“Lo and Jesus said to his disciples, ‘Truly, the pharisees are total losers. Really boring. I mean who on earth are the pharisees? Lightweight morons who only get attention by attacking Jesus’”

I mean, if he is in fact referring to that passage it really doesn’t make him look good right? Like he says his favorite passage is about how one should never bend to envy, then he complains that all his life, others have been bending to envy. Presumably meaning, as he often says, that other people are jealous of him.

Yeah this is really reminiscent of historical examples of police harassment of people of color who dare to speak up. Detaining or arresting family members of PoC activists on bullshit charges even though you know they did nothing wrong? That’s textbook. I bet they have a seminar at the academy.

agreed. The officers and school officials are going to argue differently though

They weren’t being stupid. They knew exactly what they were doing. Ahmed’s father spoke out against Quran burning a few years back and has been involved in local politics. Obviously the reason the police officer that Ahmed had never seen before knew who he was “Yup. That’s who I thought it was,” is because the cops…

I believe it is. There might be an exemption for suspected terrorism though

I don’t think it is even about the kid per say. His father has been publicly outspoken and even made national headlines for “debating a Florida pastor who burned a Quran” according to the Dallas Morning News article. The cops obviously have been monitoring the family, which is why they knew who Ahmed was. This is an…

I think they pretty quickly understood it wasn’t a bomb. Like the teacher who was annoyed by the beeping confiscated it and sent him to his next class. If she had thought it was a bomb, I highly doubt she would have put it in her desk and gone on with her day.

I think that statement has something to do with the fact that Ahmed’s father is somewhat known locally for having at one point had a debate with a local pastor who burned the Quran. What is terrifying about that is that the local police knew who the kid was because they are apparently monitoring the family of the…

What is making this even more terrifying for me are the comments on the Dallas Morning News story. Lots of people think this was the kid’s fault, that he shouldn’t have brought the clock to school and that the school and the police acted appropriately

Exactly. I think that is what we are arguing about really. Does the Desnudas thing represent an inherently sexual context? I’m not sure that everyone really sees it that way.

And then I remembered Jared

Why? I’m a dude who would not be opposed to taking a picture with them, I mean I probably wouldn’t pay for it just like I wouldn’t pay for a picture with Mario in Times Square, but I don’t have a real problem with the idea. I don’t think either of them are necessarily sex objects just because they don’t have shirts…

It is funny. I never really thought of the Desnudas thing as being explicitly sexual. Like I understand that is what people’s objections are, but it has always seemed to me that they were falsely saying “breasts = sex.” There are topless book clubs in New York that meet in various parks and read topless, which again I…

I kind of assumed that was what she was doing? What do you think she was doing?

That’s clear misandry. These women are hiring fewer men, which isn’t fair.

I think they might have been for a big chunk of that. I do suspect that the 44 hour period is probably based on people observing them in the park during that time.

La Plata is a community of less than 9,000 people though. There are probably only a few cops in a town that size and they probably don’t worry a lot about the parks unless they have specific concerns.

La Plata is a pretty small town, less than 9,000 people according to wikipedia. It could be that even if the park does close, the similarly small police department doesn’t check to make sure no one is there after closing hours.

on second thought, it is possible OP meant we should get this Willow to whip her hair back and forth: