Then – Pit or not – forgive me. I did mean it as an insult to the teacher, but – out of utter thoughtlessness – didn’t think of the possible collateral damage.
While I appreciate what I think is a sincere attempt at an apology, you still seem to be dramatically missing the point. It’s not a matter of “possible collateral damage.” It’s the simple fact of using “special education” as a synonym for “stupid” and treating it as an insult. It’s like calling her “Black” - as if being Black meant being stupid - and then “apologizing” by saying, “Yes, I did mean to insult her by calling her Black, but I didn’t think of the possible collateral damage.”
Okay. No. That’s not what I was doing.
What I was doing was saying that the teacher seems to be the one with special needs, and not her students.
You drew the “stupid” inference.
What I was doing was tantamount to saying, “maybe it’s the mental health ‘professional’ (in a hypothetical case of an off the rails provider who did something repugnant) who needs the help, and not her patients.”
In this analogy, you drew the “crazy” inference.
So my apology was sincere, and – now – so is my explanation.
Yes, it is. That’s exactly what you are doing, in the very next sentence of your explanation:
What, exactly, are the “special needs” that she seems to have?
I did, because that’s what you’re clearly implying.
Yes, that’s exactly what you’re doing, and what you’re doing is repugnant. Do you actually not understand this? Doing something repugnant doesn’t mean you need professional mental health help. It means you did something repugnant. People with mental health issues are no more likely to act repugnantly than people without mental health issues. People who act repugnantly are no more likely to be in need of mental health treatment than people who don’t act repugnantly.
Dude, you literally, actually wrote that you used “special education” as an insult. Here, I’ll quote you so you can read what you actually wrote:
That’s really not OK.
I think your hole is deep enough now, you can stop digging.
You were wrong, period. Accept, learn, move on.
The learning is the important part.
This link is from the Dallas Morning News, which I subscribe to, so I apologize if it’s behind a paywall. But don’t worry, I’ve only included it as a citation; I’ve described all of the outrageous parts in my text.
Last Tuesday, a bill in the Texas House that would force transgender students to athletically identify as the gender on their original birth certificate, died in committee because it didn’t have enough votes to advance to the whole House. So far, so good.
Yesterday, the Chair of the committee, Representative Harold Dutton, D-Houston, was apparently pissed off because a completely unrelated bill he sponsored was mortally wounded due to opposition from other Democrats. So, Chair Dutton, D-Houston (the D apparently stands for Dickhead), decided to retaliate by bringing the transgender athlete bill up again in committee - and he voted for it.
The Texas Senate already passed the bill in April and the governor has said he will sign it and the Republicans hold the majority in the House, so it looks like this bill will become a law. I hold out some slim hope that the business community will step in and oppose this like they did a few years ago with the bathroom bill but, if I remember correctly, Governor Abbot stayed neutral on the bathroom bill and the then Speaker of the House was opposed to it, so the situation definitely looks more bleak this time.
So, thank you so much, Chair Dutton, Douchebag-Houston, for deciding to soothe your damaged ego by shitting all over every transgender kid in Texas. I expect crap like this from the Republicans, but Democrats are supposed to stand up for and protect oppressed groups. Stupid motherfucker.
The Piedmont (California) school district offered a support group for white kids after the Chauvin verdict.
Note that according to the assistant superintendent who sent out the message, “support group” wasn’t meant in the traditional sense. Rather, it was supposed to be a discussion about how the white students can be supportive to students of color. If that was truly the intent, she picked a shitty way to label it.
Two teachers in charge of the support circles also sent an email explaining the meeting was about teaching White students how to be an ally. “It was not to provide a space to process because the institutions that are controlled and designed by white people are the ones causing harm,” they wrote.
Even still, I don’t get the need to segregate students by race to have these discussions. One of the students quoted felt the same way.
Don Barrett, a 16-year-old junior and member of Piedmont High School’s football team said, “The concept of teaching White people how to be an ally seemed weird to me.”
“I feel like we’re a really good community and anyone impacted (by the trial) could have talked about it together,” he told CNN. “I have friends of all different ethnicities and we can talk about stuff like this together.”
Barrett, whose mother is White and father is Black, said “I felt like we were being segregated. How would they even tell people that they can’t go to one circle?”
The CEO of Washingtonian magazine wrote an op-ed in the Washington Post saying that managers are going to be more likely to fire people who work for home. Her employees did not take the editorial well.
This woman is a dick
Apparently she got this shit (“birthing persons’ day”) from a turdsack called Ben Shapiro, who seemed to be trying to satirize decency (or the thing that Stupid MFers call “P.C.”).
Youth indoctrinated in right-wing nuttery complains about universities brainwashing their students. How ironic.
The CEO of Shell says the biggest obstacle to ending global warming is the people who oppose the big energy companies.
The CEO is a jerk, but I suspect he was telling an awkward truth shared by lots and lots of his peers.
One hell of a lot of managers only know how to manage by face time. One hell of a lot of greasy-pole-climbers got there by schmoozing which requires in-person time.
Those folks will be lost in a WFH world. So they’ll do everything they can to prevent the WFH world from coming to fruition within their company. Even if doing so hurts their company’s bottom line.
Like so many other business revolutions, whether it was mass production, early computers, factory automation, or the internet, many more legacy companies will fail and disappear than will successfully make the transition to the New Way, whatever that may be.
None of us should expect the legacy leadership to go down without a noisy fight.
I suspect it may be easier to let someone go that they don’t see every day.
The IS/IT department I work for made the jump to WFH because of COVID just over a year ago. It’s worked great. A few had already been doing it a bit. Which frankly was a bit aggravating for me as I’m a perfect candidate for WFH.
Boss and his boss seem to think we will be able to continue, but it’s not ultimately there choice. And I work for government. So the chain of command goes up, and up, and up.
There are many reasons to embrace this new paradigm.
Warning to others: for your own mental health, do not follow this link. This is some serious cog-dis. “We just shit all over the place and now you need to listen to us as we tell you how to clean up our shit.” It is like a tobacco company saying they are out there in the forefront in the fight against lung cancer.
I’m not sure if this belongs in this thread, but an initial reading of it made me think so:
Anna Duggar, whose husband was just arrested for child porn, says that she believes that Josh (her husband) was set up by the Biden administration, and that this wouldn’t have happened if Trump was still in the White House.
Did someone hack NARAL’s Twitter page?
Heh. If Trump were still president, pedophiles would be safe from arrest, prosecution, and persecution. I agree!
Or at least Pedophile 1 would be. Anyone else might be, depending on whether they can make a big enough donation.