The New York Times Using Its Reporting Resources To Weaponize Teen Drama Is A Scary Trend

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 The New York Times Using Its Reporting Resources To Weaponize Teen Drama Is A Scary Trend

At 15, Mimi Groves said the n-word word in an attempt to be 'cool,' and the video sat for years. It wasn't until it was weaponized against her that anyone cared at all.

By Libby Emmons
December 29, 2020

A high school senior is proud of having ruined a classmate’s life by posting a three-second video clip the classmate had long since forgotten about. In fact, he thinks of it as a learning moment, and he’s happy about it. So is The New York Times.

In an article that went viral over the weekend, Times writer Dan Levin walked readers through the triumphant tale of Jimmy Galligan, who last year in history class clicked on a message that featured a video of a “white classmate looking into the camera and uttering an anti-Black racial slur.” He saved the video. He bided his time.

The student went to his school. They’d even been friendly over the years. Yet this video, four years old at the time he first viewed it, struck a nerve. Perhaps deciding that revenge is a dish best served cold, he held onto it and waited for his moment.

That moment came after the classmate, Mimi Groves, got into college with a spot on the cheer team at the University of Tennessee. When Groves posted her support for Black Lives Matter on social media after her admission, and after George Floyd’s death in May, she was confronted with a barrage of responses from people claiming her advocacy was hypocrisy.

Levin wrote that one message, from someone Groves “said she did not know,” read: “You have the audacity to post this, after saying the N-word.” Groves was horrified. Galligan was pleased. This was the kind of lesson he was looking to teach. In fact, when Levin dug into why Galligan didn’t say something to the school administration, or to Groves, it turned out that Galligan had, in the past, attempted to remedy things in that way and got no results of the kind he was apparently looking for.

Once Groves was schooled in the error of her ways through public revenge-taking, the results Galligan longed for came quickly. Groves was publicly shamed, her admission to her dream school rescinded, and her plans for the future sacked.

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https://thefederalist.com/2020/12/29/the-new-york-times-using-its-reporting-resources-to-weaponize-teen-drama-is-a-scary-trend/

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NYT Helps Teen Cancel Classmate With 4-Year-Old Video Of Slur
https://thefederalist.com/2020/12/29/nyt-helps-teen-cancel-classmate-with-video-of-slur-he-saved-for-four-years/

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That moment came after the classmate, Mimi Groves, got into college with a spot on the cheer team at the University of Tennessee. When Groves posted her support for Black Lives Matter on social media after her admission, and after George Floyd’s death in May, she was confronted with a barrage of responses from people claiming her advocacy was hypocrisy.

Normally I'd feel sorry for her...

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https://townhall.com/columnists/michaelbrown/2020/12/28/there-is-no-mercy-and-no-redemption-in-todays-cancel-culture-n2582205

There Is No Mercy and No Redemption in Today’s Cancel Culture

But that is not how the cancel culture thinks. It does not understand the concepts of mercy and redemption. Instead, it is ruthless and unforgiving.

One of her high school classmates, Jimmy Galligan, whose mother is black and whose father is white, decided to make an example of her after a friend sent him a text message with her three-second video. He sent it to the school faculty and administrators, but they did nothing about it, leaving him frustrated and angry.

So, he waited for an opportune moment.

When he saw Mimi’s post in support of Black Lives Matter, which he should have cheered on, he decided instead to strike again, posting her video on Instagram once he learned which college she planned to attend. From there, the video spread to other social media platforms, including Tik Tok, as a result of which the University of Tennessee received a flood of emails and letters, protesting Mimi’s presence on the campus.

And so, “within two days, she was kicked off the university’s cheer team and forced to withdraw from UT under pressure from admission officials, citing hundreds of emails and phone calls from outraged former and current students.

Mimi Groves will likely find a different path that will lead to a happy life. Hopefully she comes to make better choices in causes she supports and the music to which she listens.

As for Jimmy Galligan, if he doesn't turn away from hatred driving his actions, that hatred will poison his life. Hopefully he will come to understand that and make that U-turn early rather than nursing that poison for many years or decades.

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https://townhall.com/columnists/michaelbrown/2020/12/28/there-is-no-mercy-and-no-redemption-in-todays-cancel-culture-n2582205

There Is No Mercy and No Redemption in Today’s Cancel Culture

Mimi Groves will likely find a different path that will lead to a happy life. Hopefully she comes to make better choices in causes she supports and the music to which she listens.

As for Jimmy Galligan, if he doesn't turn away from hatred driving his actions, that hatred will poison his life. Hopefully he will come to understand that and make that U-turn early rather than nursing that poison for many years or decades.

OR he may turn his petty revenge on someone who after having their life ruined(as the target/victim may well see it) decides to take their own revenge and  erase him.