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Exactly. Exploiting his race to further a political narrative as the author has done, is both intellectually feeble and misdirects away from the real issue: aut
by eldude 11y ago
Exactly. Exploiting his race to further a political narrative as the author has done, is both intellectually feeble and misdirects away from the real issue: authoritarian government behavior targeted at school children.
- cholantesh 11y agoWell, given that the police implied heavily that his religious background makes him a candidate for making a bomb...
- eldude 11y agoYou mean the non-specific 2nd-hand quote from the officer that makes up the entirety of the justification for the race baiting and exploitative behavior? "Yup. That’s who I thought it was." Like I said, it's an intellectually feeble argument.
- nsxwolf 11y agoThat either meant "Yup. The kid that's always building electronics", or "Yup, the Muslim." When in doubt, always assume the worst.
- cholantesh 11y agoWhat part of his appearance gives the former away?
- nsxwolf 11y agoThe cop may already know the kid or have heard about his hobbies? We have no idea, we just have a short bit of hearsay.
- 7Z7 11y ago"He said an officer he’d never seen before leaned back in his chair and remarked: 'Yup. That’s who I thought it was.'" Almost certainly not known to him before this incident. http://www.dallasnews.com/news/community-news/northwest-dallas-county/headlines/20150915-irving-9th-grader-arrested-after-taking-homemade-clock-to-school.ece http://www.dallasnews.com/news/community-news/northwest-dall...
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- boomlinde 11y agoYou mean furthering a different political narrative than you are.
- eldude 11y agoSo, you focus on attacking my point with insinuation and equivocation, yet ignore the exploitative anti-intellectual (fact-less) position of the TechCrunch author, whose sole contribution to the story was to inject race? Conveniently, you ignored the facts and in doing so implicitly mischaractered me as equally lacking in factual basis for my "narrative", which, of course, is absurdly wrong, since my first word, "Exactly" presupposes the parents' citations.
- boomlinde 11y agoPerhaps surprisingly, to a small amount of people, "Exactly" isn't the source of the irony that I pointed out, but the fact that you are referring to the real issue, by which you dismiss that there are any other real issues involved. You did so without making a factual argument and without sharing any of the reasoning that had you arrive at that conclusion. The mystical real issue for which no other explanation is offered is like a textbook example of a political narrative.
- cholantesh 11y agoThe spirit of Murray Rothbard personally touched the poster and imbued him with sacred realisation, obviously.
- eldude 11y agoThe only irony here is your complete failure to understand my original comment and your own failure to provide reasoning for your own false conclusion. Based on the facts in the OP and parent comment, I was disassembling the race-baiting rhetoric as anti-intellectual and fact-less (which, since you missed it, is itself a fact), to refocus on the original issue. Meanwhile, double-ironically, you again ignore context and facts, equivocate ("real issue"), and wildly mischaracterize me to make an increasingly invalid point based on a fundamental misunderstanding of my comment.