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<h1 data-aos="fade-down" id="daily-dose">Daily-Dose</h1>
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<h1 data-aos="fade-right" data-aos-anchor-placement="top-bottom" id="contents">Contents</h1>
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<li><a href="#from-new-yorker">From New Yorker</a></li>
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<li><a href="#from-vox">From Vox</a></li>
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<li><a href="#from-the-hindu-sports">From The Hindu: Sports</a></li>
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<li><a href="#from-the-hindu-national-news">From The Hindu: National News</a></li>
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<li><a href="#from-bbc-europe">From BBC: Europe</a></li>
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<li><a href="#from-ars-technica">From Ars Technica</a></li>
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<li><a href="#from-jokes-subreddit">From Jokes Subreddit</a></li>
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<h1 data-aos="fade-right" id="from-new-yorker">From New Yorker</h1>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>What Does the Delta Variant Mean for the U.S. Economy?</strong> - Predictions of a second “Roaring Twenties” have proved premature. - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-columnists/what-does-the-delta-variant-mean-for-the-us-economy">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>The Unmaking of Biblical Womanhood</strong> - How a nascent movement against complementarianism is confronting Christian patriarchy from within. - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/on-religion/the-unmaking-of-biblical-womanhood">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>The Spyware Threat to Journalists</strong> - In this gathering age of digital autocracy, it is hard to avoid the impression that the dictators are winning. - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/08/02/the-spyware-threat-to-journalists">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Mandela’s Dream for South Africa Is in Ruins</strong> - Following the imprisonment of Jacob Zuma, and at a time when inequality is worse than during apartheid, mob violence is threatening the country’s constitutional order. - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/mandelas-dream-for-south-africa-is-in-ruins">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>The Radical Courage of Simone Biles’s Exit from the Team USA Olympic Finals</strong> - Biles’s decision not to compete on Tuesday is, to many spectators, a heartbreak. It is also a welcome example of an athlete setting her own limits. - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/sports/replay/the-radical-courage-of-simone-biless-exit-from-the-team-usa-olympic-%20finals">link</a></p></li>
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<li><strong>Mandate the vaccine, not masks</strong> -
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<img alt="A sign outside a pharmacy reads “Covid-19 vaccine available here.”" src="https://cdn.vox-
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A pharmacy advertises the Covid-19 vaccine in Brooklyn, New York. Mayor de Blasio will require all city workers to be vaccinated or tested weekly for Covid-19. | Spencer Platt/Getty Images
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Vaccines are the solution to Covid-19. Let’s make the most of them.
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All of a sudden, it looks like masks may have to be put back on.
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With the rise of the <a href="https://www.vox.com/22547537/delta-coronavirus-variant-
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covid-19-vaccines-masks-lockdown">delta variant</a> and a <a href="https://www.vox.com/coronavirus-covid19/22576904/us-
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new-covid-cases-rising-again-delta-variant">rapid increase in Covid-19 cases</a>, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention <a href="https://twitter.com/MoNscience/status/1420105496694968322">is calling on</a> vaccinated people to wear masks indoors again in places where the virus is quickly spreading. At least some school districts <a href="https://www.vox.com/2021/7/13/22568879/mask-mandates-schools-covid-19-coronavirus-pandemic">will likely require masks</a> this fall. Local governments, from Massachusetts to California, <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/US/mask-
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mandates-return-local-level-officials-defy-state/story?id=79072477">are reviving mask mandates</a>.
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A year ago, requiring masks as cases spiked would have been an obviously smart decision. Mask mandates <a href="https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/21546014/mask-mandates-coronavirus-covid-19">work</a>, and for most of 2020, they were among the best methods we had to stop the spread of Covid-19. But masks were never meant to be the long- term solution; they were a stopgap until the US and the rest of the world could stamp out epidemics through vaccination.
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Now those vaccines are here. And the changed circumstances of summer 2021 call for new approaches. Any entity thinking about a mask requirement — from private businesses to local, state, and federal governments — should consider mandating something else first: vaccination.
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Demonstrators opposed to the Covid-19 vaccination and to mandates by governments hold a “freedom” rally in New York City on July 24.
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Unvaccinated people, whether they’re <a href="https://www.vox.com/2021/6/2/22463223/covid-19-vaccine-hesitancy-reasons-why">apathetic or resistant</a>, are the reason the coronavirus remains a threat in the US. The country and everyone concerned about the rising case rate should do everything in their power to push these people to get a shot.
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The federal government could require vaccination for its own employees, as President Joe Biden is <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/live/2021/07/28/world/covid-delta-variant-vaccine?type=styln-live-
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updates&label=virus%20updates&index=0&action=click&module=Spotlight&pgtype=Homepage#vaccine-mandate-
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federal-workers">reportedly considering</a>, and offer incentives, financial or otherwise, for others to do the same. Local and state governments could require vaccines for their employees, health care workers, schools, and public spaces, from restaurants to museums. Even without any government support, private organizations could act alone, requiring vaccinations for their employees and, ultimately, proof of vaccination for anyone on their premises.
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The US Department of Justice seemed to clear the way recently for vaccine mandates, <a href="https://www.justice.gov/olc/file/1415446/download">declaring in a recent memo</a> that “entities” can impose vaccine requirements for shots authorized under emergency use without full federal approval. And some government agencies, including New York City, California, and the US Department of Veteran Affairs, are now requiring public employees or health care workers to get vaccinated.
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I’ve been talking to experts about mandating vaccines for months. Earlier this year, when I wrote about <a href="https://www.vox.com/22434875/covid-19-vaccine-passports-mask-mandate-cdc-freedom">vaccine passports</a>, many argued that mandates should only be tried as a last resort — we should try improving access and offering incentives first. Only if those options failed should we rely on the more drastic steps.
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Well, we’re here. America has made the vaccines much more available to just about everyone who’s eligible. The nation has tried rewards, ranging from free beer to gift cards to a cash <a href="https://www.vox.com/2021/5/28/22458637/ohio-covid-19-vaccine-
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lottery-incentives-coronavirus-pandemic">lottery</a>, to nudge people to get a shot. Yet we’re stuck. Half of the US population still isn’t fully vaccinated.
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It’s time to try that last resort.
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Vaccine mandates work
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France has historically been <a href="https://www.euronews.com/2021/01/18/why-do-so-few-people-in-france-want-to-take-the-covid-19-vaccine">one of the more vaccine-skeptical countries in the West</a>, and it’s <a href="https://ourworldindata.org/explorers/coronavirus-
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explorer?zoomToSelection=true&time=2019-12-31..latest&pickerSort=asc&pickerMetric=location&Metric=People+vaccinated&Interval=7-day+rolling+average&Relative+to+Population=true&Align+outbreaks=false&country=CAN~DEU~USA~EuropeanUnion~FRA~ESP~European+Union">struggled more than some of its peers</a> to get people vaccinated. Two weeks ago, the country announced that it would require proof of vaccination for everyday activities, like restaurants and shopping centers. The news of the requirement led to a record rush for vaccine appointments, with 1.3 million people <a href="https://thehill.com/policy/international/562764-1-million-people-in-france-make-vaccine-appointments-after-
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macron">signing up</a> in less than one day. (It <a href="https://www.politico.eu/article/france-rules-coronavirus-
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green-pass-vaccine-backlash/">also led to some protests</a>.)
