A full-page newspaper defends the punishment high school student Darryl George has faced over his hairstyle.
Texas Superintendent Defends Suspending Black Student Over Locs Hairstyle in Full-Page Ad: ‘Being American Requires Conformity'
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FlyingSquid 20 points 2 years ago
Except this guy is no moderate.
halloween_spookster 10 points 2 years ago
Unity already went the enshittification route
Omegamanthethird 4 points 2 years ago
Ironic, but unsurprising. They're everything they accuse the left of. The P in GOP stands for projection after all.
octopus_ink 4 points 2 years ago
I'm increasingly convinced they think Gilead is portrayed as a reasonable goal.
SnotFlickerman 2 points 2 years ago
Yes.
Psychodelic 3 points 2 years ago
I literally yelled the same thing out. lol
The crazy thing is that people still think they're being quiet at all
SnotFlickerman 1 point 2 years ago
Oof.
randon31415 134 points 2 years ago
Being an American requires conformity with the positive benefit of unity
Tell that to the Texas power grid.
WHARRGARBL 9 points 2 years ago
Exactly. Synonyms for “conformity” include submission, obedience, surrender.
Important to keep in mind that the objective of public education is to prepare a productive workforce while conditioning that workforce to stay on its knees.
billiam0202 80 points 2 years ago
Yeah, only their attorney general is allowed to do that!
billiam0202 1 point 2 years ago
Abbott doesn't waddle, he rolls. But for however else evil he may be, Abbott hasn't been indicted that I know of.
alilbee 24 points 2 years ago
According to the wording of the ad he took out, his argument is focused on length, not style. He explicitly states that the school allows braids, locs, and rows. Then he argues that the CROWN act is very specific about not applying to length.
This whole thing is really stupid. Length of styling of hair, along with clothing and other personal appearance issues, should be considered speech and protected outside of blatant attempts to disrupt an educational atmosphere. All that said, the school may not be acting in opposition to the letter of the law, even if they definitely are in spirit.
FuglyDuck 41 points 2 years ago
or maybe, just hear me out, the dude should join the rest of us in 2023 instead of 1923. It's a waste of time, resources and effort. Literally nobody is benefiting from him making an issue out of something that simply does not matter.
And for the record, he's singling the kid out for being black. I doubt he'd have an issue with a white boy wearing a man bun, or whatever the equivalent would be.
sapient_cogbag 106 points 2 years ago
Literal fascist rhetoric. Seriously wtf.
assassin_aragorn 91 points 2 years ago
To give you an idea of just how fucking stupid this superintendent is -- hair discrimination is illegal by TEXAS law. Fucking Texan Republicans looked at this and said "okay this is way too far".
Having previously lived in Houston for a few years, let me tell you, Texas Republicans aren't terribly bright. Being worse than them takes effort.
stoly 1 point 2 years ago
Because when you pass the law, you have completed political theater and that's what gets reported in the news. The point of the law is to be able to say, "See, Republicans aren't so bad after all." Nobody is following up on it later until a story like this come around.
NotMyOldRedditName 4 points 2 years ago
Not gonna lie, I thought this was some federal anti discrimination law, not a TEXAS one.
assassin_aragorn 3 points 2 years ago
It's actually wild.
GlendatheGayWitch 86 points 2 years ago
If being American required conformity, then why isn't the principal conforming to state law?
ChillPenguin 43 points 2 years ago
Because we all know it's not about conformity.
BillyTheSkidMark 10 points 2 years ago
It's about conforming to what I personally believe
TokenBoomer 3 points 2 years ago
Bam
GlendatheGayWitch 2 points 2 years ago
His hairstyle is "commonly or historically associated with race", so it's covered under the crown act. His hair was in a very common style with a long association with his race for centuries. The law doesn't allow for discrimination for typical hairstyles, it doesn't give any leeway to discriminate if the superintendent thinks it should be shorter.
GlendatheGayWitch 2 points 2 years ago
I teach in TX, so this is more than just a headline to me. I'm so tired of having students that are scared to come to school because they might be bullied by teachers and administrators.
Exusia 85 points 2 years ago
Hey real quick though, because this dude has been defending his or this schools descicion since last September
Wheres the School Board this superintendant answers to? This school is having an ongoing issue of permitting a violation of federal law (discrimination of a protected class) and allowing violations of state law (CROWN act) to the degree it is in national news for the second time. This same school is why there's a CROWN act to be violated. Either the board is so massively incompetent to miss this and are not management material, or they are actively encouraging it. I wish I had such a level of job security jesus fucking christ. Fucking rich people get all the goddamn handouts.
octopus_ink 9 points 2 years ago
Probably 100% packed by Moms For Liberty.
