१६ फेब्रुवारी, २०२३

Fear not, Andrew Sullivan. This must be satire, because some students have allergies, some are vegetarian, some have religious restrictions, etc.

No teacher concerned with "equity" would just risk allergic reactions, feeding pork to Muslims and Jews, and meat to vegans.

ADDED: The Sullivan tweet has disappeared, so let me embed the video he was commenting on, because it is an amusing satire and Sullivan's mistake is interesting evidence of the blurring of real life and satire:

४६ टिप्पण्या:

n.n म्हणाले...

Redistributive and retributive change. Deja vu.

n.n म्हणाले...

Communism is a minority trickle down system. Capitalism is a democratic system of retained earnings from productive, personal enterprise.

D(i.e. color judgment, class-based bigotry)I(nequity)E(xclusion)versity is a dogmatic belief under an ethical philosophy that denies individual dignity, individual conscience, intrinsic value, and normalizes color blocs (e.g. "people of color"), color quotas, and affirmative discrimination, adopted by Progressive Liberal sects under the Pro-Choice ethical religion.

RNB म्हणाले...

Now do that with grades. "You know you only got an 'A' because of your white privilege, so I'm going to subtract two letter grades. That will still leave you with a 'C' and the letter grades can be redistributed to two other students who are, through no fault of their own, getting 'F' grades, pulling them up to 'D's."

gilbar म्हणाले...

i tried this on Halloween, back when i lived in Ames.
The kids would come up to the house; and i'd take their candy, and 'redistribute' it so that the kid with a heavy sack, would go away with a light sack, and the kids with the light sacks would go away with equally light sacks (some candies HAD to stay with me, the party official; because i was doing redistributing.. AND i have a sweet tooth).
I thought it was doing a great job of teaching the children of the Professors and grad students that were my neighbors about social equity.
But, all it really did; was i had to move out of Ames because of.. THE MAN.

Misinforminimalism म्हणाले...

Except she says she's discriminating in the manner in which she distributes the lunches "equitably." So it's possible she accounts for dietary concerns in addition to forcing nine year olds to atone for oppression that occurred 291 years before they were born.

While I like to think this is fake, I can't assure myself of that because there is no limit to how woke and/or stupid teachers can be in 2023.

JK Brown म्हणाले...

Not to mention, such an action would be theft and the parents could go after her personally and civilly. Might not win, but could certainly ensure she had a lot of legal expenses. While the cash cow would be the school district. After all, they take money to provide meals to kids who need them.

But if if did happen, it might not teach the lesson a Progressive teacher hoped. Kids aren't stupid and learning your teachers and professors can be, and often are, malevolent idiots is how kids mature. Learning to be skeptical of people in authority is how you learn to become educated.

Mike Yancey म्हणाले...

Well, if it's to be realistic, the teacher should get all the food, she should waste most of that, and the students will go hungry.

Rabel म्हणाले...

MASK=PARODY

It's right there in her Twitter bio.

Achilles म्हणाले...

The problem for communists is they do not like interactions where there has to be mutual agreement.

They can't produce things that people want. They are generally mediocre individuals just like almost people are. Systems that allow choices allow people who produce things everyone actually wants win.

Thus they want a system where the government chooses for people and makes them accept what they produce and puts them in a position of higher status than they really would get in a competitive open environment.

The only way people like Nancy Pelosi can become billionaires is by abusing government power. They are not smart or skilled enough to do it otherwise.

Hence a certain type of person is drawn to government and systems like communism.

A terrible type of person.

Oh Yea म्हणाले...

Obviously Andrew didn’t read her Twitter profile which ends with “MASK=PARODY”

Dear corrupt left, go F yourselves म्हणाले...

Capitalism is merely free commerce. The collective left hate it - because it helped millions rise out of poverty.

Bob Boyd म्हणाले...

She looks like she's ready to go snorkeling.

jim म्हणाले...

Redistribution means oppressor kids get hummus and oppressed kids get their oreos? That sounds like the oppresor moms are sending poison, knowing it will go to the oppressed kids.

Anyway, check the twitterer's comments. She was making joke comrades.

FWBuff म्हणाले...

If you click on her Twitter bio, she says that any video she does while wearing a mask is a parody.

Clark म्हणाले...

"No teacher concerned with 'equity' would just risk allergic reactions, feeding pork to Muslims and Jews, and meat to vegans."

I think that is overestimating the thoughtfulness of the woke.

An apartment mate of mine when I first moved to New York City grew up with communist parents who sent her to commie camp when she was a kid. Everyone was supposed to put all their clothes into a common pile. She refused to participate when it came to her underwear.

JPS म्हणाले...

Communist-style lunch distribution. Chance she's read "Harvest of Sorrow": 0.

Well, as Richard "Wretchard" Fernandez put it, "Communism's failures as a political, social and economic system have blinded historians to its success as a religion." I wish the lady all the joy her preferred system brings, everywhere it's ever been tried.

Narr म्हणाले...

Just when I was going to recount Mrs. Bronough's 9th grade civics lesson about socialist redistribution, RNB lays it out at 1255.

