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US High School Student Loses Scholarship Over Social Media Twerking Video (www.ndtv.com)

submitted 1 year ago by TheOneWithTheHair@lemmy.world to c/nottheonion@lemmy.world

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[–] wolfkin@mastodon.social 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

@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?

[–] wolfkin@mastodon.social 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

@TheOneWithTheHair

"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/

[+] JasSmith@sh.itjust.works 19 points 1 year ago (28 children)

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[–] trashgirlfriend@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago (3 children)

You are correct, there is absolutely no difference between twerking and saying 6 million wasn't enough, these are completely equivalent acts.

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[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago (4 children)

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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[–] SirStumps@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] JustZ@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Obviously any government action based on "promoting a good image" would violate the First Amendment.

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