LifeInMultipleChoice 3 points 2 years ago
You mean Mom's Against Liberty?
Might need to call them Mom's Against Freedom though, liberty is a word they never understood.
TragicNotCute 6 points 2 years ago
Barber Hills School District I believe and the nonprofit that took out the ad in the story is here: https://www.barbershillef.org/directors
MedicPigBabySaver 35 points 2 years ago
GladiusB 19 points 2 years ago
I feel that hiring cops that actually defend kids when being fired upon is a conformity rather than a hairstyle. What if his grew only in that pattern. Get your shit together Texas. Your are quickly approaching Alabama or Florida style of embarrassment.
Fuckfuckmyfuckingass 79 points 2 years ago
I thought being American was about freedom? Right? Isn't that what these folks usually croon about?
platypus_plumba 26 points 2 years ago
I thought America was already past this in-your-face type of racism and was more into the less obvious types of racism.
Maybe I'm right and Texas is special. While the rest of the US is more subtle about it but still have it.
Not trying to shit specifically on America. Racism is a worldwide problem. I just thought America was beyond that type of super obvious discrimination.
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PM_Your_Nudes_Please 8 points 2 years ago
Yeah, the racists aren’t afraid anymore. For a while, people (mostly) weren’t in your face with the racism. Racism definitely still happened, but it usually wasn’t overt. It was the slow, quiet, insidious type of racism. The manager who takes over a department, and slowly makes all the black people quit one at a time. The HOA president that only cites houses owned by BIPOC. The police getting called because a black person went for a jog, and that’s somehow “suspicious”. The loan officer increasing interest rates for black families looking to buy a home. 12 year old kids being treated as adults by the legal system, and grown adults being talked down to like children.
It’s all still very damaging, but it’s hard for any one person to prove, so the racist is allowed to continue doing it. It’s the type of stuff that requires months or even years of paperwork in order to establish a pattern of behavior. The type of stuff that is so spread out that no single person has enough evidence to prove, even when they’ve all been harmed by it.
All of those covert forms of racism still happen, but it also includes all of the overt racism now. We have legislators who have incorporated racism directly into their campaign promises. We have nazis holding rallies and recruitment drives. America is not okay right now, and it’s going to take a lot more than one or two election cycles to fix things.
pinkdrunkenelephants 1 point 2 years ago
I feel like Malcolm X was right and it really would behoove us Americans of the melanated type to just go start our own country.
mojofrododojo 5 points 2 years ago
Maybe I’m right and Texas is special. While the rest of the US is more subtle about it but still have it.
this isn't wrong; I've lived all over the US, but only in Texas did I see blatant outright racism time and time again explained as "well that's just the way we are sweetie it's not racist that's just Texas".
In short, Texas is crazy racist, even compared to the racism experienced throughout the US.
Mirshe 2 points 2 years ago
Remember that the reason Texas fought a war of independence was partially because of slavery. Mexico abolished slavery in 1829, and among other grievances, the Guerrero Decree was a BIG reason why Texas seceded from Mexico - slavery made Texas a hell of a lot of cash, like it did for every other Southern state.
mojofrododojo 1 point 2 years ago
Valid point, most texans don't even know it was a primary pain point that drove the Texans to secede from mexico, inciting the Alamo. They certainly didn't teach me when I was growing up there.
AutistoMephisto 4 points 2 years ago
Texas has a unique history. Before it was part of the USA, it was it's own nation. And before that, it was a Mexican State. The first time Texas seceded, it was from Mexico, because Mexico had banned slavery, and Texas, being run by cattle barons before it was run by oil barons, did not like that. It became it's own independent State known as the Republic of Texas. However, the Mexican military was quick to attempt to stifle the rebellion. Texas did not really have the ability to stand on its own as a country, but the USA made them an offer to help defend Texas in exchange for being annexed into the United States. The US had not yet banned slavery, so Texas was quick to agree and join the US. Then the Mexican-American War happened.
platypus_plumba 1 point 2 years ago
Oh wow, I didn't know that. Amazing.
klaus_the_fish 3 points 2 years ago
I think it was a Trevor Noah quote, but racism is the South is explicit and direct, and racism in the north is subtle and indirect.
CosmicCleric 2 points 2 years ago
Maybe I’m right and Texas is special. While the rest of the US is more subtle about it but still have it.
As a general example, Texas and California are almost like their own unique countries in many ways, and are very different from each other.
In California, especially Central and Southern California, so many different peoples and cultures live together next to each other, so those kind of concerns about looks/difference and "the other" doesn't even come into play, day to day.
