On Fri, Sep 18, 2015 at 9:13 AM, Lawrence de Bivort <ldebiv...@gmail.com> wrote:
Let's say that the kid's clock looked like a Hollywood bomb. > Yes, let's acknowledge this simple point, for our own credibility. Let's go further for the sake of completeness -- it's missing the explosives. The kid gets accosted by school personnel. So far so good. But instead of > handcuffing him, belittling him, calling the cops, and suspending him, > intelligent school personnel would have looked at the clock seen that it > was no bomb, warned the kid to not pretend it was a bomb, and sent him off > to class. End of story. > Not the end of story. Will the kid try to put explosives in it in a week or two and come back to school? Probably not. Maybe. You don't think islamophonia and racism didn't have a major role to play in > what actually happened? Please. > I haven't argued there was no islamophobia. Eric