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Israel has used “green passes,” proof of vaccination that’s required for everyday activities like restaurants and movie theaters, for as long as it’s been administering the vaccines. That requirement is <a href="https://www.vox.com/22434875/covid-19-vaccine-passports-mask-
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mandate-cdc-freedom">cited</a> as a key reason Israel has led much of the world in vaccination: <a href="https://ourworldindata.org/explorers/coronavirus-data-
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explorer?zoomToSelection=true&time=2020-12-20..latest&pickerSort=desc&pickerMetric=total_vaccinations_per_hundred&Metric=People+vaccinated&Interval=7-day+rolling+average&Relative+to+Population=true&Align+outbreaks=false&country=CHN~USA~RUS~MEX~DEU~GBR~FRA~ISR~BHR~ARE~IND~ITA">More than two-thirds</a> of its population has received at least one shot; <a href="https://ourworldindata.org/explorers/coronavirus-data-
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explorer?zoomToSelection=true&time=2020-12-20..latest&pickerSort=desc&pickerMetric=total_vaccinations_per_hundred&Metric=People+fully+vaccinated&Interval=7-day+rolling+average&Relative+to+Population=true&Align+outbreaks=false&country=CHN~USA~RUS~MEX~DEU~GBR~FRA~ISR~BHR~ARE~IND~ITA~CAN">more than 60 percent</a> are fully vaccinated. (The US, <a href="https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#vaccinations">by comparison</a>, is less than 57 percent with at least one dose and below 50 percent fully vaccinated.) Israel <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-57594155">recently reimposed</a> some masking rules, but only after going hard on vaccination first.
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Attendees show off their “green passes” or proof of vaccination as they arrive at a stadium in Tel Aviv.
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In the US, the Kaiser Family Foundation’s <a href="https://www.kff.org/coronavirus-covid-19/poll-finding/kff-covid-19-vaccine-monitor-june-2021/">surveys</a> have consistently found for months that about 20 percent of Americans are resistant to getting the vaccines. But even among these resisters, about 30 to 35 percent say they would get the shot if it was required. If a mandate would move even some of the most hardcore skeptics, then it would almost certainly boost vaccination rates across the country, also pushing the other 13 percent of the country who are still in “wait and see” or “as soon as possible” mode to get going.
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In a follow-up interview, a 51-year-old man who said he would only get the vaccine if it was required <a href="https://www.kff.org/coronavirus-covid-19/poll-finding/kff-covid-19-vaccine-monitor-in-their-own-words-
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six-months-later/">told</a> Kaiser he ultimately got it, and did so because he felt he had “limited options without it.” In New York, where he lives, the government has kept some restrictions for unvaccinated people, and employers have required the shot in some places as well.
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None of this should be surprising. Vaccine mandates have been a part of American public health policy for decades, especially for health care workers and anyone attending school.
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A 2019 <a href="https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31431485/">review of the evidence</a> on school mandates found that the requirements “appear largely associated with increased vaccination coverage” (while calling for better studies). And a 2015 <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4964628/">review of the evidence</a> on mandates in health care settings found they’re the most effective out of several options to encourage vaccination.
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Meanwhile, the vaccination rate among American 2-year-olds for diseases like polio and measles — shots required for decades for public school attendance — <a href="https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/immunize.htm">surpasses 80 or even 90 percent</a>.
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Schools don’t require students to go through elaborate restrictions or rituals for these other diseases. They just require the vaccine. We can and should learn from that.
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Universal vaccination would protect all of us
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There’s also the less empirical case for requiring vaccination: It’s simply the right thing to do.
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Based on all the evidence, the vaccines really work, including against the variants. Vaccinated people <a href="https://www.vox.com/22575227/covid-19-post-vaccine-breakthrough-infection-cases">may still get infected by the coronavirus</a>, leading to flu-like symptoms. But the vaccines nearly eliminate the risk of hospitalization and death — the real threat of Covid-19 — even with the variants.
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The reason, then, that mask mandates are now coming into consideration is largely to protect unvaccinated people, who are truly at risk from the virus. As White House medical adviser Anthony Fauci <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2021/06/30/health/us-coronavirus-
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This presents a conundrum: Places that reinstate mask mandates are effectively asking vaccinated people to care more about unvaccinated people’s risk of Covid-19 than most of these unvaccinated people do (or else they’d get the vaccine).
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There are important exceptions. Children under 12 are still unable to get the shot (and that will <a href="https://www.vox.com/2021/7/13/22568879/mask-mandates-schools-covid-19-coronavirus-pandemic">likely force</a> mask mandates in K-6 schools this fall). The immunocompromised may not always get full protection from the vaccines. Yet the best evidence we have indicates these people would also be most protected if everyone who can get vaccinated did so, because it would reduce the spread of the virus.
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The biggest hurdle to that kind of universal vaccination is no longer access. Vaccines are everywhere: I can, as I write this in Cincinnati, find appointments at multiple grocery stores and pharmacies in the next hour, including in some of the poorest neighborhoods, and appointments aren’t even needed in many of these places. The share of Americans who want to get vaccinated “as soon as possible” but have not is tiny: about 3 percent in June, according to the <a href="https://www.kff.org/coronavirus-
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There’s more work to be done to make sure people have all of the information they need to get vaccinated and to actually access the shots. But the problem is no longer that people desperately want the vaccine and can’t get it; it’s that people need to be swayed to want it at all.
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A mask mandate could even work against the vaccine campaign. <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/04/upshot/vaccine-incentive-experiment.html">Some research</a> has found that people can be motivated to get vaccines with the promise that they’ll be able to stop masking up. As one vaccinated 52-year-old <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/24/us/covid-vaccine-hesitant.html">told the New York Times</a>, “I just honestly got sick of wearing the mask. We had an event yesterday, and I had to wear it for five hours because I was around a lot of people. And I was sick of it.”
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And it doesn’t address the core problem: People who are eligible for the vaccine are still unvaccinated. That’s what needs to be fixed. If nothing else, all tools — up to and including mandates — should be used to move unvaccinated people before vaccinated people are asked to make more sacrifices.
