Originally published at: http://boingboing.net/2017/05/02/black-art-student-with-glue-gu.html
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Sounds like a sticky situation.
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In before the following denials:
–He should’ve known better than to walk around with that thing exposed.
–This could’ve happened just as easily to a white guy.
–Better safe than sorry!
–Racism? Come on, the only racists around anymore are the people pointing it out!
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Then rumors spread. Suddenly there were two gunmen, and one had committed suicide.
That sounds like a really difficult way to commit suicide. The folks at Colgate aren’t the sharpest tools in the shed, are they?
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It couldn’t possibly be because he was a black man spotted by panicky white racists, could it? It must be something way more complicated and less probable, because white people are exempt from Occam’s Razor! /s
Actually, that would be an amazing (albeit incredibly weird) magic superpower. But I can say from experience that we are not exempt from Occam’s Razor, even when it’s like really super ultra inconvenient for us.
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i just don’t even know anymore.
At least he wasn’t gunned down by 54 armed tactical officers? I guess?
seriously…when is the space ship coming to take me home.
edit: beat @enkidoodler by a millisecond.
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Well, look on the bright side: Mr Art student isn’t dead. Progress by golly, progress!
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Well, it was in New York, not the South, so…
Society is a group effort. AKA we broke it we bought it we gotta fix it. No backsies, sorry.
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Somebody got to them before they shouted “He’s commin’ right for us!”
So yes… progress.
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NO! I have always claimed I am an alien and my people will return for me.
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So now the university will issue an apology to the student and start a dialogue on campus to bring students together so they don’t lose their shit over a black artist right?
I’m just kidding, cue the nopology, doubling-down and digging up a mug shot from the time he got arrested for a broken tail-light by Officer McCracker, complete with picture photoshopped to make him look like what white people think is a “thug”.
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Time to update The List.
Blinking LEDs
Photography & Video Cameras
Black/Brown Adults and Children
Direct Eye Contact
Breasts
Lyft
Peaceful protests
Halloween
Lesbians
Imaginary Black/Brown People
Puppies
Turtles
Rap Battles
Free Speech
Mail Carriers
Motorcyclists
Disabled People
Drawings of Penises
Two-Dollar Bills
Milk
Languages other than English
Makers
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The appropriate response would be for the art police to beat him up with their glue sticks.
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Sigh. WTF? Worse than the student with the katana handled umbrella.
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It’s getting longer.
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I’m so tired of this shit.
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hey HEY now…we all know exactly how dangerous this could have been.
wait for it…
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If he’s like most art students I know, a glue gun would be the least dangerous thing about him. He probably also has:
A kinfe
Exacto blades
Scissors
Hammer
Blow torch
Dozens of flammable chemicals
Empty glass bottles
(possibly drunk from emptying those bottles)
((probably also a little bit high))
Has his eyes on a plasma cutter, but dang those are expensive
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Anyone else read the headline as “A student of the black arts…”?
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gum erasers. You ever had someone hum one of those at you full force. They hurt man.
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