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re: Photo of principal, teachers posing with noose in leaked photo incites outrage
Posted on 5/10/19 at 2:01 pm to lsupride87
Posted on 5/10/19 at 2:01 pm to lsupride87
quote:Aren't you 30 something years old and from south Louisiana. If I have to explain to you the connection between blacks and lynchings in America at this point in your life. With that being said if you are actually interested in the topic I would start here LINK
No please explain how a noose in itself is racist. Please
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Posted on 5/10/19 at 2:04 pm to NOFOX
quote:I know. It’s just too much!
We've already lost the battle flag and blackface. Now nooses are considered racist??? This is a step too far.
Posted on 5/10/19 at 2:05 pm to JBeam
quote:
If I have to explain to you the connection between blacks and lynchings
So what?
A noose isn't racist. It's a thing.
Do you not grasp what context means?
ETA: Slaves were forced to pick cotton. So using your logic, we should stop wearing cotton clothing or using cotton products?
God forbid you have a picture of a noose made with cotton rope.
That's double-plus ungood!
This post was edited on 5/10/19 at 2:07 pm
Posted on 5/10/19 at 2:06 pm to Centinel
quote:
A noose isn't racist. It's a thing.
Do you not grasp what context means?
What if instead of a noose, they took a picture by a burning cross? Would you need to know the context to criticize them as being stupid at best?
This post was edited on 5/10/19 at 2:07 pm
Posted on 5/10/19 at 2:08 pm to Centinel
quote:
Which is why using the possession of inanimate objects to decide if someone is racist is fricking stupid.
Not really. I don't get to decide what has horrific symbolism to others. I judge people who wave nazi flags. I'm ok with people judging others for brandishing nooses. I'd hope that they'd have accepted my apology and excuse, if I had been called on it. But, it's not up to me to decide what a noose should mean to a black person.
Posted on 5/10/19 at 2:08 pm to TechDawg2007
Too fat and ugly to bang students.
So finding another way to getting shite canned.
So finding another way to getting shite canned.
Posted on 5/10/19 at 2:08 pm to NOFOX
quote:
What if instead of a noose, they took a picture by a burning cross?
So no, you don't grasp what context means.
Check.
Posted on 5/10/19 at 2:09 pm to Centinel
quote:Didn't a school in Virginia get in trouble this year for taking a group of elementary kids to a cotton field and having the kids pick cotton?
: Slaves were forced to pick cotton. So using your logic, we should stop wearing cotton clothing or using cotton products?
quote:If that floats your boat. Go for it man.
God forbid you have a picture of a noose made with cotton rope.
Posted on 5/10/19 at 2:09 pm to NOFOX
13 = 50
Posted on 5/10/19 at 2:11 pm to Centinel
quote:
So no, you don't grasp what context means.
Check.
A burning cross is an inanimate object which some people believe in as a symbol that Jesus is alive and will burn away all evil. It was used in midieval europe for non-racial purposes long before it was brought to the South.
Posted on 5/10/19 at 2:14 pm to NOFOX
quote:
A burning cross is an inanimate object which some people believe in as a symbol that Jesus is alive and will burn away all evil. It was used in midieval europe for non-racial purposes long before it was brought to the South.
And if the teacher was holding up the image as part of a history lesson of the above, or even discussing how it's use was co-opted by the KKK, that would be a fireable offense?
Posted on 5/10/19 at 2:16 pm to Centinel
quote:
And if the teacher was holding up the image as part of a history lesson of the above, or even discussing how it's use was co-opted by the KKK, that would be a fireable offense?
So an image circulating of teachers standing next to a burning cross and smiling would not be a fireable offense if they didn't intend for it to be racist?
Posted on 5/10/19 at 2:16 pm to TechDawg2007
It's dumb that this is an issue. But, I cant get really upset about their consequences. They should know that, in this social climate today, they would probably lose their jobs over this. Not a good idea to post on social media with a fricking noose and think people wont give a shite.
Posted on 5/10/19 at 2:17 pm to TechDawg2007
quote:
Photo of principal, teachers posing with noose in leaked photo incites outrage
Outrage will soon ensue when the game hangman is played for spelling studies...
Posted on 5/10/19 at 2:18 pm to IAmNERD
quote:
in this social climate today,
This is the problem.
Posted on 5/10/19 at 2:24 pm to NOFOX
quote:
So an image circulating of teachers standing next to a burning cross and smiling would not be a fireable offense if they didn't intend for it to be racist?
Do you know the context of why they were doing so?
Do you know the context of why the teachers in this article had the noose?
Until you do, it's reactionary bullshite.
Posted on 5/10/19 at 2:25 pm to Centinel
quote:
Why is it possible? What evidence is there of it being racial?
Either situation is possible.
Judging by taking happy, smiling pictures with a noose and displaying it in a sort of haphazard way I assume they find humor in it.
If this was something related to a lesson about the history of hanging in our country I would expect it to be treated in a more serious way.
This definitely isn't a teaching situation and it leads me to believe that they are making light of either hanging as a whole or of how nooses are sometimes branded as racist in today's culture.
I don't know which they were doing but either is very possible.
Both of those possibilities show very poor judgement and then passing the photos around make me question their position teaching children.
Posted on 5/10/19 at 2:25 pm to Centinel
quote:
Do you know the context of why they were doing so?
Do you know the context of why the teachers in this article had the noose?
Until you do, it's reactionary bullshite.
Does context matter if they are standing next to a burning cross smiling and sharing it on social media?
Posted on 5/10/19 at 2:26 pm to IAmNERD
quote:
Not a good idea to post on social media with a fricking noose and think people wont give a shite.
And it's sad that it has come to this fact in our country, and that it can get you fired.
Posted on 5/10/19 at 2:26 pm to NOFOX
quote:
Does context matter if they are standing next to a burning cross smiling and sharing it on social media?
Yes. Next question.
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