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This is what some experts worry about. Jennifer Nuzzo, a senior scholar at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, <a href="https://www.vox.com/22434875/covid-19-vaccine-passports-mask-mandate-cdc-freedom">has told me</a>, “You take someone who is generally uncomfortable but willing to have a conversation, and you make it about them and an infringement on their liberties, and then they wind up getting more hardline on their views about the vaccines than they otherwise would have been.”
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It’s a genuine public health conundrum. A mandate needs to lead to more people getting the shot than otherwise would, not fewer. And while the Kaiser Family Foundation surveys suggest that mandates would lead to more people overall getting the shot across the country, that may not be true in every town, city, county, or state.
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Policymakers can address this by moving slowly, at first requiring public employees, health care workers, and schools to get the vaccine before phasing in mandates to the rest of the population. It may help these will likely be local and state decisions, given that the Biden administration has repeatedly resisted setting up a green pass–like system in the US. Different local and state governments may make different decisions about which settings require vaccination. And mandates should be treated as a last resort: The cities and states that, for example, haven’t tried cash incentives for vaccination could try that first.
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Even with all that, there may still be a backlash. Yet the mask mandates being discussed right now risk a backlash, too, in exchange for a much less permanent solution; many of the same people who refuse to get vaccinated are the same as those who most vehemently refuse to mask up. Ultimately, for cultural or political reasons, some places might not be able to impose a mandate of any kind.
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But far more could than have tried so far, and far more should try. Even a patchwork system in which you need a vaccine to do some things in some places, but not everywhere to do everything, will push more people to get the shot than today’s reality, where you most likely don’t need a vaccine to do anything at all.
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But as Brown University School of Public Health dean Ashish Jha <a href="https://www.vox.com/22434875/covid-19-vaccine-passports-mask-mandate-cdc-freedom">previously told me</a>, “Freedom cuts in both directions.” If people’s resistance to getting vaccinated leads to more Covid-19 outbreaks and, worse, the rise of a variant that can overcome existing vaccines, the ensuing caution and restrictions would hinder people’s freedoms far more. That’s what we’re seeing right now as places consider adopting mask mandates again due to outbreaks caused by unvaccinated people.
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To put the threat of Covid-19 behind us, people need to get vaccinated. As a country, the US has tried just about everything else in the toolbox. Before we go back to 2020’s policy ideas, we should make full use of the best tool we have in 2021.
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Part of <a href="https://www.vox.com/e/22344648"><strong>The Schools Issue</strong> </a>of <a href="https://www.vox.com/the-highlight"><strong>The Highlight</strong></a>, our home for ambitious stories that explain our world.
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When I was in high school, my school looked like a school. Teachers were in the classrooms. Our principal was in the front office. We had a guidance counselor who helped us think about where to go to college or how to get a job. We had a gym, a basketball court, and a football field.
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Today, when I meet my clients at school, I can barely distinguish a school visit from a legal visit to the local youth detention center. At the front door, I am greeted by a phalanx of uniformed police officers, some of whom have guns at their side. In schools, these officers are called school resource officers, or SROs. They are sworn police officers who patrol schools all over the country. In DC, the officers tell me to take everything out of my pockets, put my items in a plastic bin, and run them through a metal detector. I am then instructed to walk through a full-body scanner, and if I wear big jewelry or have metal in my shoes, the officer will “wand” me again with a handheld detector on the other side.
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I watch as students all around me are treated the same. There is a lot of banter between the students and the officers — some of it playful, some of it hostile. At one school, an officer tells a child, “You know you’re not supposed to have a cellphone in school. You need to sign that into the front office.” The student lets out a loud sigh and drops the f-word. Another student yells out, “Man, I’m going to be late to class, let me go through.” At least one student is asked to remove his shoes. As I look up, I can see security cameras in the lobby. And when I head to a classroom on the third floor, I am escorted to the elevator by an officer who wants to make sure I am okay. To put it mildly, the schools my clients attend look like prisons at the front door.
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I have now been representing children in DC for 25 years, mostly as the director of the Juvenile Justice Clinic at Georgetown Law, where I supervise law students and new attorneys defending children charged with crimes in the city. I also spend a good deal of time traveling, training, and strategizing with juvenile defenders across the country in partnership with the National Juvenile Defender Center.
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From the East Coast to the West, from the Deep South to the North, Black children appear in juvenile and criminal courts across the country in numbers that far exceed their presence in the population. Black children are accosted all over the nation for the most ordinary adolescent activities — shopping for prom clothes, playing in the park, listening to music, buying juice from a convenience store, wearing the latest fashion trend, and protesting for their social and political rights.
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In DC, our elected attorney general is more attentive now to the harms and disparities impacting people of color, but even with these changes, I have still spent much of the last two decades fighting for Black children who have been arrested and prosecuted for “horseplay” on the Metro, breaking a school window, stealing a pass to a school football game, throwing snowballs (a.k.a. “missiles”) at a passing police car, hurling pebbles across the street at another kid, playing “toss” with a teacher’s hat, and snatching a cellphone from a boyfriend. I have seen Black children handcuffed at ages 9 and 10; 12- and 13-year-old Black boys stopped for riding their bicycles; and industrious 16-and 17-year-old Black youth detained for selling water on the National Mall. The list goes on.
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We live in a society that is uniquely afraid of Black children. Americans become anxious — if not outright terrified — at the sight of a Black child ringing the doorbell, riding in a car with white women, or walking too close in a convenience store. Americans think of Black children as predatory, sexually deviant, and immoral. For many, that fear is subconscious, arising out of the historical and contemporary narratives that have been manufactured by politicians, business leaders, and others who have a stake in maintaining the social, economic, and political status quo.
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There is something particularly efficient about treating Black children like criminals in adolescence. Black youth are dehumanized, exploited, and even killed to establish the boundaries of whiteness before they reach adulthood and assert their rights and independence. It is no coincidence that Emmett Till was 14 when he was lynched, Trayvon Martin was 17 when he was shot by a volunteer neighborhood watchman, Tamir Rice was 12 when he was shot by the police at a park, Dajerria Becton was 15 when she was slammed to the ground by police at a pool party, and four Black and Latina girls were 12 when they were strip-searched for being “hyper and giddy” in the hallway of their New York middle school.
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School resource officers appear in all 50 states. They are visible in both urban meccas and small towns. In 1975, only 1 percent of US schools reported having police stationed on campus. By the 2017–18 school year, 36 percent of elementary schools, 67.6 percent of middle schools, and 72 percent of high schools reported having sworn officers on campus routinely carrying a firearm. In raw numbers, there were 9,400 school resource officers in 1997. By 2016, there were at least 27,000.
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According to a survey of school resource officers in 2018, more than half worked for local police or sheriff’s departments. Twenty percent worked for school police departments, and the remaining worked for some “other” category including the school district, an individual school, school security employers, private companies, and fire departments. Some school systems, like those in Baltimore, Indianapolis, Los Angeles, Miami, Oakland, and Philadelphia, have their own independent police departments. The Los Angeles School Police Department has more than 350 sworn police officers and 125 non-sworn school safety officers.
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School resource officers often patrol with guns, batons, Tasers, body cameras, pepper spray, handcuffs, K-9 units, and handheld and full-body metal detectors like those found at an airport. Some are even equipped with military-grade weapons such as tanks, grenade launchers, and M16s.
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So what happened to cause such a shift in school culture since I was in high school 35 years ago? For far too long I accepted the simple and often repeated explanation that parents were terrified to send their children to school after the deadly mass shooting at Columbine High School in 1999. Although Columbine certainly played a role in the rapid expansion of school resource officers in the early 21st century, the National Association of School Resource Officers had already formed in 1991, eight years before the tragedy in Colorado. Our nation’s obsession with policing in public schools began long before Columbine. That story began in the mid-20th century, with the fight for — and against — racial desegregation.
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In 1952, that investigator began to supervise a loosely organized group of police officers who patrolled school property, performed traffic duties, and conducted security checks after hours. The group was reorganized in 1970 to form the Indianapolis School Police. It is significant that the Ku Klux Klan controlled both the state legislature and the Indianapolis Board of School Commissioners from the 1920s through the formation of the early school police force. The Klan had segregated Indianapolis schools by 1927 and kept them that way until the federal government intervened in the 1960s.
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Other school districts began hiring police in the mid-20th century — more explicitly in response to the evolving racial dynamics in the country. American cities had become more diverse after World War II as Blacks left the Jim Crow South in search of opportunities in industrial centers such as Los Angeles and Flint, Michigan. Whites who were uncomfortable with the exploding populations and shifting demographics blamed the new migrants for emerging social problems such as poverty, racial and ethnic tension, and crime.
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Teachers in Flint planted the seed — maybe inadvertently — for a law enforcement presence in schools during a 1953 workshop, when they expressed concerns about growing student enrollments and the potentially negative impacts of overcrowding, including delinquency. Seeking to address these concerns, Flint educators, police, and civic leaders collaborated in 1958 to implement the nation’s first Police-School Liaison Program and ultimately developed the framework for school resource officers as we know them today.
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Schools across the country followed Flint’s lead. Programs sprang up in cities including Anchorage, Atlanta, Baton Rouge, Boise, Chicago, Cincinnati, Los Angeles, Miami, Minneapolis, New York City, Oakland, Seattle, and Tucson, on the heels of the US Supreme Court’s 1954 decision in <em>Brown v. Board of Education </em>to end legal segregation in public schools.
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State and local governments sent police into schools under the pretense of protecting Black youth. The real motives, however, likely had more to do with white fear, privilege, and resentment. Municipal leaders in the North and South claimed that Black children lacked discipline and feared they would bring disorder to their schools. In 1957, representatives from the New York City Police Department described Black and Latinx students in low-income neighborhoods as “dangerous delinquents” and “undesirables” capable of “corroding school morale.” Policing in schools also gave school administrators a mechanism for preserving resources for white middle-class students and keeping Black youth in their place.
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Tensions escalated the following decade as Black students balked at whites’ opposition to racial equality and schools’ bold refusals to integrate. In cities like Greensboro, North Carolina, and Oklahoma City, students organized protests, walkouts, and marches to demand equal resources and opportunity. Students also insisted on culturally relevant curricula and basic dignity in the classroom.
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White, middle-class Americans equated civil rights action with crime and delinquency, inflaming — and sometimes manufacturing — fears of a growing youth crime problem. In this turbulent climate, cities implemented school-police partnerships to combat a “problem” that police and educators explicitly and implicitly blamed on Black and other marginalized youth.
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While most school-police partnerships started as local initiatives like the one in Flint, these programs began to draw federal support in 1965 when President Lyndon B. Johnson established the Commission on Law Enforcement and Administration of Justice to “inquire into the causes of crime and delinquency” and provide recommendations for prevention. In its 1967 report, the commission predicted that youth would be the greatest threat to public safety in the years to come.
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The report drew a tight connection between race, crime, and poverty and frequently reminded readers that “Negroes, who live in disproportionate numbers in slum neighborhoods, account for a disproportionate number of arrests.” The commission referred to young people in racially charged language like “slum children” and “slum youth” from “slum families” and noted that many Americans had already become suspicious of “Negroes” and adolescents they believed to be responsible for crime. The commission’s analysis aligned with television and newspaper reports that stoked fears by depicting civil rights protests as criminal acts instead of political demonstrations against oppression.
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Concerns about discrimination in school-based policing surfaced almost immediately, including in Flint, the birthplace of the school-police partnership. Notwithstanding initial concerns about delinquency in school, Black teachers and parents began to complain that Flint’s Police-School Liaison Program targeted students of color. As reported in a 1971 review of the initiative, some teachers said the program was “aimed specifically at the black community” and was “anathema to black people” because it enforced “middle class white ethics and mores.”
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The race-baiting and fearmongering that motivated the first school-police partnerships during the civil rights era were followed by the mythic lies of the “superpredator” craze in the 1990s. With crime on the rise and the crack epidemic at full throttle by the end of the 1980s, white fears reached epic proportions. State and federal politicians accepted Princeton professor John J. DiIulio Jr.’s highly publicized yet unscientific 1995 predictions of a coming band of <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/analysis-how-media-created-superpredator-myth-harmed-generation-black-
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Congress also passed both the Gun-Free Schools Act and the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act in 1994. The Gun-Free Schools Act was passed to keep drugs, guns, and other weapons out of schools. The Violent Crime Control Act created the Office of Community Oriented Policing Services, radically increased federal funding for policing in communities, and laid the foundation for a new wave of federal funding for police in schools.
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And then there was Columbine.<strong> </strong>On April 20, 1999, the nation was rocked by a mass shooting at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado. Two 12th-graders, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, murdered 12 students and one teacher. Twenty-one additional people were injured by gunshots. Another three were injured trying to escape the school. At the time, it was the deadliest school shooting in US history.
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Columbine was the 12th in a spate of school shootings committed by students between 1996 and 1999. These deadly tragedies terrified parents and teachers and prompted increased funding for school safety everywhere. In October 1998, just months before the shooting at Columbine, Congress had already voted to allocate funding for the COPS in Schools grants program.
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Days after the shooting, in April 1999, President Bill Clinton promised that the COPS office would release $70 million to fund an additional 600 police officers in schools in 336 communities across the country. In 1998 and 1999, COPS awarded 275 jurisdictions more than $30 million for law enforcement to partner with school systems to address crime and disorder in and around schools. Between 1999 and 2005, COPS in Schools awarded more than $750 million in grants to more than 3,000 law enforcement agencies to hire SROs.
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Although these shootings do explain the immediate increase in funding for police in schools, the shootings do not explain the disproportionate surge of police in schools serving mostly Black and Latinx students. Although the vast majority of the school-based shootings in the 1990s — and again in 2012 — occurred in primarily white suburban schools, school resource officers are more likely to be assigned to schools serving mostly students of color.
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National data from the Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights reveals that youth of color are more likely than white youth to attend schools that employ school police officers. In the 2015–16 school year, 54.1 percent of middle and high schools serving a student body that was at least 75 percent Black had at least one school-based law enforcement or security officer on campus. By contrast, only 32.5 percent of schools serving a student body that was 75 percent or more white had such personnel in place.
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The 1990s brought a rapid increase in both school suspensions and school-based arrests as police officers remained confused about their roles on campus and new laws were passed to criminalize normal adolescent behavior. Administrators in the first school-police partnerships viewed school resource officers as part teacher, part counselor, and part law enforcement officer only when necessary.
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The partners in Flint hoped to foster a positive relationship between youth and police, prevent youth crime, and provide counseling services for students believed to be at risk of delinquency. As police became more entrenched in schools, students, parents, and civil rights advocates complained that police officers weren’t trained to be counselors and worried about the potential for conflicts of interest when police tried to serve multiple functions. Civil rights groups worried that police were violating students’ rights through unsupervised interrogations, harassment, and surveillance.
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Thirty years later, police still haven’t figured out what schools want them to do, and schools haven’t figured out what they want police to do. Only 15 states require schools and law enforcement agencies to develop memoranda of understanding (MOUs) to specify the scope and limits of the officers’ authority on campus. When school districts do have an MOU, they usually focus on the cost-sharing aspects of the agreement and offer few details about when, where, and how police can intervene with students.
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Even when school resource officers are expressly hired to respond to emergencies and protect students from guns and serious threats of violence, they are quickly drawn into the more routine activities of law enforcement on campus. Forty-one percent of school resource officers surveyed in 2018 reported that “enforcing laws” was their primary role on campus. Police often arrive with little or no training on how their traditional law enforcement roles should differ within the school context and even less training on developmental psychology and adolescent brain development.
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A 2013 study found that police academies nationwide spend less than 1 percent of total training hours on juvenile justice topics. In the 2018 survey, roughly 25 percent of school police surveyed indicated that they had no experience with youth before working in schools. Sixty-three percent reported they had never been trained on the teen brain; 61 percent had never been trained on child trauma; and 46 percent had never been trained to work with special education students. Without better training and guidance, police in schools do what they always do. They detain, investigate, interrogate, and arrest. They also intervene with force — sometimes violent and deadly force.
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Ultimately, more police in schools means more arrests — three and a half times more arrests than in schools without police. And it means more arrests for minor infractions that teachers and principals used to handle on their own.
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When I was in high school in the mid-1980s, we were sent to the principal’s office when we acted out. Sometimes we had to stay after school for detention. I even got suspended once for “play fighting” with one of my classmates, but I was never arrested. Today, children get arrested regularly at school, and mostly for things kids do all the time: fighting or threatening a classmate, breaking a window in anger, vandalism and graffiti, having weed, taking something from someone on a dare, arguing in the hallway when they are supposed to be in class.
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Data from across the country mirrors what I see in DC. Although only 7 percent of officers surveyed in 2018 described their duties as “enforcing school discipline,” evidence shows that educators routinely depend on police to handle minor misbehaviors such as disobedience, disrespectful attitudes, disrupting the classroom, and other adolescent behaviors that have little or no impact on school safety. State lawmakers have even passed laws making it a crime to disturb or disrupt the school. As of 2016, at least 22 states and dozens of cities and towns outlaw school disturbances in one way or another.
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The Maryland state legislature adopted its “disturbing schools” law back in 1967, shortly after the Baltimore City School District created its school security division. During the 2017–18 school year, 3,167 students were arrested in Maryland’s public schools. About 14 percent of those arrests were for “disruption.” Until May 2018, students in South Carolina could be arrested for disturbing the school if they “loitered about,” “acted in an obnoxious manner,” or “interfered with or disturbed” any student or teacher at school. The penalty was a $1,000 fine and a possible 90-day sentence in jail.
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In the 2015-16 academic year, 1,324 students were arrested or cited in the state for disturbing schools, making it the second most common delinquency offense referred to the family court. Black students were almost four times more likely than white youth to be deemed criminally responsible for disturbing schools. South Carolina lawmakers finally eliminated the crime in 2018.
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Police in schools are symbolic. They provide an easy answer to fears about violence, guns, and mass shootings. They allow policymakers to demonstrate their commitment to school safety. And for a time, they make teachers and parents “feel” safe. But those who have studied school policing tell us this is a false sense of security.
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Schools with school resource officers are not necessarily any safer. An audit from North Carolina, for example, found that middle schools that used state grants to hire and train SROs did not report reductions in serious incidents like assaults, homicides, bomb threats, possession and use of alcohol and drugs, or the possession of weapons.
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And many advocates for police in schools forget that school resource officers were widely criticized for their failures to intervene in the shootings at both Columbine and Parkland. The officer in Columbine followed local protocol at the time and did not pursue the shooters into the building. Many speculated that if he had, there was a good chance the gunmen would not have reached the library, where so many students were targeted. Instead of immediately confronting the threat, school police secured the scene and waited for SWAT teams to arrive.
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The sheriff’s deputy who was assigned to Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, also never went in the building, despite an active-shooter policy that instructed deputies to interrupt the shooting and search for victims after a ceasefire. Students later complained that they saw the armed deputy standing outside in a bulletproof vest while school security guards and coaches were running in to shield the students.
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Police don’t make students feel safer<strong> </strong>— at least not Black students in heavily policed communities. To the contrary, police in schools increase psychological trauma, create a hostile learning environment, and expose Black students to physical violence. For students who have already been exposed to police outside school, negative encounters with police in school confirm what their parents and neighbors have told them.
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Black students enter their schools to be accosted by the same officers who stop, harass, and even physically assault their family and friends on the street. In much the same way they resent aggressive and racially targeted policing in their communities, students resent inconsistent and unfair school discipline. Black students don’t feel welcome or trusted at school and are less likely than white students to report that school police and security officers have treated them with respect.
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For many students, schools have become a literal and figurative extension of the criminal legal system. As schools increasingly rely on police officers to monitor the hallways and control classroom behavior, students feel anxious and alienated by the constant surveillance and fear of police brutality. Over time, students transfer their distrust, resentment, and hostility toward the police to school authorities. Teachers become interchangeable with the police, principals become wardens, and students no longer see school staff as educators, advocates, and protectors.
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Black students who feel devalued by unfair disciplinary practices are more likely to withdraw and become delinquent. Policing in schools creates a vicious vortex. Students in heavily policed environments are less likely to be engaged and more likely to drop out. Youth who drop out are more likely to be arrested.
