What is missing is oversight, and strangely enough "a fear of the law" on the part of those charged with enforcing it. Officers and Judges.
Black Children Were Jailed for a Crime That Doesn’t Exist
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#22Hey Americans protesting to "free" Australia, worry about your own country.
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#24Earlier quoted context omitted.
What are you talking about? How does anything you’re saying relate to the article?
I assume that the parent commenter saw something about systemic racism negatively affecting the black community, and decided to air their grievances about Critical Race Theory which is taught at the graduate studies level.
To be fair to them, I can see how one might see it as a practical demonstration of the supposed topic, and in some way be considered a lesson for the class that day.
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#25I don't understand how the police are called for a playground fight? (not even serious!) And then they are allowed to arrest children? Isn't there a law against that?
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#27Sorry but with the limited time children have, I would rather they spend any available time on practical material like STEM, rather than material of limited rigor pushed by activists. I have nothing against a factual historical education, but we already have social studies for that. I have no doubt these new ethnic studies classes will be used to push controversial, poorly evidenced concepts like “white privilege” an…
This isn't related to the topic at hand at all.
If you see an article about psychos jailing kids, and your reaction is this drivel, then yeah, it's malice. I don't think this person was just venting.
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#28Even those who support qualified immunity should find it difficult to support continued qualified immunity for those repeatedly breaking laws. I don’t understand how the individuals of the article can repeatedly break the law yet still not be held personally responsible.
If the logic of QI (the “qualified" refers to the legal clarity of the violation) applies at all, it applies to every offense that meets the qualification. There is no coherent argument otherwise.
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#29Is there a grammatical rule, or is it just politics?
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#30From the article: promotional video for the center, which is expanding as a business and contracting with other counties in neighboring states. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=igoy0sq4noQ The judge (Davenport) and facility manager (Duke) are still being paid well for their work in jailing children on dubious legal basis.