RE: 14 y/o Muslim student arrested for bringing "bomb" to school[It was a Clock]
September 21, 2015 at 7:39 pm
No one disagrees that it was an over-reaction, and I wouldn't even been mad at the school if they had simply assumed it was a bomb (after all, Maher is right-- we can't assume that a teenaged Muslim was not recruited by ISIS, as we have seen happen repeatedly), right off the bat, and evacuated the school. We could all have had a good laugh about it when the bombsquad guys came back and said "Nope, it's really a clock."
But from the details Cuban gave in the Maher interview, it seems to me that what really happened is a teacher demanded obedience, didn't get it (a rebellious teenager, whaaat?), and decided to show the little brown boy what submission looks like. It happens all the time, in the South. Again, if the school had been evacuated or they had in any way treated it as if it were a potential explosive device, I'd be more willing to believe their cover story.
But from the details Cuban gave in the Maher interview, it seems to me that what really happened is a teacher demanded obedience, didn't get it (a rebellious teenager, whaaat?), and decided to show the little brown boy what submission looks like. It happens all the time, in the South. Again, if the school had been evacuated or they had in any way treated it as if it were a potential explosive device, I'd be more willing to believe their cover story.
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