You’d be really rich? 
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[Reads @anon61221983’s link]
Entirely off topic, but utterly fascinating what can trend with kids.
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I think we may have the same kid.
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I would like to meet one of these Anglo-Saxons.
Or know what it’s really code for.
I guess WESP (white English-speaking Protestant) didn’t work as well as WASP. Pity we didn’t call the language Anglish as many of our neighbours do, we could stop blaming the Saxons for everything and turn our attention to the Danes, the Normans, the Huguenots, the Cornish, the Welsh, the Scots, the Germans, the Irish, and all the other white folk who one day would have descendants who would harass harmless girls in malls.
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[quote=“quorihunter, post:81, topic:102644”]
Like I have stated…if you feel the facts are that it is racially motivated; show me said evidence.
[/quote]Christ, @anon75430791 said they were speculating in every single post they made. Speculation is literally bereft of facts.
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It was originally Wealthy Anglo-Saxon Protestant. Of course people who have roots in England stretching back hundreds or thousands of years are going to be white.
It’s Protestant, as opposed to Catholic, because Catholicism was associated with immigrants and drunks and brown people.
It’s Anglo-Saxon to differentiate from Scandinavians and Germans, who are Protestant but not from the right stock.
It’s Wealthy to distinguish from the Poor White Trash, who, though Anglo-Saxon and Protestant, are anything but wealthy.
Although, if you really think about it, Poor White Trash used to be WASPs a few generations back.
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What if you are subtracting race? She is black, race is a condition she has to deal with every day and one she cannot get rid of no matter how hard she tries. You need more evidence in order to dismiss race as a factor for her treatment than is required to prove that skin color was not an issue. We can agree it was not just the clothes, can’t we?
Might not be the only factor, might not be the primary reason, but being black is always counted against you and she was most certainly targeted for being a woman. After all, can you imagine someone complaining about this?
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Good for them. . . I totally f@#king hate “Finding Nemo.”
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I see nothing wrong with her attire, which would beg the question; “what was the complaint really about?” IF I didnt already have a few theories, none of them good.
Sounds like my kid; her only request for Xmas/birthday gifts this year is Black Butler posters.
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Oh lord, that was a phase! The curry arc was kind of great, though.
We are currently in the One Piece and JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure phase.
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That girl in the photo could be mistaken for my daughter. But please by all means, tell me one more time how I am blind to what it means to have race affect your life.
Have you had to be called into school because one of your kids was called a racial epithet? I have…multiple times.
Have you been glared at and scoffed because your family is interracial and someone disproves? I have…more times than I can count.
I do not appreciate people making assumptions about me or my family based on our race. I’d prefer not to make assumptions that everything is about race, as I’d like to believe its not. Maybe it was in this case. I conceded that way at the top; I just wasn’t going to make the assumption since this young lady didn’t seem to make that assumption either. She got told her attire was too “slutty”. She expressly stated this. I don’t feel the need to speculate past that…others seem to want to. It doesn’t mean I am blind. It just means I’d rather not make assumptions.
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I see wut u did dere, and yes, may she shine on!
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Adding speculation to a discussion of the facts doesn’t strike me as constructive. However, no one here is dismissing that it was not a factor but i would reconsider how you’re confronting someone in this thread and strongly implying that race was definitely at play. Without knowing the facts or more information i would be hesitant to lean into other narratives. We know for sure she was shamed over what she was wearing. If you are able to find corroboration that there’s more to it i think some here would adjust their opinions.
Do i think it was slut shaming or racial bias? I just don’t know. I think my opinion on this doesn’t matter, though i find both fairly reprehensible reasons for humiliating that girl.
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Quite. Whatever mental gymnastics the busybody or others trot out to explain why they bullied her, there’s a reason she was singled out in a mall filled with young women dressed in similar or less clothing.
Minimizing the role racism played only coddles the racists. I’m all for talking about how other factors such as misogyny and objectification also played a part, but to pretend that makes race less of a factor is unhelpful and counterproductive. Generally bigotries, rather than diminish each other, function to amplify each other.
That’s pointless. No one is attacking West Michigan. In fact, making it about the place instead of the systemic cultural racism that pervades America and the West and even the world only undercuts addressing the actual problems. Making it about place simply reinforces people’s sports-ball tribalism until it’s reduced to a game of blame and schadenfreude between those who do and don’t happen to reside in the arbitrarily bounded region where it happened. Until next time when it happens somewhere else. Bigots are everywhere.
It took exactly two racists, the bully who complained and the mallcop who kicked her out. I’m pretty sure that not only are there at least two racists in Kentwood, Michigan, there were at least two racists in the Woodland Mall that day. And it has nothing to do with what state it happened in.
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Parenting done right! 
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And that is exactly how you are raising her right. You aren’t trying to force her into being something she’s not, which happens to a lot of kids (boys and girls alike, and generally worse for those who don’t fit those categories), whether it’s because Mom and Dad don’t understand the kids’ interests, don’t like them, or are trying to live vicariously through their kid(s) and have those kids succeed where the parents failed.
Parenting win, for you (and anyone else accepting their kids as individuals).
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No we don’t. We know with a fairly high degree of certainty that a magazine said she was kicked out of a mall and that the reason she was given for that was that her clothing was inappropriate. We feel fairly certain that the image displayed is of the person in question and she is pictured in the attire in question.
And yet here we all are speculating that the mall security acted inappropriately because we just assume that her clothing has a back (to go with the front we can see) and that she wasn’t fully nude when viewed from behind.
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Can we agree that its always a safe assumption that Mall Security acts inappropriately in any and all situations?
Well, except for this guy. He is always in the right.
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Originally from Austria. Yet another example of immigrants coming in and messing things up for everyone.
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