Texas (with the exception of the City of Austin perhaps), are very much focused on a specific religious mindset and culture, and "the other"/different are seen through a magnifying lens.
Not trying to shit specifically on America. Racism is a worldwide problem.
It's actually a species problem, it's so deeply hardwired into our lizard brains, the " 'other' is dangerous" mindset, but it takes a lot of higher thinking to override it, not something that everyone bothers or wants to do.
I just thought America was beyond that type of super obvious discrimination.
No, we've always just been two countries in one geographical location. It's just these later years that the cultural norms, the unspoken rules, have all been broken, so the truth of things are coming to the surface.
dezmd 75 points 2 years ago
Being American Requires Conformity to an Open Mind, Open Heart, Open Society, Open Cultures, Democratic Ideals, and Mutual Respect.
None of which this Superintendent Greg Poole demonstrates.
Edit: You know what, full on fuck Superintendent Greg Poole. Rules for thee, not for me:
May 1, 2008
Key excerpts:
When Greg Poole was arrested and put in jail this past weekend, he said he was acting as a father and not as superintendent of the Barbers Hill Independent School District in Chambers County.
A Texas Department of Public Safety trooper has charged the Chambers County school superintendent with obstructing the investigation of an accident involving Poole's 16-year-old son.
The teen flipped his father's pickup and knocked over a utility pole about 3 a.m. Saturday on FM 565 near Cove, about 30 minutes east of Houston, authorities said.
The trooper arrested Poole for refusing to make his son available for questioning about the accident, the Texas Department of Public Safety said.
"Trooper Dunn asked him twice to produce his son, and he would not," said Stephanie Davis, Texas Department of Public Safety spokeswoman in Beaumont. "He never informed the trooper where he could find his son."
EDIT 2: Just to be clear, it's not the trying to cover for his son that is the problem to look at. As a parent myself, I get trying to protect your children even if it's poor judgement, everyone is allowed to make mistakes, child and parent alike.
What I CANNOT FUCKING ABIDE is the insane hypocrisy this fuck demonstrates through allowing exceptions to the LAWS for his child that he will defend and go to jail over, while demanding someone else's child fall in line to school guidelines that are malleable and far less rigid in both application and enforcement than any legal criminality. RULES FOR THEE NOT FOR ME.
When you objectively consider all of the information, it looks a hell of a lot like run of the mill racial prejudice.
dezmd 0 points 2 years ago
We're on the same page for the 'fuck this guy' sentiment but I don't specifically fault him for poor judgements made while trying to protect his kid. At the very least his son left the scene of an accident, but most likely his son was driving recklessly and/or drinking (drinking is the only remotely rational reasoning as to why a parent would go so far as to go to jail to keep the kid away from police in that scenario). Parents can be irrational when it comes to protecting their kids.
I fault him for being such a piece a shit that he will publicly in-a-goddamn-full-newspaper-ad demand conformity to malleable school rules of someone else's kids, while breaking the law himself to keep his own child from having to conform to society's legal rules.
yuriy 13 points 2 years ago
Wow, a police officer in my town did this with his wife when she crashed into my mom while leaving a liquor store at noon. She did a blood alcohol test the next day, and that ruled she wasn’t drunk at the time of the accident.
UnderpantsWeevil 45 points 2 years ago
You csn get arrested for not snitching on your own sons location?
You can get arrested for obstructing a police investigation. In this particular case, it appears that the father picked up and removed his son from the crime scene. Possibly also tampering with the crime scene. He has made himself an accessory to the crime after the fact. No different than a get-away driver for a bank robbery.
Also, I dont think holding a father responsible for the crimes of his son
The father isn't being indicted for crashing a pickup truck. He's being held for obstructing justice, which is an entirely different crime.
LifeInMultipleChoice 27 points 2 years ago
If a minor is being protected by his legal guardian over an illegal act, yes the legal guardian has responsibility.
UnderpantsWeevil 13 points 2 years ago
His son shouldn't be on the road if he's crashing a five-ton vehicle into a telephone pole. Hiding him in order to sober him up means putting him back out on the road to do this shit again.
dezmd 3 points 2 years ago
I meant using his sons fuck up as an example of him being a bad person.
That's where everyone is going off the fucking rails in different directions from my edit.
I get trying to protect your children as a parent. I'm a father myself and can fathom a reaction of trying to protect a child to the point of going to jail over something.
You entirely missed the point yourself when you misunderstood the issue as related to him being held responsible for the crimes of his son. He committed the crime of obstruction regardless of whatever crime his son was suspected of, but that's not even the problem here.