JAORE म्हणाले...

Gotta be a spoof.

Please let it be a spoof.

Bob Boyd म्हणाले...

I agree with Althouse. Doesn't seem real. How many kids bring their own lunches? Is her commie lunch experiment limited to the brown-baggers?
And Oreos are a product of Capitalism, so why is she teaching them that Capitalism is rewarding and Comma nism is a punishment? Is she promoting Comma nism or is she hoping to inoculate the kids against it?

Carol म्हणाले...

Satire's lately been getting too close to the real.

re Pete म्हणाले...

"Now the fifth daughter on the twelfth night

Told the first father that things weren’t right

My complexion she said is much too white

He said come here and step into the light he says hmm you’re right

Let me tell the second mother this has been done

But the second mother was with the seventh son

And they were both out on Highway 61"

n.n म्हणाले...

Now do that with grades. "You know you only got an 'A' because...

A class-disordered religion with empathetic support.

mezzrow म्हणाले...

Drilling down into it, I think this woman's tweet is a poorly presented parody account. This gives me a deep sense of relief.

Correct me, if I am wrong.

Saint Croix म्हणाले...

Communist style?

You take all of the children's lunches.

Then you dole out small bits of food to everyone.

And you keep most of the food for yourself.

Marcus Bressler म्हणाले...

You think Commies care about food allergies or religious taboos?

MarcusB. THEOLDMAN

Greg म्हणाले...

This was in fact satire

Anthony म्हणाले...

Achilles said...puts them in a position of higher status than they really would get in a competitive open environment.

That's a good way of putting it.

MadisonMan म्हणाले...

IF that were true, I'd be in the Principal's office tomorrow demanding a classroom change for my kid. If I could get to the front of the line of similarly-thinking parents.
I doubt it's true.

BUMBLE BEE म्हणाले...

Food Allergies? Who cares?
She's a teacher
NOT AN ALLERGIST! :)

Inga म्हणाले...

Ah, another thing rightists can get verklempt over, just like the cat boxes in grade school bathrooms. I imagine there are some disappointed people who were so hoping this was true.

AZ Bob म्हणाले...

Après moi, le déluge, ou peut-être plus tôt.

Matt म्हणाले...

Yet if a parent was to go in there and beat her stupid, the PARENT would be the one in trouble!

Which also explains why there is now a teacher apparently communizing her classroom.

#Progress

Bob B म्हणाले...

True historical communist lunch.

Teacher (and a few of her favorite students) gets steak. Rest of the children line up to get stale bread, with bread running out before the line ends.

retail lawyer म्हणाले...

Don't the kids get free lunches these days? In my 'hood, when the schools stopped classroom instruction for Covid, they still handed out the free lunches to the parents, who were waiting in cars.

NorthOfTheOneOhOne म्हणाले...

Carol said...

Satire's lately been getting too close to the real.

That's a sign of good satire.

Mark म्हणाले...

Sullivan is remarkably dense to miss the parody label.

Instead he decides to make her into some sort of fascist or even Hitler-like figure, and then have millions of their followers go around mindlessly repeating it, is both impressive and chilling

Andrew म्हणाले...

You know it's parody, "The F missing in the spelling of communism is Food".

Sheridan म्हणाले...

All it takes is one child with a peanut allergy. The teacher hasn't thought this through. Our decisions have consequences and we must own-up to them for our society to survive.

Yancey Ward म्हणाले...

It is good thing I wasn't a fourth grader in her class, because I would have told her to fuck off.

Yancey Ward म्हणाले...

Ok, I read some of her other tweets- it is a parody, but it is hard to tell these days without a larger sample of size than one. 10 years ago, I wouldn't have even questioned it being a parody, but you can't do that today because there are certainly teachers out there who would want to do this, and will probably do it having seen this.

Lem Vibe Bandit म्हणाले...

My question is, is she wearing makeup underneath that mask?

The teacher is stretching ancient laws of biology that says a face can only send one signal per TikTok.

She is loaded for bear. All those virtue signals would be considered illegal if you try to design an AR-15 magazine that could fit all of them.

D.D. Driver म्हणाले...

Dark humor is like food in communist Russia.

Not everyone gets it.

Mary Beth म्हणाले...

All he had to do was look at the bio blurb on her Twitter account. "Educator and Founder of Exodus Institute, a K-12 online school. We must take our kids OUT of these indoctrination camps! P.S. MASK=PARODY" Or maybe she just added the last part in response to his tweet. Still, I would have looked up her TikTok before assuming she was serious. That would have also let him know that these are not her real views.

Sullivan must have figured it out. He's deleted the tweet.

PM म्हणाले...

Don't like her premise, blabber or methodology, but I like the idea of sharing, which is always a nice thing to do.

Bunkypotatohead म्हणाले...

She should do another one where she divides up the salaries of her coworkers so that they are all equal.
That would probably get her run out of town.

Smilin' Jack म्हणाले...

Properly raised young Communists are too healthy to have allergies, and too enlightened to have religions.