Look, if I brought something that looked like that to school, I’d be expecting to get my ass hauled off in handcuffs. It’s not because he’s a muslim, I read your tags, but because it looks like a fucking bomb. A terrorist can be anybody and anybody can have a bomb. Yes, I’d “attack” someone with a bomb if it meant others would live if it were to go off, or to stop it before it starts. I’d rather be too careful than have a fucking bomb go off in my school.
To a teacher who has most likely never seen a real bomb before, this looks like a bomb. It wouldn’t be the first time that a student has brought a homemade bomb to their school. It was not an over reaction, but sadly a reaction that had to happen because of past incidents. If I was the parent of another student in that class, I’d rather the teacher overreact to seeing something like this, than under react and risk the life of my child.
Oh wow, I never saw what the clock looked like. Yeah, if I were ignorant enough I would think that could be a bomb, no matter your race, I would be uncomfortable with that around me and can now understand why the teacher reacted the way she did.
It is very easy to jump onto the presumed “The boy was a Muslim, this is Islamophobia,” but in all fairness, there was an alarm that went off from the clock in one of his classes and he took out something that is easily mistaken for a bomb. Teachers have to be very, very careful to make sure all students are safe. If they were not overly cautious and someone died, then there would be ten times the outrage.
Apologies, but the whole idea of, “He was targeted just because he was a Muslim” and the quick pandering to his family by celebrities and the like is an embarrassment. The whole thing was a massive shame, it was awful that he went through that, but the school and teachers were clearly justified in their actions. To the uninitiated, that clock looks like it could be a bomb.
While I’m not entirely convinced that it wasn’t a case of Islamophobia, I support Jolteon in pursuing that train of thought. My only thing is though I can KINDA see that looking like a bomb, “bomb” is not the first thing that would come to my mind. It makes it a little less damnable but it’s still indicative that we think of a significant amount of Muslims as terrorists. I’ve played around with the “what if it is a bomb” thing, and it doesn’t seem to work due to the fact that I find it hard to see a bomb without associating it with Islamophobia. I see a bunch of spare parts. Then again, I’m also not THAT tech savvy…
Admittedly, part of my bias in favor of Islamophobia’s existence is that the older pastor over my Church talks about Islam like it’s a satanist cult. :/ I respect him, but not this stance of his…
- Kuzco
I can understand the cops being called, but what I can’t understand is him being arrested for a faux (fake) bomb. Because the cops would have had a bomb squad and they would have determined that the clock was actually a fucking clock and not a fucking bomb, at that point it should have been fucking understood that it wasn’t a bomb. And the kid called it a fucking clock the whole time, never a bomb. So why the fuck was he taken in? Maybe give him a scolding and tell him to not make his inventions look like bombs, but there was no fucking reason to arrest him. Cops come in, make sure it isn’t a bomb, then everyone goes home. THAT IS HOW IT SHOULD HAVE HAPPENED
OKay but everyone is forgetting: He took it to his engineering teacher. Not to Ms Suzie Q. who teaches English. He took it to his engineering teacher and told her it was clock that he had made at home.
For the record, here are examples what the inside of a digital clock looks like:
These don’t look remarkably different to me from what Ahmed made. So what’s the excuse now?
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Donald Trump is exactly the kind of person that Jesus would have thrown out of the temple and beaten with a stick, and the fact that so many self-identified Christians want to put him in office tells you pretty everything wrong with white American Christianity.
Because Jesus had authority at temples and beat people.
I 100% can’t tell if you’re joking here but he actually did chase people out of a temple at least once for using religion for their own selfish gains, complete with literal table flipping and improvised whips
So really it’s not that he would have trump thrown out as much as he would storm in and accuse him of turning his father’s house into a den of thieves before upending a table on his head
Dude, Jesus not only chased them out, he broke stuff they were selling, let loose all of their animals, and fucking flipped all the money-changing tables.
Jesus 100% would have been chasing Trump out with a table leg.
Canon Jesus 10000% better than fanon Jesus
Because, You know, there is absolutely no way he would hate it!
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Taurus: super tickly whiskers
Gemini: pretty eyes
Cancer: back lil’ paws
Leo: smol tongue
Virgo: cute ears
Libra: the tum tum
Scorpio: smol nose
Sagittarius: v soft scruff
Capricorn: front lil’ paws
Aquarius: super dangerous lil teeth
Pisces: v pettable chest
The only astrology post i care about. Like no matter what u get how can u be mad
I looked it up just to be sure and this shit is Fr y'all
The Tasmanian people had a dialect and way of life that was different from other Aborigines. The British killed the men and women of the tribes and took away their food supply when they first arrived. Later they tried to “civilize” the Tasmanians and subject them to foreign diseases to kill off the last of them. The last full-blood Tasmanian woman was said to have lived until the year1888.
Wow!
at this point, what isnt racist in this country??!!
WHAT THE FUCK
Wow 😳😥
As a History Concentration with a rather unsettling love for Looney Tunes and other classic cartoons, I never thought that I’d see the day where my two completely unrelated passions merged up so wonderfully.
And yet, here we are.
So let’s talk about Tasmania, shall we?
Actually, pretty much everything that the OP said about Tasmania is correct.
By the way, her name was Truganini (Nickname:
Lallah Rookh.) If you’re going to use her legacy to try to criticize an old cartoon character you should at least give her the common courtesy of a name.
Now then, let’s talk about Looney Tunes.
Or more specifically, let us talk about the Tasmanian Devil.
Taz for short.
Great character.
Fun, energetic, hungry, and not a racist portrayal in any way, shape, or form.
The statement that Taz is a racist portrayal of the Tasmanian people is completely and one hundred percent wrong.
Now I know what you’re thinking…
“Alright marauders4evr, what is the Tasmanian Devil based off of?”
Well, Im glad that you asked.
Gather ‘round and listen closely now because this is going to be one of the greatest revelations that you will ever hear in your mortal lives.
The Tasmanian Devil…
…is based off of the Tasmanian Devil!
Yeah!
It’s a real animal!
An energetic animal who eats everything in its sight.
And Robert McKimson based a character off of it.
Speaking of one of the great men behind Looney Tunes…
Let’s talk about Mel Blanc!
I love him!
I wish that I could have met him!
He’s one of my late heroes.
Phenomenal voice actor.
The best that has ever existed.
The Man of 1000 Voices he’s called.
(And that’s an underestimate!)
The point is that he took a lot of pride in his work.
So what did he base Taz’s dialect off of?
I can tell you right now that it wasn’t the Tasmanian people.
Mel Blanc based the sound of the Tasmanian Devil…
…off of the Tasmanian Devil!
Here’s a clip of Taz’s dialect:
And here’s a clip of the Tasmanian Devil’s scream:
(Chilling, ain’t it?)
(On a side note, I just love to imagine Mel in the recording booth, screaming and growling before calmly doing Bugs’ voice!)
In conclusion…
What happened to the Tasmanian people truly is saddening and I wish that it hadn’t happened.
THE TASMANIAN DEVIL (TAZ) IS NOT A RACIST PORTRAYAL IN ANY WAY, SHAPE, OR FORM
THE TASMANIAN DEVIL IS A REAL ANIMAL!
MEL BLANC WAS AWESOME AND DESERVES YOUR UTMOST RESPECT!
T-T-T-T-T-T-THAT’S ALL FOLKS!
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