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In reply to the discussion: A 13-Year-Old's Slavery Analogy Raises Some Uncomfortable Truths in School [View all]HiPointDem
(20,729 posts)in context:
"I'm not really interested in what some kid in Rochester writes in an essay. I don't think kids' essay contests are national political news."
Your translation is not quite the same thing.
I live on the west coast. I don't know this girl and I don't know what happened in the school. The only thing I can be sure of is that this incident was publicized by two right-wing, fundie, Republican organizations that are working to destroy public education and public unions. And Glenn Beck, a fundie racist.
And that is the only reason you got to hear about Jada's essay.
I am interested in the *political* uses that are being made of this girl's essay. Which has no more significance than any other child's essay, yet was picked from the crowd by a *political* organization and publicized by other *political* organizations.
Not to mention that your first post to me accuses me of "diminishing" the girl -- in response to a post that doesn't mention her at all, but does mention that the Frederick Douglass Foundation is a fundie "free-market" Republican organization.
You also implied that I believed she didn't write her essay. You went to the personal on your first post.
My interest is in pushing back against right-wing attacks on public education.
Yours is something different.
I'll put you back on ignore now.