UI Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority made a racist comment on Instagram ?

carnation · #1 10-11-2019, 04:49 PM

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Originally Posted by TriDeltaSallie

I do not understand why when one person makes a stupid comment or does something stupid the current standard is now to condemn or eliminate the entire chapter or organization.

This! I do NOT get it. I've been a member of several organizations through the years and many of them had stupid/clueless/horrible people with whom most of the members did not even deal with. The sh#! would have flown if we had been blamed for their actions. Why is it okay (PC?) to condemn the whole group now?

33girl · #2 10-11-2019, 05:05 PM

Because there is too much constant stimulation and things to think about nowadays, and people are either not built to take it all or lazy. If you write off a whole group because of something one person did that gives you one less thing to think about. Side note: this applies to all sides of the political spectrum.

*winter* · #3 11-10-2019, 06:54 AM

I feel like I say this over and over on this forum...but it's only in privileged places that the brain isn't fully formed at 18. Tell that to an 18 year old in Afghanistan who is already married and a parent and has to follow the rules of engagement, or else he is going to prison. Or an 18 year old in an urban neighborhood who doesn't have the ability to go to college. They mess up, they answer for it. What's fair is fair. 18 is old enough to not have your head in your ass and joke about the KKK.

Whether it's right, wrong or overly PC...we live in a world where what you post on social media, to quote one wise ADPi, is your resume. It's going to be with us for the rest of our lives. Jobs will search your social media- mine does. If parents aren't educating their kids about this, they're doing them a huge disservice.

Rod D · #4 11-10-2019, 10:55 AM

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Originally Posted by *winter*

I feel like I say this over and over on this forum...but it's only in privileged places that the brain isn't fully formed at 18. Tell that to an 18 year old in Afghanistan who is already married and a parent and has to follow the rules of engagement, or else he is going to prison. Or an 18 year old in an urban neighborhood who doesn't have the ability to go to college. They mess up, they answer for it. What's fair is fair. 18 is old enough to not have your head in your ass and joke about the KKK.

Whether it's right, wrong or overly PC...we live in a world where what you post on social media, to quote one wise ADPi, is your resume. It's going to be with us for the rest of our lives. Jobs will search your social media- mine does. If parents aren't educating their kids about this, they're doing them a huge disservice.

You have any scientific evidence of this. All the studies seem to say the opposite.

33girl · #5 11-10-2019, 11:30 AM

She’s just saying that in those situations no one gives a shit about the scientific evidence. Not that the evidence doesn’t exist.

*winter* · #6 11-10-2019, 01:05 PM

Scientific evidence of what? The fact that 18 year olds aren't bitching out in any other aspect of life except college campuses? Source: my friends who were in Iraq at that age. Your brain is developed- if theirs is developed enough to face death and create a will, hers is developed enough not to say something asinine.

Any other questions?

DGTess · #7 11-10-2019, 02:27 PM

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Originally Posted by *winter*

I feel like I say this over and over on this forum...but it's only in privileged places that the brain isn't fully formed at 18. Tell that to an 18 year old in Afghanistan who is already married and a parent and has to follow the rules of engagement, or else he is going to prison. Or an 18 year old in an urban neighborhood who doesn't have the ability to go to college. They mess up, they answer for it. What's fair is fair. 18 is old enough to not have your head in your ass and joke about the KKK.

Whether it's right, wrong or overly PC...we live in a world where what you post on social media, to quote one wise ADPi, is your resume. It's going to be with us for the rest of our lives. Jobs will search your social media- mine does. If parents aren't educating their kids about this, they're doing them a huge disservice.

Precisely.

And it's our fault. Those of us who have children and grandchildren in this age group, who have failed to demonstrate so far that choices have consequences and that their behavior will be excused by "childhood".

At 18, one is an adult. Period.