Here's how teens are using anonymous Google Docs—and enlisting a YouTube star—to out allegedly racist classmates: by abebrown716
alike are toppling, a similar reckoning is occurring, out of view of most adults, among the country’s teenagers and college students. These teens and young adults are using anonymous crowdsourced Google documents like the one Carbajal assembled, anonymous Twitter feeds and sometimes their own public Twitter accounts to “out” their peers for making allegedly racist comments.
This new, teen-led wave of Twitter feeds and other files will of course evince some of the same problems as Shitty Media Men. And they’ll almost certainly spark the same debate—they give victims a voice but not the accused—which is complicated in these new cases by the fact that the accused are not working-age adults but teenagers and, in most cases, minors . Complicating matters further: Many accusations concern incidents that happened not in the past year but several years ago.
“Three years ago, I was 15 years old. I made a terrible mistake,” the Yale student writes. “Without knowing the full deep-rooted meaning of a word, I used it: ignorantly and stupidly.” For now, though, those names just sit there, publicly, lacking all detail or any way for the accused to dispute why they’re on the list or find out how to get off.
On June 1, she tweeted a TikTok of two white girls dancing to the lyrics “We don’t like n—s,” effectively outing them to her followers. “It got over 28,000 likes,” Jackson says, prompting her to keep going.
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