Quote: (05-27-2013 02:45 AM)playa_with_a_passport Wrote:
Quote: (05-24-2013 02:34 PM)vinman Wrote:
This how you know political correctness has run amock. If you aren't free to speak your mind then you aren't really free.
She might have a right to freedom of speech but her right to be a NYC school teacher isn't absolute. Coming from the NY POST I can guaranteed there's more to this story. NY Post has made race trolling into an art form. I do not even use that paper to line the bottom of my litter box because I have too much respect for my cat.
They just don't fire Black females from Govt jobs in NYC unless there's a good reason. Black males are not afforded this courtesy. That's why you see a lot hood rats with good jobs and pensions in NYC yet you do not really see thug ass tyga looking dudes doing the same.
My guess is that she wasn't fitting in for whatever reason and she was put on the Board of Ed hit list. You can actually get fired for any reason or no reason at all in civil service jobs in NYC provided you are still on probation.
you have a cat? ))
One could argue that the mainstream media (NY Times, Wash Post, TV networks etc.) made race trolling an art form of sorts - mainly to endlessly and tirelessly try to teach us all a lesson about 'racism' to the point of insanity. From Tawana Brawley to Crown Heights to the Duke Lacrosse scam lawsuit they have an incredible habit of only showing one side of the coin in all matters of race/sexuality etc. I lived with that crap my whole life in the US and am so sick of it that I don't even bother reading the mainstream press anymore...I know it's all hopefully biased and politically correct.
The Post, as annoying and hyperbolic as it can be, tends to show the stupidity of political correctness and the 'race' card especially in the NYC context. NYC is one of the most left-wing, liberal places in American so it's not like the Post has it on conservative lockdown. And the Daily Mail is pretty much the liberal counterpoint ragsheet to counter the Post so liberals get pretty much every print and visual media supporting their lame Feminist & "progressive" agenda, where all the right get is Fox News, the religious conservatives and Rush Limbaugh pretty much (not that I put too much trust in any of what they say for the most part either, plenty of biases there as well).
Re the last point, well that may be true, but NYC has a massively bloated city government and the common logic is it's incredibly hard in the City to get fired, ESPECIALLY for teachers due to the incredibly powerful and corrupt teacher's union. Those guys won't give an inch typically, even for teacher's standardsThe pension system is also spiraling out of control in NYC, and the public sector employees got away with murder for years (e.g. cops and firemen working double overtime for their last two years of service so they could 'lock in' their annual salaries at the highest rate, then retire at 55 at those inflated last few years of income).