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I’m constantly talking about the slippery slope and how easy it is to go for a ride down that slide.  I’m also constantly talking about things that seem like “innocent” TV shows that can result in problems.

Well, here ya go:

A 12-year-old boy was kicked and beaten by as many as 14 classmates, allegedly because a group on Facebook encouraged students to beat up  redheads, authorities said.

The boy was kicked and hit in two separate incidents around 8:30 a.m. Friday morning at A.E. Wright Middle School in Calabasas, said Lt. Richard Erickson of the Los Angeles County sheriff’s department.

“He was accosted by seventh and then eighth-graders,” Erickson said. “He was kicked and hit with fists in various areas of the body.”

Detectives believe the beatings were spurred by Facebook messages telling students that Nov. 20 was “Kick a Ginger Day.”

The messages were allegedly inspired by a 2005 episode of the animated TV show “South Park” which focused on prejudice against “gingers,” a label given to people with red hair, fair skin, and freckles…

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