A full-page newspaper defends the punishment high school student Darryl George has faced over his hairstyle.

  • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    he’s just an authoritarian-loving jerk and you can respect that

    I mean, I wouldn’t respect that either. If anything, I’d respect a guy who shielded his students from draconian municipal/state punishments for a fucking haircut and shielded his son from draconian municipal/state punishments for driving. But you don’t get to be superintendent by going “Soft On (Hair) Crime”.

    But this guy just likes to exert his white authority over black people.

    Or his rich authority over poor people. Although, in Houston, the de facto racial caste system makes it interchangeable.

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      11 months ago

      I mean, I wouldn’t respect that either

      I guess I’m trying to just differentiate two different worlds of behavior . Maybe it’s not as big a deal as I make it, but I have a real problem with inconsistency and hypocrisy.

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        11 months ago

        I have a real problem with inconsistency and hypocrisy.

        I think the term “hypocrite” gets overused, mostly because the standard being followed isn’t always what the label implies.

        If you’re a white supremacist or a simple elitist, then there’s no hypocrisy in doing favors for your white son and fucking over your black student. I don’t think that this lack-of-hypocrisy makes the behavior any more laudable, though.