I saw a teacher’s terse, but volatile comment about Kirk. The community temperature everywhere around the shooting (assassination) is already hot. A match thrown in dry grass can ignite a fire that consumes a village, unless caught and snuffed by a good guy with a bucket.
This teacher threw a yet burning match in dry grass. Someone saw and, instead of stomping out the flame, cried “fire” and ran to tell others about the teacher’s carelessness.
He/she teacher showed bad judgment. But, boiled down, the post only represents the teacher’s perspective. Do I wish teacher would have used different language? Yes. Yes, but. We now know where about everyone stands vis-a-vis Kirk.
The teacher has been shamed, but should not be terminated.
One of Kirk’s messages to his flock was to call out “woke” teachers for their alleged leftist remarks or instruction. This too is wrong. Let it end in Iowa. School boards, please call for calm. Let it be a teachable moment.
You and every other progressive try and try quoting Kirk’s words as evidence of racism, homophobia and other horrible traits. I continue to read the quotes you post. I read no racism at all. Kirk does question the factual competence of DEI hires for pilots and many other professions. When you begin to back up your arguments with hard statistics on the actual on-the-job work quality of all DEI hires in so many fields, your accusations ring hollow.
Jon Green is not telling the truth: Charlie Kirk never denigrated anyone. Please, Mr. Green, tell us the specific words of Mr. Kirk taht were denigrating. I'll wait.
Let me help guide you. Charlie Kirk dropped out of college after one semester. And his "education" was online, at that. That's his college CV. Read that again and then consider the following.
In commenting about Black women like television presenter Joy Reid; former first lady Michelle Obama; former Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, a Democrat from Texas; and Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, he said they did "not have the brain processing power to be taken seriously. You have to go steal a white person's slot."
Taking just one as an example, let's consider the CV of Ketanji Brown Jackson. From Wikipedia: Jackson was born in Washington, D.C., and raised in Miami, Florida. She received her undergraduate and legal education at Harvard University, where she served as an editor of the Harvard Law Review, and clerked for Justice Stephen Breyer, whose seat she later assumed on the Supreme Court. From 2010 to 2014, Jackson was the vice chairwoman of the United States Sentencing Commission. In 2013, she was appointed by President Barack Obama to serve as a district judge for the United States District Court for the District of Columbia. President Joe Biden elevated her to the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit in 2021, where she served until 2022. Jackson served as a Harvard Board of Overseers member from 2016 to 2022.
DEI hire? If you consider that DEI, consider that Charlie was funded by billionaire Bill Montgomery at the age of 18 to form Turning Point USA. Charlie's sole asset in Montgomery's eyes was bloviating before a college crowd. That's not DEI, but it may be a variation on being a nepo baby, hmm?
I'm done communicating with you. You can feel free to respond, but I won't.
Same o, same o, Repubs doing their dirty work. When are Iowa voters gonna wake up? Yet, in Big Red land, with Mr. Hog Confinement Pillen (his daughter runs the show in central Nebraska and yes, there are not a few instances of pollution, USDA with it's "don't touch that dial" approach) I guess I can't carp too loudly. Still, something we didn't do, i.e. approve Summit's carbon capture pipeline...a huge mistake, draining water worse than the CAFOS...as the three on the Iowa Utilities Board June 2024 proved to be easy peasy targets.
Dear School Board
I saw a teacher’s terse, but volatile comment about Kirk. The community temperature everywhere around the shooting (assassination) is already hot. A match thrown in dry grass can ignite a fire that consumes a village, unless caught and snuffed by a good guy with a bucket.
This teacher threw a yet burning match in dry grass. Someone saw and, instead of stomping out the flame, cried “fire” and ran to tell others about the teacher’s carelessness.
He/she teacher showed bad judgment. But, boiled down, the post only represents the teacher’s perspective. Do I wish teacher would have used different language? Yes. Yes, but. We now know where about everyone stands vis-a-vis Kirk.
The teacher has been shamed, but should not be terminated.
One of Kirk’s messages to his flock was to call out “woke” teachers for their alleged leftist remarks or instruction. This too is wrong. Let it end in Iowa. School boards, please call for calm. Let it be a teachable moment.
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You and every other progressive try and try quoting Kirk’s words as evidence of racism, homophobia and other horrible traits. I continue to read the quotes you post. I read no racism at all. Kirk does question the factual competence of DEI hires for pilots and many other professions. When you begin to back up your arguments with hard statistics on the actual on-the-job work quality of all DEI hires in so many fields, your accusations ring hollow.
Jon Green is not telling the truth: Charlie Kirk never denigrated anyone. Please, Mr. Green, tell us the specific words of Mr. Kirk taht were denigrating. I'll wait.
Feast away. The blatant stuff is at the end of the video.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=LaMUIs0-Hek
Watched it. Not a racist or hateful comment in it. Simply stating facts on DEI hires problem.
Let me help guide you. Charlie Kirk dropped out of college after one semester. And his "education" was online, at that. That's his college CV. Read that again and then consider the following.
In commenting about Black women like television presenter Joy Reid; former first lady Michelle Obama; former Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, a Democrat from Texas; and Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, he said they did "not have the brain processing power to be taken seriously. You have to go steal a white person's slot."
Taking just one as an example, let's consider the CV of Ketanji Brown Jackson. From Wikipedia: Jackson was born in Washington, D.C., and raised in Miami, Florida. She received her undergraduate and legal education at Harvard University, where she served as an editor of the Harvard Law Review, and clerked for Justice Stephen Breyer, whose seat she later assumed on the Supreme Court. From 2010 to 2014, Jackson was the vice chairwoman of the United States Sentencing Commission. In 2013, she was appointed by President Barack Obama to serve as a district judge for the United States District Court for the District of Columbia. President Joe Biden elevated her to the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit in 2021, where she served until 2022. Jackson served as a Harvard Board of Overseers member from 2016 to 2022.
DEI hire? If you consider that DEI, consider that Charlie was funded by billionaire Bill Montgomery at the age of 18 to form Turning Point USA. Charlie's sole asset in Montgomery's eyes was bloviating before a college crowd. That's not DEI, but it may be a variation on being a nepo baby, hmm?
I'm done communicating with you. You can feel free to respond, but I won't.
I don’t need your help as I don’t need to be around bigots.
Same o, same o, Repubs doing their dirty work. When are Iowa voters gonna wake up? Yet, in Big Red land, with Mr. Hog Confinement Pillen (his daughter runs the show in central Nebraska and yes, there are not a few instances of pollution, USDA with it's "don't touch that dial" approach) I guess I can't carp too loudly. Still, something we didn't do, i.e. approve Summit's carbon capture pipeline...a huge mistake, draining water worse than the CAFOS...as the three on the Iowa Utilities Board June 2024 proved to be easy peasy targets.