Texas Superintendent Defends Suspending Black Student Over Locs Hairstyle in Full-Page Ad: ‘Being American Requires Conformity'
Texas Superintendent Defends Suspending Black Student Over Locs Hairstyle in Full-Page Ad: ‘Being American Requires Conformity'
A full-page newspaper defends the punishment high school student Darryl George has faced over his hairstyle.
A full-page newspaper defends the punishment high school student Darryl George has faced over his hairstyle.
Being an American requires conformity with the positive benefit of unity
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.
Literal fascist rhetoric. Seriously wtf.
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.
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.
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.
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!!!!!!!!"
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 dreamsBeing an american requires conformity
Says the guy with the confederate flag in his living room
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.
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...
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?
I'm always amazed the lengths people will go to justify the needless destruction of someone's life.
They should sue the school for sexual discrimination, as the code only applies to boys.
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?
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.
Fascism on the rise.
When every child at school doesn't have that Hitler Youth look 😤😤😤
This dude thinks his school district is West Point.
They need to get rid of him right the fuck now. It's wannabes like this that always apply the wrong policies for the wrong reasons.
I'm not sure why they get to set the standard for what people need to conform to, but somehow never have to make any compromises of their own.
Can't believe this guy's ideological allies paid to put these words into print. This is the sort of parody statement you'd put out to make fun of him.
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.
You will be assimilated, resistance is futile.
Imagine looking so fly you get kicked out of school.
Absolute legend.
“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.
Nazis + Taliban = American christofascists.
Stop it before it's to late.
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)
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.
this sounds like something that you would hear in the news in gta
Now everyone gets to see the turtle shell dreads this guy has. Cowabunga dude! 😎
**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.
Jackass. Hope they get caught in the crossfire next time Texas tries to shut down federal agents.
this whole thing is a shitshow. but the dresscode is just bullshit. why shouldn't male read people be allowed to wear hairstyles longer than to the neck?
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.
These people are like human ants
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Conformity? What are you? A fucking commie? /s
Land of the Free, where if you're even slightly different you get thrown the fuck out.
Homer Simpson’s second rule of the playground: always make fun of people different than you.
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.
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?
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.
Being republican requires assholery.
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.
