It’s a paraphrase
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Neither I nor @enso said that.
I said (now for the third time) You need to read the story and the comments in this thread. Your questions have been asked and answered several times.
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It’s a paraphrase
so you’re asking someone else to respond to a misquote?
What kind of conversation were you hoping for? Because one among equals is not what you’re doing with that bullshit tactic. You cannot be talked with if you have the right to quote other people with what they did not say, but with what YOU SAID. That’s not someone else behaving disruptively. That’s you.
it’s your imagination man, be responsible with it.
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If it puts your mind at rest, the actual quote was:
Having re-read the story to see if it had changed from when I read it when it was first posted, and read through, now, 300 posts on this thread I am still to see anyone explain how enforcing the dress code which was published and understood before the event is racist. We have no evidence of any white kids who broke the code, so no idea how the administration would have dealt with that. All we have is one kid who broke the rules and after being given the chance to comply, he decided again to break the rules and was then asked to leave, again he refused.
I honestly cannot see how this is a racial issue. At all.
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to everyone within earshot, I agree.
But a certain subset finds being disruptive to others just for the sake of it quite soothing. Most of them are under 7 years old. Some of them, however, never grow out of using those tactics to “protect” their own egos and personal sense of exceptionalism and infallibility.
Me, I’m just another redshirt.
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Others break the graduation dress code
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[quote=“CaptainPedge, post:466, topic:78756”]I honestly cannot see how this is a racial issue. At all.
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This quote should be the official slogan for white privilege.
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We have. We can’t understand it for you. You need to work a little harder.
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Others break the graduation dress code
Oh I meant that some people find it soothing to tell other people what those other people meant by adding words and then castigating them for what was added, rather than asking those other people nicely for clarification.
and I meant you, specifically, in this thread.
I’m talking with you about style here. This is not about the graduation, this is about you quoting others falsely and possibly expecting to be taken seriously by adults.
Please, take a break for a few, and read the thread, or consider what you motivation is here, and if you’re lying to us about that the way you lied about the quotes above.
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Oh, my bad; I really should have specified:
There, FTFM.
*I’m pretty much always referring to my own personal opinion, not speaking in general terms.
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Yet another core derailment tactic.
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I often help when asked nicely. What did you do nicely? Lie. That’s what you did there, with the misquotes.
What is the motivation to help someone who is lying and name-calling, exactly? You want good faith responses??
Then you give to get. You first. No excuses. Nobody here works for you, boss.
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Name calling? Now who’s lying and misquoting?
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You are.
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You. Here.
Unless you in good faith were calling him a champion, and not using mockery and derision to further derail a conversation with a personal commentary?
The only name calling came from other people
I’m flagging you starting now. You’re just behaving like a common asshole here. Take a break, because the dragon is on its way.
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Step one, caring enough to empathize.
If you’re not so sincerely stating that it’s not a big deal, of course you’re going to loop back to “it’s not a big deal because it’s not a big deal” in a big ol’ circle.
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Our family has had a couple of situations recently that are obvious to anyone who knows how to read the signs, but of course the people involved have no sense of being prejudiced.
Several times in the past few weeks, people who know our family (not strangers) have expressed surprise, actual surprise, that my teenager and her friends have acted in a reasonable fashion instead of breaking the law in a couple of different circumstances.
In one case, the lack of illegal and immoral behavior was explained away because there were LEOs in the area and the weather was cold. Otherwise, you know…
Up to this point I haven’t actually posted my opinion in this thread about the specific situation in the story, but now I will say that I have not told any of the people over the past few weeks IRL that they’re being rude and offensive and prejudiced, because I know they 1) refuse to comprehend what they’re doing is wrong and 2) would become either aggressive or passive-aggressive in their treatment of us from now on.
The internet is a great place to learn from people who have experienced life differently but don’t know you IRL and therefore are willing to tell you in a forthright fashion how it feels to be on the other side of the treatment. Just because no one tells you to your face that your assumptions are prejudiced doesn’t mean they aren’t; they probably don’t want to deal with the aftermath of making you feel defensive.
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I’ve read through the whole thread, just like you told me to. I cannot see anywhere where the narrative is anything other than
- Student refuses to follow rules like everyone else
- Student is asked to leave
- Student refuses to leave
- Student continues to do the thing he’s been asked not to do
- Student is escorted from event
Where is the evidence that this is in any way racist? Is it just because it was an African piece of clothing he was wearing? I really am trying to understand how you consider this racist , but going on the facts as they have been presented to me, this just sounds like an asshole student who didn’t get away with breaking the rules. I see no evidence whatsoever that any other student, black or otherwise, wouldn’t have received the same treatment.
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Escorted by whom and how?
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