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Not only do students <em>feel </em>less safe in school, but they <em>are </em>less safe.
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Organizations like the Alliance for Educational Justice have been tracking police assaults in schools across the country for many years. Since 2009, the organization has recorded numerous stories from students of color, as young as 12, who have been hit on the head, choked, punched repeatedly, slammed to the ground, kneed in the back, dragged down the hall, pepper-sprayed while handcuffed, shocked with a stun gun, tased, struck by a metal nightstick, beaten with a baton, and even killed by police at school.
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Most recently, in January 2021, 16-year-old Taylor Bracey was knocked unconscious and suffered from headaches, blurry vision, and depression after being body-slammed onto a concrete floor by a school resource officer in Kissimmee, Florida.
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Most often, police violence is inflicted in response to nonviolent student behaviors. Students have been physically assaulted for wearing a hat indoors, not tucking in their shirts as required by the dress code, being late to class, going to the bathroom without permission, participating in school demonstrations, fighting in school, having marijuana, being emotionally distraught, cursing at school officials, refusing to give up a cellphone when asked, arguing with a parent on campus, and throwing an orange at the wall.
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After Michael Brown was killed in Ferguson, Missouri, investigators from the Department of Justice found that officers in the local school district often used force against students of color for minor disciplinary violations like “peace disturbance” and “failure to comply with instructions.” In one instance, a 15-year-old girl was slammed against a locker and arrested for not following an officer’s orders to go to the principal’s office.
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Students of color have characterized policing in schools as a coordinated and intentional effort to control and exclude them. Ironically, proponents of the federally funded COPS in Schools grant program hoped that sending police to schools would improve the image of police generally and increase the level of respect that young people have for the law and the role of law enforcement.
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Even Flint’s first school-police partnership was framed as an attempt to “improve community relations between the city’s youth and the local police department.” To date, these efforts have failed. Police in schools remain deeply entrenched in their traditional law enforcement roles and have been unable to dislodge youth’s negative opinions and attitudes about them. The more recent and highly visible incidents of discrimination and brutality against students of color only reinforce historical images of the police as a tool of racial oppression.
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Now, 65 years after the Supreme Court ruled that racial segregation in public schools is illegal, Black youth are still systematically denied free, safe, and appropriate education. School segregation is achieved and maintained through school-based arrests and exclusions that deny Black youth access to a high school diploma and all of the opportunities that diploma can provide. In modern America, where formal education is the primary gateway to college, employment, and financial independence, policing in school puts Black youth at a severe disadvantage.
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Given how little school-based arrests achieve, current policing strategies can no longer be justified as necessary for school safety. The unnecessary and extreme discipline of Black youth has little to do with the school-based massacres of the 1990s. Columbine can’t explain police involvement in routine school discipline, discriminatory enforcement of school rules, or massive spending on the police infrastructure in American schools. And it certainly can’t explain the violent force that is used to control children of color. It is about time we admit that our infatuation with policing Black children in schools was never about Columbine.
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<em>Excerpted from The Rage of Innocence: How America Criminalizes Black Youth by Kristin Henning (Pantheon Books, September 28, 2021). </em>
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<em>Kristin Henning</em><em><strong> </strong></em><em>is a nationally recognized trainer and consultant on the intersection of race, adolescence, and policing. She is the Blume professor of law and director of the Juvenile Justice Clinic and Initiative at the Georgetown University Law Center; from 1998 to 2001 she was the lead attorney of the Juvenile Unit at the Public Defender Service for the District of Columbia. </em>
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The only way that an Olympic silver medal, a token signaling that you’re second best out of all of planet Earth’s 8 billion inhabitants, is considered a disappointing shock is if you’re on the United States gymnastics team. For nine years, the team and their American fans have grown accustomed to relentless dominance.
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fnl-000001-.htm"> a score of 166.096 to 169.528</a>. As huge as this news is, the result, the mistakes the US couldn’t overcome, and the resurgent Russian team were all footnotes to a bigger story about the well-being of <a href="https://www.vox.com/2016/8/9/12411966/simone-biles-olympics-gymnastics">Simone Biles, the greatest gymnast</a> and arguably the greatest athlete of all time.
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After shakily completing one vault, Biles briefly left the arena and then took herself out of the competition. Suni Lee, Jordan Chiles, and Grace McCallum had to finish without her. The move was unusual, particularly because, in a sport riddled with unpredictability and risk, Biles’s greatness had taken on the force of inevitability. Since first competing at the senior level in 2013, Biles has never seemed to let anything — rivals, difficult moves, even harrowing <a href="https://www.vox.com/22585637/gymnastics-tokyo-
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olympics-2021-abuse-larry-nassar">abuse</a> — keep her from winning. This year’s delayed Games weren’t going to be an exception.
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Initial reports from the arena speculated it might be an injury, but Biles told reporters she didn’t feel right mentally going into the day’s competition. She said her health was more important than going through with the day’s events and more important than a possible gold medal.
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“This Olympic Games, I wanted it to be for myself when I came in — and I felt like I was still doing it for other people,”<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/live/2021/07/27/sports/gymnastics-olympics-
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results?smtyp=cur&smid=tw-nytimes"> Biles told reporters after the team event</a>. “At the end of the day, we’re human too so we have to protect our mind and our body rather than just go out there and do what the world wants us to do.”
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Biles’s withdrawal immediately impacted the American team, which heavily relies on her — but it also made a powerful statement about the importance of mental health.
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At the start of the competition, which took place on July 27, the Americans and Russians, who were in the top two spots, were both on vault, one of the Americans’ signature events. Traditionally, going back to 2012 (<a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2012/08/how-us-gymnastics-team-crushed-russians-gif-
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guide/325165/">see: Maroney, McKayla</a>), Americans have thrived on vault. Biles was set to go second and perform an Amanar — a vault that consists of a layout flip and 2.5 twists, which she’s hit over and over throughout her career, including at the 2016 Olympics. This time, Biles unexpectedly bailed out of the vault early, not completing the full skill, and barely saved the landing.
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Biles scored a 13.766 for her vault. At the 2019 world championships, Biles scored a 15.233 on the apparatus. Gymnastics is a sport that’s usually scored to tenths and hundredths of a point — full points represent a big difference.
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After her vault,<a href="https://twitter.com/nrarmour/status/1419978908145909761?s=20"> Biles left the competition floor</a> and did not warm up on the uneven bars, the Americans’ next event. This was a surprise, and cause for concern. Biles eventually returned to the arena, and it was announced that she would not compete for the rest of the night. Later, <a href="https://twitter.com/ALaboutSports/status/1419987613755314179">it was clarified</a> that the issue was not physical but mental.
