Georgia Southern University Student Mistakenly Sends n word text to her future black roommate

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https://www.theroot.com/georgia-southern-university-student-mistakenly-sends-ra-1827782323

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Georgia Southern University Student Mistakenly Sends Racist Text About Another Student, Meant "Triggerish"


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This is what happens when you mix racism and texting. A Georgia Southern University student, identified as Courtney Schaefer, sent a text message with the word, “n*ggerish” in it to a new roommate in a big moment of whooops! She claims she meant “triggerish.”

According to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Schaefer had been paired with a new roommate and ended up sending a text about the new roommate to the new roommate. The text message read: “Her insta looks pretty normal not too n*ggerish.”

Schaefer must have noticed that she sent the horrifically racist text to the wrong person and tried to clean it up with her next text. She said: “OMG! I am so sorry! Holy crap. Damn spell check I did NOT mean to say that. I was texting (someone’s name) and I meant to say triggerish meaning like you seemed really cool nothing that triggered a red flag! I’m so embarrassed. I apologize.”

BBut that didn’t stop the new roommate from screenshotting the text conversation and sharing it with her friends. According to reports, the screenshots were posted on Facebook and Twitter and many people are weighing in on the “mistake,” including one person who claims to know the roommate who received the racist text.

WSAV spoke with Georgia Southern University senior, Dajah Morrison and she said she was sent the text and it angered her so much, she began perspiring. “I was sweating,” Morrison said.

She continued, “Triggerish is not a word at all either. The closest word to that is triggerfish. So for her to cover those things up, it just didn’t add up.”

https://www.theroot.com/georgia-southern-university-student-mistakenly-sends-ra-1827782323


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5979585/Student-accidentally-texts-n-word-future-black-roommate.html

The white student, identified as Courtney Schaefer, and her roommate texted introductory hellos and each laughed about the fact that they accidentally called the other, one screenshot shows.

Not long after, Schaefer sent a text message about her roommate's Instagram account, seemingly meant for their other roommate, in which she wrote: 'Her insta looks pretty normal, not too n*****ish.'

Realizing she had made a mistake, Schaefer immediately apologizes, saying that she meant to write the word 'triggerish' but that her phone autocorrected it.

[Turbineguy]

1. Spell check south of the

Mason-Dixon line is different?

[Renew Deal]

3. I think it will only auto-correct to words you have used before

But it sounds like she meant to send this language to another person.

[ProfessorGAC]

41. Has To Be Used Repeatedly Though

It doesn't remember word i used once or twice or even three times.

Technical or scientific terms have to be used at least a half dozen times to register on my iPhone.

So, even if you're right about auto-correct, it would suggest that the phone replaced "triggerish" with the offensive word, because she used the word often enough to make the phone think that is the word she wanted.

[sarah FAILIN]

5. My auto correct is crap and replaces words all the time.

But I've never had it do anything like that. Triggering is what I get when I try to type what she claimed to have typed.

[Tipperary]

18. Interesting to note she is from PA.

Hmm.

[LisaL]

24. Who is from PA? I don't see nothing in the article suggesting that.

[Tipperary]

36. The racist girl. She is from York, PA.

I simply googled her.

[Mariana]

40. Why is that interesting? nt.

[HipChick]

2. It was no accident..

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

4. I hope the roomate can be paired with someone else.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

33. Hope the school kicks her out!

[dalton99a]

6. Bullshit. That's how Courtney Schaefer talks.

Link to tweet

[peekaloo]

7. Triggerish...like a horse face or horse's ass.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

34. Lol

[mythology]

8. Seems unlikely she's telling the truth

but I suppose it's possible. But neither triggerish or the word that was sent are real words.

[Hassin Bin Sober]

9. If the president can walk back an entire press conference...

Why not...


Post truth society

[treestar]

27. True. Why should there be any consequences when the Orange Liar

doesn't get any?

