He makes a great candidate for ritualized diversity sacrifice.
Posted on 12/20/2017 2:01:12 PM PST by Simon Green
If you know a high school student, or you are a high school student, and you haven’t reckoned with how that little device in your hand can wreck your life inside of a minute … it’s time to recognize just how dangerous social media can be.
Today’s story, the latest in a long line of terrible ones, comes from Indiana, where a junior at Plainfield High School made the decision on Sept. 28 to post an inappropriate photo on Snapchat, and ended up altering several lives for the worse. Ben Slaton and his family recently talked to the Indianapolis Star about Ben’s mistake and the resulting wreckage, with the hope that it won’t happen to any other students.
Ben Slaton, a 16-year-old junior, had been a strong quarterback for Plainfield, a starter since freshman year whose play had drawn interest from colleges including Michigan State and Wake Forest. But in September, he was seated in a classroom close to a teacher wearing a skirt. Slaton made the regrettable decision to take a photo of her and send it to three friends. The Star reviewed the photo, which “does not show the teacher’s face, but is clearly inappropriate,” in the Star’s words. “It shows her feet on the floor, legs uncrossed.”
Ben Slaton’s father Damon does not justify his son’s actions in any way. “By no means is what he did acceptable,” Damon Slaton said. “He set the entire chain of events in motion. He broke my rule by having a cellphone in school. He made another conscious decision to take a picture in class – an inappropriate picture. It was. And then he made the conscious decision to share that picture with three other people.”
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Put the damn phone away in class.
Speaking technology-wise, yes - but some things are forever:
Kids are stupid
Dumbass.
It was stupid but does the punishment fit the crime?
Bad behavior, but this is RIDICULOUS.
Standard 16 yo bad behavior.
Huck Finn today would be on 3 medications and locked away forever in some facility.
This is wrong and it’s why there aren’t white kids anymore.
And that’s another part of it —the story wouldn’t work at all if the perp were, say, black:
“Too mean to ruin his whole life for just ONE slip-up...”
Ah, but for honkies it’s standard, now.
Wisdom comes from experience. Experience comes from not having wisdom.
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jeez! Give the dude a break!
He makes a great candidate for ritualized diversity sacrifice.
“Ben isn’t the victim in this story; the teacher (who declined comment for the Star story) is. The picture still exists, of course,...”
Well, we can’t determine guilt without see the pic.
The times they aren’t ‘a-changing.
The only new thing is the particular distribution mechanism (Snapchat) and the particular kind of camera (cellphone). There’s plenty of inappropriate & stupid kids do and always done.
Local kid threw an underage booze-heavy party whilst grandparents were away (she lived there). Cops appeared. The long & loud argument she had with a lady cop was ... entertaining. One notable/relevant exchange:
“He’s going into the Navy next week!”
“Not any more he’s not!”
Between that and other comments, this thread’s headline can be trivially altered to a long-recurring observation:
“Student’s inappropriate choice ends career, alters many lives.”
“Stupid is supposed to hurt.” Lurkers Grandfather.
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So the teacher didn’t sit like a lady, had a short enough skirt that something could be seen, and 16 year old athletes are horny and think about sex constantly?
Gosh, this should be in breaking news.
Nowdays, bunch of black hoods could cause all sorts of mayhem and, and, for racial “justice” reasons, get nowhere near the punishment that the football player — a politically incorrect person — had to endure.
You can plunder a hedge fund, wage secret wars and attempt to steal an election —total impunity.
But ONE snapshot by a 16 yo and all the torches and nooses come out.
Sounds like the kid has National Felon League potential! Dumb as a rock, inappropriate behavior - seems like a natural.
Are we talking Sharon Stone in “Basic Instinct” here?
Props to his dad, if more parents were like that, there would be fewer incidents like this to report.
We might be! No way to tell.
Seems the pic must’ve been of more than just feet. It was pointed out the teacher was wearing a skirt.
Maybe the punishment doesn’t fit the “crime”, but it sends a message to other brats. It could provide long-term positive results.
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