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There’s a racist Snapchat scandal taking over USC

Dumb, tasteless behavior.

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Once again bringing objectionable human behavior to the surface, a Snapchat snap from the University of South Carolina prominently displays a racial slur written on a classroom chalkboard.

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“Reasons why USC Wi-Fi blows,” reads the heading of the written list. A student is seen writing the reasons below it, which apparently range from “incompetent professors” to “parking.” But at the top of the list is a racial slur against African-Americans, which has been blurred below.

Since nothing stays quiet online, this screenshot circulated among students and then to the Internet very quickly. USC denounced the photo via its Twitter account:

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Eager Internet sleuths identified the woman in the photo and called out a Twitter account believed to belong to her. ABC News Charleston reports that that account replied to the accusations with, “I was not writing all that. This is very misunderstood.”

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Similar racial tension has recently been stirred up at Duke University, where a noose was found hanging from a tree on campus Tuesday night.

Correction: A previous version of this article misidentified the University of South Carolina.

H/T Andy ParasPhoto via Jason Csizmadi/Flickr (CC BY SA 2.0)

 
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