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Yet More Left Wing Hypocrisy

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That's just not true. I'm sure if a white teacher punched a black kid he'd also get a GoFundMe from conservatives and perhaps even a commendation from the president.
 
https://www.yahoo.com/news/maywood-teacher-caught-video-punching-232528830.html

If this teacher had been white hitting a black student he would get zero sympathy and the media and the left would be calling for him to be ousted. Since the teacher was black hitting a student is not only OK but is worthy of the left sending him thousands of dollars via GoFundMe.

I don't care what color the teacher was, they are the adult in that situation and should have kept their calm and handled it better although I need to see the full video because in the comments it said the kid hit the teacher first. So maybe it was a reaction of self defense?
 
Herein lies the problem. The race of a student or teacher should not even be a 'thing' up for discussion. A teacher is a person of authority and should set an example. Physical assaults are wrong no matter what color a teacher or student is.
 
https://www.yahoo.com/news/maywood-teacher-caught-video-punching-232528830.html

If this teacher had been white hitting a black student he would get zero sympathy and the media and the left would be calling for him to be ousted. Since the teacher was black hitting a student is not only OK but is worthy of the left sending him thousands of dollars via GoFundMe.

Stupid overgeneralized comments are stupid. We have no way of knowing the ideology of the person who started the gofundme, not of the people who donated. Nor have you shown a single actual person who has acted hypocritically. Do you know what the word "hypocrisy" even means?

And for the record, I have very limited sympathy for the teacher. No matter the provocation, a teacher simply cannot behave as he did.
 
https://www.yahoo.com/news/maywood-teacher-caught-video-punching-232528830.html

If this teacher had been white hitting a black student he would get zero sympathy and the media and the left would be calling for him to be ousted. Since the teacher was black hitting a student is not only OK but is worthy of the left sending him thousands of dollars via GoFundMe.

Three reactions:

1) The teacher should absolutely not have done this, and deserves to be disciplined.

2) The kid is a piece of ****, and deserved the smack, even if I disagree with it being delivered.

3) The OP is right, the black teacher is being treated differently - if it would have been a white teacher, he could have shot him, and been allowed to go free with a good portion of America's blessing. Right, Mr. Zimmerman?

Point three was thrown in to illustrate that silly false equivalencies are easy and fun, and can cut both ways.

Anyway, seems like this all might be a little overblown. For a little more context:

Donations pour in for Maywood teacher arrested after being caught on video punching student - Los Angeles Times

From the article:

In a statement, officials with the Los Angeles Unified School District said they were “extremely disturbed” by reports of the fight.

“We take this matter very seriously and do not condone violence or intolerance of any kind,” the statement read. “Los Angeles Unified is cooperating with law enforcement in investigating this incident.”

Several parents gathered outside the school Friday night to express their anger over the incident, NBC Los Angeles reported.

“Just the fact that he’s hitting a child — it’s not right,” one woman told the station.

Hmm...maybe this wasn't as "OK" with everyone as the OP would suggest.

At any rate, what the hell does this have to do with the "Left wing"? Oh, nothing, just more silly generalization and speculation...cool cool cool.. :)
 
Go watch the unedited video on youtube. Listen to what the kid was saying. Listen to the physical threats and the racial epithets.

Wow.

I do NOT approve of teachers assaulting students.....BUT....that teacher deserves a commendation, imo. What he did to to that kid was a community service.

Were it not for the presence of cell phone video (yet again) it would be hard to defend what he did. But if a white teacher had pulled out a gun and shot that kid...and claimed "stand your ground"....every conservative on this board (including the OP) would be applauding him today. And, of course, FoxNews and the rest of the fake (i.e. conservative) news news media would have been leading the charge.

So, of course, the opinion expressed by the OP was just the typical white grievance nonsense that we always see from the right-wing, culture-warrior crowd. Race and political ideology (of the teacher or student) have nothing to do with any of this.
 
Go watch the unedited video on youtube. Listen to what the kid was saying. Listen to the physical threats and the racial epithets.

Wow.

I do NOT approve of teachers assaulting students.....BUT....that teacher deserves a commendation, imo. What he did to to that kid was a community service.

Were it not for the presence of cell phone video (yet again) it would be hard to defend what he did. But if a white teacher had pulled out a gun and shot that kid...and claimed "stand your ground"....every conservative on this board (including the OP) would be applauding him today. And, of course, FoxNews and the rest of the fake (i.e. conservative) news news media would have been leading the charge.

So, of course, the opinion expressed by the OP was just the typical white grievance nonsense that we always see from the right-wing, culture-warrior crowd. Race and political ideology (of the teacher or student) have nothing to do with any of this.

No doubt the kid needs to be disciplined, but if you think sucker punching a 14 year old kid and continuing to wail on him is even close to an appropriate course of action, then that's honestly quite disgusting. The whole commendation thing even 10x more so.

