Kid booted out of 5th grade for saying newsman looked like Obama

[MotF Bane]

This won't end well.

 

[M0RPH]

Did you guys see this one? the girl can't even spell "racist" lol

She can't spell the word but she sure knows how to play the race card already at 11 yrs old.

 

[Triumph]

School needs to be held accountable for their actions. They should be forced to take political correctness training, but not the traditional kind. Training on how to recognize signs of political correctness gone awry. Think of the children!

 

[Hayabusa Rider]

Right, but you're just pointing out the other side of Craig's coin. His point was valid in this case. It's bad enough that a kid is unjustly expelled. People shouldn't be generalizing from this sort of extreme incident. It's like people who drew sweeping conclusions about the criminal justice system based on the OJ case.

He's not wrong which is why I used "also" but there's more to it than either point. Yes the child was harmed and yes this will distract from incidents as you say but IMO a major reason that many feel as he says is precisely because of the mentality which caused this boy to be expelled. This incident perpetuates racial tension, not diffuses it and that is why I said we need to grow up.

Let's get back to this case in particular. What did the boy learn? That there are those who look at him and because he is white and makes a casual comment he can be punished. What did the girl learn? She has power to ruin people by mere suggestion. That's not a lesson schools should be teaching. I hope the parents sue the policy makers and win a fortune.

 

[cybrsage]

Affirmative may be justified
Take from one give to another
The goal is to be unified
Take my hand be my brother
The payment silenced the masses
Sanctified by oppression
Unity took a backseat
Sliding further into regression

Society blind by color
Why hold down one to raise another
Discrimination now on both sides
Seeds of hate blossom further
The world is heading for mutiny
When all we want is unity
We may rise and fall, but in the end
We meet our fate together

 

[OutHouse]

LOL, America.

lol @ Australia's Aborigine treatment.

 

[Ninjahedge]

Would it have been OK if the kid was black?

 

[bfdd]

such ridiculousness

 

[RocksteadyDotNet]

lol @ Australia's Aborigine treatment.

That's the best you've go? Hahahah.

If the only way you can attack us is to bring up shit that happened 50 years ago, then I think we're doing ok.

 

[bfdd]

That's the best you've go? Hahahah.

If the only way you can attack us is to bring up shit that happened 50 years ago, then I think we're doing ok.

Actually still til this day. I have met hundreds of Australians and of all the peoples I have met they seem to have a larger majority than most of racist assholes.

 

[Onceler]

He is obviously defacing the great Obama the same way the cartoonist defaced the image of Muhammod. How dare he.

 

[RocksteadyDotNet]

Actually still til this day. I have met hundreds of Australians and of all the peoples I have met they seem to have a larger majority than most of racist assholes.

That's some solid data you have there buddy...

 

[cybrsage]

That's the best you've go? Hahahah.

If the only way you can attack us is to bring up shit that happened 50 years ago, then I think we're doing ok.

I did not know 2009 was 50 years ago...interesting. That would mean Obama has violated the "no more than 10 years as president" rule!!!!!

In case you did not know, in 2009, the Australian government suspended anti-discrimination laws, but only regarding the Aborigines, so they could control what the Aborigines can own, watch, drink, etc.

Updated Monday, August 17, 2009 3:19 pm TWN, By ROD McGUIRK, AP
UN probes Aboriginal discrimination allegations



One of the coalition groups, Australians for Native Title and Reconciliation, or ANTAR, said it wanted Anaya to insist that human rights principles as set out in the U.N. Convention Against Racial Discrimination be applied.

The legislation that allows the so-called intervention suspended aspects of racial discrimination laws so measures could specifically target Aboriginal communities, enraging some activists who said this was unfair and breached the U.N. declaration on the rights of indigenous people.

AMTAR called on the government to reinstate federal anti-discrimination laws without "special measures."
Indigenous Affairs Minister Jenny Macklin's spokeswoman Jessica Walker said Monday the government planned to introduce legislation to the parliament in October to reinstate anti-discrimination laws.

http://www.chinapost.com.tw/asia/australia/2009/08/17/220873/UN-probes.htm

And just in case you say China is a bad source of info about the region around them:

UN probes human rights in Aboriginal camps
Brigid Glanville for AM
Updated August 17, 2009 10:33:00

More than 3,000 letters from Indigenous people and community groups will be presented to Professor Anaya, detailing concerns the intervention is racially discriminatory.
David Cooper, from the Australians for Native Title and Reconciliation (ANTAR), says Australia has breached part of the UN's declaration of the rights of Indigenous peoples, and not just in relation to the Northern Territory Intervention.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2009-08-17/un-probes-human-rights-in-aboriginal-camps/1393108

 

[waggy]

I did not know 2009 was 50 years ago...interesting. That would mean Obama has violated the "no more than 10 years as president" rule!!!!!

