Jason has been getting a lot of people hot under the collar recently.
Unless you haven't been following the chatter on both cyberspace and the print media, you should know which Jason I'm talking about. Yes, Jason Neo, that guy who saw it fit to use a picture of a busload of kids to insult an entire community.
I believe a lot of oil has been poured into this firestorm, and one may say that I'm doing nothing more than to add even more fuel to it by adding this late, late post. However, the way I see it, adding my two cents' worth of fuel to the conflagration should be seen in the context of all the shiploads of oil that has already been spilled by Jason Neo.
Yes, that's right - that's how I see this whole issue: as an oil spill of sorts on our own community. When you tar everyone with the same brush, that counts as blatant and outright discrimination. After all, simple logic dictates that the actions of one cannot be applied to an entire community as a whole.
Lots of people have been baying for his blood, figuratively speaking at least. I'm not one of those people, for we should always strive to be the better person in cases like this. As terrible as his actions were, retaliating in kind just makes the rest of us no better than him. He's just not worth the effort. Besides, I have always felt that cases like this are just too stupid for law enforcement to handle.
After all, if it takes a stupid person to show this level of discrimination and intolerance, then it takes a very stupid person to drag innocent kids into the mix, and it takes a mindblowingly stupid person to blare it out on Facebook. I seriously doubt that a day in court and a few weeks in jail makes a stupid person any smarter. If it does, tossing half the world's population in prison oughta do humanity a whole lot of good.
So, Jason, let me address you directly: I'm a Muslim, and regardless of whatever cynicism I may have about your apology, I'm gonna have to accept it. That said, how am I supposed to look at you directly in the eye should we ever meet? It makes me question why I have to serve 2 1/2 years of NS and 2-3 weeks a years for the next ten years (I'm in my sixth year now) to prepare for external threats when there are threats from within coming from foolhardy miltons like you?
I won't spit on your face, and I won't flip the bird at you. I just refuse to look at you in the eye and show you any respect. I also won't ask for the police to come down on you and slap you with the Sedition Act.
But guess what, Jason? That isn't up to me. Three different people have filed police reports against you, one of whom includes the principal of the kindergarten in question.
Good luck trying to sleep at night.
Wrong Jason.
Unless you haven't been following the chatter on both cyberspace and the print media, you should know which Jason I'm talking about. Yes, Jason Neo, that guy who saw it fit to use a picture of a busload of kids to insult an entire community.
I believe a lot of oil has been poured into this firestorm, and one may say that I'm doing nothing more than to add even more fuel to it by adding this late, late post. However, the way I see it, adding my two cents' worth of fuel to the conflagration should be seen in the context of all the shiploads of oil that has already been spilled by Jason Neo.
Yes, that's right - that's how I see this whole issue: as an oil spill of sorts on our own community. When you tar everyone with the same brush, that counts as blatant and outright discrimination. After all, simple logic dictates that the actions of one cannot be applied to an entire community as a whole.
Lots of people have been baying for his blood, figuratively speaking at least. I'm not one of those people, for we should always strive to be the better person in cases like this. As terrible as his actions were, retaliating in kind just makes the rest of us no better than him. He's just not worth the effort. Besides, I have always felt that cases like this are just too stupid for law enforcement to handle.
After all, if it takes a stupid person to show this level of discrimination and intolerance, then it takes a very stupid person to drag innocent kids into the mix, and it takes a mindblowingly stupid person to blare it out on Facebook. I seriously doubt that a day in court and a few weeks in jail makes a stupid person any smarter. If it does, tossing half the world's population in prison oughta do humanity a whole lot of good.
So, Jason, let me address you directly: I'm a Muslim, and regardless of whatever cynicism I may have about your apology, I'm gonna have to accept it. That said, how am I supposed to look at you directly in the eye should we ever meet? It makes me question why I have to serve 2 1/2 years of NS and 2-3 weeks a years for the next ten years (I'm in my sixth year now) to prepare for external threats when there are threats from within coming from foolhardy miltons like you?
I won't spit on your face, and I won't flip the bird at you. I just refuse to look at you in the eye and show you any respect. I also won't ask for the police to come down on you and slap you with the Sedition Act.
But guess what, Jason? That isn't up to me. Three different people have filed police reports against you, one of whom includes the principal of the kindergarten in question.
Good luck trying to sleep at night.
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