What I CANNOT FUCKING ABIDE is the insane hypocrisy this fuck demonstrates through allowing exceptions to the LAWS for his child that he will defend and go to jail over, while demanding someone else's child fall in line to school guidelines that are malleable and far less rigid in both application and enforcement than any legal criminality.
This all reads like some purebred racial prejudice fully baked into governing committees remaining alive and well in pockets of Texas even close to major cities. Not that it's that different literally everywhere else that isn't a major metro/suburb/college town.
Username02 65 points 2 years ago
What's next? All students are required to wear white skin and blonde hair to adhere to conformity?
CosmicTurtle 3 points 2 years ago
Unironicly yes.
FlyingSquid 3 points 2 years ago
That's what the death camps will be for.
Son_of_dad 58 points 2 years ago
Conformity to what? That kid's roots are just as American, if not more so, then that of the white principal.
UnderpantsWeevil 23 points 2 years ago
Sort of the joke with these "PoCs need to learn to conform!" You never seen white kids held to the beauty and wardrobe standards of their minority peers.
Kids who show up to school in blue jeans aren't dinged for dressing informally. Kids who bleach their hair or have it curled aren't harassed. Nobody is losing their shit over some dipshit in a dented pickup blasting "Rich Men From Richmond" on his after-market speaker system.
"Conformity" is entirely white-facing.
RaoulDook 11 points 2 years ago
It's like that dumbass has no concept of reality but what he imagines it should be like. Being American obviously doesn't require "conformity" if you think about it for 5-10 seconds. All it requires to be American is to be born here or go through the citizenship process, literally.
The reality that all Americans should see is that we have a nation of many cultures and ideals that we are free to conform or not conform to. Freedom to be yourself is inherent in the concept of America in general, I would assume for the majority of humans in the world too.
Asafum 10 points 2 years ago
Right wing propagandists have been pushing the message that a mixed society can't function because we "aren't all on the same page culturally." This asshat is just following that line of reasoning, saying that "we all must be identical so we are all on the same page."
Also, bring up communism just for laughs and watch as they pontificate on the myriad ways communism forces equality and how that's bad... Fun stuff...
Sludgehammer 54 points 2 years ago
That ad is one of the dumbest attempts at damage control I think I've ever seen.
He spends more time on a soap box ranting about COVID-19 and masks then actually addressing what he's actually in hot water about. It's literally just "The student violated dress code standards and I'm totally not a racist, BUT LET ME TELL YOU ABOUT THE TYRANNICAL GOVERNMENT MAKING WEAR MASKS OVER THE COVID HOAX!!!!!!!!"
FlyingSquid 52 points 2 years ago
If you want to know why this school is so fucking awful, this is from the school district's about page:
AquaTofana 22 points 2 years ago
I still CANNOT believe he chose to phrase his justification like that.
One of the things we're supposed to have is freedom to express ourselves however we see fit so long as it doesn't hurt anyone else.
My parents have a huge "Fuck Joe Biden" banner on the front of their house, and the county hasn't stepped in to be like "You can't have a two foot tall 'Fuck' on public display", and yet this guy gets in trouble for wearing his hair in a manner that's comfy to him???
I shouldn't be shocked because I live in Texas, however, I am. Maybe I'm not cynical enough.
JudahBenHur 7 points 2 years ago
are your parents black?
AquaTofana 5 points 2 years ago
No, I'm white as white can be. I know that's the reason but I'm just flabbergasted that this kind of racism can still be so blatant in 2024.
Ugh. I really do try to be the "I love humanity" person, but this story in particular just disgusts the fuck outta me.
I wish the George family would open a gofundme for legal costs because I'd kick some dollars their way in a heartbeat.
JudahBenHur 2 points 2 years ago
I hear you.
I honestly used to say I loved humanity. Each year and each observation of us as a species as made me grow more cynical and pessimestic regarding if most people are are "good" or not. The inability of people to not become childlike and selfish was during the beginning of covid was the final piece of evidence for me.
I genuinely believe if they made a gofundme they'd widely be accused of grifting, cause, you know, projection.
Please don't give up on optimism, love and hope though, glad to hear some people haven't :)
cybervseas 28 points 2 years ago
But only white people are allowed to rebel. Didn't you read the fine print?
