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I especially appreciated your thoughts at the end of your article. Well said!

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That seems like a great resource. Thank you for sharing!

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Very reminiscent of news lately in W WA where high school teens both on and off the football field felt it "ok" to use the N-word against opposing players as well as in the stands. Sometimes as older people who have seen much it is easy to think that all younger people are more 'enlightened'. But why? They have not witnessed as much backlash or effects of such words and images. Glad this will ideally bring about some thoughtful discussion.

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Our daughter at Foothills Middle School says she hears her peers calling each other the N-word frequently. It seems like something that should be addressed head-on, but I haven't seen any text messages, emails or assemblies about this issue.

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Interesting to see it iis an issue with an age group and not specific to geographic areas. For sure needs to be addressed by adults on the scene (which was the consensus after the football game issue: how were adults not privy? )

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I’d like Mission Ridge take responsibility for leaving the computer open and allowing their patrons to be hurt by having that image up for so long. Press charges and agree that penalty for the perpetrators is to spend a number of hours learning about the KKK in America and in Wenatchee, including the burning of crosses at Fancher Field so the whole valley could see them and the KKK marching in the Apple Blossom parade in full regalia for a number of years. I’d like these young men to take responsibility for their actions by speaking to middle schoolers about the effect that their hateful acts had on the Black population of Chelan and Douglas Counties. The response of the resort just feels too much like a “boys will be boys” response and shows more concern for protecting young men from consequences of their hate crimes than a genuine care for acknowledging what their behavior really is.

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I don’t see where the ski area did anything wrong. They shoed them away from the computer once. Banishment is a great punishment for a skier at that age.

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Those young men live a lot of their lives off the slopes. They need to unlearn the hatred right where they learned it. Getting shoed (sic) away is not an appropriate response to a hate crime.

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It is not the ski area’s responsibility to parent these kids. You are incorrect and victim blaming.

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The resort is absolutely responsible for the computer that they did not secure and for leaving the post visible to all their patrons for hours. Please do not cheapen the real victims of hate crimes by characterizing the resort as a victim.

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Well said. Totally agree!

Also, it would be interesting to know who these teens (and their parents) are...because unfortunately, too often, privilege escapes accountability.

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Yes. Keep them away and publicize it. If they want to come back make them keep the lodge tidy on a race weekend and a powder day. Learn them some respect.

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The harm was perpetrated to more than the owners of the lodge. They attacked our community, not just the people who were the slope and tidying the lodge teaches them nothing about respecting all humans and choosing to be an anti-racist.

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