This week, our first place winner on the insightful side is That One Guy with a comment about Oklahoma revoking the license of a teacher who pushed back against state censorship:
‘The only acceptable political agenda in the classroom is a conservative one!’
“There is no place for a teacher with a liberal political agenda in the classroom,” Walters had wrote.
Whoops, said the quiet part out loud there Walters.
If you’d just said there’s no place fora teacher with a political agenda in the classroom you might have been able to frame this as trying to keep politics from influencing education, but by including ‘liberal’ you just made clear that your only objection to political agendas in classroom is that they might not be yours.
“He accused her of providing ‘banned and pornographic material’ to students.“
Ah, so she provided them a bible? Just kidding, anyone paying attention knows that ‘pornographic’ is just the latest cowardly dog-whistle for any content that conservatives hate, like any depictions of minorities and/or non-CIS/heterosexual characters/relationships that aren’t negative and condemning.
In second place, it’s an anonymous comment about “hostage laws”:
Yeah, but the “legal representative to jail” law accomplishes nothing but having someone to jail. Generally someone from the country involved. This isn’t stopping the owners and management of the larger company from doing anything – especially if it’s a company on the trash end of the spectrum.
Maybe it feels good, i don’t know, but the result is nada, beside “Hue hue hue that dude that was hired to be a local representative is in jail”.
For editor’s choice on the insightful side, we’ve got a pair of anonymous comments. First, it’s a simple observation about free speech “absolutism”:
I’ve yet to meet a free speech absolutist who didn’t speak in favor of banning speech they didn’t like.
Next, it’s a comment about Mark Zuckerberg’s letter caving to Jim Jordan:
So, Mr Zuckerberg:
Were you caving to government coercion then, or are you caving to government coercion now?
Over on the funny side, our first place winner is Rico R. with a comment on our post about Techdirt passing two million comments:
MYSTERY SOLVED: Here’s Techdirt’s 2 millionth comment!
We’ve been trying to reach you about your car’s extended warranty…
In second place, it’s Mamba with a reaction to Rand Paul’s pushback against censoring kids online:
Gad dammit, that asshole talked about Greta Thunberg and her concern for climate change *respectfully*.
I hate it when one of the biggest assholes I know is right…..
For editor’s choice on the funny side, we start out with a comment from RP that adopts a fitting tone regarding DC & Marvel’s failure to respond over the cancellation of the “super hero” trademark:
New Kryptonite
Filing deadlines! Gasp! Choke! My only weakness!
Finally, it’s tanj with a comment on our post about the Third Circuit’s TikTok ruling, and specifically our headline saying that it “deliberately ignores precedent and defies logic”:
So you admit it’s consistent with Trump v. United States.
That’s all for this week, folks!
