Adriana Kuch And Whether Everything Must Now Be About Race

A microcosm story for the modern moment.

Ted Bauer
3 min readFeb 10, 2023

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If you are unfamiliar with the Adriana Kuch story, basically she was a teenager girl in New Jersey. She got bullied a week ago at her high school (that’s the left side of the picture above). The video went “viral” within her high school and she killed herself days later. Obviously I don’t know her, or this family, and I cannot tell you if there were pre-existing issues with anxiety or depression before she committed suicide.

I can, unfortunately, tell you that because the girls (I believe it was young women) who bullied her were black, this became a racial storyline. Bunch of details are here, and within this video:

Her dad, who is featured in this video, posted this on Facebook:

This is a very sad story involving a lot of the issues affecting modern teenagers, including:

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Ted Bauer
Ted Bauer

Written by Ted Bauer

I write about a lot of different topics, from work to masculinity to relationships and social dynamics, I.e. modern friendship. Pleasure to be here.

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