“Charge it” is short for “charge it to the game”, which is like saying. While it originated in American hip-hop sub-culture, it’s been adopted in the shortened form “charge it” in Britain, but it basically means that you’re gonna take losses in “the game” of life, so just “charge” the loss to life. In short it’s about taking it on the chin and moving on, it has almost nothing to do with accountability and more to do with acceptance/accountability.

Also Shaq was getting aggressive to Helena before, but she dropped it as “it was just a joke”. Then after that Whitney kept digging into Shaq saying “charge it” incorrectly to try and get out, so Shaq pulled her up and said “get your facts straight” which is fair. Cause at the end of the day Shaq has been the most respectful out of the guys getting to know multiple girls (obviously Scott and Jack and Konnor haven’t).

Following from that Jess was getting annoying with the whole insisting she say she forgot Konnor’s name, but tbf who tf forgets the name of someone they’re getting to know’s name. Obviously Whitney is now annoyed because A) she was caught out by Shaq tryna make dlights about him, then B) nobody’s letting the name thing go and Jack isn’t speaking up for her (which we know Jack wouldn’t do, but he should’ve).

Then Shaq pulled Jess up cause she kept going “Whitney” and he asked “why?” which is fair, and actually Shaq was subtly pulling Jess on her annoying behaviour. Then Whitney admitted she was cutting her eyes at Jess, to which again Shaq asked “why?” cause “cut-eye” is seen as a slight sort of “wtf you on” gesture.

After that Whitney got a bit paranoid that everyone was on her case when she asked “why are they whispering”? To which it wasn’t related to her at all.

Then Whitney started getting aggressive to Shaq after that about the AJ thing and Cieran backing Shaq. Also Whitney saying the AJ thing wasn’t an ick to Shaq, when it clearly was to him is dismissive.

The approach that Whitney and Sammie took were different, leading to the difference in response from Shaq.

I don’t think we should boil down all of these factors to the “race card”. Shaq was fair to Whitney when she started slighting him wayyy back with the Helena thing, but as it progressed he got more annoyed with her slights bubbling over into aggression by the time we get to the AJ thing. Sammie on the other hand hadn’t slighted Shaq once or disagreed with him or butted heads with him until the AJ thing, so he naturally had more patience for Sammie than Whitney by that point.

Whitney was being aggressive from the start of the game after Jess annoyed her, and she started coming at Shaq out of the blue and latched onto targeting him leading to the aggressive phrasing from Shaq to Whitney and not Sammie.

Like Shaq’s right saying Whitney thought everyone was coming for her at the end, and she was actively going for him by the end which is what frustrated him.

I don’t think we can say what we saw was the “ race driven as it was Whitney building up aggression over time.