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TL;DR\u00a0<\/a>– Black students at Emory University kindly request that the anonymous messaging app,\u00a0Yik Yak<\/em>\u00a0be banned on campus, due to incidents of students anonymously making racist comments<\/span><\/p>\n Man, who would\u2019ve guessed that if people were given the shroud of anonymity on the internet, they might just say some critical things!\u00a0 Who would\u2019ve also guessed that in spite of the idealistic world full of equality for all, that there still exists, racism?\u00a0 Who knew??<\/span><\/p>\n Not that I\u2019m condoning the behavior in question here, but honestly these students must be new, to like, modern society.\u00a0 I\u2019m also not saying that they should sit around and take it, when racists are capitalizing on the veil of anonymity and saying some racist garbage, but the harsh reality is that shit is most certainly nothing new.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Yes, it\u2019s definitely frightening that people still have thoughts like the things they\u2019re anonymously voicing, but at the same time, lots of it is nothing that lots of people haven\u2019t thought before, whether or not they\u2019ll admit it.\u00a0 For those who don\u2019t want to click the link, or delve deeper into the story yourselves, basically a lot of Yik Yak users are saying some racially critical things, but they\u2019re also not going too far off the deep end; lots of commentary about perceived hypocrisy, as well as concerns over #BlackLivesMatter.\u00a0 From what I\u2019ve seen, nobody\u2019s going for the low-hanging fruit, and there\u2019s still an air of thought behind the things being said, even though that at the root of it, there still exists racism.<\/span><\/p>\n Going after Yik Yak themselves isn\u2019t going to solve anything, because if there\u2019s one thing that young, college-age students hate more than anything these days, its attempts at suppression of the first amendment.\u00a0 Even if there is success at getting a geofence put around Emory campus from using Yik Yak, people will simply find an alternative to it, so they can continue on making veiled remarks about black people, if not worse, once they realize that an attempt to censor has come into play.<\/span><\/p>\n It is unfortunate that people are taking advantage of an anonymous sounding board, but putting a spotlight onto this whole situation isn\u2019t going to help anything at all.\u00a0 If anything, now more people have now heard of Yik Yak, what they\u2019re capable of getting away with doing on Yik Yak, and it\u2019s just going to usher in a new wave of trolls and troll-like behavior.<\/span><\/p>\n If black activists didn\u2019t turn this into \u201ca black thing,\u201d then Yik Yak would\u2019ve remained as the app that the psycho Japanese-American girl\u00a0used to falsify a massacre threat<\/a>\u00a0to the very same campus, and ain\u2019t nobody would\u2019ve wanted to copycat that, because like in her case, you can and very likely will, get caught for it.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" TL;DR\u00a0– Black students at Emory University kindly request that the anonymous messaging app,\u00a0Yik Yak\u00a0be banned on campus, due to incidents of students anonymously making racist comments Man, who would\u2019ve guessed that if people were given the shroud of anonymity on the internet, they might just say some critical things!\u00a0 Who would\u2019ve also guessed that in … Continue reading You guys must be new here<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[45,15,143,89,156,124],"class_list":["post-42037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brog","tag-fail","tag-og","tag-ohatlanta","tag-racism","tag-social-media","tag-trolls"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42037","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42037"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42037\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42039,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42037\/revisions\/42039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}