Kick a Ginger Day - Possible criminal arrests in Redheads attack

[Arus808]

this kind of crap disgusts me to no end.


http://www.myfoxla.com/dpp/news/local/redhead-attacks-investigation-findings-20091129

Calabasas - Three boys were facing potential criminal charges today in connection with the bizarre bullying attacks directed against redheaded students at a Calabasas junior high school.

The three -- a 13-year-old boy and two 12-year-olds -- were "detained and booked" last week for misdemeanors, and were released to the custody of their parents, said Steve Whitmore of the sheriff's department. Their names were withheld.

A mother resorted to dying here 12 year old daughters hair black because she was constantly teased for having red hair.

And how embarrassing that this happens at a school with the words "A California Distinguished School" emblazoned over the entry way.

I wish they would release the names of these kids, and hopefully that the kids and their parents pay for what happened.

[Thunder]

if one kicked a Jewish ginger...do they get twice the criminal sentence?

:)

[Undesired Walrus]

I recently discovered that Malcolm X was a ginger in his early years. I'm sure he wouldn't have taken that crap.

[Sledge]

I object to the use of the word "bizarre" in the article. Ginger kids are freaky.

[Professor Yaffle]

bUhLIjlTNSk

[lionking]

I know the OP is serious, but I can't help but point out the Sorry Ranga (short for Orangutan) Day he have in Australia.

http://blogs.abc.net.au/sa/2008/08/were-celebratin.html


Next Sunday, August 10th is Sorry Ranga Day, a day to apologise to the Red headed people in your life who you've treated bad. Or as organisers are saying:
"It's time that the Australian population apologised for the indignity and degradation inflicted on red headed people and moved to a future based on mutual respect, mutual resolve and mutual responsibility."

[Eyeron]

You know I really don't find that video funny.

[lionking]

You know I really don't find that video funny.

I did. No accounting for taste I suppose.

[Eyeron]

Has nothing to do with taste. But of course, things like that are only funny to the people who are not on the receiving end of that kind of crap.

[lionking]

Has nothing to do with taste. But of course, things like that are only funny to the people who are not on the receiving end of that kind of crap.
I know this continues to be off topic so will stop after this. People have great ability to laugh at themselves. And a bit of free advice - don't bother watching anything by the Monty Python team. They set out to offend people in hilarious ways.

[Sword_Of_Truth]

Has nothing to do with taste. But of course, things like that are only funny to the people who are not on the receiving end of that kind of crap.

I had a "christian" once tell me he wished it was still legal to shoot members of my faith.

I still laughed at the video.

"Sticks and stones..." as I learned in kindergarten once.

[Redtail]

I recently discovered that Malcolm X was a ginger in his early years. I'm sure he wouldn't have taken that crap.

Just for the record, when you're a light skinned black with red hair in the US you're called "red boned". Trust me I know.:D

[Sword_Of_Truth]

And a bit of free advice - don't bother watching anything by the Monty Python team. They set out to offend people in hilarious ways.

Can't resist, I gotta do it...

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[Redtail]

Can't resist, I gotta do it...

knwwgZNeIpA

I don't even have to look... It ends with a BOOM! doesn't it?

[Thunder]

I had a "christian" once tell me he wished it was still legal to shoot members of my faith.

i remember a guy in high school telling me that since I as a Jew reject Christ, he saw this as a personal insult against him.

and then there was a guy who told me "God used to love the Jews".

oh yeah, then there was the Christian who told me "we need to 'cleanse' America of non-believers".

[Sword_Of_Truth]

I don't even have to look... It ends with a BOOM! doesn't it?

Close, two rounds from a small pistol (it doesn't end well for the "stinking homosexuals").

[Eyeron]

I know this continues to be off topic so will stop after this. People have great ability to laugh at themselves. And a bit of free advice - don't bother watching anything by the Monty Python team. They set out to offend people in hilarious ways.

I love Monty Python humor for the most part. The difference is they aren't kicking someone just for having red hair, they're just trying to be senseless for the sake of being senseless.

