Controversial Forum Post

[Fiestainabox]

All right, I'm a member at another forum, quite a large one, correction a freeking large one, so large, that a long time waiting for replies is 10 minutes. Thanks to the sheer size of the forum, there tends to be alot of controversial threads made.

 

I.E

 

title: I got a detention for laughing at a 9/11 slideshow.

 

Small excerpt from the first post:

 

Well I believe mankind has reached an all time low.

 

I was in 1st period and the announcements came on.

 

Of course on this auspicious day, there would be a special presentation on the closed circuit television.

 

So there I am. They have "God Bless America" on the PA and a slide show on the television.

 

They show pictures from 9/11.

 

 

Planes crashing, buildings falling...

 

And then...They show the roof of this church with a giant cross on it, with a falling building in the backdrop.

 

I scoffed. Aloud.

 

My teacher heard and glared at me. Strike 1.

 

Then they showed a dog, with a falling building as the backdrop.

 

I chuckled. Teacher glared at me again. Strike 2.

 

Then. They showed a picture of some guy jumping out of the building.

 

I laughed. Aloud. Strike 3. Teacher hands me a detention.

 

Reason being. Disrespect and Disrupting class.

 

How horrible.

 

Discuss:

 

9/11

 

Capitalizing off 9/11: Coffee mugs, t-shirts, MOVIES?!

 

1st Period

 

Columbian Coffee.

 

 

 

 

 

Of course, there are replies to the thread, being #1 on the site. And MANY MANY flames. He states in the thread, that the true meaning of his post is that he was laughing at the presentation, not the events.

 

What do you guys think? Evil Or Good?

 

Link to original thread (You might have to sign up, I'm not sure)

 

Here

[Pho3nix]

Not evil...just kinda stupid.

But detention was kinda unfair imo.

[igyman]

Hmpf. So what if he laughed. I laughed when the thing happened, not because I was glad that people were dying, but because it was a spectacular sight to see the two buildings tumble down into ruin. I was only glad that the Americans were taught a lesson - that they are not greater than any other nation. Otherwise, it is a real shame that so many people had to die.

[90SK]

It sounds like he's just a very cynical person who finds humor in what some would consider a corny tribut to those already over dramatized events. I can understand how he might have chuckled at the first two, though the last one seems plainly disrespectful, and he got punished accordingly.

[Diego Varen]

Okay, well it was disrespectful to laugh at the events of 9/11. I don't blame the teacher for giving him/her a detention.

[Rogue Nine]

Ugh, Gaia. Ugh.

 

And there's a little thing called discretion that needs to be exercised. Sure, you may find stuff like that funny, but you need to be mindful of the rest of the people around you, especially about something that so many people feel so strongly about.

[HerbieZ]

I somehow relate to this thread. I was vioilently opposed to when the words "We were all Americans that day" were quoted and i said a brief "what the hell?". It makes no sense. I don't agree to all this moneymaking 9/11 stuff such as those new movies like "Flight 93" etc. But i also disagree with the "Death to iraq" mood that has been adopted by Americans. It's horrible. Lots of innocent children and families have died in this war and america happily ignores that whilst still fuming over the WTC. Sickening. Both sides have done wrong.

[Det. Bart Lasiter]

Ugh, Gaia. Ugh.

Yeah...

 

u know ur just a big supi son of a b***h, y would u laugh about dat i bet ur WHITE, only someone like dat would do dat...u r so f**king stupid...god

and im tlking about the 911 thing in the forum...omg u r so...god

 

He got detention for disrupting the class though, I don't see what's so suprising about him getting detention (which isn't a huge deal anyway).

[Temp3rMental]

Then. They showed a picture of some guy jumping out of the building.

 

I laughed. Aloud. Strike 3. Teacher hands me a detention.

 

The last one wouldn't seem funny enough for me to lol (I laugh pretty easily too), although the dog one would.

[Jae Onasi]

In settings where you _know_ you need to be serious, you hold the laugh in.

I definitely would have handed over some sort of consequence for laughing at the person falling to their death. That wasn't a stunt person. That person wasn't landing in a fancy stunt pillow and getting up and walking away from the scene. That was a real live person whose only choice at that moment was to die on fire or jump.

 

@Herbie--Jimbo's in the Army. He got called up to active duty 2 years ago and got off active duty last March. He may get called up again. We aren't 'happily ignoring' one single thing about this war. Just so you know some of us Americans take the consequences of war very seriously.

