The hate that public ed has wrought.
Sound’s like a lot of people need a big dose of grow the f*&*% up.
If they don’t like America, there’s many other countries to immigrate to. No one forces anyone to stay here.
Her class walked out three times after Trump was elected, she’s never spoken to a Republican before, and she’s surprised to realize her school is a wee bit one-sided? Genius.
The bubble is still bursting.
Not a bad article for a previously brainwashed high schooler.
She has more sense than most of her teachers.
It actually gladdens my heart that an old-school liberal with an actual open mind still teaches in Seattle, and that there are high school students there who still understand the meaning and purpose of free speech.
Both teachers and students have gone full Pol Pot in altogether too many places, and that should frighten them.
But, it doesn’t, they dress up in black, don masks like some dark latter day Klansman and go attack people who disagree with them out in the world at large.
The creep factor in the Left has been building for years and it's currently off the charts. She is learning that speaking out against the hatred is physically dangerous in this toxic environment and that the people who should be stopping that, the teachers, are encouraging it instead. It is a thing to remember when the reckoning comes.
Doesn’t sound like they are welcome in that school if special effort must be made to get one to stand up and be counted.
Good for Professor Machala. He years for a period in journalism that no longer exists, but in his own ineffective grassroots way he is trying to do the right thing.
It’s good to know that there are students who aren’t totally brainwashed and who supports free speech and diversity of thought.
“In the hallways at school, [someone] I didn’t even know would pass me yelling ‘Make America Great Again’ and ‘Build a wall.’ It was like harassment,” Hoffman said.”
That’s harrassment.
But this is not harrassment:
“Some teachers weren’t helping matters. Six students told me that their teachers belittled Trump supporters and handed out fliers for the walkout after the election.”
“...their teachers belittled Trump supporters and handed out fliers for the walkout after the election.”
Ok. Well this kid is brainwashed, stating that the country being divided is reflected in the classroom. At least she struggles to conside. She says the teachers should allow points of view to be allowed other than their own
I’ve seen my liberal peers shutting themselves off to other viewpoints.
The left does a lot of projection. Calling those who disagree with them “dogmatic” is one example.
I lived in Seattle for 46 years and left there 6 years ago. IIRC, Roosevelt is very heavily minority.
She might even become a Constitutionalist.
I was so upset, I had to run out of the room to calm myself down. After a few minutes of deep breaths, I realized that he felt as strongly about his beliefs as I do about mine and I should respect him.
Well, I guess we have to start with baby steps. Snowflakes are easily offended.
I admire what she wrote, but any thoughts in a career in a Left-dominated field, like ‘journalism’ are pretty much over. Absolutely no way a ‘mainstream’ outlet would take her, so she’d have to fight with other similarly-capable people for the much smaller number of slots at Breitbart, the Washington Times, etc.
On the other hand she’ll probably be ok if she goes into something technical...at least until the Democrats are able to seize enough power and finally start to round up their opponents.
Preschool through graduate degree...snowflakes in training.
Good to know. I won't darken their doorway.
Poor girl. She is going to be shunned by her friends and her teachers are going to fail her because she dared to say anything that was even remotely even minded about Trump supporters and how both side should be heard. In fact she’ll probably need to change schools and maybe forced to leave the area.
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