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Yes! This is an anti-public school administration article masquerading as an anti-alt-right article.
by vzcx 7y ago
Yes! This is an anti-public school administration article masquerading as an anti-alt-right article.
- KODeKarnage 7y agoIt can be both.
- oh_sigh 7y agoNo, it is both of the antis- you specified. Specifically, it is a story about how the author believes the bad behavior of school administration pushed their sun into the bad world of the alt-right.
- vzcx 7y agoOh, I don't mean to say that it is secretly uncritical of the alt-right. It's clear that the alt-right runs counter to the mother's morals, just that these morals are taken as given and assumed in the audience as well. It is not a direct critique of the alt-right. There are tons of strange subcultures and radical groups out there looking to eat your mind and the minds of your children. "My child joined the alt-right" is far more of a catchy title than "my child joined a neoreactionary reading group" or "my child joined some communist revolutionaries." Those groups are either things no one has heard of or are has beens. The alt-right still have some energy as today's "evildoers." It's our modern "my child became a satanist," or, hell, "my child became a protestant." All this is reminiscent of that old "Is Your Child A Hacker." Where is our "Is Your Child A Shitlord?" Of course, the entire story could be a fabrication, for all we know. Since it's the evil of today and will surely grab some eyeballs... why not stick in some valuable reminders of how absolutely terrible being a child in the school system is? If that was the intention in this piece, I salute the author!
- noonespecial 7y agoNo. It's the story of one extremist making another. So much so it's basically Newtonian. If the child had a lesser home life he could have stuck that way. This one had a happy ending but it's a sobering lesson. Zero tolerance seems cheap up front but the societal "technical debt" is a real bitch.
- pizzazzaro 7y agoRemember how those d@%$ Clintons were the ones who instituted this "zero tolerance" bullshit, turning our schools into actual freaking prisons? Or was I the only one who watched that happen around me as a child? Schools should be freaking schools once universal healthcare happens. And once prison actually turns into something about reform.
- yellowapple 7y ago> Schools should be freaking schools once universal healthcare happens. And once prison actually turns into something about reform. Why wait? A populace that receives an actual education instead of a Kafkaesque exercise in bureaucratic absurdity will almost certainly be healthier and less prone to crime.
- ramblerman 7y agoDoes it make it easier for you to comprehend if you can immediately assign it into one of the two camps?