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They added that displaying the Ten Commandments implies to students of other religions that they “do not belong in their own school community.”

Worse, it is a subtle form of victim-blaming, as it implies that the targets of defamation can make it stop by responding with gentleness instead of anger.

“What that also implies is that you’re going to have to pay Peter and steal from Paul,” said Arcadia Mayor Michael Cao, who opposed the measure.

“We don't know much else beyond this basic type of sentience. It's hard to answer what this implies for consciousness of two animals fusing into one since it depends on how we define consciousness.”

I’d call it a gaffe but that implies that it was accidental, and you could tell the guy knew exactly what he was saying and doing.