The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC)'s Teaching Tolerance project doubled down, however, seeking to teach a lesson. On Friday, Teaching Tolerance senior writer Cory Collins warned that hearing "both sides" of this story is not enough. He suggested that because Sandmann — a teenager so roundly mocked and villainized by the media that his parents have hired a lawyer to sue for libel or slander — had unique privilege in this situation, America's teachers should focus on Phillips's experience as a teaching moment about the oppression of Native Americans.