More diversity = less social trust.
I am not outraged that this kid was arrested. It was not abnormal to think that this device might be a bomb.
As America gets more diverse, there’s less trust between people. There’s more government surveillance. There’s more security in general. Life becomes more regulated.
DALLAS (AP) — A 14-year-old Muslim boy became a sensation on social media Wednesday after word spread that he had been placed in handcuffs and suspended for coming to school with a homemade clock that teachers thought resembled a bomb.
Police declined to seek any charges against Ahmed Mohamed, but that did little to tamp down criticism of police and school officials or suspicions that they had overreacted because of the boy’s religion.
Ahmed was pulled from class Monday and taken to a detention center after showing the digital clock to teachers at his suburban Dallas high school.
Irving Police Chief Larry Boyd said the clock looked “suspicious in nature,” but there was no evidence the boy meant to cause alarm at MacArthur High School. Boyd considers the case closed.
