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[textualdeviance]

Oh fucking great

Welcome to the next year in Seattle: the gay community pitted against the black community.

FWIW, I'm on the teacher's side, and I think he made a very strong impact on the kids, which was the point. How fucking ridiculous is it that a teacher can be suspended for this? Every fucking day people use "gay" as a synonym for "lame" and it NEVER gets addressed. Finally someone does, and does so in a very pointed and effective manner, and now they're getting nailed for it. If the district is so concerned about discrimination that they'd suspend a teacher for doing this, why aren't they suspending students for their constant anti-gay epithets? Orientation IS covered in the district's anti-discrimination policy. So why is that policy not being enforced?

If the students there felt offended and maybe even attacked by that teacher's use of that word, then they SHOULD, because then maybe they'll get a clue of how it feels to gay students to hear epithets flung around about them every damned day.

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[textualdeviance.livejournal.com]

I have a feeling that the discussion with the kid didn't go well, so the teacher decided to try a more blunt tactic. I'd have done the same thing. It gives the kid an example to run off of about how that kind of language makes people feel.

And I'm offended that the kid isn't being punished for using epithets, but the teacher is.

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[machupicchu.livejournal.com]

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I'll concede that the comment the teacher made as he re-entered the classroom is likely taken out of context, but I still have a hard time envisioning a scenario in which I would find that specific comment, made in front of other students, justifiable.

And I do also find it offensive that the student was not disciplined more severely.
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