University of Minnesota-Duluth Facebook Racism Brings Punishment for Two Girls

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This is an article about a recent incident at the University of Minnesota-Duluth that involves blatantly racist comments posted on a wall-to-wall conversation on Facebook. The comments were between two white girls discussing the presence of a black girl in the room they were in. Before I go on, here are some of the horrible comments they were making:

"ewww a obabacare is in the room, i feel dirty, and unsafe. keep a eye on all of your valuables and dont make direct eye contact.... i just threw up in my mouth right now....,"

"were two white girls.. she already has her 'nigga' instinct to kill us and use us to her pleasure..."


I'm sure I don't have to tell you that these comments are pretty messed up. The girls claim that they were just joking around, but I don't know what kind of person actually thinks this is funny. And what the f***, why were they publicly posting a conversation like this on Facebook?! Do people not understand that ANYONE can go on Facebook and see what you say to other people? Also, if they were in the same room, why were they using Facebook to talk to each other?!.....I hate technology....

Anyway, what kind of punishment do you think they deserve? Is it even possible to punish somebody for something like this? What leads a person to believe it is okay to 1) make these comments in the first place, 2) post this comments on their PUBLIC Facebook page, and 3) think that there is nothing wrong with making comments like this open to all eyes?


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I can't believe that these girls thought it would be okay for them to write these things on such a public arena such as writing on each others walls on facebook. I know it is the age of technology and that internet bullying is becoming a part of our culture, but punishments for this kind of discrimination has quite caught up I think. But as I discover more articles I am in shock that this is going on and that people don't think about what they are doing before they are doing it, especially as college students, at this age people should know right from wrong and what they are doing. This was shocking to see and I am interested on how they could be punished or if they do.

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