US High School Student Loses Scholarship Over Social Media Twerking Video
US High School Student Loses Scholarship Over Social Media Twerking Video
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US High School Student Loses Scholarship Over Social Media Twerking Video
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What does shaking your ass at a private party have to do with your academics? This is the dumbest situation. This poor girl.
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was seen dancing at a private homecoming afterparty on 30 September, behind a friend who was twerking.
she wasn’t even the one twerking
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It has everything to do with it because god said so:
"They basically told me that I should be ashamed of myself," Timonet told a local news outlet. "That I wasn't basically following God's ideals, which made me cry even more." "I felt like my life was over."
Guys, it’s the same rules as any underaged closet atheist. Study your ass off, become financially independent, then twerk in front of your god fearing scholarship committee
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Religion is cancer
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Sounds like someone dodged a bullet! Bullet-dodge ass-dance!
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Oh that really pisses me off. The poor girl!
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@Coasting0942 @sara ooooooh. This is a religious scholarship? or a religious school? Alrighty then at least that makes sense.
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You ain’t from around FoxNews Parish, is ya?
sput
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He (the principal) said she was punished because she is the 'hood ornament' of the school."
Oh for fuck sake! This is crazy old fashioned bullshit right here.
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JFC, that's not just bullshit, it's outright objectification and misogyny.
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Don’t worry he quoted the Bible
the principal had referred to Bible scripture on several occasions and informed her he was 'well within his right' to enact the discipline he chose
Ah yes, I forgot that Jesus came down to earth and said “don’t enjoy yourself women, your only purpose is just to have children under our neofascist theocratic regime”
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And a double entendre.
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"Shes not a woman, she is a literal piece of flare, FOR MY Institution REEEEE"
Excuse me, Real Life? pump the brakes.
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He's literally objectifying her in his comment
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Such a bad and disgusting comment that should have no place today. It goes back to making this poor girl sound like property.
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Devil's advocate: it could just be poor choice of metaphors to say that she's a representative of the school, which can reasonably choose to be associated — or not — with a certain image and perception of professionalism.
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No. he would have used a more appropriate metaphor, His choice of words underlines his thoughts at large.
i would never refer to anyone as a fucking hood ornament. that's dehumanizing.
His brazen attitude to speak about his thoughts and not consider them to be objectifying is scary.
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He could've just said "representative of the school" instead though, could he?
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I’m getting pretty sick of people saying shitty things because they’re bad at metaphors. People who are bad at metaphors should just not use metaphors.
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This person is the authority who is taking her potential scholarships because of dancing. Your take actually makes it worse. She is just a thing to him and not a young girl doing a popular dance that women do. It's probably even worse in his mind because it's a dance popularized by black people from the city.
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This would only make sense if it was explicitly explained and forbidden to her beforehand.
And since there’s no way any school who cares about their reputation would do that, no, that’s not reasonable. You can’t hold me to a standard I didn’t agree with.
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My. God. The pearl clutching and oppression of the female body these days. We may as well go back to corsets and chastity belts.
I’m not going to encourage a HSer to twerk, but c’mon! You’re going to punish her for having fun at an unrelated and offsite event? Get real.
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She’s not allowed to dance offsite at a private party but if you go to the school’s YouTube channel there are a couple cringy music videos of all the staff dancing (including the principal) on school property during working hours. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3qjnPeUOMjo
And why was he even watching these videos in the first place. They would have just been fun videos the friends made to share with each other outside of school. This was just about him being turned on by watching an under age girl dancing and then punishing the girl for his feelings.
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I, too, am glad we went to school before cellphones and social media.
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Story time!
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in Kate Manne's "Down Girl," about misogyny she wrote: "They put women in their place when they seem to have 'ideas beyond their station.'"
"Misogynist hostility encompasses myriad 'down girl' moves . . . to generalize: adults are insultingly likened to children, people to animals or even to objects. As well as infantilizing and belittling, there's ridiculing, humiliating, mocking, slurring, vilifying, demonizing sexualizing or, alternatively desexualizing.... and other forms that are dismissive and disparaging in specific social contexts."
Emphasis mine to point out the most relevant portions in this case. It's a solid read on misogyny that I definitely recommend to anyone.
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Next they're gonna find out she kissed a boy and expel her.
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So what you can't shake your ass if you are smart? Thats bullshit. You should be able to strip AND get your masters degree. You should be able to take bikini pics and post your published research papers. What does it matter? Our species is marked by their brown noses.
