Maulik Pancholy’s appearance at Mountain View Middle School in Mechanicsburg was unanimously overturned by the district’s school board in an 8-0 vote.
  • pleasejustdie@lemmy.worldEnglish
    108·
    1 year ago

    So, the school board is bullying him into not doing an anti-bully talk. I think maybe the school board should have been the one getting the speech and not the kids at the school…

    • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
      614·
      1 year ago

      All that anti-bullying bullshit is that. Bullshit. They encourage bullying. They claim they don’t, but they do. If you’re not “normal,” you’ll get bullied and the school will do very little about it.

      • thantik@lemmy.worldBanned from communityEnglish
        1013·
        1 year ago

        That’s because out of everything, we’re kind of creatures of conformation. Every nail that sticks out gets hammered down. It’s a part of our biology at this point, given how tribal in nature we have become. Success came from everyone working together, and when something goes against the status-quo, it’s normal for people to shun it. You’ll find this in literally every possible ‘division’ you can create for society. Dyed your hair blue? Some people’s instinct will naturally kick in and shun you for it. You don’t even have to be gay or anything - just out of the ordinary.

          • thantik@lemmy.worldBanned from communityEnglish
            13·
            1 year ago

            I excuse many things that people do; because I realize that no person can ever be absolutely perfect – to expect perfection of them is to preordain disappointment in them.

          • thantik@lemmy.worldBanned from communityEnglish
            12·
            1 year ago

            Of course we can do better – I’m telling you, it will never go away. It will forever be something we have to educate people on, and keep at the forefront of their minds, because we are literally of two minds. We have a prehistoric brain that can control low level impulses, and people have to be taught to override those impulses.

  • pastabatman@lemmy.world
    77·
    1 year ago

    “It’s not discriminating against his lifestyle — that’s his choice,” Potteiger said in the meeting. “But it’s him speaking about it.”

    Mental gymnastics gold medalist

  • Clent@lemmy.world
    42·
    1 year ago

    The irony here is it not being highlighted.

    School board bullies unanimously agreed to bully anti-bully activist by removing him from anti-bully event.

    • aleph@lemm.eeEnglish
      3·
      1 year ago

      All they heard was the word ‘activist’ and it sent their tiny minds reeling.

        • aleph@lemm.eeEnglish
          2·
          1 year ago

          Anti-bullying activists are precisely the kind of people that we don’t want leading anti-bullying campaigns!

  • CannedCairn@lemmy.world
    12·
    1 year ago

    I grew up 40 minutes away and let it blows my mind because mechanicsburg is 15 minutes from Harrisburg and both areas are generally more liberal than where I even live. I’m sad now.

    • Boomer Humor Doomergod@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      1 year ago

      I grew up in Harrisburg and everybody called the west shore of the Susquehanna the “White Shore.” Harrisburg is a perfect example of redlining and the racist interstate highway system, but it’s a lot more diverse than the west shore. Moving away from the river you find quietly racist blue collar people, quietly racist white collar people, and then just plain racists.

      Though if you really want to start hearing banjos you head up to Perry County. Or Clearfield shudder

  • Vytle@lemmy.world
    101·
    1 year ago

    God I fuckin… Like dude the fucking right gets upset when the fucking left wants to increase gun laws when there’s a school shooting, but the fucking right is too stupid to fucking realize that if they stop being literal facists than maybe, just fucking maybe, kids won’t be as depressed. Maybe if these kids could actually fucking see that its okay to be different, they’d be fine. And it fucking sucks because anti bullying shit like literally never features LGBT scenarios. Like actually fuckin run it back in your mind, cause I know damn well I never saw ANY anti bullying thing for gays. Hell, I fucking got suspended from highschool because a kid called ME a [that one really mean word for gay people D:]. If I wasn’t such a narcissist I legitimately would not have made it out of highschool.

    • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
      3·
      1 year ago

      if they stop being literal facists than maybe, just fucking maybe, kids won’t be as depressed

      A lot of these school shootings involve a kid from a very conservative family getting utterly blackpilled on some QAnon conspiracy bullshit and going off to do an adventurism against the PoC in school who have been bullying him merely by existing. And I can’t help but feel that conservative adults are quietly thinking to themselves “Good, I wish more people would behave like this” as they publicly shake their heads in disapproval.

      Whether its Dylann Roof or Patrick Wood Crusius or Kyle Rittenhouse or Daniel Perry, this is just a Kristallnacht by drips and drabs.

      • Vytle@lemmy.world
        2·
        1 year ago

        The mind of a conservative is actually insane. They will hear someone say the most vile, bigoted thing about minorities and just go “well we were all thinking it” like honestly it is insane. Its like they think that conservative views are the default, and any white person who disagrees with them is either “brainwashed by the left” or just acting like they disagree with conservative views because muh “woke society will kill you for agreeing with the truth”

  • bean@lemmy.world
    5·
    1 year ago

    “What if we have to stay over night, and there aren’t enough rooms, and we have to share a room, and I forgot to bring a shirt to sleep in, and the stores are all closed…”

  • TomMasz@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    1 year ago

    The total lack of self-awareness is stunning but perhaps not surprising for Pennslyvania.

  • wjrii@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    It sounds like this is a bit of a fuck-you from the MAGA crowd to the people who rightly got pissed off and got a “no politics” guideline in place after the district hosted a literal Trump rally in 2016.