‘You the Jury’ Preview: Who Should Be Held Responsible for Racist Facebook Comments? (VIDEO)
The lawyers are going to have to do a good job on You the Jury—they’ll have a nation of jurors to prove their cases to. Each episode presents a different real-life suit, with genuine judges, lawyers, plaintiffs, witnesses and defendants. In what may play out as a cross between Judge Judy and American Idol, the viewing audience votes to determine the verdicts. Talk about a show with “guilty pleasure” written all over it.
You the Jury isn’t about rubes fighting over scratched cars or rent money, either. The show’s disputes involve free speech, racism, internet trolling and more. This week’s episode features a man who took a picture with his co-worker’s three-year old African-American son and posted it on Facebook. The post received some racist comments from his online friends, leaving the mother devastated. Who should be held responsible for the comments? The mother seeks damages for “intentional infliction of emotional distress.”
Watch a sneak peek of the episode below:
You The Jury, Fridays, 9/8c, Fox
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I think the guy was guilty of racism BECAUSE he was caught at least twice lying. He said as soon as he saw his friends comments he told them to "stahp" while he was still at work. Why didn't he delete the post? He said he was on a camping trip with spotty cell reception. Uhh, if I was abhorred about a racist statement being made and I DIDN'T INTEND it that way, I would have immediately deleted the post. I also don't completely agree with Jeanine when she says he's not guilty under the law. While that may be technically correct I would have liked to hear more of a comparison to him being responsible for what's on HIS PAGE, much like what's in our car or home. The law doesn't care who put it there when they find it.
Part of me wants to like the show because the participants can speak their mind, but it might breed a dangerous mob mentality, ESPECIALLY because they want ratings and ramp up the drama. People do we really need so much freaking dumb me down drama? It sure makes the viewers look a certain way.
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It's only ok to be racist against whites, it's been proven time and time again. Blacks can threaten and kill as many white people as they want and say whatever racist things they want and it's ok, a white person shoots a black man in self defense and it's racist. A white person doesn't agree with a black person and it's racist. Blacks call blacks names, kill each other more than anyone else and it's still the white mans fault. Makes a lot of sense, you hold yourselves back no one else, take some self responsibility and stop blaming everyone else for your own mistakes, creating your own gangs and ghettos, killing each other, abbandoning your kids and putting yourselves in jail.
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Y'all know,that white boy gonna,win that case.
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