School officials punished the victim of a racial hate crime instead of its perpetrators.
Evidence
After listening to what happened, Mrs. Murphy—and here, many years later, Amir got visibly upset while recounting these events—wrote up Shahram for detention. She cautioned him that many of his classmates were concerned for the safety of their family members and friends serving in the military, and perhaps he should be more sensitive about how his Iranian heritage could trigger strong emotions at his new school. It wasn’t until several days later that Shahram realized that although he had been sent to detention, none of the footbal players had been or would be punished for assaulting him. — Neda Maghbouleh, The Limits of Whiteness, 296
Categorization
- XREF: Connects to the learned claim that institutional guardians of trust can be trustees themselves requiring oversight; here school authority figures sanction the victim. — connects to: Schools apply different sanctions by class, race, and gender. — Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis, Schooling in Capitalist America:…, 514
- SEED: A potential essay angle: how institutions tasked with protecting students repeatedly discipline victims during wartime moral panics — National Safe Schools Week irony as a case study.