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Last updated 10:07
August 3 2016
The new Miss Teen USA calls her use of racist language on social media a "careless mistake," saying she was influenced by friends ...
The posts were unearthed hours after she was crowned the winner of the beauty pageant Saturday in Las Vegas ...
The Miss Universe Organization condemned the tweets but has stood by her as critics called for Hay to lose her crown.
http://www.stuff.co.nz/life-style/beauty/82763781/miss-teen-usa-says-friends-music-influenced-racist-tweets
struggle4progress
(118,345 posts)The teenager has said she has 'grown up' since then and admitted the language is 'never acceptable'.
... she claimed she wrote the messages because she was 'trying to fit in with my friends' as a 15-year-old ...
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3719908/I-trying-fit-friends-Newly-crowned-Miss-Teen-USA-blames-sickening-n-word-tweets-music-listened-people-hung-childhood.html
Beartracks
(12,821 posts)A tweet??!
Pfft.
If someone HASN'T grown up a LOT between 15 and 18, something's wrong.
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emulatorloo
(44,183 posts)Glad to hear she's admitted it was wrong.
Initech
(100,102 posts)erpowers
(9,350 posts)We need to stop letting people blame others for their actions. There was a time when if someone said they did something because their friends did it the response to that person would be, "Well, if your friend jumped off a bridge would you do the same thing? Well, okay do not blame you friends for this bad behavior."
I support Miss Hay being allowed to keep her crown. However, she should not be allowed to blame her friends, or music for her actions. I am pretty certain she knew it was wrong for her to use the n-word. Even if black people and rappers use the n-word she still should not use the word.
Igel
(35,356 posts)except us.
Or they must all know exactly what we do. We mostly broke our 12-year-old of this defect years ago. Sometimes he still forgets that he can know or believe something that others do, or forgets that others may know more than him. Not that often, but sometimes ... So at 12 he's still a work in progress. We hope to have that problem licked by the time he's 15.
The problem isn't the use of the word, it's assumptions about what the word must mean or the way it must be interpreted. If you're black and you use it, you're assumed to be trustworthy. If you're white and use it, you're assumed to be hostile. The assumptions are sometimes wrong, either way, for that word and for other taboo words.