Young Woman “Cancelled” Over Three-second Video — Made When 15 Years Old

By Selwyn Duke

Kids have always done stupid things they’d later regret. The difference is that only recently have the tender-yeared’s youthful indiscretions been documented on video so that three seconds of puerility could become three million via viewer repetition. But what’s more immature, a 15-year-old who records a few seconds of foolishness or a society that would scuttle her academic career path over it?

This is an apropos question after just such an incident has occurred involving a now “cancelled” college-age woman; a teen boy who catalyzed the cancelling; the New York Times, which glorified it; and a mob that effected it.

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