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A Union Mine High School student is facing battery charges after an altercation in her classroom over a Donald Trump "Make America Great Again" campaign hat, reports CBS Sacramento. In cellphone video, a teacher is seen trying to subdue fired-up 17-year-old senior Jo-Ann Butler after she became enraged at a classmate for wearing the MAGA hat.
She grabbed the hat off his head.
"That's a racist and hateful symbol," Butler said.
She is now facing two counts of battery, one on her classmate and one on her teacher, who deputies say she slapped as he escorted her from the room.
Butler says she made the scene to express her political feelings.
"Maybe just wake people up in some type of way, because it's not cool, the environment our classroom is in," Butler said.
You know, I'm always happy to see people, especially young people, getting politically engaged. Far too many don't. She might want to work on her approach, though.
LittleRaven wrote: ↑Thu Aug 30, 2018 12:43 am
Yeah, I figured sarcasm in a thread title might be a tricky thing. I figured the 111s would do the trick though.
This is a teenager being stupid, which teenagers are wont to do. Nothing more.
I remember when I learned about how we sent something like a million, two million men to kill every Nazi the Soviets didn't get to and string up first.
Now we have to call them the "alt-right" and let them rant about how everybody who isn't a straight white Protestant guy is subhuman. Man, I miss the '40s. We had a lot of problems back then, but at least we knew what to do with Nazis.
Some teenager got pissed off at some un-American Nazi-loving asshole's attempt to rile people up. Who cares? Teenagers do stupid shit all the time.
All this and other examples (as well as some of the responses to it) show me is that some people have failed to learn the lessons of history. In this case that lesson would be about dehumanizing people in order to make any action taken against them acceptable.
"Black care rarely sits behind a rider whose pace is fast enough."
-TR
Worffan101 wrote: ↑Thu Aug 30, 2018 6:47 am
I remember when I learned about how we sent something like a million, two million men to kill every Nazi the Soviets didn't get to and string up first.
Now we have to call them the "alt-right" and let them rant about how everybody who isn't a straight white Protestant guy is subhuman. Man, I miss the '40s. We had a lot of problems back then, but at least we knew what to do with Nazis.
Some teenager got pissed off at some un-American Nazi-loving asshole's attempt to rile people up. Who cares? Teenagers do stupid shit all the time.
Go ahead call half or 25% of the population Nazis, nobody forces you to be politically relevant. Feel free to pile up more unforced errors.
Worffan101 wrote: ↑Thu Aug 30, 2018 6:47 am
I remember when I learned about how we sent something like a million, two million men to kill every Nazi the Soviets didn't get to and string up first.
Now we have to call them the "alt-right" and let them rant about how everybody who isn't a straight white Protestant guy is subhuman. Man, I miss the '40s. We had a lot of problems back then, but at least we knew what to do with Nazis.
Some teenager got pissed off at some un-American Nazi-loving asshole's attempt to rile people up. Who cares? Teenagers do stupid shit all the time.
Where did it say that the MAGA-hat-wearer loved Nazis or was attempting to rile people up?
Worffan101 wrote: ↑Thu Aug 30, 2018 6:47 am
I remember when I learned about how we sent something like a million, two million men to kill every Nazi the Soviets didn't get to and string up first.
Now we have to call them the "alt-right" and let them rant about how everybody who isn't a straight white Protestant guy is subhuman. Man, I miss the '40s. We had a lot of problems back then, but at least we knew what to do with Nazis.
Some teenager got pissed off at some un-American Nazi-loving asshole's attempt to rile people up. Who cares? Teenagers do stupid shit all the time.
Where did it say that the MAGA-hat-wearer loved Nazis or was attempting to rile people up?
Wearing a MAGA hat to school is attempting to rile people up. It's provocative enough out on the street, but going into your classroom? You know, there's a reason why a lot of schools are iffy on allowing political slogans.
As for Nazi-loving--if he's a young male in the public school system and a Trump fanboy, odds are at least 90% that he's alt-right. And the alt-right are literally nothing but Nazis who've rebranded themselves--Richard Spencer himself admitted as much.