ThrowawayInTheYear23 1 point 2 years ago
He's living in the CSA.
funkless_eck 45 points 2 years ago
Compromise, conformity, assimilation, submission
Ignorance, hypocrisy, brutality, the elite
All of which are American dreams
All of which are American dreams
All of which are American dreams
All of which are American dreams
All of which are American dreams
All of which are American dreams
All of which are American dreams
All of which are American dreams
TransplantedSconie 4 points 2 years ago
I was wondering when I'd see Rage lyrics.
pete_the_cat 2 points 2 years ago
#FUCK YOU I WONT DO WHAT YOU TELL ME
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afraid_of_zombies 4 points 2 years ago
Actually how do we do this?
somethingp 14 points 2 years ago
If someone has Texas a&m credentials they can find the dissertation here: https://library.tamu.edu/search/theses
His name is Gregory Poole.
afraid_of_zombies 6 points 2 years ago
Right so after we find out he plagiarized who do we mention it to?
stoly 7 points 2 years ago
The university most certainly has a place you can contact to raise concerns, a review organization of some sort. Googling the university name and "report plagiarism" would surely get you there.
CharlesDarwin 1 point 2 years ago
Yes, because we know how much the right really, really, really cares about things like plagiarism, at least for certain people (see: Ward Churchill and Claudine Gay).
Let's see how consistent they are!
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tigeruppercut 19 points 2 years ago
Could've just written "holier than thou" and saved himself some ad money. What a sanctimonious garbage person
TheFriar 17 points 2 years ago
Holy shit. And how can someone think that mask wearing is still being questioned? Fucking masks make the most sense in the world. Doctors have trusted them for…fuck, who knows how long? A long time. And the technology has only gotten better.
Incorrect mask wearing, sure, the claims of protection can be dubious depending on the mask, but to even bring this up right now is such an insane move. What a dick.
Lianodel 13 points 2 years ago
I've thought about this a lot. I think there are three main elements.
People like this will judge the facts based on the conclusions they want, and they sure do prefer the conclusion where their selfishness wasn't that bad.
They're extremely bad at understanding anything that isn't black & white. So when you go into things like rates of effectiveness or levels of confidence, they shut down, and either say "it doesn't work" or "nobody knows for sure."
One of the major benefits of masks is to prevent yourself from spreading infection, and they just plain don't give a flying fuck about other people.
Also, the point that got to me was his defense of sending kids to school because covid wouldn't affect them too badly. Firstly, some kids will be badly affected, and secondly... where the fuck does he think the kids go after school? They go home, where they've got parents, guardians, maybe even grandparents and other elderly family members.
What a dumb asshole.
CharlesDarwin 10 points 2 years ago
He's doing that usual nonsense of "It doesN't AffEct KidS lIkE It dOeS adultS" garbage, too, as if kids went to school in a fucking vacuum or something.
Lianodel 37 points 2 years ago
I HIGHLY recommend people actually click through and read the superintendent's full ad, because it's a gold mine of hypocrisy, idiocy, and not-so-subtle racism.
EDIT: To clarify, the article doesn't actually present the superintendent's screed. It embeds a tweet that has a photo of it. That said, it's been posted elsewhere in this thread, which has the added upside of avoiding Twitter.
EdibleFriend 36 points 2 years ago
This motherfucker paid for a full page ad to scream fuck you I'm right??
ShaggySnacks 20 points 2 years ago
Are you saying that someone is acting like a entitled, snow flake?
ShaggySnacks 9 points 2 years ago
TIL I learned that snowflake means slavers. This further cements that it is nothing but projection with these shit heads.
EdibleFriend 5 points 2 years ago
Never even crossed my mind but I'll bet anything you're right.
Vorticity 4 points 2 years ago
I’d wager the superintendent also used district funds to pay for the ad.
Paid for by the Barbers Hill Educational Foundation.
the Education Foundation can provide grants directly to educators who have fresh, new ideas for programs that help students not only learn, but remember.
Programs that help students learn and remember to respect authority and conform. Otherwise, no education for you!
AliasWyvernspur 36 points 2 years ago
Pool alleged that the family's lawyer said she wants to “bankrupt” the school district and its leaders during the legal proceedings.
Isn't that a Republican's job?
octopus_ink 36 points 2 years ago
This guy thinks we're still in an era where an old white man with a little bit of power can just proclaim something and it will be treated as fact.
Granted, if Trump wins in November we'll be in that era again, but for now...
captainlezbian 36 points 2 years ago
Isn’t that literally the opposite of freedom. Also of our international reputation. We’re weird and unique and that’s good.
A_Random_Idiot 8 points 2 years ago
Conservative freedom is the freedom to do what they demand you to do, or face repercussions/punishment/violence.
captain_aggravated 4 points 2 years ago
As lonh as being an "individual" means wearing a cowboy cosplay and carrying an emotional support firearm.
Malfeasant 1 point 2 years ago
Downtown office jobs take skill. They're driving from one suburb to another.
