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Ehh. I'm sure any number of equally awkward HN commenters at 14 might have done the same, and if they weren't muslim, gotten the benefit of the doubt instead of

Ehh. I'm sure any number of equally awkward HN commenters at 14 might have done the same, and if they weren't muslim, gotten the benefit of the doubt instead of being hauled off to the police dept.

OkayBuddy44 2y ago
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- mjamesaustin 2y ago
  Getting to whine about it from the comfort of your keyboard is a privilege, yes. Any of us who have the wealth to buy a computer, put food on our tables, pay all of our bills, and have spare time to wax poetic on an internet forum are certainly privileged. Privilege is not an accusation, it's a lens to understand how people experience the world from different perspectives.
  - OkayBuddy44 2y ago
    Right, and I'm using it here as a lens to try to understand how a little brown boy can be invited to the White House to meet the president as a misunderstood engineering prodigy, while my experience is that this would see a little White boy ignored (because this is nothing special tbh), shunned (for being a nerd), or even expelled (for trolling the school with a fake bomb).
- KingMob 2y ago
  It's really telling how you're focusing on the "white house" part, and glossing over the "arrested and accused of terrorism first" part.
rdtsc 2y ago
> if they weren't muslim, gotten the benefit of the doubt instead of being hauled off to the police dept. I don't see what that had so to with him being muslim? I don't see how bringing a most prototypical looking bomb-like device and not listening at least twice to the teacher put it away, then proceeding to set off the alarm on it, could have ended without the police involvement. If anything, the first teacher showed quite a bit of restraint and compassion, trying not to get the kid in trouble. So did the second teacher, up until the point the kid started to disobey and proceeded to set the alarm on it. Sure we can make fun of Texas being Islamophobic or backwards, I don't see how this would have played any better in California, or NY, for instance.

Ehh. I'm sure any number of equally awkward HN commenters at 14 might have done the same, and if they weren't muslim, gotten the benefit of the doubt instead of being hauled off to the police dept.

OkayBuddy44 2y ago

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mjamesaustin 2y ago
Getting to whine about it from the comfort of your keyboard is a privilege, yes. Any of us who have the wealth to buy a computer, put food on our tables, pay all of our bills, and have spare time to wax poetic on an internet forum are certainly privileged. Privilege is not an accusation, it's a lens to understand how people experience the world from different perspectives.
- OkayBuddy44 2y ago
  Right, and I'm using it here as a lens to try to understand how a little brown boy can be invited to the White House to meet the president as a misunderstood engineering prodigy, while my experience is that this would see a little White boy ignored (because this is nothing special tbh), shunned (for being a nerd), or even expelled (for trolling the school with a fake bomb).
KingMob 2y ago
It's really telling how you're focusing on the "white house" part, and glossing over the "arrested and accused of terrorism first" part.

rdtsc 2y ago

> if they weren't muslim, gotten the benefit of the doubt instead of being hauled off to the police dept. I don't see what that had so to with him being muslim? I don't see how bringing a most prototypical looking bomb-like device and not listening at least twice to the teacher put it away, then proceeding to set off the alarm on it, could have ended without the police involvement. If anything, the first teacher showed quite a bit of restraint and compassion, trying not to get the kid in trouble. So did the second teacher, up until the point the kid started to disobey and proceeded to set the alarm on it. Sure we can make fun of Texas being Islamophobic or backwards, I don't see how this would have played any better in California, or NY, for instance.