Kid arrested for not standing for pledge...

[EgoDeath]

The blind telling someone else they're blind.

Here, read and educate yourself:

https://www.vox.com/identities/2018/4/5/...racism-gao

If it's subtle racism, it's subtle, so you're not going to get any evidence pointing to overt displays of racism.

I love how you like to criticize "people like me" and accuse them of being sanctimonious pricks, when you yourself are one of the most sanctimonious fuckers I have ever encountered on this forum. The irony of it all.

That you're too cowardly to even quote me shows that you know how ridiculous you sound; how funny. So you're obviously backing off on your first point (about the mother claiming her child "never said that") because you now get how dumb it was to say that, although it's alarming to me that you didn't realize how stupid that was before saying it... So now you're just sticking with the second point... That black children also have to deal with over-policing.

The issue here is, this: I'm actually well aware of these statistics and well aware of the fact that minorities face a disproportionate amount of discrimination in this country. It's terrible, honestly. I don't really think any sensible person denies that, actually.

But what does that have to do with this situation? How do you know the people's intent behind punishing this child, even if the punishment is unjust? See, you're the type of person who assumes that if a child is black and is punished, it must be because they're black. THAT is the fucking problem on the other side of the spectrum. Correlation does not imply causation; not every black child who's punished is punished because they're black. Not every white child that gets away with it gets away with it because they're white. It's people like you who try SO FUCKING HARD to prove you're not racist that are some of the most troubling. Because you ARE fucking racist. You see the world through black/white minority/majority CONSTANTLY. That is fucking racist.

Simply yelling, "this school is racist" does not make it so. That's what you fucking morons don't seem to get. Making a claim that someone or something is racist simply does not make it so.  But you won't accept that because it doesn't fit your narrative.

If there is evidence that this was racially motivated, I'll be the first person to say fire anyone involved and make sure they never teach again. But your nonsense is unfounded and I'm sick of hearing it. Holy fuck you're dumb. The funny part is, a lot of black people tend to laugh at people like you. It's ironic, actually. One of my best friends growing up was black and would immediately play the race card whenever he got into trouble and it got him out of trouble like 90% of the time. I thought it was fuckin hilarious, honestly. And people like you eat that shit up, which is even funnier. The real issue with that kind of behavior, now that I'm older and understand just a little bit more about the world, is evident and I see how problematic that behavior is.

"Playing the race card" legitimately makes it harder to smoke out real racism; maybe it's the sort of "boy cries wolf," mentality but I'm not really sure and don't pretend to have any answers. Playing the race card is a legitimately real thing. I'm not saying that that's even what happened here because I don't know. I wasn't there. Unlike you I'm not, with a total lack of awareness, projecting my own views onto this situation. I have no fucking clue with happened here, my whole point was that the kid was not arrested FOR refusing to stand for the pledge. That's simply not accurate. But I'm not assuming anything about race or intent or anything else whereas you seem to be dead set on doing just that.