[Professor Yaffle]

Has nothing to do with taste. But of course, things like that are only funny to the people who are not on the receiving end of that kind of crap.

The comedian who wrote and starred in it is a redhead (Catherine Tate) and one of my best friends who has the brightest orange hair I have ever seen thinks she is hilarious too.

Perhaps it's a case of the Tim Minchin song - "Only a ginger can call another ginger ginger".

[Professor Yaffle]

I love Monty Python humor for the most part. The difference is they aren't kicking someone just for having red hair, they're just trying to be senseless for the sake of being senseless.

How does that sketch kick people for having red hair?

[Redtail]

Close, two rounds from a small pistol (it doesn't end well for the "stinking homosexuals").

AWWWWWWWW!! I get the fail sauce.:(

I have to say, it's always odd for me reading something like this about the "gingers". It wasn't part of my growing up, one of my best friends would qualify and he was one of the cool kids, and I never understood "beaten like a redheaded step child" until my 20s.

It's a horrible thing but I can't help but think how Danny (the redhead) got off light in our daily commute to school when we (there were 5 of us 2 Black, 1 White, 1 Jew, 1 Indian) were throwing slurs at each other.... Granted Dave (Jew) and Sanjay (Indian) wound up walking the last 1/2 mile or so because they knew far more Black slurs....

[Dr Adequate]

A few years back, I read about how kids in a neighboring town (I think it was Melton Mowbray) would attack and abuse and throw stones at those guys who operate those street-cleaning machines, you know, the ones with the large circular brushes.

Why? --- because they could recognize them. They were a minority who could be clearly identified.

[Darat]

You know I really don't find that video funny.

I do - as with all great comedy it is built on a kernel of truth.

[Dr Adequate]

I wish I'd written this, but no, it was that perverted gay homosexual A. E. Housman responding to the rightful jailing of the notorious queer bender Oscar Wilde.

Darat claims to hate poetry, but has anyone ever put it better? No, they haven't. Therefore, I give you A. E. Housman's Oh Who Is That Young Sinner:

Oh who is that young sinner with the handcuffs on his wrists?
And what has he been after that they groan and shake their fists?
And wherefore is he wearing such a conscience-stricken air?
Oh they're taking him to prison for the colour of his hair.

'Tis a shame to human nature, such a head of hair as his;
In the good old time 'twas hanging for the colour that it is;
Though hanging isn't bad enough and flaying would be fair
For the nameless and abominable colour of his hair.

Oh a deal of pains he's taken and a pretty price he's paid
To hide his poll or dye it of a mentionable shade;
But they've pulled the beggar's hat off for the world to see and stare,
And they're haling him to justice for the colour of his hair.

Now 'tis oakum for his fingers and the treadmill for his feet
And the quarry-gang on Portland in the cold and in the heat,
And between his spells of labour in the time he has to spare
He can curse the God that made him for the colour of his hair.

[Undesired Walrus]

As a resident red head, I don't have a problem with that video.

[Puppycow]

Red-head here. I did find that video mildly funny. And I love South Park too.

Living well is the best revenge. The kids who did this will probably not live well.

[Undesired Walrus]

I'm a day walker though.

[whatthebutlersaw]

I find the Southpark episode, and Katherine Tate's take, funny. The problem is not in the satire - the problem is when idiots like the ones described in the OP does not understand satire. This does not mean that satire should stop. It means we should start retrospectively abort idiots.

For ease of administration, I will decide who's an idiot.

[Dave Rogers]

For ease of administration, I will decide who's an idiot.

Ginger hair is a dead giveaway.

:duck:

Dave

[Skeptic]

Three boys were facing potential criminal charges today in connection with the bizarre bullying attacks directed against redheaded students at a Calabasas junior high school. The three -- a 13-year-old boy and two 12-year-olds

Idiot teenagers act like idiots. News at 11.

[Donal]

So, these kids got kicked for one day and it is a crisis? Seriously? The cops had to be called? It is somehow news that kids pick on those that are different?