TotalTrash 3 points 2 years ago
Amen to that. It's also anathema to our origins. We've always been a country of freaks, rejects, and free spirits. Conformity is unamerican.
CharlesDarwin 1 point 2 years ago
It's the Southern notion of "freedom". Meaning you get to rule over others.
anewbeginning 33 points 2 years ago
I thought being American required chants about freedom. Turns out it’s about conformity to the will of assholes.
cerulean_blue 11 points 2 years ago
When I'm compelled to chant "freedom,freedom" in a crowd of proud American conformists, I instead shout "femdom,femdom". It subtly disrupts the harmony of the chant and sows confusion and self-doubt.
rockSlayer 32 points 2 years ago
Anti discrimination laws need to be updated nationally to forbid discrimination based on hair style. Civilization hasn't melted here in Minnesota, it's not going to melt in Texas either.
frogfruit 21 points 2 years ago
They did pass a law prohibiting race based hair discrimination in Texas. The school is arguing that the law does not apply to them because it does not specifically mention hair length, and they're suspending him on the basis that his hair would be too long if he didn't have it styled.
NoIWontPickaName 4 points 2 years ago
Which is sexist since it only applies to boys.
snooggums 1 point 2 years ago
Using logic any practices including hairdsyles that are commonly used by members of a race are covered under racial discrimination, but then what seems obvious to me gets argued against by conservatives with word vomit.
flipht 0 points 2 years ago
This. Their goal isn't logical consistency. It's to confuse every individual issue to such a degree that there will be conflicting court cases, at which point the supreme Court can step in and rule in the least democratic judgement possible.
Drivebyhaiku 7 points 2 years ago
Yup, it's fascism. You must conform to the architypal gender presentation of the 1950's because everything else is some kind of degeneracy of "family values" and "public decency".
You're supposed to kind of forget that the 1950's were pre- shit ton of civil rights wins from sex/race/disability/nationality equality organizating and was open season on jailing queer people, sundown towns, lynchings and so on. It's why Conservatives like it so much, it's back when their hierarchy didn't have to be hidden from disapproving eyes.
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CharlesDarwin 4 points 2 years ago
You have the personal freedumb to look just like I want you to look.
https://yewtu.be/watch?v=tOS0x2Ef2cY [ Stuart - Dead Milkmen ]
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IronpigsWizard 30 points 2 years ago
Such a strange thing to make a stand against, especially from the punk scene haircuts I remember back in the 80s, 90s. This isn't even super noticeable, comparatively.
Gee, wonder what the real issue is here....
Duamerthrax 0 points 2 years ago
It's school administration. There's no deeper reason. They're just being dicks.
octopus_ink 28 points 2 years ago
Same guy will unironically put his hand over his heart and belt out "Land of the free and home of the brave"
Only for conformists, apparently.
ook_the_librarian 2 points 2 years ago
I would love to see if someone could convince this guy that his belief in God is indistinguishable from professed, but insincere, beliefs in a culture of conformity.
Obviously, not a productive avenue, but I really don't get how conformity mixes with theology. But theology isn't my thing anyway.
Edit: I'm distinguishing between personal theology and the spread of theology. Clearly, the spread is helped by conformity.
RandomPancake 28 points 2 years ago
Here's a complete list of all the times someone else's hair had any impact of any nature whatsoever on my life:
Duamerthrax 18 points 2 years ago
Every image of this kid has had his dread locks clean and neat. This isn't some hippy dude that's not bathing. If he had a BO problem, the school would just cite him on that.
stopthatgirl7 13 points 2 years ago
How many Black folks with locs have you been around? Because they still regularly wash and oil their hair. Locs are actually considered a protective style for Black hair.
jpreston2005 26 points 2 years ago
his full page advert starts with "I tried to get a letter to the editor printed on the Houston Chronicle during the pandemic to criticize their guidance, but they wouldn't publish me."
This guy cannot possibly be more of a dumbass, digging his own grave. When the fuck is this POS greg poole getting fired?
WaxedWookie 26 points 2 years ago
I bet the superintendent thinks one of the best things about living in Texas is how free they are... completely oblivious to the irony.
IHeartBadCode 4 points 2 years ago
We go live to the superintendent in a special event already underway.
