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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsA teen was beaten for carrying the pride flag at school. His classmates support the bully.
A 17-year-old student continues to recover following a brutal beating by a classmate. The reason for the attack: The bully saw his victim carrying the pride flag.
The incident happened at Southwestern High School in the southern community of Piasa, Illinois. School administrators had promoted a red, white, and blue, day encouraging students to bring their favorite flags to school. The Jacksonville Journal-Courier reports that when a classmate noticed the students pride flag, he asked him to throw it away. When the student refused, his classmate attacked him, punching him in the head.
At the time of this writing, the extent of the victims injuries remains unclear.
Police later detained the assailant and charged him with excessive battery. He remains at a juvenile detention center and could face hate crime charges in the future.
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"You wear a gay Pride flag to school and you dont expect people to do anything? You go to Southern (sic) High, where we support the Confederate flag and you wonder why you get beat up? one student posted to social media.
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Doesn't that last paragraph in the excerpt say it all. In the "Land of Lincoln", some see it as Confederate Flag country.
ret5hd
(20,491 posts)He went too far! If he had stayed at regular battery, everything would be OK I guess.
WTF.
mn9driver
(4,425 posts)-It ranks 13,394 of 17,857 nationally.
-Math proficiency is 28 percent, reading proficiency is 33 percent.
-It has 471 students and is 94 percent white.
This school has very little success at anything except creating Trump voters.
greenjar_01
(6,477 posts)That's a high fucking bar.
Downtown Hound
(12,618 posts)Fortunately from the Chicago area. Illinois is a blue state because of Chicago and a few other areas. But go to the rural areas, and it's Alabama of the north. This story does not surprise me in the least. It's why the whole red state, blue state thing is a false dichotomy. In reality, the country is purple, with certain areas having a few more of one color than the other.
DavidDvorkin
(19,477 posts)Blue states are the ones with big enough metro areas that they outweigh the acres of red.
Cities plus college towns, I should probably have said.
AwakeAtLast
(14,124 posts)Everything you say is true! I don't want to live in or near Chicago, but I pay a high price being around these RWNJs!
WCIL
(343 posts)Can confirm. Forgottonia leans HEAVILY Red, with all the ugliness that entails. It's getting scary here.
Hugh_Lebowski
(33,643 posts)However, the author is a little frustrating ...
I wish writers wouldn't do this. You basically give the reader a license to go 'pffffttt' when you sensationalize at the top and then admit later you don't actually know that your earlier description is true.
Without actual details, I'd stick to the 'excessive battery' charge from the police ... that sounds pretty bad too.
Just saying
rickyhall
(4,889 posts)Solly Mack
(90,765 posts)and I have no doubt they would have cheered the beaten of the student in the OP.
It's a generational sickness, passed on - hate and ignorance.
hunter
(38,311 posts)"Brain drain" is a real thing.
So is brain damage caused by hate radio, anti-intellectual religions, teenage binge drinking, meth, and insecticides.