[The Avon Lady]

Originally Posted by P_Funk

I wouldn't call it a hate crime, but certainly its an atrociously mean thing for a kid to do. Anyone that's doing that to a person has issues they need to hash out.

Is it so "atrocious" that this should even have reached the press? Ask yourself why it did.

To quote Jihad Watch's Robert Spencer (you knew I would eventually):

"You know, I hated middle school too. Children treated each other horribly every day. I remember one time some idiot spit into sandwich of some guy who had walked away from the table. It it is an age at which children can be especially cruel and brutal. But the sandwich-spitter was the same race as his victim, and it was a (marginally) saner time, so that story didn't end up in the newspaper.

This culture of softness and victimization is no good for anyone. Obviously we are on the way to treating Muslims as a privileged class, around whom everyone else must tiptoe, so that they are protected from all possible offense, even offenses committed by boorish prankster schoolchildren.

I also wonder if these Somali students would prefer a ham steak on their table, or life in Mogadishu. As I recall there were incidents in Nazi Germany in which Jews were beaten and forced to eat bacon. Those were hate crimes. Ham steak on a table in a lunchroom? Come on."