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Obamasucks wrote:http://freedompost.us/2015/09/18/turns-out-innocent-victim-and-clock-builder-achmed-mohameds-daddy-is-a-muslim-activist/
othershoe1030 wrote:Okay, I'll admit it, I'm a little uncomfortable with the whole Muslims as terrorists thing. I mean starting with 911 right down to ISIS and the beheadings...
However, I post this passage below because the writer points out things that I've not heard anyone else question. This is a great example of how we mindlessly consume "news" reports and are apparently unable to critically evaluate the information we are being given.
Have any of you ever heard these points that the writer brings up? I haven't exactly been glued to the news lately but I sure missed this. These points are an indictment of our thought process, or lack thereof.
Salinsky wrote:
It's clear to me that the authorities overreacted, but it is also clear to me that this kid (or whoever put him up to it) was seeking precisely the reaction he got.
othershoe1030 wrote:I've been away from the news for over a week and not up on the details of this story, didn't know anything other than there was a boy who built a clock, etc.
But what my post is about is not really the details of the story or what came after that but the incredibly obvious statements the woman makes when she's pointing out all the things that didn't happen, that you would expect to have happen if OMG: THERE'S A BOMB!!
Like, evacuating the school, isolating the "bomb", etc. I mean, no one seemed to key in to these very obvious things. It is a post about how we think or fail to think more than it is about this particular incident, although it does illustrate the gullible way we see and hear things.
Joanimaroni wrote:othershoe1030 wrote:I've been away from the news for over a week and not up on the details of this story, didn't know anything other than there was a boy who built a clock, etc.
But what my post is about is not really the details of the story or what came after that but the incredibly obvious statements the woman makes when she's pointing out all the things that didn't happen, that you would expect to have happen if OMG: THERE'S A BOMB!!
Like, evacuating the school, isolating the "bomb", etc. I mean, no one seemed to key in to these very obvious things. It is a post about how we think or fail to think more than it is about this particular incident, although it does illustrate the gullible way we see and hear things.
The story sent to you has been all over the internet and facebook.
PkrBum wrote:What's the big deal anyway? Kids get suspended for eating a pop tart into the shape of a gun... even just pointing their finger like we all did as kids. A girl was arrested for having wooden props used in rotc drils in her locked car. A schoolyard scrap is now a police matter. This is the zero tolerance progressive solution in practice... enjoy comrades. The only difference here is this kids ethnicity... y'all are racists.
othershoe1030 wrote:PkrBum wrote:What's the big deal anyway? Kids get suspended for eating a pop tart into the shape of a gun... even just pointing their finger like we all did as kids. A girl was arrested for having wooden props used in rotc drils in her locked car. A schoolyard scrap is now a police matter. This is the zero tolerance progressive solution in practice... enjoy comrades. The only difference here is this kids ethnicity... y'all are racists.
The whole concept of zero tolerance is ridiculous. It removes thinking from the enforcement process, more of a right wing fascist way of looking at society than a progressive/liberal attitude IMO.
Don't "comrade" me about this. It was Reagan and his War on Drugs that first brought the concept of zero tolerance to the political arena. It is a very authoritarian approach to punishment.
It is a lazy person's way of dealing with problems. Why should the principal or police officer have to think/evaluate a situation when they can just fall back on this outlandish (as you've pointed out above) way of enforcing the rules.
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