1:42using blackface and deemed the photo another example of racist students, before urging everyone
- 1:48in the group chat to spread it throughout the school community. On June fourth,
- 1:53twenty twenty, the Dean of students called the boys' parents to ask them
- 1:56if they were aware of the photograph. The parents as that the teens had
- 2:00applied green face mass three years earlier, with neither ill intent, nor racist
- 2:07motivation, nor even knowledge of what blackface meant. According to the suit,
- 2:12now less than four business hours later, the principal, Katie Tekel, called
- 2:16one of the student's parents and said the teen was not welcomed back at Saint
- 2:23Francis High School. When the boy's father reiterated that his son had not engaged
- 2:28in blackface. Tico responded that her decision was not based on intent, but
- 2:32optics, optics and the harm done to the Saint Francis community. And of
- 2:38course that's what she looks like, because that's always what they look like.
- 2:45But when you see this that she responded that her decision was not based on
- 2:49intent but optics and the harm done to the Saint Francis community, you think,
- 2:54well, that's crazy. It's already been established that it wasn't blackface,
- 2:59it was acne cream and it was green, not black anyway. And of
- 3:04course it's insane to blame the kids for other people being wrong and jumping to
- 3:08erroneous assumptions. But this is actually perfectly normal for the modern left. In
- 3:14fact, like a ten second search on Google, you'll find article after article
- 3:17talking about how intent doesn't actually matter, it's just about optics, that simply
- 3:23the perception that some harm has been done is enough. Here from everyday feminism
- 3:29dot com, intent versus impact, While your intentions don't really matter here from
- 3:35the ADL, they're full of great ideas. When it comes to bias,
- 3:38we must prioritize impact over intent. Well, I would disagree with that,
- 3:45but let's see what they have to say about it. Here's an example.
- 3:47They give a staff member at a team meeting makes a sexist joke, but
- 3:53when a colleague responds that they find it offensive, the person retorts, I
- 3:57was only kidding. What this brings up is the of the beholder problem.
- 4:00If intent doesn't matter, then it doesn't matter whether the joke was actually sexist
- 4:05or not. It becomes sexist because somebody interprets it or misinterprets what you said
- 4:12as sexist. It doesn't matter if it's real or not, just like the
- 4:15green acne medication, which is clearly not blackface, but somebody interpreted it that
- 4:21way, so it doesn't matter if none of it's actually real or not.
- 4:27And so with this impact over intent argument, impact or so called impact becomes
- 4:32this indiscriminate weapon within this oppressed oppressor narrative. And because the white teens are
- 4:42assumed to be oppressors because they are white, then just literally anything that they
- 4:46do is automatically fair game as long as somebody claims that they were oppressed by
- 4:51it, or that somebody else might be oppressed by it, no matter how
- 4:56divorced from reality. It all is, but anyway, The lawsuit asserts that
- 5:00at no time did Mistekl or anyone else offer to investigate the allegations against the
- 5:06boys or assistant removing the photograph in any way, and of course not.
- 5:12Reality doesn't matter to these people. What matters to them is some nebulous definition
- 5:17of the word equity. By June seventeenth, the school's attorney was telling the
- 5:21families that the image's disrespect was so severe as to warrant immediate dismissal. And
- 5:30again, the fact that there was actually no disrespect doesn't matter. What matters
- 5:33is that there's a perception of disrespect and that's enough. And then the school
- 5:40back day protests by parents who used the image as evidence of kids participating in
- 5:45blackface and thinking that this is all a joke. Well, it is a
- 5:48joke, but the joke's on them. In fact, it's a million jokes
- 5:54anyway. That's all I got to say about that. Please like, share
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- 6:00I will see you next time. M hm.