This is spot on. This is exactly what racists (like some people on this board) cause, a culture where minorities are attacked and dissuaded, even if they are exceptionally talented and gifted.
Before this thread gets...heated, let me (as a minority) just say:
I see the school administration's point.
Do i feel bad for the kid? Yeah. But, fact is, 9/11 did happen, and a certain type of people, were responsible.
To completely ignore this in favor of being PC is ridiculous.
This Alia Salem person used the word "egregious" to describe the handling of the situation.
I submit the word "precedent", to describe the likelihood of the situation possibly being a real threat.
Also, given the history of violence in schools across the country that have been happening for years, now, erring on the side of caution?
Again, i see the point.
This is what we call a ridiculous emotional response to the situation. I'm wondering, do you just scream "racist" at the first site of impropriety, or do you think about what that word means? I'm surprised you haven't called someone racist for not like Obama. Furthermore, calling it a "culture" as opposed to an exception to the norm is intellectually dishonest.
Yes, the school went overboard, but to start screaming "racism" is silly.
By the same logic, we don't allow Germany a standing army above a certain amount of recruits.. Oh wait, we still don't and for good reason.
__________________ There's a man goin' 'round takin' names.
An' he decides who to free and who to blame.
Everybody won't be treated all the same.
There'll be a golden ladder reaching down.
When the man comes around.
Ok while Bardock is on one sensitive extreme, I don't really believe "better safe than sorry" applies to this case.
__________________ There's a man goin' 'round takin' names.
An' he decides who to free and who to blame.
Everybody won't be treated all the same.
There'll be a golden ladder reaching down.
When the man comes around.
That's nice. I think your response is an emotional one in response to a "racism" claim. See what I did there?
__________________ There's a man goin' 'round takin' names.
An' he decides who to free and who to blame.
Everybody won't be treated all the same.
There'll be a golden ladder reaching down.
When the man comes around.
I see you made a non-post that avoids the fact that you came into this thread assuming you were being called a racist and got miffed over it. But I'm not really interested into getting into one of these inevitably semantic arguments with you, so I'll let you think you won or something.
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“Where the longleaf pines are whispering
to him who loved them so.
Where the faint murmurs now dwindling
echo o’er tide and shore."
-A Grave Epitaph in Santa Rosa County, Florida; I wish I could remember the man's name.
As a minority myself, I don't really see this as "racist". Just a silly and tragic knee jerk reaction borne from paranioa. But I'd rather this happened once in a while than ppl from a school not report things when they are worried about their student's safety because "racism!!11!one".
I see you made your usual mistake of being overly presumptuous and making things up in your mind that haven't really happened, so i'll do what I usually do and help out your reading comprehension skills. I'm not sure where you assumed I was being called a racist or where "I" was even involved in the discussion. I simply mentioned to bardock that screaming "racism" seems to be the go to thing for the emotional left and that he's done it on more than one occasion. I think it would serve you well to read before posting next time.
__________________ There's a man goin' 'round takin' names.
An' he decides who to free and who to blame.
Everybody won't be treated all the same.
There'll be a golden ladder reaching down.
When the man comes around.
It did not have any particular marks of emotion though.
Basically your argument of symetry fails at being symetrical. I don't even understand why people want to use arguments of symetry here in KMC, almost no argument is symetrical in the true world (except entirely random claims, which are rarely what people mean to begin with).
Edit: Did you originally meant Bardock when you said emotional? He actually did seem so, so if it was the case, never mind my comment.
Yes, my original comment was for Bardock. My response to OV was pretty much his trolling response to me, for the same effect.
__________________ There's a man goin' 'round takin' names.
An' he decides who to free and who to blame.
Everybody won't be treated all the same.
There'll be a golden ladder reaching down.
When the man comes around.
It's not even just the reporting- which would've been very unlikely had he been a different race- it's the follow up once they found it out wasn't a bomb. At that point the kid should've gotten apologies.
This is really darn racist.
A kid of an ethnic group most accused of a stereotype- but very obviously not involved in the act- gets first reported, and then has the authorities actually follow-through on the report, and continue action against the kid.
To insist it's not racism is really stretching it.
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