{"id":144144,"date":"2020-12-30T02:37:08","date_gmt":"2020-12-29T23:37:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/the-nyts-obscene-drive-to-destroy-a-teens-life\/"},"modified":"2020-12-30T02:37:08","modified_gmt":"2020-12-29T23:37:08","slug":"the-nyts-obscene-drive-to-destroy-a-teens-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/the-nyts-obscene-drive-to-destroy-a-teens-life\/","title":{"rendered":"#The NYT\u2019s obscene drive to destroy a teen\u2019s life"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#The NYT\u2019s obscene drive to destroy a teen\u2019s life<\/strong>”
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Jimmy Galligan is an 18-year-old college freshman from Leesburg, Va. \u2014 and cancel culture\u2019s Count of Monte Cristo.<\/p>\n

Some months ago, Galligan, who is biracial, posted a three-second video of a white, female classmate using a racial slur. Galligan had sat on the video for years, waiting for the moment it would do the most damage. After the girl, a cheerleader named Mimi Groves, was accepted to the University of Tennessee, the time had come.<\/p>\n

\u201cI wanted to get her where she would understand the severity of that word,\u201d said Galligan. He said he was proud of himself: \u201cYou taught someone a lesson.\u201d<\/p>\n

The video showed Groves, 15 at the time and having just obtained her learner\u2019s permit, boasting \u201cI can drive, [slur].\u201d The remark wasn\u2019t directed at anyone in particular. The brief clip circulated on Snapchat until it was obtained and saved by Galligan, who had grown furious at how often he heard his white classmates using the N-word.<\/p>\n

Galligan shared it publicly in June. In response, Groves lost her spot on UT\u2019s cheerleading squad. Then the university pressured her to withdraw from the school entirely. The admissions office had app<\/a>arently received hundreds of messages from irate alumni demanding blood. Groves is now attending a community college.<\/p>\n

This story is a powerful example of several social phenomena:\u00a0the militant streak\u00a0in social-justice activism, the naivety of today\u2019s teens, mob justice on social media<\/a> and high-schoolers\u2019 capacity for elaborate cruelty. But the wildest thing about this incident is that most people will learn about it\u00a0by reading\u00a0The New York Times<\/em>.<\/p>\n

\u201cA Racial Slur, a Viral Video and a Reckoning\u201d is the headline on the\u00a0Times<\/em>\u2019 article on the subject, published the day after Christmas. Reporter Dan Levin tries to add considerable context by detailing a history of alleged unpleasantness at Heritage High School, which Groves and Galligan attended. It sits in a wealthy, predominantly white county where \u201cslave auctions were once held on the courthouse grounds.\u201d<\/p>\n

Levin connects the outcry from students aggrieved by officials\u2019 failure to respond to racial incidents to the broader Black Lives Matter movement. But nowhere does his article reckon with a very basic fact:\u00a0The New York Times\u00a0<\/em>has opted to assist a teenager\u2019s desperate quest to ruin the life of a young woman who said something stupid when she was 15.<\/p>\n

People roughly 25 and older should thank their lucky stars that they completed adolescence before the age of social media and ubiquitous camera phones \u2014 because the country\u2019s most important news<\/a>paper apparently thinks it is appropriate to shame teenagers over their juvenile behavior.<\/p>\n

This is the very worst aspect of cancel culture \u2014 the burning desire to hold people accountable for mistakes they made as kids, even if they have long since learned their lesson and grown past them \u2014 and the\u00a0Times\u00a0<\/em>has fully embraced it.<\/p>\n

While the piece strives for a veneer of neutrality, it clearly lionizes Galligan. Levin never really challenges Galligan; in fact, the reporter lets Galligan get away with the assertion that his white father suffers from \u201cwhite privilege.\u201d Groves is treated somewhat sympathetically, but Levin really should have explained the difference between using the word as an epithet and using it in the manner Groves did \u2014 a boast too often heard in popular music and culture, which kids begin to absorb from a very young age.<\/p>\n

Or better yet, he could have simply not written this story, which concerns bad but by no means uncommon teen behavior. No crime was committed; the utterance of the word didn\u2019t even take place at school. The only thing novel about this situation is that it attracted the national media\u2019s attention.<\/p>\n

Galligan and Groves are both teenagers, and teenagers do really terrible things to each other. (Maybe you don\u2019t remember high school? I do!) They should be corrected, forgiven and allowed to move on.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s why this new drive to\u00a0reduce teens\u00a0to the worst moment of their lives is so pathologically toxic. It\u2019s completely at odds with the emotional and social journeys of most young people. Very few of us sailed through high school as saints, but today\u2019s kids are practically required to be perfect\u00a0from the time they turn 12.<\/p>\n

The people who really ought to have known better are not\u00a0the story\u2019s teenage subjects, but its editors at\u00a0The New York Times<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Robby Soave is a senior editor of Reason, from which this column was adapted<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

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