[Chemisse]

31. Indeed. Her response is very Trumpish, which is further cause for alarm. n/t

[EffieBlack]

10. Whoops!

[Downtown Hound]

11. Somehow I don't think spell check would "correct"

it to that word. And n and t aren't exactly close to each other on a qwerty keyboard.

I guess there's not really enough to definitively say she meant to say that, but color me skeptical that she didn't.

[nuxvomica]

22. It would if she had used that word before

My spellcheck often autocorrects to nonce words and names I've used. So even if this was a spellcheck accident, that's not much better.

[Blue_Adept]

23. autocorrect can be hell sometimes

I use it a lot and it throws things in that make absolute no sense sometimes when I'm off by one letter.

[RhodeIslandOne]

30. Auto correct I believe is programmed to avoid....

Curses, so......it can’t be done by accident.

[Progressive Law]

12. The excuse sounds weak.

I think the black student has strong grounds to demand a different roommate. I also think the university has grounds to withdraw the acceptance offer.

[Midnight Writer]

13. This sounds like a promo for a reality TV show.

[phylny]

14. Let me see what my phone does

when I try to spell “triggerish” ->triggering, trigger usher, triggerfish.

Yeah. She’s lying.

(lol, edited to fix “Ler” to “Let.”)

[Crunchy Frog]

15. The spell check was taking Ambien. n/t

[pnwmom]

16. Auto-correct corrects to actual words -- and N***rish isn't one. Just try to type it anywhere

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and auto-correct tries to fix it.

[Ezior]

20. My auto-correct corrects to words that I've explicitly used before

and it also has some cloud service where it gets words from.

So if auto-correct really put the n-word there, that probably means she used the word before in messages. Or the cloud provider f**** up.

For example, my keyboard would change "Trump" to "tRump" in early 2017 even though I don't remember typing the name like that on my phone. It stopped doing that later.

The most likely explanation is that she actually typed the n-word, and then sent the text to the wrong recipient. Her poor roommate. Well, maybe she's thick-skinned and uses that opportunity to teach that girl some tolerance, so she learns not to be racist, simply by being her roommate and a nice person.

[Raine]

17. I like to give people the benefit of a doubt

but reading the whole sentence it seems like what she sent out is what she exactly intended to say.

[malaise]

19. Her phone corrected triggerfish to

n*****ish?
Doesn't pass the smell test.

[Iterate]

21. She meant "wouldn't".

Or "would", I can't tell anymore. Could have been many roommates.

[ck4829]

25. That is one funny explanation, 'triggerish'

[MyOwnPeace]

26. Obviously........

taking "walk-back" lessons from IQ45 - after all, he's the "Master!"

[RhodeIslandOne]

28. "Triggerfsh" eh?

Sounds like she’s already indoctrinated into the culture wars either way. The next Tomi Lasagna.

[aikoaiko]

29. I know Georgia Southern well and no one believes her

It’s really just a matter of consequences for the student.

[oberliner]

32. All texts sent from one college student to another should be made public

And anything potentially offensive or insulting should have the students and college identified.

Moving forward, The Root can keep a catalogue listed by college and student's last name of all uses of the n-word (intentional or otherwise).

Other online outlets can focus on different offensive words against other marginalized groups.

Maybe the colleges themselves can monitor the texts sent by their students.

[MineralMan]

35. I don't believe her explanation for even a moment.

She typed what she meant, but sent it to the wrong person. Bad roommate.

[Croney]

37. Maybe I'm naive, but I'm shocked that a young person today

would ever in a million years think of using the n-word. People of my generation (I'm 73) who grew up with racism might have a moment of dementia and let it slip out somehow, mindlessly. (I don't actually know any person like that myself.) But what homes are these kids growing up in? Like I said, I guess I'm naive.

[jcgoldie]

39. They are growing up in homes with people from your generation

... and the one after. Racism is alive and strong in 21st century America among people of all ages. If this were not the case then Donald Trump could not get elected.

[book_worm]

38. I think the vast majority of young people today look beyond race

but there still are some who have these old attitudes.