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Racist comments from a male senior, what should we do?
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Post 204 cites an area that I already posted. I saw nothing there about potential remarks as bullying.
And lastly, while I can't speak for others, I see a difference between inappropriate and bullying. In fact, that is the difference I am trying to demonstrate. Let me be clear- I am not defending inappropriate or even unkind remarks. I'm saying a one-time insult does not rise to the level of bullying.
I don't think the kid in the OP was teasing in a friendly way at all, though it would be interesting if OP's D had responded with something about sending him back over the border or something (as he's apparently part Hispanic) and knowing how he reacted to that. If it was with good humor, perhaps they could be said to be teasing each other.
Kchendds....I'm glad that your daughter did not say anything to provoke or insult this kid. I said in my post that I was not insinuating she did, I was merely asking unanswered questions. May I ask politely what preceded the offensive statement?
Of course none of use were present to hear the interchange. No way to know what was said without someone at the school assessing the situation. As I said before , look into and if it is determined not to be bullying, then it wasn't bullying. Why assume it wasn't without looking into it?
Personally, I don't want bullies given the benefit of the doubt. But in this case, I don't see enough to be convinced this boy was in fact a bully to Op's daughter. He sure was rude, unthinking, inappropriate, and eventually apologetic though.
It wasn't legal to send Jewish people to camps in Germany-they were legal citizens, after all. Until it WAS legal. In this country, Japanese citizens were full legal citizens with the freedom to move about-until they lost that right. Saying that you hope a non-white person is deported is a slur against them, because who knows if someone will actually TRY to make it legal to do so. A local town leader recently had to step down for trying to get a map of where all the LEGAL CITIZEN Muslims in his town lived-you know, in case "something" happened. But it was LEGAL so no harm, right?
We've already seen attacks against LEGAL citizens by followers of certain candidates for merely having a different opinion. We've seen physical violence against them. How is saying you hope a person is thrown out of the country not some kind of threat? We've seen what these followers are willing to do.
The justifying for the racism and bullying on this thread is mind-boggling.
Actually, that makes it WORSE. Clearly the person making the comment was basing it on the daughter's LOOKS, and not her actual legal right to be here. The likelihood that he'd say the same to a Caucasian immigrant from say, Poland, is pretty small. All this talk of deportation is not being aimed at those who look like us. It's being directed as non-whites, just like the OP's bully did.
So who commissioned him to police others' patriotism?
Also, this level of scrutinizing and busybodying over the perceived patriotic or lack thereof of others is something I'd expect from a tinpot dictatorship where mindless patriotism is mandatory or else.....not the good old US of A where yes....it may be distasteful...but one has the Constitutional right to not make outward appearances of patriotism.
If that's the kid's motivation, that makes my impression of him WORSE...not better.