In case you did not know, in 2009, the Australian government suspended anti-discrimination laws, but only regarding the Aborigines, so they could control what the Aborigines can own, watch, drink, etc.


http://www.chinapost.com.tw/asia/australia/2009/08/17/220873/UN-probes.htm

And just in case you say China is a bad source of info about the region around them:


http://www.abc.net.au/news/2009-08-17/un-probes-human-rights-in-aboriginal-camps/1393108

lol

 

[bfdd]

That's some solid data you have there buddy...

It's one of the reasons I didn't take a 10k a month job offer in Australia. I wasn't sure I could actually live with Australians. I've probably met and spent more time with Australians than I have any other peoples besides my own and Mexicans.

And then there's that shit ^

 

[Ninjahedge]

That's some solid data you have there buddy...

Actually, he is probably going on the fact that MOST people are racist bastards..... some just show it more openly than others.

It is a human trait.

Australia is not better/worse.

 

[cybrsage]

Australia is not better/worse.

Yep. And in their defense, the Aborigines are having a horrible time with the influx of western culture. They are not melding with it well, and it is destroying them.

I don't know what Australia can do, the alcoholism and rape is rampant. In the US, the American Indian tribal leaders banned alcohol from almost every reservation in an attempt to combat the effects of it. Not sure if the Aborigines have the same type of system where the tribal leaders are respected lawgivers.

 

[Darwin333]

The thing I don't like about this story - which may or may not be an outrageously poor judgement by the school depending how much of the story we got - is that the only reason most will give it more attention is that it has an underlying message of 'see, charges of racism are all nonsense!', which is a lie, and harmful.

Analogously, it's like people who are hateful of women and prefer 'the old days' of little enforcement of rape laws might love to talk about a woman who lies about rape.

That is simply normal human reaction though. Bullshit charges of racism, as this story appears to be, hurt the cause more than anything else. If a person sees 9 stories about racism that appear to have very little merit then they are likely to ignore the 10th story that does have merit. You should be advocating the proper use of the "race card" if you want to make the situation better instead of what you are currently saying.

The "race card" was absurdly overused,often in situations that it was quite obviously not valid, in my area for a long time because it was effective (another human trait). Eventually the people began ignoring it (see the boy who cried wolf) and real incidents of racism were ignored. Blaming the people will not work because their reactions were reasonable. The proper blame lies with those who intentionally misused the race card, usually for personal gain.

IF more people would stand up and call bullshit when obvious misuse takes place you would see a reversal of that trend.

 

[Ninjahedge]

This is a sign of stupid people, not over zealousness in protection OR the lack of actual racism.

We need to DEAL WITH EACH SITUATION INDIVIDUALLY, and not say, "geez, that kid didn't get beat up because he is black! I mean, look at that story about the kid being kicked out because of the Obama comparison!"

Unfortunately, that IS how it will work out.

 

[woolfe9999]

He's not wrong which is why I used "also" but there's more to it than either point. Yes the child was harmed and yes this will distract from incidents as you say but IMO a major reason that many feel as he says is precisely because of the mentality which caused this boy to be expelled. This incident perpetuates racial tension, not diffuses it and that is why I said we need to grow up.

Let's get back to this case in particular. What did the boy learn? That there are those who look at him and because he is white and makes a casual comment he can be punished. What did the girl learn? She has power to ruin people by mere suggestion. That's not a lesson schools should be teaching. I hope the parents sue the policy makers and win a fortune.

You aren't going to get much disagreement from me. The incident is pretty much an outrage. The people who made this decision are total idiots. You don't expel an 11 year old even for an actual racial eiphethet, not on a first offense, let alone something innocuous like this.

This is an extreme manifestation of PC, not a typical one. However, I'm not much of a fan of even more mainstream, typical PC behavior. Among other things, I think political correctness has given real racists a convenient place to hide. Pushing things beneath the surface by focusing on semantics doesn't solve any problems. It just perpetuates them.

 

[airdata]

This is what happens when you have drones in charge who follow laws and regulations to the T without consideration the circumstances around an event.

 

[Doc Savage Fan]

This is what happens when you have progressives in charge who follow their perverse "zero-tolerance" ideology to the T without consideration the circumstances around an event.

FTFY

 

[peonyu]

Yep. And in their defense, the Aborigines are having a horrible time with the influx of western culture. They are not melding with it well, and it is destroying them.