[Emperor Devon]

I can understand giving a chuckle or two at a movie that has been altered to look more dramatic, but planes crashing into buildings and starting a war is not something to laugh at.

 

However, consequences would be better dealt to the people are trying to make money off a tragedy.

[milo]

Ugh, Gaia. Ugh.

Isn't everyone there like, 12 years old?

[St. Jimmy]

pfft, I would have laughed. It's not like he exploded into violent burts of laughter he states that he chuckled. That's not so bad...

[Rogue Nine]

Isn't everyone there like, 12 years old?

Either that or they're middle-aged single virgin men who pretend they're 12. Ugh.

[TK-8252]

Laughing at a guy jumping out of a burning building, only to be crushed to death upon the ground? You find that funny?

 

Sorry, but you got what you deserved. Just be glad YOU weren't that unlucky soul who was forced to jump to their death.

[Jeff]

Isn't everyone there like, 12 years old?

Pretty much. I remember in one posters profile it was listed that his goal was to become Gaia's highest poster, and he posted like 200 times a day.

 

Anyways, I probably would have given the kid a detention for something like that also, but I go to a Catholic school, so things might be different.

[Char Ell]

I didn't go to the other forum but this young man apparently thinks it was OK for him to laugh and that his detention was undeserved. I find this a sad commentary on elements of American society. Interestingly enough (to me at least), I do remember when the space shuttle Challenger exploded shortly after lifting off from the Kennedy Space Center back in 1986. I was in middle school at the time and quite a few of my fellow students laughed when the principal announced America's loss over the PA system. As I recall our teachers were quite upset about their students' reaction and my teacher gave us a stern and lengthy lecture on respecting others and how wrong it was to think it was funny that somebody had died. I admit that we didn't get mass detention though but the lecture was punishment enough.

I was only glad that the Americans were taught a lesson - that they are not greater than any other nation.

America is greater than most nations in terms of economy and military capability, is it not?

 

Perhaps you meant that Americans shouldn't consider themselves greater than other nationalities as in taking a "holier than thou" attitude with the rest of the world? I agree that Americans have gained a reputation for this that is likely deserved. But even if this is what you meant I don't think that after Sept. 11, 2001 many Americans thought, "Gee, those Arabs that hijacked those airliners and crashed them into the WTC and Pentagon really showed me that I'm no better than they are. I should really respect Arabs and followers of Islam and write to my Congressional representative to tell him/her that America should pull out all of its military presence in the Middle East and stop supporting Israel."

 

So no, I don't agree that was a lesson learned by Americans in general that day. I know of at least one American that didn't have that as a takeaway.

[Davinq]

I try not to take sides, but the point was well made that at the next disaster, everyone will forget about 9/11. Unfortunately, it is still taken too seriously after Hurricane Katrina. Hmm... but I guess that must be because the government wants to distract from their slow response time. I guess I'm kind of lucky, on 9/11 all we had to do was have a "moment of silence." Hah, it took a minute, not a moment!

 

It's things like this that make me glad I'm only half American.

 

DQK out

[CountVerilucus]

That's just un-American, not cool.

 

You are wrong Igyman, America is the greatest nation in the world.

 

Davin, you are either American or not. No matter what race you are.

 

Land of the free, home of the brave....muthaf*ck*r.

 

I do mean what I say.

[Emperor Devon]

You are wrong Igyman, America is the greatest nation in the world.

 

The fact that our country has a large military and strong economy does not make us superior to other ones.

[CountVerilucus]

Well military and economy does have quite the effect on how powerful a nation is.

[Davinq]

You are wrong Igyman, America is the greatest nation in the world.

Your proof? Don't even go there, we don't want another debate on America being the best at giving the world bloody noses.

Davin, you are either American or not. No matter what race you are.

To which I heartily disagree. You must have been really cross when you wrote this, eh?

 

A brief family history:

Father: from NZ

Mother: from US

See? half-and-half.

 

I do mean what I say.

As do I.

 

DQK out

 

edit: It's been a while since I've seen a thread worth subscribing to, never felt so passionate about something like this for a long time.

[CountVerilucus]

Ok, both my parents are from the Philippines. But I was born in America, American citizen, act America...well, I must be an American.

[Davinq]

Then I shall simplify it to a matter of choice.

 

I, Davin Qe-Kora, hereby declare myself half-American, due to my unwillingness to support what I view to be such weak politics.

 

On a side note, I technically am half American, because I posess both an American passport and a New Zealand passport.

 

DQK out

[Rogue Nine]

Play nicely with each other, children. I don't want to have to start taking names and cracking skulls.

 

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