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How Biles’s withdrawal affected the Americans
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Obviously, losing the best gymnast of all time is going to adversely affect a team. It’s akin to a Bulls championship basketball team not having Michael Jordan suit up. The team just isn’t going to have the same firepower. But gymnastics’ scoring makes a withdrawal especially difficult.
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In the Olympics team finals, teams have a pool of four gymnasts. From those four, teams pick three gymnasts to compete in each of the four apparatuses. Those three gymnasts’ scores — 12 in total across the four events — will count no matter what, but the wrinkle is that you don’t have to submit the same three gymnasts across all events. You can theoretically use the fourth gymnast as a substitute (again, see McKayla Maroney’s vault in 2012) to cover for a gymnast who might be weaker or to really play to your strengths.
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<a href="https://twitter.com/Gymnastics_Now/status/1419674011802423298?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1419674011802423298%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=about%3Asrcdoc">Biles was slated</a> to compete in all four events for the team, and losing her meant that her teammates had to make up for Biles’s scoring, 33 percent of the team total. Logistically, it also meant that teammates Jordan Chiles and Suni Lee would have to compete across all four events. Initially, Chiles was going to skip the uneven bars and balance beam and Lee would skip the floor exercise.
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Even without Biles and with an unusually slow start, the Americans were within striking distance after three rotations, having outscored the Russian team 41.232 to 39.532 on the balance beam. The problem came in the fourth rotation as the team suffered mistakes on the floor exercise, an event that’s traditionally been an American strong suit and one of Biles’s best events. It’s difficult to say whether mistakes were “unusual” as international competition was put on pause because of the pandemic and Biles’s withdrawal was an extraordinary circumstance, but the Americans’ final tally was some three points behind the Russian team.
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The US gymnastics team took Simone Biles’s greatness as a given
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Simone Biles and the US gymnastics team accept their silver medals.
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As the dust settles on the results, one of the lingering <a href="https://meaww.com/fire-tom-forster-says-
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internet-after-us-womens-gymnastic-team-comes-2nd-tokyo-olympics-simone-biles">criticisms</a> from commentators and fans of gymnastics is that US team coordinator Tom Forster failed to make the best, most strategic choices for the team. Instead of assembling the team by highest scoring potential, he went by team rank and results. And the gist of the criticism is simple: Forster did not bring the highest-scoring team he could have to the Olympics.
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“We’re so, so fortunate that our athletes are so strong that I don’t think it’s going to come down to tenths of a point in Tokyo,” Forster told reporters after the Olympic trials. “We didn’t feel like it was worth changing the integrity of the process simply for a couple of tenths.”
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Forster was referring to selecting Grace McCallum over MyKayla Skinner. Though she was outscored by McCallum in the all-around competition at the trials, Skinner’s specialties, especially in vault, would have given the US a higher potential team score. With the way the current scoring system favors difficulty, the highest potential scores are something coaches have to seriously consider if they want to win.
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Observers also say it’s curious that Forster used that language: the “integrity of the process.” Back in 1996, Forster coached a gymnast named Theresa Kulikowski who finished sixth at trials and would have made the team that would go on to be known as the Magnificent 7. But Kulikowski was bumped from the team for Shannon Miller and Dominique Moceanu, which<a href="https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-
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xpm-1996-07-07-sp-21956-story.html"> drew Forster’s ire</a>. Forster’s lack of flexibility and insistence on maintaining “fairness” and standings seems to be a reaction to his disappointment with the ’96 decision, even though critics believe that kind of thinking is outdated.
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“All-around standings aren’t a process. They’re just results. What you do with those results, how you interpret them, that’s the process,” wrote<a href="https://defector.com/tenths-do-matter-even-when-youve-got-simone-biles/"> Dvora Meyers at Defector</a>, explaining that scoring during trials is just one consideration rather than the end-all and be-all. Meyers’s article puts into words a lot of criticisms voiced against Forster: that he didn’t do his job to scout his athletes, assess who was peaking or slumping, figure out the competition with the thoroughness of someone determined to win gold.
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Forster’s comments also, as <a href="https://twitter.com/PettyOkino/status/1417545726524116996">critics pointed out</a>, showed how much he was taking Biles for granted, unintentionally or not.
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After trials, US national team coordinator said a few tenths wouldn’t matter in finals, so he didn’t need to pick the highest scoring team. The implicit idea was that Simone would carry the team to victory <a href="https://t.co/VVXQgENeOx">https://t.co/VVXQgENeOx</a>
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<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom">— Elle Reeve (<span class="citation" data-cites="elspethreeve">@elspethreeve</span>) <a href="https://twitter.com/elspethreeve/status/1419985188994617345?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 27, 2021</a></p>
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That mentality puts a lot of pressure on Biles who, despite appearing superhuman, has talked openly about the toll of mental stress and injuries.
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Forster didn’t seem to consider what would happen and what did in fact happen if Biles wasn’t herself or worse, if she was taken out of the equation. During the<a href="https://olympics.com/tokyo-2020/olympic-games/en/results/artistic-gymnastics/results-women-
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qual-000001-.htm"> qualifying portion of the competition</a>, in which all the US gymnasts compete, the best-performing US gymnasts who weren’t Biles or Lee were actually Jade Carey and Skinner — both of whom outscored McCallum and Chiles.
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That said, with the way the competition played out and silver medal shock, it’s temptingly easy for Team USA fans to fantasize about all the “what if” possibilities. At the same time, though, there’s a group of young women who performed under chaotic circumstances and still won silver.
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And then there’s Simone Biles and how we appreciate her greatness.
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“Today it’s like, you know what, no, I don’t want to do something stupid and get hurt,” Biles told reporters after the team event, alluding to a feeling of mental stress and fatigue. “And it’s just it’s not worth it, especially when you have three amazing athletes that can step up to the plate and do it, not worth it.”
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she-feels-good-it-varies-emotionally-t226561">added</a>, “Coming here to the Olympics and being the head star isn’t an easy feat, so we’re just trying to take it one day at a time and we’ll see.”
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Biles’s withdrawal is a wake-up moment for anyone who’s watched her become the greatest gymnast of all time. She’s achieved it so effortlessly and gracefully that it’s easy to forget the massive amount of pressure she faces day in and day out or the adversity and abuse she’s endured. Every time Biles steps into the arena, she’s expected to dominate. If she’s anything short of dominant, there are whispers about what went wrong.
