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From eastern europe... If a gypsy kid walks behind you you better keep guarding your belongings. Is that racist ? Yes maybe it is. But it is because most of the time THE gypsy kid is really trying to steal something from you. Should you start being careless because somebody tells you that it's racist ? Do you people really want to live in a world where gays,transgenders,gypsies,blacks,hispanics,yellows,purples are favoured and put on pedestal because some hundred years ago a white cowboy enslaved them and made them to pick a cotton ? Ever heard of positive discrimination ?

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This is the dumbest thing I've read all week.

You're getting downvoted, rightly, but I wanted to explain why that is.

> Is that racist ?

Yes

> Do you people really want to live in a world where gays,transgenders,gypsies,blacks,hispanics,yellows,purples are favoured and put on pedestal

You've got a pretty distorted view of all this. No-one (sane) is advocating for putting any group on a pedestal, we're just asking people to treat others as if they were human beings, which they are. It's really not that hard to grasp.

For example, in this case we are discussing no-one is asking for the kid to get special treatment because of his race, instead they are pointing out that he should not be actively discriminated against because of his race.

We don't have a problem with Muslim children bringing bombs to school in America. I am dumbfounded by the idiocy of this comment.

What the hell are you talking about?

Even if you ignore race, it's still ridiculous to arrest a kid for bringing a clock into school because someone believed it to be a bomb.

This is dumb on so many levels.

This kid didn't show up with a homemade alarm clock at a Confederate Flag rally.

He showed up at a school

You know, those places where you go to learn? Where you have these people called "teachers" who are supposed to have a college degree and promote learning?

Context matters. If you can't trust educated teachers in a school to know the difference between an alarm clock and a bomb, who else can you trust?

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