Timeline for What does “Muslim clockmakers” mean in “He (Trump) vowed to take back the country from Muslim clockmakers?
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| Feb 5, 2017 at 0:09 | history | protected | tchrist♦ | ||
| Sep 24, 2015 at 10:31 | history | edited | Matt E. Эллен |
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| Sep 20, 2015 at 9:44 | history | edited | Yoichi Oishi | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Sep 20, 2015 at 8:54 | vote | accept | Yoichi Oishi | ||
| Sep 20, 2015 at 4:29 | comment | added | MT_Head | The Borowitz Report is satire, and generally very well-crafted satire. @YoichiOishi is definitely not the first to be taken in! At times I wish that it were more clearly identified as satire, but that would ruin the joke. | |
| Sep 20, 2015 at 3:11 | answer | added | WhatRoughBeast | timeline score: 3 | |
| Sep 20, 2015 at 2:56 | comment | added | Barmar | @YoichiOishi It's sarcasm. He's ridiculing Trump and his followers for being afraid of people like this teenager. | |
| Sep 20, 2015 at 1:25 | comment | added | Dan Bron | @YoichiOishi The guy in question is a right-wing nut. He initially drew attention to himself through interaction with Donald Trump, who is precisely, as you so aptly put it, absurd. But... if you want a slightly more substantial explanation: this guy is using "Muslim clockmakers" as synecdoche for everything he sees wrong with America and its press. He wants to take the country back from more than a kid with a clock, he wants to take it back from everyone who is making such a big deal about a kid with a clock (and not making a big enough deal about stuff he cares about). | |
| Sep 20, 2015 at 1:20 | comment | added | Yoichi Oishi | ＠Dan Bron. If it is the case, isn’t the use of ‘clockmaker’ overstretched, even if it's a joke? Why should a group of all adult people represented by the Moslem question guy should vow to take back the America from a teen-age clockmaker who was innocent, or clockmakers alike? It sounds childish and really absurd than a pro-wrestler who vows to squarely wrestle with a baby for a teddy bear. | |
| Sep 20, 2015 at 1:09 | comment | added | Hot Licks | The above is the only reference to "Muslim clockmakers" I've seen anywhere. | |
| Sep 20, 2015 at 1:07 | comment | added | Dan Bron | (Also worth mentioning this is just the scandal of the week. Few months from now, you won't see politicians making references to clockmakers.) | |
| Sep 20, 2015 at 0:45 | comment | added | Dan Bron | A kid named Ahmed Mohammed made an electronic clock and brought it in to school to show his teacher. Another teacher reported him to the police, believing the complex-looking clock was a bomb. The kid was arrested, and later released. It's big news here in the US (the liberals call it racial profiling, the conservatives call it race-baiting / outrage-peddling). | |
| Sep 20, 2015 at 0:37 | history | asked | Yoichi Oishi | CC BY-SA 3.0 |