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Not participating in the team finals was a decision by Biles to step away, but also a moment for all of us to reflect on the importance of mental health. Similarly, in tennis, <a href="https://www.vox.com/22534957/naomi-osaka-french-open-wimbledon">Naomi Osaka</a> has also been having forthright conversations and addressing mental well-being. Despite spots of sour <a href="https://www.newsweek.com/piers-morgan-faces-backlash-over-comments-about-mental-health-issues-what-
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joke-1613605">backlash</a>, there’s been an outpouring of support for Biles from Olympic athletes like figure skater and Olympic medalist <a href="https://twitter.com/AdamRippon/status/1420011455152275457?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1420011455152275457%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nbcnews.com%2Fnews%2Folympics%2Fathletes-
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offer-support-after-simone-biles-withdraws-olympics-team-final-n1275186">Adam Rippon</a>, former teammates <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/news/olympics/athletes-offer-support-after-simone-biles-withdraws-olympics-team-
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final-n1275186">Aly Raisman and Laurie Hernandez</a>, and 1996 gold medal gymnast <a href="https://twitter.com/kerristrug96/status/1420063374721703939?s=20">Kerri Strug</a>.
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It’s unclear whether Biles will participate in the all-around and event finals, which she’ll need <a href="https://www.upi.com/Sports_News/2021/07/27/japan-olympics-team-usa-simone-biles-
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gymnastics/3851627386020/?spt=su&or=btn_tw">medical clearance</a> for. But it’s not as though she needs to do anything more to prove her greatness.
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Indian democracy is powered by its freethinking citizens: Blinken</strong> - There are challenges that can be ‘ugly’ that need to be dealt through “corrective mechanisms”, he says</p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Mergers, twists, and pentagons: The architecture of honeycombs</strong> - Most honeycombs are perfect hexagons—but bees manage complex exceptions. - <a href="https://arstechnica.com/?p=1783549">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Apple reports a 50% year-over-year jump in iPhone sales</strong> - But the company warned of coming iPhone and iPad supply constraints. - <a href="https://arstechnica.com/?p=1783524">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>CDC mask reversal: Vaccinated should wear masks in many settings amid surge</strong> - Fully vaccinated people should mask up in high-transmission areas, schools. - <a href="https://arstechnica.com/?p=1783521">link</a></p></li>
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<li><strong>I swear autocorrect is amazing.</strong> - <!-- SC_OFF -->
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No that’s not what I said, I meant to say autocorrect is wonderful.
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No! That’s not it either. Autocorrect is a piece of technology I couldn’t live without. Praise autocorrect.
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Oh you gotta be kidding me. No one likes you autocorrect, they love you.
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I didn’t even type that.
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This fucking thing can do that but I can’t correct teh when I mispell it.
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Wait a minute. I got it.
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Autocorrect can suqmabalz. Hah, gottem.
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<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"> submitted by <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/Playingpokerwithgod"> /u/Playingpokerwithgod </a> <br/> <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Jokes/comments/ot4h2t/i_swear_autocorrect_is_amazing/">[link]</a></span> <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Jokes/comments/ot4h2t/i_swear_autocorrect_is_amazing/">[comments]</a></span></p></li>
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They go to his room and have sex multiple times. After the 5th or 6th time, they both fall asleep. The guy wakes up in the middle of the night with a sore penis. He tip toes to the kitchen, pours some cold milk in a bowl and puts his penis in that. That gave him some relief.
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Suddenly he heard a gasp. The girl was standing at the doorway. Wide eyed she exclaims- “So, thats how you guys fill up”.
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<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"> submitted by <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/payne344"> /u/payne344 </a> <br/> <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Jokes/comments/ot3qg5/a_guy_picks_up_a_girl/">[link]</a></span> <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Jokes/comments/ot3qg5/a_guy_picks_up_a_girl/">[comments]</a></span></p></li>
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<li><strong>A Russian spy under the alias of “Joe Smith” is arrested by American jok. He is put in an interrogation room and confronted by an official, Agent Perry.</strong> - <!-- SC_OFF -->
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Perry: “Drop the act, Smith, if that even is your real name. We know you’re a foreign spy!”
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Smith: “WHAT? No! I’m a real American, I can name all 46 Presidents of the United States, in order, with the dates of their inaugurations and their Vice Presidents.”
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Smith: “You’re all wrong! I can name all fifty states, US territories, and all their capitals!”
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Perry: “We still know you’re a spy!”
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Smith: “Wait… I know every word of the national anthem, the pledge of allegiance, the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, and the Bill of Rights!”
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Perry: “We still know you’re a spy!”
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Smith: “Ok, I submit, I’m a Russian spy under a fake name. But… how could you tell?”
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<li><strong>My mate broke his leg so I went to see him at home. I walked in and what do I see? He had two gorgeous older sisters, and they’re TWINS ! I had never met them before, apparently they live at the uni and were visiting.</strong> - <!-- SC_OFF -->
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“Yeah I’m okay. But do me a favour mate. Go fetch my socks from downstairs. My feet are freezing.” he tells me.
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So I rushed downstairs and found his two sisters perched up on the couch, right where his socks lay.
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I say to them, “Your brother has sent me down here to have sex with both of you”
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I shouted upstairs, “Hey, mate! Both of them?”
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He shouted back “Of course both of them! What’s the point in fucking one?”
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“Hallo!” a heavily accented voice said. “This is Paddy Down at the Harp Pub in County Clare, Ireland. I am ringing to inform you that we are officially declaring war on you!”
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“Well, Paddy,” the President of France replied, “This is indeed important news! How big is your army?”
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“Right now,” says Paddy, after a moment’s calculation, “there is meself, me Cousin Sean, me next door neighbour Seamus, and the entire darts team from the pub. That makes eight!”
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The President paused. “I must tell you, Paddy, that I have 100,000 men in my army waiting to move on my command.”
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“Begorra!” says Paddy. "I’ll have to ring you back.
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“And what equipment would that be, Paddy?” The President asks.
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“Well, we have two combines, a bulldozer, and Murphy’s tractor.”
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The French President sighs amused. “I must tell you, Paddy, that I have 6,000 tanks and 5,000 armored personnel carriers. Also, I have increased my army to 150,000 since we last spoke.”
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“Saints preserve us!” says Paddy. “I’ll have to get back to you.”
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Sure enough, Paddy rings again the next day. “Mr. President, the war is still on! We have managed to get ourselves airborne! We have modified Jackie McLaughlin’s ultra- light with a couple of shotguns in the cockpit, and four boys from the Shamrock Pub have joined us as well!”
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The French President was silent for a minute and then cleared his throat. “I must tell you, Paddy, that I have 100 bombers and 200 fighter planes. My military bases are surrounded by laser-guided, surface-to-air missile sites. And since we last spoke, I have increased my army to 200,000!”
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“Jesus, Mary, and Joseph!” says Paddy, “I will have to ring you back.”
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Sure enough, Paddy calls again the next day. “Top o’ the mornin’ to ya Mr. President. I am sorry to inform you that we have had to call off the war.”
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“Really? I am sorry to hear that,” says the French President. “Why the sudden change of heart?”
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“Well,” says Paddy, “we had a long chat over a few pints of Guinness and decided there is no fookin’ way we can feed 200,000 French prisoners!”
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