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In October 2020, Samuel Paty, a French teacher, was murdered following a false accusation by a 13-year-old student who claimed he’d shown anti-Muslim bias. The girl had made up the story to cover the fact she had been suspended from school for bad behaviour.

In reality, Paty’s lesson on free speech included optional viewing of Charlie Hebdo cartoons, but he hadn’t excluded anyone. The student’s story triggered a social media campaign led by her father, who, along with others, is now on trial for inciting hatred and connections to Paty’s attacker, an 18-year-old radicalized Chechen.

The school will be named the Samuel Paty School from next year.

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[–] solsangraal@lemmy.zip 200 points 1 week ago (26 children)

jfc when is the human species going to grow up and see religion as the make-believe bullshit that it is

[–] Carvex@lemmy.world 77 points 1 week ago (90 children)

It will be a glorious day in the name of Humans when we finally dump the dumb shit and act like we control our own actions and future

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[–] unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 50 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Glad they arent trying to swipe it under the rug and went with the school name change.

[–] idiomaddict@lemmy.world 21 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (4 children)

Just fyi, it’s “sweep it under the rug.” Swiping is a doing small motion, used mostly for smart phones and sleight of hand, whereas sweeping can be a much larger motion, and often involves a broom or a careless aspect. My husband has the best non-native English I’ve ever heard from someone who didn’t live in an anglophone country as a kid, and he cannot keep those two and swab straight, so I’d consider it a pretty easy mistake to make :)

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