Friday, October 24, 2003
Thoughtcrime!
If I have this right, this girl was expelled for having a daydream about a student having a daydream about killing a teacher, and then being killed by a security guard.
Or rather, this girl was expelled for writing down a daydream about a student daydreaming about killing a teacher, and then being killed by a security guard.
Get the difference?
Think whatever you like, but don't dare express your politically incorrect thoughts - even in a private diary - for fear of what agents of the state will do to you.
Its one step from there to actively suppressing thoughts the state might decide aren't proper.
Here in Georgia we have the Hope Scholarship. It's a grant program funded by a tax on stupidity - the lottery - and it grants all sorts of money to kids who want to go to college and have a B average.
Well and good. However, about half the kids who go to college on the Hope Scholarship flunk out in the first year.
In other words, they're not learning, but they are getting their B averages.
Well, they are learning some things, I guess: self-esteem, the proper use of condoms, fellatio.
Oh, and to keep their thoughts to themselves.
Update: As of this evening (10/24/2003), the school system is allowing her back, pending a review. Still, I'm pretty sure this near-expulsion has had a chilling effect on this girls intellectual development.
If I have this right, this girl was expelled for having a daydream about a student having a daydream about killing a teacher, and then being killed by a security guard.
Or rather, this girl was expelled for writing down a daydream about a student daydreaming about killing a teacher, and then being killed by a security guard.
Get the difference?
Think whatever you like, but don't dare express your politically incorrect thoughts - even in a private diary - for fear of what agents of the state will do to you.
Its one step from there to actively suppressing thoughts the state might decide aren't proper.
Here in Georgia we have the Hope Scholarship. It's a grant program funded by a tax on stupidity - the lottery - and it grants all sorts of money to kids who want to go to college and have a B average.
Well and good. However, about half the kids who go to college on the Hope Scholarship flunk out in the first year.
In other words, they're not learning, but they are getting their B averages.
Well, they are learning some things, I guess: self-esteem, the proper use of condoms, fellatio.
Oh, and to keep their thoughts to themselves.
Update: As of this evening (10/24/2003), the school system is allowing her back, pending a review. Still, I'm pretty sure this near-expulsion has had a chilling effect on this girls intellectual development.
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