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The mother of two Birmingham Public Schools elementary students says her family has faced harassment and doxxing due what she calls "an innocent mistake" in which stickers with inappropriate messages were distributed to elementary students during a multicultural night event.
During the April 28 event at Beverly Elementary School, children were given stickers with different messages, including at least one that included an image of a gun and another that said "
expletive) Zionism," Birmingham Public School previously said in a statement.
Laila Balboul said she and another mother provided the stickers, which they had purchased from Amazon. They had no idea the stickers included the inappropriate imagery and messages, she said.
"It was an innocent mistake that could have happened to anybody," Balbous said.
https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/oakland-county/2026/06/23/birmingham-mom-has-been-harassed-doxxed-over-inappropriate-stickers-she-said/90669722007/
electric_blue68
(27,924 posts)Don't you sort of monitor things you plan to hand out to kids?
RandySF
(87,932 posts)electric_blue68
(27,924 posts)Sympthsical
(11,286 posts)Because I don't.
The kind of person who would have stickers like this is exactly the kind who would think nothing of passing them along to kids to proselytize.
Cha
(321,559 posts)handing out to kids.
It wouldn't ".. happen to anyone", who bothered to check them out first.
PCIntern
(28,801 posts)Im really getting sick of this shit. So tired of this after 70+ years of my life.
Yeah
its always a big frigging accident. Funny, nobody ever accidentally orders Magen David Tee shirts.
Gee, I thought that (swastika) thing was from the Native Americans. I had no idea that the Nazis used it
I actually heard that come out of someones mouth years ago.
sarisataka
(22,994 posts)that said they would think the same of a person wearing a swastika the same as if they wore an Ankh; the meanings of the two symbols had no difference
hookaleft
(1,400 posts)Cha
(321,559 posts)Mossfern
(4,869 posts)I think many people are misinformed.
yardwork
(69,955 posts)I think it's unacceptable to hand out stickers to elementary school children that say "Fuck Zionism."