The Council on American Islamic Relations said the allegation was that the teacher had remarked, “I do not negotiate with terrorists,” when the Palestinian American student asked for a seat change.
Recent U.S. incidents involving children include the attempted drowning of a 3-year-old Palestinian American girl in Texas and the fatal stabbing of a 6-year-old Palestinian American boy in Illinois.
Other incidents include the stabbing of a Palestinian American man in Texas, the beating of a Muslim man in New York, a violent mob attack on pro-Palestinian protesters in California and the shooting of three Palestinian American students in Vermont.
I am not ignoring your point, I am just disagreeing with it. But your idea that people who disagree with you don’t want to discuss things with you is noted.
It’s not because of disagreement, but your apparent inability to even consider a reality where the racial aspect isn’t involved here. And since that’s the entire basis of what I’m discussing, would mean you aren’t intending to have a real discussion.
Not surprising given your other posts elsewhere in the fediverse. You never seem to try to consider alternative perspectives when people post them, just insisting they’re wrong for various reasons often including various logical fallacies. So I’m not exactly surprised you’re doing the same here.
I can consider that reality. I just don’t think that reality is even remotely likely in this case.
Your lying about me (couching it in “seem to”) and your unprovoked incivility are also both noted.
I do not give bigotry the benefit of the doubt and try to be nice to the person being bigoted. Especially when it’s a teacher being bigoted to a student, something that happens constantly. Something that I saw myself regularly in school.
Edit: Incidentally, this is a whole lot like people excusing Elon’s Nazi salute as a Roman salute or him being “autistic” and getting too excited.
Ehh except it is something people say and when pointed at children is a cheeky acknowledgement of how children are completely unreasonable sometimes.
It’s very common to refer to children (most often toddlers) as terrorists. Ive seen it countless times in mom groups and it never has any hate behind it.
Elon is a Nazi because he does Nazi salutes and courts favor with Nazis, and reposts nazi propaganda, calling it true. It’s not comparable.
When conservatives say we have “woke mind virus” this thread is exactly what they are talking about. It’s embarrassing watching something so trivial get blown into some hateful act.
Please show me an example of a teacher calling a child a terrorist. If it is very common, like you say, you can show evidence of it.
I have never called my child a terrorist, nor would I, because that’s fucking sick. None of the parents I know ever have either. Terrorists murder people.
You’ve got Google so you can look it up yourself. But heres a few of many different references to the joke:
Chris Distefano, a pretty well known comedian does a bit on it.
Here’s a t-shirt from a baby clothes website: https://heybaby.threadless.com/designs/tiny-terrorist-stretch/kids/baby-t-shirt
https://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/1aeyxhj/toddler_terrorist_organization/?rdt=37501 A mother calling her toddler a terrorist in a funny video
There obvioualy won’t be a video of a teacher saying it because you don’t film other people’s children and post it online.
How do you and others not get this? There won’t be a video of a teacher saying it, because it is not an appropriate thing for a teacher to say to a child.
It doesn’t matter if you or others think it’s extremely common. It doesn’t matter if you say it every day. It doesn’t even matter if you say it to your own child.
And I have no idea why you and others think that it’s okay.
Well it does matter, because it’s reality. You exist in the real world, not just an online world made up of echo chambers to your liking. People are going to make jokes not to your taste and they aren’t monsters because you don’t have the same sense of humor.
It’s not like I’m saying it’s an appropriate thing to say to a child in a classroom, just that it’s an established joke and not a default “this person is a racist” kinda comment.
This whole thing has been about whether it is appropriate for a teacher to say it to a child.
I couldn’t care less if adults say that to each other, nor did I call them monsters or even imply it, so I have no idea why you’re putting such vile words in my mouth.
You truly believe that calling a child a terrorist is trivial?
Whoo boy, are you in for an awakening.
Oh yeah, big time trivial. Like a joke even.
Go find a child with their parent on the street (one that you don’t know), and call them a terrorist and their parent a terrorist sympathetiser.
Why? What’s that got to do with anything? It’s not what happened in the article. You’re just making a strawman argument.