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Originally Posted by puckluck2
It's not hyperbole buddy and I don't need a lesson from you, that's for sure.
Go ask the kid how he feels and I bet he feels like crap and discriminated against. He was discriminated against the exact same way that black people got and get discriminated against everyday.
I think some of you are so out of touch with reality that you can't for one second put yourself in this kid's shoes.
This isn't a big deal to the people defending this idiotic coach because
A) You probably have an army cut
B) You've never been discriminated against in your life
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Hyperbole, without a doubt. The fact that you are comparing, and some might say equating, a hair length requirement for teenage baseball in Alberta with nearly 400 years of slavery and institutionalized racism is insulting to every black person who has lived under those conditions.
You ask for people's opinions and then you get nasty when they disagree with you.
As for your all knowing last statements:
A. Does having an "army" cut make someone unable to understand the situation? Do only people with long, lovely hair have the experience required to understand this poor kid's plight? Is vanity a requirement?
B. Don't make assumptions about people's life experience on an internet message board. It makes you look petty and naive.