Viral Tigard High School TikTok video sees mass student walkout over racism YouTube: KGW NewsA TikTok from a student at Oregon\u2019s Tigard High School, laden with racist slurs, has caused a huge reaction from classmates, who are now staging walkouts and protests. Hundreds of Tigard High School students walked out of their classrooms on Wednesday, December 2, after watching a video of a classmate using multiple racist slurs. The video sees a female student repeating racist terms for black people, Asians, Muslims, and Latinos, laughing about it on camera. Before long, the video had been seen by much of her classmates at the school in Oregon, initiating a shockwave of events with students making sure she doesn\u2019t get away with it. Click here if TikTok doesn\u2019t load \u201cI didn\u2019t believe it, I was like, \u2018No way,\u2019\u201d said Sean Sorko-Ram, 17, a senior at Tigard, speaking to NBC News. \u201cYou hear someone say the N-word, you hear things here and there, but all of them together in one video. \u2026 The best word I can use is flabbergasted.\u201d Sorko-Ram also said it was hard to be too surprised, adding that she is \u201cdesensitized\u201d to language like that, with fellow classmates having called her an \u201cape\u201d and using the N-word during her earliest years at the school. High school and district officials told NBC that they couldn\u2019t comment on whether the student is still on campus, but noted that a range of punishments are explored in these situations \u2014 though expulsion is usually not one of them. \u201cWhat students are reporting are from their personal experience,\u201d Principal Brian Bailey said. \u201cIf we are hearing more reports of these situations it could represent an uptick in hate speech. It may also be influenced by our collective and continued work to encourage students to speak out and report these incidents.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Viral Tigard High School TikTok video sees mass student walkout over racism YouTube: KGW NewsA TikTok from a student at Oregon\u2019s Tigard High School, laden with racist slurs, has caused a huge reaction from classmates, who are now staging walkouts and protests. Hundreds of Tigard High School students walked out of their classrooms on Wednesday, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63516"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63516\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}