I don’t know, personally I disagree with labeling it a terrorist attack. Maybe this is nitpicking semantics, but IIRC, one of the criteria for a terrorist attack is:

Actually, Mexico has a fairly high “white” population. (i.e. 100% or nearly so western european.) Mexico doesn’t really take demographic census, but google search seems to indicate somewhere between 10% and 50% of the population. (yeah, huge margin of error).

I’m pretty sure I’m squelched on this website, and maybe it’s just a poorly written statement, but it reads as if some of the other kids were putting the rope around their neck and hung from it a bit prior to them putting it around the hurt kids. It may sound stupid, but they may not have thought it was dangerous.

As responded to the other poster who replied similarly, how does sabotaging cross burnings help with that? Make a fool of one of the higher ups in the org by burning a + instead of a cross so he can take his place?

That’s a great reason for infiltrating the organization. Makes absolutely zero sense as a reason for sabotaging the cross burning.

They must find the Nuke happy Gandi in the Civ games really offensive then...

1. I’m not hysterical.

I think if I discovered a possible romantic interest was doing this to me I’d run like a rabbit.

The article title is a bit misleading. The mother was charged with improper supervision, not charged with the crimes her children committed.

*shrug*. I was raised in a fairly mid/upperclass neighborhood. (The type of place where, and I kid you not, after the high school football team was caught drinking at an away game and suspended, the suspension was overturned after the parents (most of whom were lawyers) threatened to sue the school), and there was a…

P0inting out the obvious, but I’d assume/expect the children will be placed with foster care, (the same place they would be put for abuse) who are able/paid to actually supervise kids. And this could turn out to be a GOOD thing for the kids in question.

Possibly a matter of semantics, but I’d have to disagree. Friend zoning is definitely a thing, however a girl has EVERY right to friend zone whomever she is uninterested in, and as far as I’m concerned (as a guy) far preferable to letting the guy think he has a chance when he doesn’t.

Except you CAN get worse than catastrophic.

Interesting, I was taught sex ed before ‘96, but was apparently taught wrong, (or the science has changed). We were taught that condoms were more reliable than birth control pills. I *think* it was essentially that condoms failure rate was 2% per use, so combining the chance of the condom failing along with the…

I’m really curious about how you sabotage a cross burning. Replace the gasoline with water? Provide a steel cross that’s covered a wood-like laminate? Put the crossbar in the middle so it’s more of a “+” burning?

I disagree. If they were TRYING to be as offensive as possible they would have to include Mohammad and/or Allah, since the Koran, I believe, specifically prohibits that. At worst they are trying to tiptoe up to the line without actually being offensive according to the actual texts behind the religions. (which…

Strongly disagree with point 1. The reason for taping isn’t about preventing them from shattering, it’s precisely so that they break into large shards instead of thousands of tiny ones, because a handful of large shards are less dangerous and easier to cleanup than thousands of tiny shards.

Because it’s specifically mentioned as such in the article?

Millions, I’d assume. What’s your point? That colleges make enough money that they can afford to lower standards of guilt resulting in a massive payout every couple of years when they actually get caught being flagrantly wrong?

The best war is the war avoided. I wouldn’t be at all surprised if most of this was complete made up B.S. With a few actual examples to point to. Little of this actually needs to work, it’s mere (rumored) existence will deter invasion.