_number8_ 14 points 2 years ago
the country that spends the most money on healthcare yet has no public option. the country that still arrests people for weed (in the shitty states). the country that says homeless people just need to try harder. the country that lets you drive at 16, buy a gun at 18, sign up for the military in high school, yet harasses college students for drinking. the country that says you deserve to be burdened with debt for getting an education. the country that says you need to stand for the special song before every sporting event. the country that has far shittier rail infrastructure than 100 years ago. the country that thinks people should earn sick days or vacation at work. the country that thinks it's fine to drug test people as a barrier to employment. the country that thinks it gets to be the world's police. the country that has a famous statue that literally says 'give me your tired etc etc' but wants to be even crueler to immigrants.
thefartographer 24 points 2 years ago
I hate to see this kid go through all of this, but I love to see so many piss-baby snowflakes get their underwear bunched all the way up in their throats. I hope they fucking choke.
steakmeout 24 points 2 years ago
Fascism on the rise.
bc1 24 points 2 years ago
The American way is dynamism not conformity. The fabric of America is constantly changing and to survive the problems of the future we're going to need creative critical thinking and not just mindless automatons conforming to authority.
Maggoty 1 point 2 years ago
He thinks that's why the military academies value conformity. Which shows he knows shit all about the military. We value conformity for target identification and so units can link up and work together without high ranking officers needing to be there. (A pretty big tactical and strategic advantage actually)
themeatbridge 23 points 2 years ago
Greg Poole just made one. It's in the article. I didn't read the whole thing, but the gist is "I'm a fascist dipshit bigot who hates America, and I'm so out of touch with reality that I don't know which end of the fork goes in my ear."
Socsa 19 points 2 years ago
Imagine believing that you are in the right about this, while also believing that it's normal for your disciplinary decisions to require a full page editorial.
The whole problem with conservatives these days is that they can't just take an L, no matter how fucking stupid.
ConditionOverload 16 points 2 years ago
Conformity? So then ultimately because the kid is black, he'll never be able to "conform" since Texas has a majority white population. So the guy is pretty much saying that the kid's in the wrong for just existing.
billwashere 16 points 2 years ago
I wonder if this superintendent dude realizes the can of worms he’s opened up with this ad and couldn’t be any more wrong…
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Adalast 15 points 2 years ago
Yes, because the First Amendment clearly states:
Congress shall make no law respecting a deviance from an established religion, or allowing the free exercise thereof; or permitting the freedom of speech which deviates from the agreed norms, or of the press which dissents our ideals; or the right of the people we don't agree with peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government to exacerbate restrictions on my behalf.
(did the best I could for a quick bathroom satire)
Smite6645 14 points 2 years ago
“Ultimately, this is an issue of local control and deciding who should be setting the policies, goals and expectations of our school district,” Poole wrote.
This in a state that banned COVID related mandates by local governments, passed a law allowing the state to interfere in Houston elections (a Democratic stronghold), and took over Texas' largest school district (Houston ISD) - firing librarians and turning school libraries into "disciplinary centers". They also rushed to use eminent domain to seize land for Trump's border wall.
I guess that's the kind of state and local officials you get when You May Have The Worst Gerrymander In The Country
Edit: spelling and added more sources.
Adalast 2 points 2 years ago
You forgot the part where the state tried to strip local municipalities of their right to govern. Luckily the attempt was struck down hard.
Of course, they will try again.
MapleEngineer 14 points 2 years ago
Nazis + Taliban = American christofascists.
Stop it before it's to late.
Semi-Hemi-Demigod 14 points 2 years ago
Imagine looking so fly you get kicked out of school.
Absolute legend.
lolola 12 points 2 years ago
Don't dude.. don't make this about "bEiNg An AmErIcAn"... Think of all the high school/college English students who have to write that stupid "wHaT iS aN aMeRiCaN??" essay every goddamn year. Now they all have to write another paragraph just to rebut your dumbass.
Bigotry makes everyone's lives more difficult.
HubertManne 10 points 2 years ago
Yeah because every new generation of americans are defined by conformity. When it comes to politness, queueing in lines, or doing things in an exacting way you always think USA over any other country. and I feel this is not necessary but sic.
kerrigan778 18 points 2 years ago
I don't think sic applies here, you're looking for "/s" to denote that the preceding is sarcastic. Sic generally denotes that the phrasing/spelling/words is not altered or is verbatim.
HubertManne 19 points 2 years ago
oh crap. I thought sic meant sarcastic nad I have thought that for years. now im looking it up.
SharkEatingBreakfast 11 points 2 years ago
I love you lol
HubertManne 6 points 2 years ago
no seriously I have been going around thinking it meant sarcasm intended something. The worst part is im used to academic papers from long ago and I think now I remember its usage but someone got it goofed up in the internet age.
frogfruit 2 points 2 years ago
I think you're thinking of sike, which was common slang in the 90s. https://www.urbandictionary.com/...
