Is this racist? (obviously I can't tell)

[Audley Strange]

Judging from the picture the parents are just as bigoted as the kid, which explains the kid's behavior.

You said that without any irony, didn't you?

[Schneibster]

Judging from the picture the parents are just as bigoted as the kid, which explains the kid's behavior.

You said that without any irony, didn't you?

You didn't look at the picture, did you?

[Gawd]

Winger told KHTS that Grayson’s misbehavior in the past came into play when the incident occurred November 4.

“It’s not what he said, it’s how he said it,” Winger related, adding that student confidentiality precluded him from sharing many of the details.

“I can tell you that there was history and that the student had been counseled and we met with the parents,” he concluded.

About what I figured.

The story here is the right wingnuts making political hay out of racism again. Judging from the picture the parents are just as bigoted as the kid, which explains the kid's behavior.

Thanks, Bella.

Stereotyping is a typical racist activity. /Hypocritical line you like so much.

[Gawd]

Judging from the picture the parents are just as bigoted as the kid, which explains the kid's behavior.

You said that without any irony, didn't you?

You didn't look at the picture, did you?

Stereotyping is a typical racist activity.

[tattuchu]

It looks like the family isn't the slightest bit racist. From the end of the first article:

"Is it because my son is from Alabama originally?” Darren says he asked Winger. “Is it because Schauble is someone of importance? In Grayson’s group of friends, every single one of them is of a different ethnicity—Korean, Vietnamese, black, white, Hispanic. Our home has always been open to a wide range of people.”

That includes Julian Eubanks, a childhood friend of Grayson’s mother who bunked with the Thomas family for the first six months of 2011 while he looked for acting work.

“As a man of color and a close friend to this family, I am [offended] that such a grotesque accusation could be made against any of them, especially my ‘G-Man’,” Eubanks recently commented on a blog. “The so called adults in control of this situation have handled it horribly…they need to intervene and clear this young man’s name.”

[Schneibster]

Winger told KHTS that Grayson’s misbehavior in the past came into play when the incident occurred November 4.

“It’s not what he said, it’s how he said it,” Winger related, adding that student confidentiality precluded him from sharing many of the details.

“I can tell you that there was history and that the student had been counseled and we met with the parents,” he concluded.

About what I figured.

The story here is the right wingnuts making political hay out of racism again. Judging from the picture the parents are just as bigoted as the kid, which explains the kid's behavior.

Thanks, Bella.

Stereotyping is a typical racist activity. /Hypocritical line you like so much.

I keep telling you, noting behavior in individuals is not stereotyping. But you just don't get it.

[Schneibster]

It looks like the family isn't the slightest bit racist. From the end of the first article:

"Is it because my son is from Alabama originally?” Darren says he asked Winger. “Is it because Schauble is someone of importance? In Grayson’s group of friends, every single one of them is of a different ethnicity—Korean, Vietnamese, black, white, Hispanic. Our home has always been open to a wide range of people.”

That includes Julian Eubanks, a childhood friend of Grayson’s mother who bunked with the Thomas family for the first six months of 2011 while he looked for acting work.

“As a man of color and a close friend to this family, I am [offended] that such a grotesque accusation could be made against any of them, especially my ‘G-Man’,” Eubanks recently commented on a blog. “The so called adults in control of this situation have handled it horribly…they need to intervene and clear this young man’s name.”

I prefer not to jump to conclusions about the prior record of behavior. I am disturbed that a parent would allow their son's picture to be featured in political propaganda, and I judge a great deal of dishonesty is present given that. Y'all are welcome to draw your own conclusions but my son would never appear in such a context with my permission.

[Schneibster]

Judging from the picture the parents are just as bigoted as the kid, which explains the kid's behavior.

You said that without any irony, didn't you?

You didn't look at the picture, did you?

Stereotyping is a typical racist activity.

Noting individual behavior is not stereotyping.

[Audley Strange]

Inside the heart of every well meaning ideologue is a seething pit of hatred, bigotry and intolerance just waiting to be brought to the boil and manipulated "for the greater good".

[Schneibster]

Inside the heart of every well meaning ideologue is a seething pit of hatred, bigotry and intolerance just waiting to be brought to the boil and manipulated "for the greater good".

Libertardian propaganda.

ETA: Evidence:

Good is evil.

[Gallstones]

Not enough information to tell definitively.

Based solely on what was presented in the OP, my judgment is no, it is not racist.

[Gallstones]

I hacked my computer in CS class in highschool and sent a pop-up message to every user on the network that 'Harry is gay.'

Eh.. different times.

I remember an afternoon about a month and a half ago when I got a phone call from a very tense and upset school official.
My son had allegedly hacked into the school computer system. Son's story was a bit different; his assignment file was missing and he went looking for it. The whole thing was oh so serious.

Anyway, he was suspended from using the school computers for 72 days (?). This occurred in Advanced Computer class.
They gave him a notebook (computer) and he had to read actual books in the meantime.

First quarter grades came in last week.
He got his only A in that class.

[Gawd]

Judging from the picture the parents are just as bigoted as the kid, which explains the kid's behavior.

You said that without any irony, didn't you?

You didn't look at the picture, did you?

Stereotyping is a typical racist activity.

Noting individual behavior is not stereotyping.

You didn't note, you stereotyped the kid and parents. Stereotyping is a typical racist behavior.

[Schneibster]

Not enough information to tell definitively.

Nor should there ever be. School discipline of a child should not appear in public in any context unless there is criminal activity involved, and then only if public safety information must be disseminated or there is a question of adult wrongdoing. That these people would violate that precept by disseminating pictures of their own child tells me everything I need to know.

Based solely on what was presented in the OP, my judgment is no, it is not racist.

Would you recommend that school officials not discipline? Or that they disseminate the details in public to defend themselves?

[Audley Strange]

Inside the heart of every well meaning ideologue is a seething pit of hatred, bigotry and intolerance just waiting to be brought to the boil and manipulated "for the greater good".

Libertardian propaganda.

ETA: Evidence:

Good is evil.

You are a fucking joke. Thats the second time you've used libertardian clearly as an insult. you have claimed several times that I have been inculcated with Libertadian Propaganda (whatever the fuck that is, you want us to take you seriously but you pulls off shit like that?) Also you have quoted me as saying something I never said. Bad show.

Still as such, you are still a bigot. Feel good on you?