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RE: 14 y/o Muslim student arrested for bringing "bomb" to school[It was a Clock]
September 17, 2015 at 10:50 am
To clarify more:
it's not ruled out the English teacher would report everyone, and the TSA guy might fail to notice everything so there is a problem with the example, what is the 'official' term for that infraction ?
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RE: 14 y/o Muslim student arrested for bringing "bomb" to school[It was a Clock]
September 17, 2015 at 11:00 am
When assholes point to Kim being a democrat claiming that proves Dems are the true racists, that is fucking bullshit. The only difference between a Dixiecrat and Clive Bundy Tea Party gun hugging racist are economics. It still amounts to the rich and the religious right pitting the middle class and poor voters against each other. Xenophobia is the bread and butter that allows the top to divide the rest of us
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RE: 14 y/o Muslim student arrested for bringing "bomb" to school[It was a Clock]
September 17, 2015 at 11:02 am
(This post was last modified: September 17, 2015 at 11:04 am by MentalGiant.)
"Schools" are conformity factories designed to stamp out all sparks of free thinking and use of intelligence, not institutions of education. Half the adults running them have double digit IQ's. This kid sounds smart, like a future scientist who will make valuable contributions to society kind of smart. Best punish the creativity out of him before it grows since the moronic adults can't tell a DIY alarm clock from a bomb! Glad I missed this "arrest everyone for everything" world by a couple years. Me and my friends would have all been in jail consistently growing up.
I think the idiot teacher and administrators should be arrested over what happened to this poor kid. That goes back to my stupidity should be a crime punishable by law argument....
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RE: 14 y/o Muslim student arrested for bringing "bomb" to school[It was a Clock]
September 17, 2015 at 11:06 am
I hope that family sues the fuck out of that school.
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RE: 14 y/o Muslim student arrested for bringing "bomb" to school[It was a Cl...
September 17, 2015 at 11:13 am
(September 17, 2015 at 10:46 am)vorlon13 Wrote: Would the arbiters of all the debate and logic rules insist in this example the school teacher and the TSA agent be the same person ?
My point in sharing this wasn't to make a one-to-one comparison of the situations but to share an interesting anecdote I saw on my facebook page (the first post I saw about Ahmed was literally immediately prior to this post in my news feed), but if you're trying to look at the one as an analogy for the other I would say that the teacher and the TSA agent
would be playing similar roles and that yes it would be a not-great analogy.
Quote:To clarify more:
it's not ruled out the English teacher would report everyone, and the TSA guy might fail to notice everything so there is a problem with the example, what is the 'official' term for that infraction ?
If I had to stamp this with a fallacy, I'd probably call the comparison of the teacher to the TSA agent something of a strawman.
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September 17, 2015 at 11:34 am
(September 17, 2015 at 11:20 am)MentalGiant Wrote: Luck of the draw IMO. They essentially strip searched my feeble little 87 year old grandmother at the airport the last time she flew before she passed away, which was also in 2004.
And just about gave me the third degree when I packed pastels in my carry-on luggage to New York this June
They pulled me out of line, talked to me, ran drug/chemical tests on them, etc. and didn't look like they wanted to let me through... oddly enough both other security checks I went through (at the Statue of Liberty and JFK airport) just waved me on through.
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RE: 14 y/o Muslim student arrested for bringing "bomb" to school[It was a Clock]
September 17, 2015 at 1:42 pm
I suspect they freaked because of the way they were packed, but still.
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