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0 pointsmikeash10y ago0 comments

So saying nothing at all about the administrations and police, not even mentioning that they exist, is "vilifying the school/policeman/whatever"?

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efa10y ago· 1 in thread

Yep. This is like two parents. One is scolding a child for doing something wrong. The other parent goes to the child and says, "come on, lets go to Chuck E Cheese". It's undermining the authority figure. How much do you think this kid will respect the administration/teachers at this schools after his visit to the White House where Obama reinforced how they were all horribly wrong?

All I'm really saying is he could have easily cooled the situation.

mikeashOP10y ago

If it's like two parents, then one of them is abusive, and the other one is trying to gently steer the kid away from the abuser.

Sometimes authority figures need to be undermined. Doing so is not "vilifying" them, even if the abuser might see it that way.

Why does the situation need to be "cooled," exactly? There aren't any riots over this. The only person who was harmed in any way was the 14-year-old kid who was arrested and interrogated at length without a lawyer and without his parents. Why are you more concerned about the feelings of the people who did this than about him?

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