I am glad that Ms. Klein has gotten so much money from her supporters. I am glad that the students who bullied her are getting suspended for a year--it's the least that they deserve. I hope that the video and the suspension put black marks on the bullies' academic records for years to come.
But let us not forget one very important thing. The abuse that Ms. Klein endured one time for ten minutes is no different from the abuse that many students endure more than once a day, every day, week after week, month after month, school year after school year. Notwithstanding all the lip service paid to reducing bullying, this kind of abuse will continue until schools have the guts to do with bullies what we all do with the contents of our colons--expel them!
I agree with Locallady. However, I think that some of the other commentators should remember the difference between public humiliation and making death threats. The law allows freedom of association, which includes the freedom to make social outcasts of socially noxious people. But death threats are another matter because they are far worse than what the bullies said to Ms. Klein.
In answer to your questions, white racism is the reason.
I have to agree. Too often, television portrays chimps as comical and gentle creatures. That may be true of baby chimps, but the adults are ornery and dangerous. Only human beings are smarter and more diabolical. When we look back at the accomplishments of Jane Goodall, we should remember more than her research, and admire the bravery and the keen perception of chimp behavior that probably saved her life and limbs!
There is not now, nor has there ever been, the slightest evidence that executions, public or private, do anything to deter crime. America, along with that shining example of moral rectitude, Communist China, is one of the few rich industrialized nations that still executes people, yet we have more violent crime than Canada and virtually every industrialized nation in Europe.
I'd like to see a fight for more aid to the families of murder victims too. But I don't see the point of cheer-leading for the death penalty. Cruel and unusual treatment is when the state, on behalf of the people, behaves just as brutally as the murderers do. To allow cruel executions is to make the people's objections to murder as morally meaningful as a battle between two hungry shrews under a bowl. Are you better than a murderer? If so, what better way to prove it than to respect the American Constitution's ban against cruel and unusual punishment, even when the person being punished is the worst of the worst?
Uhhh, what does the hair have to do with anything?
If gun-control is so counterproductive, how come rich countries that have more gun control have less gun crime than the USA?
Why did you put scare quotes around the term 'lies'? He lied, period. What else has he lied about?
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