# Abusive or educational?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/abusive-or-educational/669338>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [September 20, 2013, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/abusive-or-educational/669338 "2013-09-20T19:52:24Z")\
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**Author:** ![Eureka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/74df32/32.png) [@Eureka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eureka)\
**Post date:** [September 22, 2013, 11:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/abusive-or-educational/669338/21 "2013-09-22T11:14:51Z")

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> [@Spice\_Weasel](#):
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> I think this is pretty outrageous. Education is one thing, but to single an actual student out based on their race and think it’s ‘‘educational’’ to taunt them seems to force an unwarranted assumption - namely that racism is a thing of the past. It sounds like the adults involved were too naive to recognize how acting out racial harm in the past could facilitate actual racial harm in the present. I feel for that kid.

This, so much this.

It’s all very well to say that _my_ child would just hurl racial insults back-- number one, in a “re-enactment” of slavery, I would not expect that the “slave” would be allowed to yell equally insulting things back, and number two–if we stick to racially based insults, I’m not convinced they are equally insulting across the board. (And if we don’t stick to racially based insults, we’re really just authorizing bullying in the name of education, and that’s a bad idea).

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