Story: School Student Banned After Setting Teen's Turban on Fire
We were able to tap into is train of thought right before he did this: "It's perfectly ok to set people's clothes on fire during school. There should be no reason I get into trouble for this. In fact, I'll most likely be a hit! Even the innocent boy whose safety, religion, and beliefs that I am defacing, will probably get a good laugh out of this."
Student Banned After Setting Teen's Turban on Fire
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I'd just like to say that you have absolutely no right to assume what that kid was thinking. I happen to go to the school where it happened, and the majority of our school believes it wasn't a hate crime. Unless there is evidence showing that there was hatred for the Sikh student in the mind of the student arrested, then I see no possible reason to label it as a hate crime. It was just a kid being stupid. I don't condone what he did, but I will stand up and say it wasn't a hate crime until its proven otherwise. The student was playing with a lighter, not going around setting everyone on fire because he "thinks setting peoples clothes on fire is cool."
sar·casm (sär'kāz'əm) n.
1. A form of wit that is marked by the use of sarcastic language and is intended to make its victim the butt of contempt or ridicule.
so you think it's some kind of joke?
Yes. The student lit someones head on fire...this qualifies him to be a candidate of ridicule.
So people who do things that hurt other people is funny? was 9/11 funny? they crashed planes into buildings. Does that qualify them to be the object of ridicule? that other guy is right, that sarcasm wasn't appropriate.
Attention Jackass. This is a satirical website. They make fun of people and situations. You might be offended. Deal with it. He was making fun of the idiot kid who set someone on fire. It's fine to make fun of terrorists too.. Unless that offends you. FIGURE IT OUT.
Hey fuckface, I'm sure if someone you cared about were on one of those hijacked planes or in one of those towers, it really wouldnt seem that funny. We all know that kid is stupid for playing with fire, but what was said about him on this satirical website is not just making fun of him, its attacking him and ACCUSING him of being racist.
someone tell this guy to cool off.
but then again, there's one in every crowd.
and theres one stupid kid in every crowd too. unfortunatelly for him, he could possibly be on trial for a crime thats being labeled as a hate crime when it wasnt a hate crime at all.
It's exhausting reading this argument. Why again are we defending a kid who lights people on fire?
The jackass targeted the Sikh kid's turban - an article of faith. He did not set the kid's shirt on fire, or the kid's pants on fire, or the kids school-bag on fire, but directed his attack on the kid's article of faith.
I'm going to label that a hate crime until I hear evidence to the contrary i.e. mental retardation or something to that effect.
Given that so many of these Sikh kids are being attacked because assholes think its ok to target someone for being of a different race or religion, I hope this 'firestarter' gets the book thrown at him.
Of course, maybe he thought the Sikh was Taliban - and was too dumb to know Sikhs aren't muslim, let alone Taliban. Maybe attacking turban-wearing Sikhs, is justified by virtue of ignorance and general stupidity?
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