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

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Originally Posted by Lil' Lavery

So what?


Why should we even be trying to?


So what?


Yes, we should applaud this type of behavior.


Yes.


Obviously not. But Ahmed is not just every 10-14 year old who's done a remarkable thing.
When an incident becomes a matter of public interest, then examples need to be set. Important examples about racial tolerance and encouraging STEM.



Nothing he did constitutes plagiarism.


No, it doesn't. There are no "recent developments" that change anything here. Whether or not he "invented" the clock or not is irrelevant. 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).

Being the larger theme or not the answer to that is obvious amongst us all which clearly that it was wrong to do this based racial grounds is unacceptable. There there's your "relavent" part of this discussion out of the way. Now if we get to the actual part of this discussion which IS the lip service he his getting (like the title of this thread). What if everyone walked into school with electronic guys spilled out onto case and presenting it as their own invention? I wouldn't give anymore lip service to this than "I'm glad you have an interest in STEM but you're not allowed to take credit for someone else's work". If we go by definition of plagiarism, he has presented someone else's work as his own and while that shouldn't change the overall cultural response, it certainly should be a call to tone down on the lip service. Shall we applaud everyone that begins to take credit for others work? And it's not pedantic. I don't like to take public events like these at face value. I'm going to be skeptical of his intentions when a development like this emerges on a kid that's been hailed by everyone as such a innocent child.