Speaking as somehow who was on the wrong side of this sort of thing for 12 years because he wasn't one of the cool kids, I'm finding it a little hard to generate that much sympathy for the gingers. Getting picked on because you stand out is part of the twisted sadistic event known as growing up.

I got a wacky idea: How about instead of emphasizing that it is wrong to recognize people as being different, you emphasize that it is wrong to physically assault anyone?

And I'm sending that Tate video to my ginger friends.

[Sledge]

I wish the police had got called in when someone hit me at school. :(

[The Shrike]

bUhLIjlTNSk

Flippin' brilliant skit. Meself, I'll take a ginger goddess over brunette, brown, or blonde any day o' the week.

[Kestrel]

So, these kids got kicked for one day and it is a crisis? Seriously? The cops had to be called? It is somehow news that kids pick on those that are different?

Speaking as somehow who was on the wrong side of this sort of thing for 12 years because he wasn't one of the cool kids, I'm finding it a little hard to generate that much sympathy for the gingers. Getting picked on because you stand out is part of the twisted sadistic event known as growing up.

That these kids picked up on "Kick a Ginger Day" so readily indicates some degree of sociopathic tendency. Calling the cops starts an intervention process and allows social services to get involved. It certainly sends the message to these kids, and their parents, that this behavior is unacceptable.

We don't want these kids to grow up into larger and more dangerous thugs. The kind that roam the streets looking for victims that are suitably different. Beating up on other ethnic groups or people wearing the wrong football jerseys. Taking skills honed on the schoolyard to a higher level, where fractured skulls and crushed eye sockets replace bruises and black eyes.

[Achán hiNidráne]

This is typical ginger propaganda! Everyone knows the threat that ginger's pose to humanity! (http://www.southparkstudios.com/clips/103645)

[Undesired Walrus]

News at 11.

Loathe, loathe this expression.

[psychictv]

I got a wacky idea: How about instead of emphasizing that it is wrong to recognize people as being different, you emphasize that it is wrong to physically assault anyone?

Well, they were booked for battery. What's your point?

[psychictv]

Everyone knows the threat that ginger's pose to humanity! (http://www.southparkstudios.com/clips/103645)

Wow, how clever of you to post the same "funny" video that incited these kids to violence.

[slingblade]

Wow, how clever of you to post the same "funny" video that incited these kids to violence.

I believe we're discussing the effect of this video, aren't we? You don't think it might be important for those who haven't seen it yet to view it so they know what they hell they're talking about, or should they just rant away in a generally irate fashion?

[Lothian]

Kick a Ginger Day. That is awful, why limit it to a day?

[Kevin_Lowe]

Tim Minchin has been mentioned, but not linked? Blasphemy!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0IVuGK7sAw

[quadraginta]

It's probably too much to expect, but there are educational opportunities that can be taken advantage of in such situations.

When I was in eighth grade, back in the tumultuous 60's, we had a Science teacher who put together a learn-by-example experiment. She used earlobes.

For a week everyone in all of her classes whose earlobe was 'attached' was to be treated as a second class citizen. (Note: This was in a northern WV school in a coal county, there was no overt segregation by race, and pretty much everybody was a member of some minority group, ethnic or otherwise.)

They had to wear certain styles of clothes, leave classes last, sit separate at lunch, ride in the back of the bus, use certain doors, etc., etc. The rest were given preferential treatment in many different fashions.

The following week it was switched and all the kids with 'unattached' earlobes were the goats.

I think it really had an effect. Not only for the experience of being mistreated because of a physical feature, but because of the sheer, unexpected absurdity of the feature she chose.

Now, I understand that this was not at all comparable to the social stigma of real bigotry, but I think that an important percentage of the kids were able to learn at least a little from even such a small taste.

[plumjam]

Well, they were booked for battery. What's your point?

The correct legal term is: duracell battery.

[whatthebutlersaw]

Ginger hair is a dead giveaway.

:duck:

Dave

I thought I said I would decide who's an idiot. Do you have problems with instructions?