The Ham Sammich of Hate

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Originally Posted by Scourge

I think this story is a bit of a farce, but it's making it's rounds on serious morning radio who are passing it off as completely authentic. I think the incident happened, but I think several of the quotes are embellished.

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Yeah, here's the original story with the actual quotes. http://www.sunjournal.com/story/2083...ident_in_city/

Still, I listened to two different a.m. radio morning shows this morning from two different cities and they were pulling quotes from the story I linked to.

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Originally Posted by Type Ryan

It's called being PC (Politically Correct) and the uber-liberals out there insist on creating a bunch of pussies in this country by avoiding reality. "We need to be sensitive to others" - FUCK THEM! As far as I'm concerned this country is becoming a bunch of pussies. Get tough America.

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Yeah...please don't take an isolated event and turn it against those liberal boogeymen. If you want to talk about knee-jerk, ignorant, reactionary bullshit there are plenty of those for conservatives as well.

You want freedom? It goes both ways. You're free to say that sensitivity to other cultures is "pussification" just as they're free to overreact to a silly isolated event. They're both ignorant extremes, but that's what elected officials are for: making sure people like you never have too much influence alone.

What I don't understand is why the Muslim student even went into the bag. If there was a lunch bag next to you on a lunch table, wouldn't you assume that it's someone else's lunch and not look through it? Was he trying to steal someone else's lunch, and then realized the joke was on him?

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Originally Posted by Scourge

...but I think several of the quotes are embellished.

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Damn!, and I actually thought you made those quotes as I was reading that.
..I'm thinking to myself: "hmm, this Scourge is a funny guy!"
but alas, it is not as it had appeared.
:noob:

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Originally Posted by TrialSword

Yeah...please don't take an isolated event and turn it against those liberal boogeymen. If you want to talk about knee-jerk, ignorant, reactionary bullshit there are plenty of those for conservatives as well.

You want freedom? It goes both ways. You're free to say that sensitivity to other cultures is "pussification" just as they're free to overreact to a silly isolated event. They're both ignorant extremes, but that's what elected officials are for: making sure people like you never have too much influence alone.

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For the record I'm "in the middle" neither Dem or Rep. I like to listen to the person who makes the most sense. Since you're so in tune with the political arena then run for office. All I would do is help this country get is balls back. It gets me fired up to hear about reoccuring instances where someone is talking about their "feelings getting hurt" and how now everyone needs to be "sensitive". Were things like this back 30-40 years ago? I'd say that that generation turned out okay - wouldn't you? As for ours? I'm pretty concerned. I understand we all have our differences and everyone has the freedom to be different, but I hate it when the media AND society like to take a simple, adolsecent act and turn it into a hate crime and further add fuel to the "PC" fire we all have to deal with today.

I've said it before and I'll say it again - Political Correctness Breeds Weakness.

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Originally Posted by Type Ryan

For the record I'm "in the middle" neither Dem or Rep. I like to listen to the person who makes the most sense. Since you're so in tune with the political arena then run for office. All I would do is help this country get is balls back. It gets me fired up to hear about reoccuring instances where someone is talking about their "feelings getting hurt" and how now everyone needs to be "sensitive". Were things like this back 30-40 years ago? I'd say that that generation turned out okay - wouldn't you? As for ours? I'm pretty concerned. I understand we all have our differences and everyone has the freedom to be different, but I hate it when the media AND society like to take a simple, adolsecent act and turn it into a hate crime and further add fuel to the "PC" fire we all have to deal with today.

I've said it before and I'll say it again - Political Correctness Breeds Weakness.

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I would say the whole PC problem stems from the media, not the political arena. The reason people are so uppity and tigh-assed about PC terms and circumstances is because there's an advocacy group for just about everything, and they have an open forum to all levels of the media. If you so much as say or do something that could be construed as offensive, hawks will descend upon media outlets and you'll have microphones and cameras up your ass for days.

Part of it is just about the progression of technology and its ability to be more intrusive on every level. Youtube, 24 hour news networks, online news networks, etc. Politicians and officials have only recently been under constant public observation, and I assume it's unnerving.

As technology improves I imagine the situation will only get worse, but my point is, just because you see this ridiculous dance between media outlets and officials or representatives that stumble over their own words so as not to offend doesn't mean that freedom is being robbed of us. But expressing these freedoms is now under more public scrutiny than ever before.

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Originally Posted by Nash

What I don't understand is why the Muslim student even went into the bag. If there was a lunch bag next to you on a lunch table, wouldn't you assume that it's someone else's lunch and not look through it? Was he trying to steal someone else's lunch, and then realized the joke was on him?

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Punk'd!

Personally I fully support religion being mocked at every possible junction as long as no one gets hurt. Maybe one day we can drag our left foot out of the dark ages.

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Originally Posted by Scourge

Muslim Student: "That ham sandwich in a bag where we couldn't even see might as well have been that pig's head and that cafeteria might as well have been the most religious building for Muslims in Maine."

Superintendent: "The children have got to learn that ham is not a toy, and that there are consequences for being nonchalant about where you put your sandwich."

"The Jews had to go through the same thing when the Nazis would force-feed them bacon; do we really want our schools to become concentration camps?"

"All our students should feel welcome in our schools, knowing that they are safe from attacks with ham, bacon, porkchops, or any other delicious meat that comes from pigs."

Innocent Bystander Student: "I know the guy who put the sandwich there, he just wanted to be funny and see how those Somalis would react. I'm just glad that kid I beat up yesterday was white; I wouldn't want to be in that mess."

Somali Student: "we didn't know what was in this bag. One of my friends reached inside it. It was a big ham steak. There were five of us at the table, all Somali. Right then, I could feel Allah condemning me to burn for eternity for being within a 6.2 meter radius of ham, so yeah, it was a hate crime... for the rest of my life when I remember middle school, this will pop up right away; it's like I'm back in Somalia being shot at all over again."

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I refuse to believe someone actually said that to a reporter. :lol: If its true this is the stupidest thing ever. But in the mean time LOL @ muslims and their feelings.