HubertManne 1 point 2 years ago
No I was thinking internet slang. honestly I remember sike as more an 80's thing but the decades. they begin to blur. my brain does things like confusing sic and /s so its a pretty normal thing for me. hopefully i remember it right in future but one thing that is annoying for me is if I learn something, even on my own, badly. I tend to have a hard time not doing it wrong.
LostWon 1 point 2 years ago
Going back to the 1990s, I'm pretty sure we all spelled it "psych," just the same as in the similar expression "psych out." That said, I have no doubt there were different spellings in different places.
prettydarknwild 9 points 2 years ago
this sounds like something that you would hear in the news in gta
OutlierBlue 0 points 2 years ago
Snow is white and something something racism.
betterdeadthanreddit 8 points 2 years ago
Melting pot vs. salad bowl, round infinity+1.
samus12345 8 points 2 years ago
Is this a tacit admission that being American means being racist (according to this asshole)?
boatsnhos931 8 points 2 years ago
Now everyone gets to see the turtle shell dreads this guy has. Cowabunga dude! 😎
Kaput 8 points 2 years ago
**Barbers Hill **Independent School., Big barber Co trying to put the small hair dressers out of business again.
Jokes aside, fuck that superintendent. That's footloose dancing is forbidden level of asshatery.
CharlesDarwin 7 points 2 years ago
LOL, WTAF. I do think sometimes there is a certain portion of the terminally online leftists that have disappeared up their own derrieres, looking for offense in things like not being sufficiently intersectional, and generally playing silly oppression olympics, all aimed at their allies (meaning, only certain people are able to talk about certain topics and so on - it's all so useless and pointless and probably only really results in generating more Republicans), while fascism is organizing and on the march.
Then the right keep doing completely stupid stuff like this, and I really wish those terminally online leftists would wake up and realize they need to stop all the infighting and realize the right are saying the quiet part out loud. They want to make it safe to say and do completely outrageous things to liberals, women, POC, non-xtians, anyone not straight, and so on. I think the leftists that spend so much time on policing liberals/leftists for the most minor of infractions in language or political thought would be a lot better off trying to win the hearts and minds of middle America instead of trying to find reasons to kick out their allies. Because none of their pointless theorizing will mean zilch if the right gets their way. In the most extreme of outcomes, the right will work to murder citizens that don't meet their metrics for hegemony.
baseless_discourse 3 points 2 years ago
The moment that you let them conform to being "inclusive, accepting, and a decent human being", because most Americans are immigrant (by will or not), and being accepting of other cultures is literally the ideology that built this country.
"ThAt Is NOt WhAT I MEaNt"
LemmyIsFantastic 7 points 2 years ago
Jackass. Hope they get caught in the crossfire next time Texas tries to shut down federal agents.
TheDarksteel94 6 points 2 years ago
Conformity? What are you? A fucking commie? /s
Leate_Wonceslace 5 points 2 years ago
Land of the Free, where if you're even slightly different you get thrown the fuck out.
moistclump 4 points 2 years ago
Homer Simpson’s second rule of the playground: always make fun of people different than you.
RizzRustbolt 2 points 2 years ago
Damn... I only know Potawatomi.
HipHoboHarold 3 points 2 years ago
Maybe to make sure we are part of the group that is conforming we can make some sort of outfit. And to make sure it's not fake outsiders, we can all have an armband. Something with a symbol on it. That was we can recognize who's in the cool conformity group.
EvilEyedPanda 3 points 2 years ago
Yes, your free to conform to what I believe you should look, act, and think like.
Jollyllama 3 points 2 years ago
The self own is real.
blazeknave 1 point 2 years ago
Not an own when they think it's a good thing
MyFairJulia 3 points 2 years ago
I think i remember that America stood for freedom. Or was i being Mandela'd again like back when people said Pyrocynical had a weird TF2 Pyro skin?
ruplicant 1 point 2 years ago
you are free to do as we tell you
jfc
camelbeard 2 points 2 years ago
I knew the sample from this masterpiece
Watch the entire clip without skipping, its pretty intense!
pinkdrunkenelephants 1 point 2 years ago
She's absolutely right.
She just understands America is in actual fact an authoritarian, racist shithole that requires beating its citizens' spirits into the ground so they can be enslaved and exploited for their masters, that's all. And she's being more honest about it than most.
MrBusinessMan -6 points 2 years ago
He’s got a point. America is a nation built on strict conformity and following the rules. Without that stuff we could end up like some crazy third world country.
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Man, these people always out here saying the quiet part out loud these days.
"If you little fuckers would just CONFORM to how we want you to be, this country would be filled with UNITY."
Yeah, because the only "unity" they want is forcing their conformity on everyone else.
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