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Originally Posted by Lil' Lavery
You don't have to be persecuted for your race to be held as a example of a American Muslim student interested in science and technology.
Symbols aren't something people "deserve." Symbols come from an opportunity. This is an opportunity to turn an awful event that happened into Ahmed into something positive for the American Muslim community, and the country in general. There is the right mix of public attention, social media buzz, and general media attention to allow for his moment to be used to influence things positively.
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"Deserve" applies to the persons, organizations and townships you were accusing of racial injustice, not the "symbol". Your last several posts have not mentioned racial injustice. So if we are, for some reason, in need of a symbol to advocate for technology savvy teenage American Muslims then Ahmed works.