WTF, Over?

[elfs]

So I'm doing the news thing today and there's the usual load o' bollocks available. There's this charming article in which a Jewish seminary student tells gays and lesbians that the Nazis didn't kill enough of them for them to lay claim to the Holocaust. Concerned Women For America wishes to inform you that not a single signer of the Declaration of Indepenence "really wanted" to own slaves. They all had to, y'see, because, uh, well, money was more important that principle to our Founding Fathers, or something like that. Agapepress tells us that same-sex marriage threatens military readiness. And Susan Sanford in Colorado reminds her readers that the penalty for "abomination" is death.

But what floors me is an article by teaching school graduate Marquis Harris. Mr. Harris has rather an impressive resume: Rhodes nominee, National Dean's List honoree, former intern to Representative Saxby Chambliss, various other honors. He wanted an inner city teaching job somewhere in Georgia, doing high school.

Here's what he was told:

Though your qualifications are quite impressive, I regret to inform you that we have selected another candidate. It was felt that your demeanor and therefore presence in the classroom would serve as an unrealistic expectation as to what high school students could strive to achieve or become.

My jaw just about dropped out of my head. This is the complete opposite of Megazone's recent observation that American kids expect too much. Here, black students are being told to expect very little and being kept away from role models who might hold out more hope from them than dead-end service jobs.

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wtf indeed

[memegarden.livejournal.com]

An astonishing and appalling collection of offenses to reason and humanity (especially Marquiz Harris's turndown letter). Thank you for the damage, Elf.

I'm particularly baffled by the military readiness one. I don't even see the alleged connection.

Re: wtf indeed

[http://users.livejournal.com/dominic-m-/]

i totally agree that all these news things are BS just like the usauall plethora of things. But i agree even more heartilly against the dumb military readiness thing...makes absolutly no sense...aparently they are looking for some sway in the military community...hell they must be preaching to the choir most of are conservatives anyways.

Re: wtf indeed

[creepingcrud.livejournal.com]

The basic logic (as such) seems to be that the recent pushes on the gay marriage front have largely focused on there being various rights that are currently being denied to gay people, and thus that success on that front would lead to a conclusion that you can't deny anything to gay people that straight people have, including the opportunity to serve in the armed forces. Therefore the military will be flooded with gays, and... um... that's about where I lost it. Maybe they will all be boinking each other, I don't know.

Re: wtf indeed

[http://users.livejournal.com/dominic-m-/]

well maybe its better they are boinking each other rather than molesting the females in the service...the rate at which women are claiming rape is apalling. I dont know where this is going but i say gay men in the military and accept would be nothing but good....