Messed up your hair a little bit, did I? Sorry. 
Seriously, though, “the left” is being held accountable now for 14-year-olds being nasty little pricks?
Be interesting to see what she turns in for her extra credit project, and what kind of grade the teacher gives her for it.
I hope she doesn’t just print out the column and hand that in.
I hope she never reads the column (although that’s vanishingly unlikely) because it encourages her to shoehorn her personal experiences and independent thinking into a stereotypical political model and then weigh it down with a lot of idiotic knee-jerk cliches.
Apparently so. I blame three pint birthday lunches. Bottoms up!
Ay dios mío, the blind, partisan, kool-aid chuggers around here never cease to amaze me. It’s not that I don’t agree that middle school kids are dicks and this is no surprise - it’s that you people would be SHRIEKING bloody murder if the situation was reversed.
Can we maybe, someday, move past the “Liberals SAY they’re tolerant, but then when I say or do something they disagree with, they demonstrate their disagreement. Lying bastards.”
It’s such disingenuous bullshit. Tolerance does not mean silence, and it sure as hell doesn’t mean assent. No one pulled her shirt off. She wasn’t sent home. Her shirt was tolerated just fine, she wore it all day without anyone trying to stop her.
Anyone who claims that disagreement = intolerance is either an idiot or a liar, and my tolerance for both of those things is, in fact, very low.
No, pretty sure I wouldn’t.
An 8th grader who is politically savvy enough to do this experiment was probably politically outgoing in front of this teacher before. So if one day she’s talking about gay rights (a popular topic for high school politics) and the next day comes in a McCain Girl t-shirt, I’d be surprised too.
Of course, that kind of logic doesn’t usually make it into sensationalist newspaper articles.
So telling her she should be burned with her shirt is a reasonable way to express disagreement?
That’s exactly right.
Well, my fifth grade son was told Obama was a Muslim who wanted to turn all the children into Muslims and ruin our country, amongst other things.
So does that make you, Sarafeena, a jerk and somehow responsible?
I never said anyone here was a jerk, or in any way responsible.
And saying negative things about the candidate is not the same thing as telling someone they should die because they are supporting the “wrong” guy.
Well, this is certainly encouraging, but I don’t want to read too much into it. We’ll have to see if they prove eager to turn in their parents when we come to collect all the guns. And I’d be rather surprised if our plan for mandatory gay marriages is met with approval, as I recall, youth of that age tend to be stubbornly hetero. It may take more than a few appearances of the Obama girls on Hannah Montana to implement Phase Two.
Did anyone remember to forward her name to Commissar Soros for The List?
There were jerks in my middle school who said I should be burned for wearing tie-dye shirts. Middle school kids can be cruel to anyone they don’t think “fits in”.
ETA: I’d like to think that the kids who said that sort of thing to me grew up to be decent people and now regret saying those things. I did and said some things at that age that I’m not proud of now.
Have we all already forgotten the horrible case of the woman who was attacked because she had a MCain bumper sticker on her car. You know who I’m talking about, she had a B carved onto her face…backwards.
Let’s get serious, there are millions of people in this country, tens of thousands of schools, etc. so I am not at all surpisedc something like this happened. Is it outrageous, not particularly. Is it unfortunate, yes, probably. But am I supposed to get into a fit because of some isolated incident involving 14 year olds and a single teacher, whatever the truth may be?
I wouldn’t. This kid was not harrassed by teachers. If a kid wore an Obama shirt to troll some middle school in Bumblefuck, Texas and got razzed by a few redneck kids at the school, I would say exactly what I’m saying about this kid. She wasn’t physically assaulted, and no one in authority at the school bothered her about it or told her she couldn’t wear the shirt, so what’s the problem?
Kids tell each other to die all the time at that age. It’s just smack talk. It means nothing.
The problem: McCain & Caribou Barbie LOST! They shouldn’t have. It’s unfair. It’s all a big Liberal Plot!
Well, you know what’s interesting about what the kid said she ultimately learned is how difficult it is to be different/on the outside. When you live in a community that is extremely one-sided in any regard, there is that risk.
You did imply that liberals are hypocrites, though. How could that be unless “the left” is somehow responsible for the children at this particular school?
And when my friends called me a “fag” in the 7th grade because I liked Green Day when they didn’t, I should have expected a more mature discussion of musical tastes. Truly, I was raised in Thunderdome.
I once got the shit kicked out of me because I had a Slayer T-Shirt on. The pricks that did it where U2 fans.
Can I now say that all the millions of U2 fans are violent arseholes.
I had really hoped this kind of bollocks(the OP not the story) would go away after the election but it seems that some still want to make their little points and claim that all people on the other side are one large cohesive group.
I’ve seen intolerance from both sides on this board and IRL in the States with regard to this election. No side is innocent. Each side tends to ignore their own shit though.