The Political Satire/Meme Thread
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So the teacher is ready to join the police force you say?
Asking people who don't want to be armed to be armed is probably not the best idea. People need to train regularly and familiarize themselves with firearms, especially with safe handling of firearms. People accidentally shoot themselves all the time because of poor gun safety practices. They also mistakenly shoot other people. Do we want to say that only people willing to take on this kind of role should teach kindergarten? I think we'd be losing a lot of great teachers if that were the case.
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I can't believe I'm actually compelled to give this thought, but the notion of arming teachers actually gaining considerable traction on the imbecilic right makes it more difficult to brush off.
A far more likely situation than an active shooter, however capable armed teachers may be in that notwithstanding, is one in which a student rushes an armed teacher in an attempt to get hold of that firearm and harm the teacher, other students and/or themselves. In that situation, a teacher, whose job it is to instruct children, will have to make the awful decision to put down the student attempting to get hold of the firearm so as to prevent something potentially much worse. Of course, accountability in the event of such action will be a concern--the determination that the action taken by the teacher in such a scenario was indeed appropriate--and a teacher forced to make that awful decision may hesitate for fear that the decision will later be deemed to have not been appropriate. Law enforcement obviously isn't trained to give this much thought before acting, so why should teachers, whose job it is to instruct children, be expected to?
This is unbelievably ****ing stupid. It's worse than doing nothing.
Edited to add Danoff's remarks. Not sure how I didn't see them before composing this post. Okay, that I'm drinking may have something to do with it.
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Prepare yourself, it is that time of year again.
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The time of year you post bad takes?
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It just gets old, hearing the same old cooperate crap. It doesn't mean anything. All the big corps, doing the rainbow thing. @Scaff are you proud of your sexuallity? I mean really? Would you march in a parade to celebrate it? Really?
My sexuallity is part of who I am. But I can't say that I am really proud of it. Not to say that I am ashamed of it. I don't think it matters if you are gay or straight it is just who you are.
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Look, I get it. Corporations go all in on Pride not because it's the right thing to do, but because they think that's what's best for business. It's capitalism at work. "But why didn't they display support for LBGT individuals 30 years ago, when support was needed?" Because it wouldn't improve sales. This isn't anything new.
But... just because a good thing is done primarily for profit doesn't make it inherently bad.
Personally I hadn't noticed it was Pride month until you brought it up, but then it doesn't a) bother or b) affect me.
I won't speak for @Scaff, but personally, no I wouldn't... but so what? I wouldn't drink alcohol or go hunting either, but just because I wouldn't doesn't mean others shouldn't.
As a heterosexual (presumably) male (presumably), it's highly unlikely that you've faced discrimination or bullying for that. I'm willing to bet no-one has ever muttered "Breeder..." at you as you've passed, or taken issue with you displaying affection towards your girlfriend/wife in public just because it's straight affection. Non-heterosexual people still do, so they display pride in the face of those who do harm.
Anyone using the existence of Pride parades as an excuse to behave negatively towards those for whom Pride was created would find some other excuse to do so if parades weren't a thing. "You should permanently conceal your identity so I don't feel uncomfortable or inconvenienced when shopping for one day/month a year" is bullock faeces.
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Corps do many "things". Christmas, Forth of July, etc. Shouldn't those be just as bad?
If there are people out there calling you an abomination, sin, or some other similar term just because of who you are, I'm sure it becomes much more tempting.
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It depends if your sexuality has been opressed and persecuted. That would give you a reason to take a stand and be proud of it. Not everyone has had the same experiences as you.
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My sexuality has never been persecuted, I've never been at risk of losing my job over it, of being disowned over it, of being imprisoned over it, or being killed over it.
However, all your post has done is re-enforce how valid my comment was.
As for corporations using it, how have you managed to miss them using heterosexuality to sell stuff since the dawn of marketing? It's almost as if you're r applying a double standard here.
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