"see, we're not racist"
These fuckers act like "slavery" was just some malaise or miasma that existed independently of Americans and the Americans bravely drove it out of the country like St. Patrick getting all the snakes out of Ireland.
If you say you had a Civil War to get rid of slavery, then by definition you're admitting that the other side, your own countrymen, was fighting for slavery.
Pretty sure by the end more people were dying to preserve slavery than end it.
We had half a million people die in the civil war to get rid of slavery? Aren't you grateful for them
Not really. Basically every other country in the Americas managed to get rid of slavery decades earlier without having a civil war over it. Also slavery is still legal. Fuck you
I thought the combined total from both sides in the war was like 630,000?
it is. i mixed half million and million. still insane. 2.3 percent of the population
Working as a substitute teacher, it was sometimes amazing to see the different vibes that schools gave off, even if they were only twenty miles away from each other. At one school, a couple of the male teachers were chuds who had clearly never left the (extremely rural northeastern) state. I repeatedly caught the weird computer guy staring at me. The secretary there also wore a massive silver cross necklace. That school said the pledge, the others did not. At the high school I listened to a lib English teacher in an upper level class just kind of rant for awhile about how women couldn’t walk around by themselves outside of towns or cities in the 19th century (which women? where are your sources? Nobody asked because I think they just wanted to move on). A lib teacher at an elementary school said she was “hiring me out” (😬) to sub for other teachers, she also had me use this massive heavy vacuum cleaner backpack to clean her room, not in the job description. An incredibly boring high-level science class at the high school where they did an experiment measuring the temperature under a lightbulb or something while already knowing the answer, everyone was ready to pass out from boredom. I had to teach a calculus class after admitting that I had never taken calculus and knew nothing about it. (I asked the students to teach for each other instead.) The cops on patrol and locked doors also make these places seem more like prison than ever. The smell of chocolate milk and steak-fried pork from the linoleum fluorescent cafeteria where there was one tall dude with a mustache sitting alone and huge crowds of everyone else sitting together. There’s a lot of humanity struggling to break free there but it’s also dreary and depressing and almost everyone is obviously just waiting for the end of the day. I stopped when the pandemic started, everyone there is unmasked there now even though most of the teachers are actually unionized Bernie libs, subbing was actually really fun and exciting, it was different every day, just wish the pay was higher and that they took public health seriously and made Pedagogy of the Oppressed into a reality.
just wish the pay was higher and that they took public health seriously
I know that feel all too well.
"these fucking blacks are ungrateful! they should accept these meager, meaningless concessions!"
You know what's weird? I was a military brat and went to a Department of Defense school, and we never said the pledge or played the anthem or any of that, despite it being the War on Terror years.
I remember being young and doing it at my inner city school. Weird that I didn't have to do it when my family moved to the suburbs. I wonder why
The pledge is certainly a thing in the suburbs. I think it comes down to enforcement by individual administrations.
we never said the pledge or played the anthem or any of that, despite it being the War on Terror years.
because PMC are not working class
What does that even have to do with the statement lol
Mfs spend tens of thousands of dollars for sports ball tickets and they not only invite celebrities to sing the anthem, but they do that after watching military jet fly above the stadium
It's weird that the emote is named in a way where you can actually find it
these were the kind of teachers I incessantly bullied/made their lives hell in HS as a student lol.
Teacher was removed in 2019, so local Florida radio gave him a platform.
https://archive.ph/eVfOc"I know I'm not a racist. In this day and age, you'd have to be kind of an imbecile to be a real, true racist"
I stood up and put my hand over my heart and said the pledge. Not one out of about 30 in the homeroom of 11th graders, not one of the kids stood up.
I was never a very rebellious teen, but this would be enough to have me firmly seated for the pledge
I remember sitting for the pledge a lot in school, high school and literally nothing happening to me or anyone else. And this was in and around 9/11 so the height of early aughts patriotic-fascism that was sweeping the nation.
Some chud kid who's dad was a boot or something attacked me for not standing for the pledge in high school. Something something freedom, something something
oh ya, he got big mad and flipped me out of my desk lmao, mans had something to prove as a 10th grader I guess
I had an adult who wasn’t even a teacher, he was a teaching assistant, scream in my face when I was 16 for not standing for the pledge. The teacher had to tell him to chill the fuck out, if I remember right she sent him out of the room for basically a timeout, a man 10 years older than her.
In my experience as a teacher, most kids will actively rebel against that kind of sanctimonious bullshit.
Critical support for that
unwittingly motivating kids to hate what he stands for.Yeah even if the kids would’ve been primed to side with these views, presenting it like this makes them go “What the fuck
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In another life this homeroom teacher was an infowarriorride guy.
The real lesson is that because such provisions were never included in the document in the first place, it is not an example for freedom, and any project built off of it should be destroyed.
it’s okay because only bad people are enslaved. I, of course, am a good person and there is no possibility of me ever becoming imprisoned
Most people who feel this inspired just hand-write their messages on the side of their van, it takes real dedication to teach the next generation about how dogs cause cancer
literally every whiteboard from my childhood in Alabama except it would also go heavily in to detail about how the civil war had nothing to do with slavery. Teacher is always a coach who isnt qualified but through some loophole hes allowed to teach history or geometry. Youll watch passion of the christ at least 10x through the year and the rare time you get a break? the sadistic fuck hits us with star wars ep 1.
They also group the sports kids all in classes together (its the south football is god and other sports are elevated too) and give them the answers. I once got put in the class with the soccer team. Only white kid there. Teacher literally handed test answers to the first kid and we passed it around until everyone was done and told us to miss a few. that was like 2009ish. Based off my wife who teaches its much worse now. They still are not allowed to fail kids or even give a failing grade on an assignment.
