the kids you call whiny don't exist?Lol who am I bullying? A hypothetical person?
Can't bully someone who doesn't exist.
you are presenting an opinion that belittles and denounces children. so....bullyingObviously I'm not bullying anyone who doesn't exist....but let's pretend that person I was hypothetically describing does exist somewhere (because saying that my words here constitute "bullying" isn't just wrong, it's hilariously wrong)....am I bullying them by stating my opinion?
sure you are. you aren't physically attacking LGBT kids with a baseball bat in the bathrooms but you are still demeaning them.Definition of BULLYING
abuse and mistreatment of someone vulnerable by someone stronger, more powerful, etc. : the actions and behavior of a bully
No...no I'm not.
attacks like calling them whiny, fragile and saying they need psychiatric help?This does segue nicely to the other features of this onerous left wing philosophy that categorizes people as victims based on their identity....and that's the over exaggeration of victimhood....and blatant attacks on the moral character of anyone who disagrees.
what exactly in the rainbow flag is sexual?it does sound like it was driven by a personal agenda. The teacher should have sought the correct channels to display the flag and submitted to the request to take it down when asked. Just because you think everyone should support your cause doesn't mean they do and doesn't mean it's appropriate to display in a classroom, even passively. I personally don't take issue to the flag being in the classroom but I do recognize that it's there from a personal agenda and is not a part of the classroom (even if the teacher thinks it should be). the teacher could have found far more constructive ways to spread his message finding perhaps a symbol of inclusion without the sexual message or finding ways to display the flag under the approval of the school. the fact that the teacher has taken this so personally means it was personally motivated.
that is what the class was about.Is it the American flag?
Is it a flag of a country that is being studied?
If both questions above are no, is there any relevance to the flag being put up in the classroom for educational purposes for that class i.e. a class that studies different areas of humanity?
Before the school took the facebook page down there was a picture of the infamous flag anyone could look at. It was between an ROTC flag and a poster featuring a cross.If all of the above questions are answered no, it does not belong in the classroom. If one has no problem with it being in the classroom because the teacher is represented by that flag then one should not have a problem with a Christian teacher having a cross up or the 10 commandments up as those represent a Christian, or a teacher having a statue of Buddha on display if they're Buddhist.
you mean like evolution?This is what happens when the left starts pushing for removal of things from a classroom. Which has been going on for a long time before now. Now when someone wants one of the lefts symbols removed, suddenly it's a bad thing. You made the bed, now it's time to lie in it.
the parent complained that the presence of the rainbow flag would turn his kid gay.Yeah not the PARENT.. some kids said something to there parents..those parents spoke up for their kids!
I can't be held responsible for a hypothetical situation involving hypothetical people unable to follow a hypothetical conversation.
The real world keeps me busy enough.
the kids you call whiny don't exist?
what about the kids traumatized by a flag being taken down? Do they exist or did you just lie and just make them up?
The teacher literally asked them, did you even read the story? They didn't prohibit it, they waffled because they didn't want to seem preferential somehowit does sound like it was driven by a personal agenda. The teacher should have sought the correct channels to display the flag and submitted to the request to take it down when asked. Just because you think everyone should support your cause doesn't mean they do and doesn't mean it's appropriate to display in a classroom, even passively. I personally don't take issue to the flag being in the classroom but I do recognize that it's there from a personal agenda and is not a part of the classroom (even if the teacher thinks it should be). the teacher could have found far more constructive ways to spread his message finding perhaps a symbol of inclusion without the sexual message or finding ways to display the flag under the approval of the school. the fact that the teacher has taken this so personally means it was personally motivated.
You think he was accusing you of being a bully? Is that remotely justified by looking at the conversation or are you just scrapping for a forum fight out of insecurities? And that's not a personal attack, that's observing you may have an issue you don't seem to recognize that is hurting the conversation at largeThere's that attack on character I was just talking about lol.
So the fact that no one specific is involved means you aren't being a bully remotely in this toxic condescension, like everyone that has a problem and brings it up must be whiney, fragile and otherwise weak and not deserving of support except in a way that doesn't put any responsibility on other people to have empathy?Lol who am I bullying? A hypothetical person?
Can't bully someone who doesn't exist.
It downplays the struggles of one group by pointing to successes of another, which fails to even recognize that the successes you can find are still cherry picked and ignore the vast income inequality within the Asian community that falls through the cracksPointing out the strength of one man does not make a disparaging remark about another man.
I find myself being forced to agree with Ana the Ist on your tendency to make that leap of logic.
I rather understand their struggles because I was able to still see their struggles. I had the same experiences at the same time. I was there, except at that time as a youth, which I understood more fully when I became an adult.
If you think I'm gaslighting, I'd suggest you spend some time listening to black people of the War Generation tell you their stories about life.
When their experience reflects it, you don't just dismiss it, because that would then be bullying outright by gaslightingNo. I wouldn't call anyone who overcomes adversity "whiny".
I think it's pretty bigoted that you call them victims.
Either way the accusation is absurd, because that's not how sexual orientation works and assumes malicious conspiracy from the teacher with no basis besides that they're gay and are displaying a flag associated with gay pride (which is not demeaning to straight people, much as you'd likely claim it is)No it isn't. The complaint was that the teacher would teach them to be gay.
From the article...
Wallis claims the Pride flag hanging in his classroom was compared to hanging a Confederate flag, and that a parent called the school to complain that Wallis was going to teach their child to be gay.
I originally thought you were accidentally mischaracterizing the complaint...but you've done it so many times now it looks deliberate. It's in both articles and the OP.
you are presenting an opinion that belittles and denounces children.
sure you are. you aren't physically attacking LGBT kids with a baseball bat in the bathrooms but you are still demeaning them.
attacks like calling them whiny, fragile and saying they need psychiatric help?
So the fact that no one specific is involved means you aren't being a bully remotely
When their experience reflects it
Even the American flag is not a guarantee of unity: never heard of lyrics that are basically a reference to reclaiming escaped slaves? America is not without any flaw and to act like obedience to some notion of unity that whitewashes that part of history is anything positive and not nationalism is naive. You think every school is required to have some pledge of allegiance, like this is an authoritarian regime that demands submission? Pretty sure you're wrong on both countsIs it the American flag?
Is it a flag of a country that is being studied?
If both questions above are no, is there any relevance to the flag being put up in the classroom for educational purposes for that class i.e. a class that studies different areas of humanity?
If all of the above questions are answered no, it does not belong in the classroom. If one has no problem with it being in the classroom because the teacher is represented by that flag then one should not have a problem with a Christian teacher having a cross up or the 10 commandments up as those represent a Christian, or a teacher having a statue of Buddha on display if they're Buddhist.
Nope, because I don't assume one will necessarily fail based on certain traits, but also acknowledge that they have not been treated fairly historically and it isn't just better because you can point to detached stats without context or methodology.Whose experience?
And how do you know what their experience is?
Are you just assuming they're victims because of their identity?
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