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Tennessee Principal on Leave After Warning Kids about Twitter Censorship
Townhall.com ^ | January 14, 2021 | Todd Starnes

Posted on 01/14/2021 11:54:43 AM PST by Kaslin

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1 posted on 01/14/2021 11:54:44 AM PST by Kaslin
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“I’m not going to tell you what to think, I just want to help you think,”

That is a high crime in the leftist world.


2 posted on 01/14/2021 11:57:07 AM PST by brownsfan (The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.)
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To: Kaslin

What’s the problem? As long as the schools are ‘free’, I’ll keep sending my kids there!


3 posted on 01/14/2021 11:57:27 AM PST by BobL (I shop at Walmart and eat at McDonald's, I just don't tell anyone.)
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To: Kaslin

Sounded totally appropriate and unbiased to me. Simply challenged the students to think instead of the liberal tactic of telling students what to think.


4 posted on 01/14/2021 11:57:57 AM PST by Nathan _in_Arkansas (Shut the deuce up!!! I'll do the fighting!!!)
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To: Kaslin

He’s guilty of both wrong speak and a thought crime. The result should be re-education, failing that the final solution.


5 posted on 01/14/2021 11:59:59 AM PST by JoSixChip (2020: The year of unreported truths. )
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To: Kaslin

Whatever caused his suspension needs to be reviewed.


6 posted on 01/14/2021 12:00:01 PM PST by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: Kaslin

He wants to challenge the children to the possibility of censorship and then is censored. Probably the best lesson those kids will ever learn.


7 posted on 01/14/2021 12:00:42 PM PST by Ajnin (Don't be a pansy, embrace the fireball.)
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To: Kaslin

Because schools are actually government organizations, this might actually verge into legit First Amendment violation territory.


8 posted on 01/14/2021 12:01:21 PM PST by coloradan (They're not the mainstream media, they're the gaslight media. It's what they do. )
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“There have been times even in American history when a small group of people decided what you can hear,” he said. “Think about totalitarian government. Think about North Korea. Think about China. What makes those types of systems possible is the restriction and elimination of the free exchange of ideas.”

America, no longer the free....

9 posted on 01/14/2021 12:02:01 PM PST by dragonblustar (Matthew 24:10 And then many will fall away and betray one another and hate one another. )
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He’s guilty of both wrong speak and a thought crime. The result should be re-education, failing that the final solution.

A little time in Room 101 and he'll decide that he really loves Big Brother.

10 posted on 01/14/2021 12:03:00 PM PST by Wissa (If you thought 2020 was bad...)
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Great. I said something similar to my students this week. Been nice knowing everyone.


11 posted on 01/14/2021 12:05:38 PM PST by RaiderRose (I will not submit. )
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The principal said a viewpoint that us conservatives would agree with.
However this type of information shouldn’t be coming from public schools in my opinion .
We all know the vast majority of this type of messaging is far left .
Stick to science, math and English .


12 posted on 01/14/2021 12:06:29 PM PST by HereInTheHeartland (Leave me alone, I have no incriminating evidence on the Clintons)
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Principal Thorne asked the young people to consider what happens when other groups filter and decide what you can hear and know about.

“There have been times even in American history when a small group of people decided what you can hear,” he said. “Think about totalitarian government. Think about North Korea. Think about China. What makes those types of systems possible is the restriction and elimination of the free exchange of ideas.”

...and then the principal was disappeared, proving the point.


13 posted on 01/14/2021 12:06:51 PM PST by Flick Lives (“ Today we celebrate the first glorious anniversary of the Information Purification Directives.”)
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If all the parents got involved. Swapped out the school board and fired the school superintendent this wouldn’t happen


14 posted on 01/14/2021 12:07:57 PM PST by qaz123
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The left is making a strategic mistake. They are waking people to their thought-tyranny.

After years of “tolerance preaching” they will create their own “little bubble” as they push people out.

Remember, they are not the majority in this country. Trump really did win. They will continue to diminish because their ideas destroy.

Gab CEO reports that he’s receiving “thousands” of resumes from people working in Silicon valley. They’re fed up with Twitter, Facebook, etc


15 posted on 01/14/2021 12:08:30 PM PST by conservativepoet
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The Commucrats: All your children are belong to us.”


16 posted on 01/14/2021 12:09:15 PM PST by Perseverando (Antifa, BLM, RINO's, Islamonazis, Statists, Communists, DemoKKKrats: It's a Godlessness disorder!)
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To: Kaslin

I guess they taught that cracker a lesson.


17 posted on 01/14/2021 12:11:13 PM PST by cdcdawg (Turn off Fox News! You can do it!)
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This is exactly the type of clamping down on free speech in schools that’s been going on for the past decade or so. The further left the libtards in charge of the schools are, the greater the hypocrisy.


18 posted on 01/14/2021 12:12:43 PM PST by EinNYC
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“What happens when the marketplace of ideas becomes a forced monopoly? What happens when you do not have dissenting opinions, when you do not have an exchange of competing ideas?”

Who could find this objectionable?


19 posted on 01/14/2021 12:12:50 PM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire. Or both.)
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Orwellian


20 posted on 01/14/2021 12:13:05 PM PST by photodawg
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