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You should be able to have an only fans and also arrest people!
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But for real, you should. I know what you're referencing, and I see no reason why you can't have a side job in an unrelated field as a cop.
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I'll say the same thing I said in that thread- I have more respect for her as an OnlyFans star than I do for her as a cop and if shooting innocent black people doesn't disqualify you from being a cop, then being on OnlyFans sure shouldn't.
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Funny thing is a lot of sex workers near uni towns will actually be grad students working to pay tuition costs, and not like "doctorate in underwater basket weaving" like the right likes to try and demonize all degree paths but work degrees as, I've seen MBAs and Law School students doing this too.
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And shit its not a bad idea. If you can pull a lot of money each night you might graduate debt free. Which, in modern times, frees you of the noose of school loan repayments. I would much rather strip than have to pay these back right now on my inflexible career salary. Now, the abuse that comes with it is not okay. But that goes along with the demonizing of these profesions.
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It appears that the principal is backpedaling really hard. Even so, the kid still lost out on the scholarship because she missed the deadline to apply through the school.
The mother said in response to the principal's apology,
“It’s too little, too late. I even told him on the phone conversation when he made it to us at noon today asking us to come into the office and he mentioned reinstating the scholarship, I let him know that the scholarship deadline was done, and the damage that he’s done to her is done. I also told him I gave them the opportunity when I came in there at 7 o’ clock the next morning, to try and rectify the situation at that point. Now, with somebody holding his hand forcing him to do something, an apology being enforced it’s too late,” said Rachel Timonet
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From my experience, if people are not assholes, there is always a way. I've been accepted to a school when I missed the deadline by two weeks regardless.
Unless the school system in the USA is strict and non-negotiable.
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Wow, when you watch the video is even more benign than this thread headline. It's just plain dancing, nothing remotely scandalous.
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Sounds like some religious bullshit.
"That I wasn't basically following God's ideals, [...]"
Yep...
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I bet you if a male student raped someone he wouldn't withdraw the scholarship. It's because she's a woman. Well, not even a woman she's just a girl.
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Yeah these people are Christian, that distinction doesn't matter.
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Religion needs to be eradicated
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By the will of the Emperor! Hail the Omnissiah!
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Well when you apply for religious scholarships you should kind of expect this.
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That principal needs his hard drive forensically checked by the police.
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It was probably a scholarship for people with lower spinal paralysis. She was all set to collect the money but then she got roped into one of J-Roc’s grease videos.
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What a disgusting load of bullshit.
The school board is going to investigate. I wonder what will happen.
The article below has more details of the whole fiasco.
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Anyone care to share the text of the article?
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Disciplinary action taken by Principal Jason St. Pierre this week at Walker High School has brought national attention to Livingston Parish.
St. Pierre removed Kaylee Timonet from the Student Government Association (SGA) due to a video which was posted on social media showing her 'twerking' at an off-campus dance, which occurred after homecoming of this year.
The video, which was posted by DJ Savage who worked the event, showed Timonet and friends dancing to a song he was playing. The venue was later identified as Denham Springs Country Club.
advertisement Timonet's removal from SGA also put two SGA-sponsored scholarships unattainable for the 4.0+ student, who is also President of Walker High's Beta Club. In an interview with Unfiltered with Kiran (UWK), Timonet expressed just how badly she felt after St. Pierre levied his punishment.
"I felt like my life was over," Timonet told UWK. "Everything I worked for since I was little, always worked really hard at school.
"Being student of the year, at least having a chance at it, has always been my main goal. I’m starting college this January. I’m done in December so it was a shock."
advertisement Timonet's mother, Rachel, was also in shock over the principal's actions. She said that in a meeting with St. Pierre, she was told that the principal had referred to Bible scripture on several occasions and informed her he was 'well within his right' to enact the discipline he chose.
Local social media pages, groups, and residents took swiftly to the internet to express their displeasure. A Walker High student created a specific logo to represent the call that rose up from the community - 'Let the girl dance.' Many wanted Timonet reinstated, at a minimum, to SGA... others wanted St. Pierre to resign.
The story reached national media by Friday evening, including the NY Post and Yahoo News.
The school board Friday alerted local media that they have launched an investigation into the discipline, specifically St. Pierre's handling of the meeting with Timonet and later, her mother.
