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Standpipe · 3131 days ago · link · · parent · post: I feel like by focusing so much on Ahmed Mohamed as an individual, we're distracting ourselves from the real problem at hand.
i just don't get how anyone can believe that. A serious response like that usually has serious reasons behind it, and that is what is actually reasonable to assume. Without clear evidence of racism (like slurs), it's not logical to blame the reaction on racism with the details we know. What was rebutted? That the device was sketchy? That he was told not to show it to others and he ignored that? All I've maintained is that the whole situation seems very strange and that there's no way to know whether the reaction was justified given the details that have come out.His points seem more than reasonable.
You seem like an authoritarian apologist who doesn't give a shit that your previous "points" were rebutted