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We Were Supposed To Be Beyond This By Now
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While you could look at that racist, anti-Semitic video posted by high school students in the Birmingham suburb of Hoover and think, oh, that's just Alabama, remember that just days ago, we had kids playing beer pong with cups arranged into a Swastika in Newport Beach, California, which is definitely not Alabama. It's the epitome of privileged white Orange County. In each case, it's not all kids in the school, but it still shows that there are always a bunch of idiot kids who are prone to being racist and anti-Semitic because they think it's funny, or they just like to feel superior to others (when being racist and anti-Semitic is definitely evidence that you are not superior to anyone), or they come from homes where Mom and Dad are that way, or they're supremely stupid. It can and does happen anywhere. And it's not new, because I can remember this kind of stuff happening in my high school years. We just didn't have video evidence of our classmates' cruelty. (Birmingham News/AL.com; Orange County Register)
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