Walker High School provided the News with a form which is signed by all SGA members. The form states that 'failure to follow any of the aforementioned requirements, will result in immediate dismissal from Walker High SGA. Any action deemed inappropriate by Mr. St. Pierre will also result in removal.'
The form, however, does not mention anything about off-campus events, referring rules to school-based attendance. It is also vague on it's references to 'representing Walker High' and where that representation begins and ends.
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Louisiana is fucked. Can these conservative fucking demons finally all move to one place and start their conservative nation like they always dream out loud about and leave the rest of us the fuck alone already?
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I think we should set aside some special land, reserved just for them.
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See that’s been tried, Abrahamic faiths are inherently expansionist. The only way to get rid of them is eradication of the faith, but we’ve all agreed genocide is a no go.
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If they tried that you wouldn't allow that
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Compared to Afghanistan where girls can't get an education, I bet these Christians consider themselves very tolerant and progressive.
Religion excels at making idiots into massive idiots, and empower them too.
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Wait until they find out their religion is just bullshit
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You can't find out that something is bullshit when you refuse to believe anything you're told that doesn't align it it not bing bullshit.
(Or to put it metaphorically: you can't catch a ball you're activelly avoiding).
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Problem with bulshit is, once the pile is high enough it's very hard to convince people that there is no pony underneath.
And this particular pile has been heaped on for centuries...
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She wasn't the one twerking.
She was dancing behind the twerker.
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wow really
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weird comment
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What, you haven't had to ruin someone's life because you got caught jacking it to them?! You need to live man!
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Recommendations on where to go?
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I hear Spain has hung, twerking men
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Alright that's it I'm learning spanish. Seriously how do I move ? I've had it in my head to start putting the pieces in place to move to Spain or Portugal. But I'm an inexperienced 26 year old NEET transfem. I'm not naive, though. I know I've gotta twerk like nobody's ever twerked before if I wanna make my dreams come true.
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"That I wasn't basically following God's ideals, which made me cry even more." So a state institution imposing religious virtues on a student? How is that constitutional, something for the ACLU perhaps?
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Sounds like something the US would invade a country for doing
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Uhh what?
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Fire that principal. He's a bad example for students.
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At this point if anyone ever brings up religion to me outside of work, I'm just gonna shit on it. Tolerating religion is morally bad and religion should be as taboo as smoking.
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Like, do it in private, but don't bother other people with it. Seems fair.
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Religion is like a penis. You can do whatever you want with it at home, but don't go waving it in people's faces, and especially keep it away from children.
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Would you be ok with people being Nazis at home? If someone commits to an ideology at home, it affects their entire personality/interactions. I'd argue this is a form of tolerance which is bad.
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I’m a bit of an asshole, but if someone is bringing up religion in public they should be shamed
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Yeah, but you see that is black dancing. Twerking is also black dancing to them. The principal is punishing this girl because of a perceived moral lapse, but there's always the racial subtext in the South. It reminds me of when all the incels and conservatives freaked out over She-Hulk because of the twerking bit. It's not just morality, but also racism.
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Why'd they show the picture of the underaged girl in an article about her twerking? That's really weird.
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Probably because her parents allowed it.
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US law has no identity protection laws for news reporting. They can attach your face to anything.
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You're just entirely making that shit up. Why do you feel the need to do that? https://www.findlaw.com/injury/torts-and-personal-injuries/online-photos--taken-and-posted-without-your-permission.html
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I would say it highly depends on how it reflects on the institution. Twerking has nothing to do with any possible education she might have received. Saying that black people are unintelligent but good dancers shows the attempts to educate the student has failed them, which makes the school look bad if they get the scholarship.
Similarly, I'm fine with people who got fired for participating in January 6th. Any company that kept them on could face a major boycott and those people don't deserve their jobs because they're insurrectionists.
But this particular girl? Totally deserves the scholarship. Twerking is not a reflection of how she was educated.
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What if they did something racist outside of a work setting?
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Wdym you want people to have principled opinions on cancel culture? We're on the internet, here we
doxxhold people accountable for the things we don't like and complain when the wrong people face repercussions of their behavior outside their jobs -
In my day we did all our racism anonymously or down the pub, rather than online, under your real name, next to a photo of your real face.
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I'm going to make an ai video of you calling me a n***** and send it to your bosses.
See how this works? How do we even know it was her twerking?
