AV Archived Richard Dawkins questions Ahmed Mohamed's 'motives' and sparks backlash (theguardian.com)
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AV Archived Richard Dawkins questions Ahmed Mohamed's 'motives' and sparks backlash (theguardian.com)
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[–] GrislyAtoms 0 points 3 points 3 points (+3|-0) ago
I'd like to believe that the kid just did a dumb thing, like kids sometimes do, but like @Gamio, I am starting to wonder if there is a little more to this story. It just doesn't quite add up.
These days I wouldn't be surprised if the kid was encouraged by his parents to make this thing look suspicious, and to bring it to school, knowing the media would jump on it. But I also wouldn't be surprised if he just did a dumb kid thing, and didn't fully think things through. That's pretty normal for a kid. Hell, that's -- sadly -- normal for many adults.
[–] Gamio 0 points 3 points 3 points (+3|-0) ago (edited ago)
I'll be honest here it looked more like a hastily thrown together and shit science project thats been blown way out of proportion by the school and media just to be a media frenzy of white guilt but the skeptic in me says that unless this kid is borderline retarded no one would believe he actually made that clock and specifically put it into that case and hauled it to each of his classes without a good reason.