“Tootsie Pops are not for me and truth and justice are not for us.”

As a teacher I had an initial knee-jerk reaction to the claim that any of us would be so disgusting as professionals and human beings, but then the thinking part of my brain caught up to the dumbass part of my brain and threw some memories in for evidence. Ima go have a drink now...

1.I know it doesn’t need degrees of spectrum. That’s not the point I’m making here.

As always, a nuanced thought Arnheim, I always appreciate reading your contributions. I would add to it, though.

*Sigh* if we’re going to argue ethics behind historical events (which historians DON’T DO because that isn’t what history is, leave that stuff to philosophers) then let’s take a historical look at your examples.

I taught at that school for a time, though got out of Texas as soon as possible a few years later. Once I was accused by an English teacher of spreading communist propaganda because I had a quiz about the difference between socialism, capitalism, and communism. As a social studies teacher teaching world history and…

This. This so much. And it didn’t help that the first half was completely devoid of anything that could actually harm you. It wasn’t until you went downstairs... and the twitching, GOD.

Honestly, I’m not so sure that’s true anymore. Due to my masochistic tendencies I hang around Breitbart every once in a while, and they are all rabid about identifying the evil RINOs, which tends to be literally anybody who doesn’t support Trump. Look at Mueller, himself a republican! Kelly has fallen that way as…

This is nothing compared to what I remember teaching in Texas. We were forced not only to do the American pledge, but to immediately follow it with the TEXAS pledge of allegiance, which was hilariously just a simpleton ripoff of the national one.