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@TheOneWithTheHair good lord what happened to just punishments. Even if this was something to punish (which it isn't) anything more than a detention is kinda extreme? Ya'll taking away scholarships? That's a future by some measures. You're saying it's okay to take away her ability to get a bright future because she was at a party on her own time?
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"They had other people dancing in that video who were on the dance team that nothing happened to. He said she was punished because she is the 'hood ornament' of the school."
Based on the NY Post pictures it was probably awkward teenage white girl twerking too. This whole thing is just a nothing burger and it doesn't even seem like a private school. what the heck?
https://nypost.com/2023/10/06/honor-student-loses-scholarship-after-twerking-video-surfaces/
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So the girl in question wasn't twerking, it was person "friend" in front of her in the video. She was just dancing. I consider myself pretty logical in most things and this doesn't make sense.
The person in question did not commit any offense her self based on how the news article read. If she herself was doing something that did not promote a good image it would be understandable but this was not the case.
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Obviously any government action based on "promoting a good image" would violate the First Amendment.
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I can agree to a certain point but as this particular scholarship is only handed to two people a year I imagine the requirements are very high and the standard at which one conducts themselves is taken into account. Never the less I do not understand and cannot condone punishing those that do not deserve it.
This girl must have worked hard for such a scholarship and to be denied what she earned for such a bizarre reason just seems petty and small.
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Wow, imagine being called a “hood ornament of the school.”
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First was the teacher with the OF, now this?
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How is this allowed? Are they gonna kick people out of college because they had sex once?
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Lessons learned in Afghanistan i guess. Christian Taliban
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Thot patrolled
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Law and Order, special THOT unit.
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Good
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thot patrolled
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Edit: I didn't realise this was a weird American Christian thing. Should have just steered clear and not asked questions. ✌
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The only reason the school is in disrepute is because they took her scholarship.
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I tell my kids all the time. Do not do anything you don't want caught on camera. In this world anything can be brought up against you in your future.
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But also, like, dancing with your friends shouldn't ruin your future because your school system imposes their religious values as a moral "code".
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A PUBLIC school system. Parents should sue the absolute fuck out of the school for using religion to justify a punishment.
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We must destroy religion. They won't stop shoving it down our throats
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100% agree kids should be allowed to be kids and do things like dance and have fun. Reminds me of back in the day comments like "leave room for Jesus" when dancing and "Rock n roll is from the devil" its fricking 2923 keep your religion out of my life
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She didn't even do anything. Someone behind her was twerking on camera.
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I know it's crazy and is sad.
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Victim blaming? Shame on you.
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I never said that. I never made a comment about the person in the article. Just my life experience. We are all free to do whatever want. I would never yuck somebody else's yum. It's just sad in this age almost everything you do can be brought up against you in the future. I just want my kids to be aware of this and that is all.
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Rally's comment is generally good advice, and doesn't place blame on anyone.
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My parents loved reminding me of this. Now I have debilitating social anxiety.
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Sorry
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I don't give a shit if someone catches me dancing on camera. There's nothing wrong with it, who cares?
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God. God cares. He loves everyone and is omnipotent, but also really judgy and bitchy because reasons. And he's watching you so closely that you can reach out and touch his bloodshot ethereal eyeball. Well, if it wasn't ethereal, anyway. So don't ever let that aspirin fall from between your knees. He'll know if it does. And send plague of Karens to shame you. But only because he loves you and demands obedience.
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Religious crazies, apparently. We need to take away their power
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I completely agree with you. The sad fact is that many people care. I don't condone it. I have done a lot of dumb things that would have a large life impact on my life if they were caught on camera.
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BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU
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Wow, I went to sleep, and my comment got bombed to hell.
Let me clarify to anyone reading these comments. I don't agree at all with what happened to this girl. It's unfair and wrong on so many levels. The principle comments are gross and uncalled for.
All I did was put advise out there that I give to my children to help navigate that world as we see it.
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No reasonable person should be afraid to be filmed dancing. The video was completely innocent and the principal at this school is clearly a religious creep.
In this world today there is also no way to avoid being filmed anyway.
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You expect us to believe your comment has nothing to do with the article, and just by coincidence, you happened to post “I tell my kids not to do anything they wouldn’t want being filmed” in response to an article about someone facing consequences for somebody else doing something that was filmed, and we are all the bad guys for unfairly assuming tha your comment had anything at all to do with the article it was posted in response to?
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