Amanda said something similar in Peg's journal - but the thing is, for all we know, she was genuinely asking permission, because she's a teenager and sometimes teenagers really want to operate within set parameters. I mean, we train kids to be conscious of and try to follow "the rules", so to assume that she was looking for a fight is, in my mind, very cynical.
Think, for example, about how many conference attendees ask questions about loopholes that we would really rather not answer, because yes, it's a loophole and once they point it out, we have to say "No," but if they would just not point it out, we would be able to turn our heads aside and say, "Oh, really? Someone did that? Hm."
And beyond that, the point is: So what? Even if she was deliberately stirring up controversy, there would have been no controversy had the community not reacted as it did. No act of hers, whether it was provocative or not, merits the lengths to which the town went to shut her out.
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Date: 2010-04-09 04:17 pm (UTC)Think, for example, about how many conference attendees ask questions about loopholes that we would really rather not answer, because yes, it's a loophole and once they point it out, we have to say "No," but if they would just not point it out, we would be able to turn our heads aside and say, "Oh, really? Someone did that? Hm."
And beyond that, the point is: So what? Even if she was deliberately stirring up controversy, there would have been no controversy had the community not reacted as it did. No act of hers, whether it was provocative or not, merits the lengths to which the town went to shut her out.