tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post7158244562250372401..comments2024-03-29T11:33:11.105-04:00Comments on the daily howler: Administrator fired for reading a book!<b>bob somerby</b>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02963464534685954436noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-67081432067005558612022-03-21T06:20:32.914-04:002022-03-21T06:20:32.914-04:00I have been researching this kind of article and g...I have been researching this kind of article and good thing I came across this one. <br /><br /><a href="http://www.aqualinewatertanks.com" rel="nofollow">Internet specials at Aqualine Steel Water Tanks</a>Clarence Wakehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13085295512479245537noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-46818301627158991882022-03-17T10:50:55.818-04:002022-03-17T10:50:55.818-04:00It's so stupid, Republican voters would nomina...It's so stupid, Republican voters would nominate it for President, if it had a lot more bigotry.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-22312601704339031472022-03-16T23:42:44.300-04:002022-03-16T23:42:44.300-04:00That's such a stupid way to look at it.That's such a stupid way to look at it.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-60145889890092017642022-03-16T22:03:33.551-04:002022-03-16T22:03:33.551-04:00"At any rate, it looks to us like the AP may ..."At any rate, it looks to us like the AP may have made a mistake, and everyone else followed suit. Why did everyone follow suit? Easy! <br /><br />Everyone followed suit due to a general disinclination to seek additional information about the school, the school district or the town within which this event took place."<br /><br />This is a fundamental mistake on Somerby's part. The AP (Associated Press) is a news service, formerly known as a wire service. They exist to provide news to other publications. Those publications take the copy from the AP and reprint it, often verbatim, because many smaller papers do not have the resources to have reporters, especially in other countries, doing original reporting.<br /><br />So, others repeated the story because that is what the AP does -- it provides stories for others to repeat. <br /><br />When the AP makes an occasional error, and this is an extremely small one, a spelling error than may even have been a typo, it will be repeated because if those other papers had the staff to check every story from another source, they wouldn't need to subscribe to the AP service. Duh! The only way they would catch this kind of error is if someone laying out the paper came from that town.<br /><br />But Somerby acts as if this were the crime of the century! Somerby used to use the word fatuous a lot. This is a situation where his take on things is truly fatuous. I would ask why Somerby's editors didn't catch his mistake, but that would just be mean.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-83660265401591377962022-03-16T18:25:58.694-04:002022-03-16T18:25:58.694-04:00Unsurprisingly, Somerby has a bad take on this iss...Unsurprisingly, Somerby has a bad take on this issue.<br /><br />First, the opinion piece correctly identifies the location as "Byram".<br /><br />Somerby tries to push the notion that perhaps cultural values are just different in Byram, this is his treasured noble savage view of non whites.<br /><br />As it turns out the people of Byram share similar cultural values as the rest of the country, if anything it is Superintendent Martin whose values are out of whack. Somerby says "we don't know what parents in the community would think about this matter", but in fact we do. Parents in the community have viewed Superintendent Martin as problematic for years, indeed at least twice in the past few years parents have started petitions to remove Superintendent Martin. No parents complained about the "butt" book.<br /><br />HUH!<br /><br />Yes, it turns out parents in Byram are not impressed with Superintendent Martin, as she has brought a culture of teaching for tests, allowing bullying, and an incredibly high turnover rate for teachers every year in the district. Superintendent Martin just can not keep teachers employed in the district for very long, they are leaving in droves every year. To make matters worse the district ranks veery low in the state. So parents have decided on multiple occasions to become active and remove Superintendent Martin. Wake me when Somerby ever gets anything right.<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-62181618889163663812022-03-16T17:08:31.053-04:002022-03-16T17:08:31.053-04:00“Also, her professional photos seem to suggest tha...“Also, her professional photos seem to suggest that the superintendent is black,”<br /><br />Somerby, who doesn’t “see” race, has no trouble assigning a race to a woman based on her photograph. Way to be post-racial..<br /><br />She’s just a human, who may have made a poor decision. A teacher is now out of a job. But that’s just Mississippi values, I guess. <br /><br />But Somerby will use her supposed “blackness” to mock the “liberals” at the Post, as if they would not have written this story had they “known” she was “black.” That is a pure ugly insinuation from Somerby. Must be a day ending in ‘y.’mhhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08937133532381705347noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-11912185966902892462022-03-16T16:50:55.530-04:002022-03-16T16:50:55.530-04:00“ this really "the latest round of the renewe...“ this really "the latest round of the renewed culture war over books in schools?" In fact, it doesn't have to be that—unless you're committed to acts of war.”<br /><br />Or, conversely, it <i>could</i> be part of a culture war, which is clearly going on, obvious to anyone who’s paying attention or isn’t willfully blind or playing games. You could of course choose to ignore THAT. At your peril, I would say. mhhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08937133532381705347noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-30716870341195522842022-03-16T16:47:29.249-04:002022-03-16T16:47:29.249-04:00“people—even including the people you may think of...“people—even including the people you may think of as black—may have cultural values which differ from those which prevail in places like Lexington, Mass.”<br /><br />Sure. Some parts of the country may not believe in free speech. Some may believe in limiting the votes of minorities. Others may believe in slavery as a God-given institution to be defended to the death. <br /><br />It seems to me that there are certain universal values, such as freedom of expression, that ought not be subject to the whims of geography. That is, if you believe in the concept of inalienable rights. mhhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08937133532381705347noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-85166145613103432822022-03-16T15:37:39.395-04:002022-03-16T15:37:39.395-04:00"Then too, they're just a bunch of haysee..."Then too, they're just a bunch of hayseeds and hicks. They may be wrong about the name of their town, along with everything else."<br /><br />Heh-heh. Funny, dear Bob. Thanks for the laughs. <br /><br />...and, as usual, thanks for documenting another small portion of the recent liberal atrocities...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com