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Parents, educators rally behind teacher suspended for 'racist' social media posts

I'm glad to see people finally starting to fight back against Social Justice Warriors. They've run amok.

No, one should never advocate for social justice. Waste of time, and probably wrong too.
 
The way you're using the word cockroach has extremely strong racist overtones.

Oh look, a micro aggression against the threads creator.

Shame.....
 
Nobody compared (or equated) a race to an "insect pest":



Erod compared the BLM movement to cockroaches.

There's a difference between the black race in general and the BLM movement in particular.

If I say, "Someone needs to stand up against these mafia cockroaches", it would be widely and easily understood that I was speaking specifically about the mafia and not about Italians in general or the white race more broadly.
Really. Enough said in an attempt to appease the liberals in this thread's crowd. I've seen BLM protesters of all skin colors. Look at a U of Missouri rally. The cockroaches are the terrorists OF ALL COLORS among the BLM movement.
 
Really. Enough said in an attempt to appease the liberals in this thread's crowd. I've seen BLM protesters of all skin colors. Look at a U of Missouri rally. The cockroaches are the terrorists OF ALL COLORS among the BLM movement.

I'm not sure whether you agree with me or disagree with me or, frankly, what you're event trying to say.

+1 for effort though!
 
Calling someone a cockroach is more than an attempt to belittle them, it implies the need to exterminate them. Vermin a has similar usage. There are many other ways to unthinkingly insult large groups of people without implying that they are sub-human.

Members of the Black Lives Matter St. Paul movement seem to have overreached, taking much too harsh of a stance for a questionable post :Olson suggested that the district was not providing enough help in dealing with “kids who won’t quit gaming, setting up fights, selling drugs, whoring trains or cyber bullying.” Appropriate? ehhh.... but certainly not worth taking a stance on. The St. Paul group should apologize to that guy and insist that he be reinstated. Even if he were to be a closet racist (and there is zero reason to suspect that), this is not the way to handle it.

Another example of how not to handle it has been given by a number of posters on this thread. In response to an overreach by a few members of a large group they have responded by painting an entire movement with comments like grotesque and claiming "that they've never made a single salient point". Remember that this movement started over numerous incidences where unarmed black men and children were gunned down and killed on video seemingly without cause. Agree or disagree, it is a movement built upon the idea that Black people are human, their lives matter. They should not be hunted down and exterminated like pests.

So to bring up any kind of analogy that implies extermination to a group protesting that extermination is wrong has clear racist overtones and IMO is a bannable offense. It would be like making a comment like this Jewish person is dirty and needs to be shown to the showers, and then pretending faux surprise when confronted with the obvious and horrific anti-Semitic implications.

You're doing your level best to make this about racism and failing spectacularly. Probably because, like the teacher in question, you're bleatings of racism are unfounded.
 
I disagree. A person can see a group of people as being despicable and vile, where the use of the word "cockroach" is justified in their mind. That doesn't have an racial connotation to it at all. ISIS fighters are cockroaches. That is only in reference to what they are, not what race they belong to.

Now if you want to debate what BLM is, that's fine. I'm very well informed on what they are. Your attempt to paint a different picture does not change what they have become, and who now controls them and why.

Bull****. It's a demonization technique that is brazenly dishonest and equally despicable.
 
No, one should never advocate for social justice. Waste of time, and probably wrong too.
For shame. A gross misrepresentation of what I said. I expect that kind of conduct from liberals, but from you?
 
Cockroach is a term whose connotations are more genocidal than racial. Feel better, conservatives?
 
Cockroach is a term whose connotations are more genocidal than racial. Feel better, conservatives?

It has neither a racist or a genocidal connotation

When I hear it used as a perjoritve I think of the movie Scarface, when Tony Montana calls Frank Lopez a " ****ing cockroach ".
 
It has neither a racist or a genocidal connotation

When I hear it used as a perjoritve I think of the movie Scarface, when Tony Montana calls Frank Lopez a " ****ing cockroach ".
I was waiting for him to work white privilege into it somehow.
 
BLM, by definition, represents (only?) the black race - by comparing (equating?) any human race with an insect pest is racist. Which race do you think just might be identified by BLM? ;)

Black is not a race. Look it up.
 
While the special education teacher complaining about student misbehavior may be justified (if one were to consider stories of teachers being beaten by students who were doing drug deals, etc.) or a cause for concern for students with disabilities and their parents alike (I immediately think of seclusion and restraint issues here), I could not find the racism in his statements. Ignorance perhaps, but racism, no.

That being said, the school to prison pipeline is very real and it overwhelmingly impacts students with disabilities (those under the charge of the teacher in question, by the way) and students of color.

So its his fault? :2rofll:
 
Μολὼν λαβέ;1065691612 said:
So its his fault? :2rofll:

Read it again.
 
For shame. A gross misrepresentation of what I said. I expect that kind of conduct from liberals, but from you?

Probably we misunderstood each other...
 
Calling someone a cockroach is more than an attempt to belittle them, it implies the need to exterminate them. Vermin a has similar usage. There are many other ways to unthinkingly insult large groups of people without implying that they are sub-human.

Members of the Black Lives Matter St. Paul movement seem to have overreached, taking much too harsh of a stance for a questionable post :Olson suggested that the district was not providing enough help in dealing with “kids who won’t quit gaming, setting up fights, selling drugs, whoring trains or cyber bullying.” Appropriate? ehhh.... but certainly not worth taking a stance on. The St. Paul group should apologize to that guy and insist that he be reinstated. Even if he were to be a closet racist (and there is zero reason to suspect that), this is not the way to handle it.

Another example of how not to handle it has been given by a number of posters on this thread. In response to an overreach by a few members of a large group they have responded by painting an entire movement with comments like grotesque and claiming "that they've never made a single salient point". Remember that this movement started over numerous incidences where unarmed black men and children were gunned down and killed on video seemingly without cause. Agree or disagree, it is a movement built upon the idea that Black people are human, their lives matter. They should not be hunted down and exterminated like pests.

So to bring up any kind of analogy that implies extermination to a group protesting that extermination is wrong has clear racist overtones and IMO is a bannable offense. It would be like making a comment like this Jewish person is dirty and needs to be shown to the showers, and then pretending faux surprise when confronted with the obvious and horrific anti-Semitic implications.

Wow. I thought these reactions were satire until I got to you. You're actually serious. Just, wow.
 
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