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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The big issue here isn't just that some bigot decided to engage in Islamophomic bullying, it's that the administration sat by and did nothing. There will always be bullies and bigots but when folks with power choose to side with them, then you have a court case on your hand.[/quote]

Why can't they refer to the actual poem? We can't assume that the people doing the heckling were bullies or bigots because we don't know what words in that poem were being said.  A lot of people heckled Trump for the terrible things he would say in public; and barely anyone batted an eye. Words have meaning and power. [/quote]

Why can't you entertain for just a second that maybe an adult behaved badly? Islamophobia exists, just as do other forms of bigotry. It amazes me that folks on this board seem so ready to just assume a child was calling for jihad, rather than considering that maybe the adult was the one out of line. Moreover, it's painful to see that what appears to have been a child actually trying to share his culture ended in him being made to feel like his was the only culture that could not be recognized.

Look at this quote from the mom of the child who was publicly embarrassed. How can you not feel for them?

"I wish more people would come and talk to us. And ask us questions. Break the stereotypes about us and come and talk to us. We are not bad people.”

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Humiliating a child is terrible, I agree with that; however, something in that poem triggered outrage from some people in the audience. We should know what was in that poem. And I absolutely believe that an adult was responsible for all of this and they should be ashamed for using a kid to push their political agenda. [/quote]

Okay, but why so quick to assume that the child said something offensive rather than even considering for a moment that the adult who cut the kid off before he even got started was actually the problem?

There's this tremendous lack of grace being extended to an actual child, and all the benefit of the doubt being extended to the adult in the scenario. That's the bias at work.[/quote]

I think people just want to know what's in the poem. I can't imagine here in Montgomery County in this day and age where people would heckle a 2nd grader for reading a beautiful or innocent poem. That's why people want to know.[/quote]

Let's push on that a little further. You can't imagine here in Montgomery County in this day and age someone heckling a child for an innocent poem.

But you can imagine a 7-year-old proclaiming jihad.

That's what you're telling us, that you can't imagine an adult behaving badly, but you can imagine a kid who was still taking an afternoon nap 2 years ago calling for war.

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