The child’s parents contend he was “scorned” for playing too well at a youth game Saturday, according to the police report.

Social media predictably turned it into "police called on a 3 year old black kid".

I have zero idea what happened here. I don't think the adults in charge should resort to calling 911 over youth soccer league disagreements. But the whole "parents contend" he was "scorned" thing suggests to me the parents were getting overly involved in a 3 year old's soccer game, possibly to the point of arguing with the adults managing the game, and the cops were called on the parents. Considering how often this kind of nonsense happens these days, it would surprise me if it was otherwise. Change the skin color of the kid involved and suddenly social media ignores the parents' behavior.

If your kid is good at soccer at 3 years old, wonderful, I'm so fucking happy for you (/s), but don't be fucking surprised when he's sidelined for a bit so that other 3 year olds get a chance to actually play.

I am a new parent, and I am not looking forward to the childish bullshit from other adults that I will be forced to interact with (other parents, teachers/administrators, activity/program administrators, etc). I realize it's not everyone, but I have such a low tolerance for the childish attitudes.

Am I actually the first person to post this here?

Anti intellectualism and pseudo intellectualism are extremely common in the US and have been for generations. People either are proudly ignorant and hateful toward experts or blindly cling to the words of ostensible experts and whatever their personal “research” leads them to believe. Every news event leads to a seemingly infinite number of essays, articles, videos, etc. that people of all ideologies and beliefs can cite and use to dismiss those that disagree as idiots and fanatics. The pandemic happened and overnight millions of people became biology experts. Wars happen and overnight millions of people became geopolitical and weapons experts. Someone gets killed on camera and overnight millions of people become law experts. All this from a single video essay, op ed, news segment, etc.

My question is do you think anti intellectualism or pseudo intellectualism are more prevalent in American society?

Which do you think is worse for society overall?

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