Saying racial epithets or throwing a basketball at a teachers knees does not change that. While we all know crying about gofundme's is hypocritical coming from the right, you can see blatant hypocrisy here from the left as well and it's pretty disturbing considering the situation.

You shouldn't get 100k for knocking out a kid, you should be thrown in jail and never allowed to teach again.
 
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The kid doesn't look white to me from what I've see on You Tube so not sure this is a white-black thing. Secondly, kid's these days are totally contemptuous of authority because they're self absorbed and think the world revolves around them. That's a huge problem. Lastly, the teacher needs to control himself. Short of an actual assault, he shouldn't be punching anyone.
 
Idiots on both sides of the aisle have gotten go fund me pages for doing all sorts of idiotic things so the OP is a straw man from the getgo.

Teacher should be fired and charged with assaulting a minor. Kid should be disciplined by the school for his disruptive behavior.
 
https://www.yahoo.com/news/maywood-teacher-caught-video-punching-232528830.html

If this teacher had been white hitting a black student he would get zero sympathy and the media and the left would be calling for him to be ousted. Since the teacher was black hitting a student is not only OK but is worthy of the left sending him thousands of dollars via GoFundMe.
One example that fits our very small made up mind
No mention of the 11 year old that killed his grandma then himself?
And omg, he wasn't a Muslim or brown person
 
WTF are you babbling about?

Quit pretending you have the ability to read people's minds.

Our old white farts SS Medicare VA socialist benefits go to their heads occasionally
 
That teacher should be arrested and charged and fired. Sorry, but just because kids are assholes doesn’t mean that a teacher gets to punch them.

I’m confident the vast majority of liberals agree. You can always find a few crazies out there with different views, lord knows both the left and right have plenty of them. Their nuttiness is not a proper basis for a claim of “hypocrisy”
 
This thread is yet another example of a troublesome trope. Years of exposure to increasingly virulent right-wing media have led a fairly significant portion of society to the viewpoint that “if I see something I don’t like, ‘the left’ must be responsible.”
 
Go watch the unedited video on youtube. Listen to what the kid was saying. Listen to the physical threats and the racial epithets.

Wow.

I do NOT approve of teachers assaulting students.....BUT....that teacher deserves a commendation, imo. What he did to to that kid was a community service.

Were it not for the presence of cell phone video (yet again) it would be hard to defend what he did. But if a white teacher had pulled out a gun and shot that kid...and claimed "stand your ground"....every conservative on this board (including the OP) would be applauding him today. And, of course, FoxNews and the rest of the fake (i.e. conservative) news news media would have been leading the charge.

So, of course, the opinion expressed by the OP was just the typical white grievance nonsense that we always see from the right-wing, culture-warrior crowd. Race and political ideology (of the teacher or student) have nothing to do with any of this.

Exactly my point! Thanks for making it. If the situation had been reversed with a black kid hurling insults and threats at a white person of authority (police being the usual case) then the white person of authority would have been sh!t on all over the place if they had beaten up the black kid but, as you correctly point out, if a white kid (yes I know this particular incident involved a black kid) had hurled these very same insults and threats then you justify the person of authority's actions and defend him and set up a GoFundMe account for him.
 
This thread is yet another example of a troublesome trope. Years of exposure to increasingly virulent right-wing media have led a fairly significant portion of society to the viewpoint that “if I see something I don’t like, ‘the left’ must be responsible.”

Years of exposure to increasingly virulent left-wing media have led a fairly significant portion of society to the viewpoint that “if I see something I don’t like, ‘the right’ must be responsible.”
 
Years of exposure to increasingly virulent left-wing media have led a fairly significant portion of society to the viewpoint that “if I see something I don’t like, ‘the right’ must be responsible.”

Except that’s not true.
 
WTF are you babbling about?

Quit pretending you have the ability to read people's minds.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/maywood-teacher-caught-video-punching-195850487.html

A lot of lefties are coming to this guy's defense but if a black kid gives a white police person a bunch of insults and threats and the white police person beats the crap out of the black kid, it is an entirely different story. Hence the total hypocrisy. By the way, I don't blame this black teacher one bit myself. A lot of kids do need the crap beat out of them and this kid certainly deserved it in my opinion but, we shouldn't have two different standards just because of a person's color. If there wasn't the total hypocrisy involved I would send some money to this GoFundMe account. The MSM blast white people who do this but when a black person does it the MSM report about the GoFundMe account set up.
 
Except that’s not true.

Actually all the MSM do anymore is talk up the deplorables, racists, bigots, misogynists, etc., inciting violence from the whackos on right and on the left like the antifa and BLM. The media purposely stir up the pot to increase ratings.
 
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