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Forums - Politics Discussion - 14 year old muslim boy brings clock to school, gets arrested thinking it was a bomb

finalrpgfantasy said:
How can someone mistake a clock with a bomb? If he was an American kid, I'm pretty sure none of this would happen.


He was an American kid.



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Goodnightmoon said:

I´m having a hard time trying to imagine a clock that could be confused by a bomb to be honest.


Granted, I don't know what a bomb does look like. But in my imagination, it looks a lot like that.



Slarvax said:
Oh for fucks sake. When an adult "american" brings a gun to school nothing happens to him until it's too late. But better be careful about that young muslim kid.


Huh? White kids (I assume that's what you mean) are getting penalised all the time under zero-tolerance for playing with things that look remotely like guns. Like their fingers. Or pop tarts.



Lookie here, MS getting in on the circlejerk

Disclaimer: I don't care about this whole ordeal, I see it as some people making a dumb and admittetly racist mistake and the whole thing getting blown completely out of proportion, I didn't post this to shame MS but because I just saw it on the reddit frontpage (which in this case is also the frontpage of the circlejerk) and thought it was amusing. Now that's enough "politics discussion" for me.



...and already we have copycats trying to one up him

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/canadian-teen-charged-with-mischief-offence-after-bomb-shaped-alarm-clock-causes-evacuation-at-torontos-international-airport-10492398.html



“It appeared that there had even been demonstrations to thank Big Brother for raising the chocolate ration to twenty grams a week. And only yesterday, he reflected, it had been announced that the ration was to be reduced to twenty grams a week. Was it possible that they could swallow that, after only twenty-four hours? Yes, they swallowed it.”

- George Orwell, ‘1984’