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It is that most modern of stories, with only a couple of lessons, each profoundly depressing.

The first is this: She who gets to social media first wins.

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The other is this: When they come for you, whether it is with allegations of sexual assault or sexual harassment or even worse, racism, or worst of all, because there’s a hierarchy in racism too, anti-black racism, you are done like dinner.

Facts no longer matter.

Indeed, there are no facts any longer, only feelings.

The March 27 incident at Glenview Senior Public School in Toronto was between two Grade 7 students who don’t much like one another. This sort of thing happens every day in most schools. Ask any teacher and they’ll tell you: Kids go at one another.

It’s not even exactly clear what happened, whether or not the boy (or “the white boy” as he is always identified on social media) threw or did not throw a binder at the girl (“that black child”) or she threw a binder at him.