I don't know what Australia can do, the alcoholism and rape is rampant. In the US, the American Indian tribal leaders banned alcohol from almost every reservation in an attempt to combat the effects of it. Not sure if the Aborigines have the same type of system where the tribal leaders are respected lawgivers.

If they banned Alcohol it would help them. Alot of ethnic groups/races cant digest Alcohol and they seem to go "Crazy" when drinking it. Native Americans and Australian Abos have just about zero tolerance for Alcohol and 1 can of budweiser is like drinking 5 shots of whiskey to those groups.

So its not that Abo's are Alcoholics, the issue is that genetically they cant handle any at all. Even 1 can [seriously]. Also its not Western Culture's fault either. Western people had no idea, until VERY recently that Alcohol tolerance was on a genetic level and that some groups could not handle a drop of it.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcohol_tolerance


Alcohol tolerance in different ethnic groups

""The tolerance to alcohol is not equally distributed throughout the world's population, and genetics of alcohol dehydrogenase indicate resistance has arisen independently in different ethnic groups.[2] People of European descent on average have a high alcohol tolerance and are less likely to develop alcoholism compared to Aboriginal Australians, Native Americans and some East Asian groups.[3][4][5] This is related to an average higher body mass, but also to the prevalence of high levels of alcohol dehydrogenase in the population.[6][7] The high alcohol tolerance in Europeans and some other ethnic groups has probably evolved as a consequence of centuries of exposure to alcohol in established agricultural societies.[8][2]

Not all differences in tolerance can be traced to biochemistry.[9] Differences in tolerance levels are also influenced by socio-economic and cultural difference including diet, average body weight and patterns of consumption.[10][11]

An estimated one out of three people in East Asian countries have an alcohol flush reaction, colloquially known as "Asian Glow", a condition where the body cannot break down ingested alcohol completely because it lacks the genetically coded enzyme that performs this function in the bodies of drinkers with "European" tolerance levels.[12] Flushing, or blushing, is associated with the erythema (reddening caused by dilation of capillaries) of the face, neck, and shoulder, after consumption of alcohol.[12]""






Europeans [White people] are the de facto best drinkers since Alcohol has been common in Europe for thousands of years. We can say Black people dominate sports ? Yep. Well Whiteys dominate downing a Jack Daniels.

 

[hal2kilo]

404 error: racism not found

I hope his parents sue the crap out of the school district.

 

[TechBoyJK]

If they banned Alcohol it would help them. Alot of ethnic groups/races cant digest Alcohol and they seem to go "Crazy" when drinking it. Native Americans and Australian Abos have just about zero tolerance for Alcohol and 1 can of budweiser is like drinking 5 shots of whiskey to those groups.

So its not that Abo's are Alcoholics, the issue is that genetically they cant handle any at all. Even 1 can [seriously]. Also its not Western Culture's fault either. Western people had no idea, until VERY recently that Alcohol tolerance was on a genetic level and that some groups could not handle a drop of it.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcohol_tolerance


Alcohol tolerance in different ethnic groups

""The tolerance to alcohol is not equally distributed throughout the world's population, and genetics of alcohol dehydrogenase indicate resistance has arisen independently in different ethnic groups.[2] People of European descent on average have a high alcohol tolerance and are less likely to develop alcoholism compared to Aboriginal Australians, Native Americans and some East Asian groups.[3][4][5] This is related to an average higher body mass, but also to the prevalence of high levels of alcohol dehydrogenase in the population.[6][7] The high alcohol tolerance in Europeans and some other ethnic groups has probably evolved as a consequence of centuries of exposure to alcohol in established agricultural societies.[8][2]

Not all differences in tolerance can be traced to biochemistry.[9] Differences in tolerance levels are also influenced by socio-economic and cultural difference including diet, average body weight and patterns of consumption.[10][11]

An estimated one out of three people in East Asian countries have an alcohol flush reaction, colloquially known as "Asian Glow", a condition where the body cannot break down ingested alcohol completely because it lacks the genetically coded enzyme that performs this function in the bodies of drinkers with "European" tolerance levels.[12] Flushing, or blushing, is associated with the erythema (reddening caused by dilation of capillaries) of the face, neck, and shoulder, after consumption of alcohol.[12]""






Europeans [White people] are the de facto best drinkers since Alcohol has been common in Europe for thousands of years. We can say Black people dominate sports ? Yep. Well Whiteys dominate downing a Jack Daniels.

When did this turn into a thread about Australian and aborigines having drinking problems?