Posted on 01/10/2017 4:04:59 PM PST by Morgana
FULL TITLE: White teacher is suspended for calling black suspects in Facebook Live torture video 'Obama's children' and railing against Muslims on Twitter
A high school teacher from West Virginia has been suspended with pay over a litany of racially charged and anti-Muslim tweets, including some posts targeting President Barack Obama.
Mary Durstein, a social studies teacher at Huntington High School, was asked to leave the campus on Monday after district officials in Cabell County were made aware of her vitriolic social media posts and comments dating back to at least 2015.
Posting under the user name 'pigpen63,' Durstein recently weighed in on a widely covered incident out of Chicago in which four black youths allegedly tortured a special-needs teenager and broadcast the attack on Facebook Live.
The suspects, Jordan Hill, 18; Tesfaye Cooper, 18; and sisters Brittany, 18, and Tanisha Covington, 24, were ultimately arrested on hate crime charges.
Someone posted a photo of the four suspects with the caption: 'Imagine if these were 4 white people torturing a special need black kid!'
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We would have said these were Obama's kids because Obama would have said so.
YOU CAN ONLY MAKE BAD COMMENTS ABOUT TRUMP!
GOT IT?
Just to play Devil’s Advocate, and I know the ethnic white things isn’t big in the south so maybe many can’t relate, but i four Italian kids did this stuff, or beat up a bum or whatever, and somebody went online calling them WOPs or DAGOs or worse, I would want that person fired too.
Same goes for Irish, Christian, Asian, even Polish :)
They’re teaching to a likely WIDE variety of kids.
I dont think it’s such a great idea for a teacher to spout on Twitter.
You mean about Trump and his children.
Not Obozo and all his feral children.
The phrase “Obama’s children” is a racist slur only in the mind of a racist.
How can it be racist when Obozo him self said “If I had a son” talking about some thug?
The racist who says it, or the racist who hears the racist who says it?
Come on man. Would “hitler’s children” be ok?
“Stalin’s children”?
I think this is the first time we disagree :)
Meanwhile, MTV douche bag trashes Jeff Sessions granddaughter on twitter..a little girl, and nothing happens..in fact, MTV comes to his DEFENSE..say something HORRIBLE about a Conservative, no outrage, say something about Commie Obama and you lose your job
Posting while drunk
You do realize to make it a slur you have to equate Obama with Hitler and Stalin?
Are you equating Obama with Hitler and Stalin?
Not for lack of trying!! :)
WTH do I know, I’m just a dumb WOP from Staten Island
Leave me alone :)
To be fair to Obama, he only tortures people by giving speeches.
Then we’re agreed.
You calling me a dumb WOP :)
You’re lucky i’m not culturally insensitive :)
Oh wait, you mean agreed that he is not equal to hitler and stalin? Yes, we’re agreed :)
I think your post says it well. I am always stunned that people do this & then are stunned by the consequences. I’m a teacher & you have to be careful about what you say in a public forum and don’t put glamour or trashy photos of yourself on line.
It’s one thing to have discussions & share your opinions amongst friends & in private, but when you serve the public & you spout off on FB, well it’s your funeral. It’s hard to feel sorry when people act stupidly.
I refuse to do any social media & I am so happy not dealing w/ that mess.
I just cannot listen, sheer torture!
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