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Re: Can someone in the Irving TX area "draft" this young man?

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Originally Posted by Lil' Lavery View Post
So what?


... It's a pedantic argument that has nothing to do with the larger themes of the cultural prejudices in play here (both racially and intellectually motivated).
First let say I think the school way overreacted. Nothing i have seen in the media says Ahmed tried to pass off his clock as anything more than a clock. I will even concede that cultural bias or prejudices probably played a part, maybe a large part in the school's actions. But to make a blanket assumption that was their primary reason for their actions without knowing the whole story (and the school cannot explain their side because of privacy issues) is to be guilty of the same prejudices as the school is being accused of.
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