I won’t fault anyone for not wanting to turn their kid over to police over property damage
When the same guy is pulling kids out of school for their haircuts, I will absolutely fault him. This guy has no concern for anyone outside of his immediate social circle. He’s immiserating children under the pretext of conformity, while keeping his drunk-driving son on the road to potentially kill another family with his reckless behavior.
Its easy to when you already have a reason to dislike them.
The contradiction between behaviors - one that’s strictly authoritarian for “conformity” sake and the other that’s hostile to basic traffic laws - illustrates a guy who has no business operating in an administrative capacity.
Bingo. If he kicked a kid out for locs and turned his son over to the authorities with a rousing “laws were broken, and I’m not asking for mercy” speech during sentencing, then he’s just an authoritarian-loving jerk and you can respect that even if you won’t grab a drink with him.
But this guy just likes to exert his white authority over black people. Not his innocent lilly-white drunk-driving son.
he’s just an authoritarian-loving jerk and you can respect that
I mean, I wouldn’t respect that either. If anything, I’d respect a guy who shielded his students from draconian municipal/state punishments for a fucking haircut and shielded his son from draconian municipal/state punishments for driving. But you don’t get to be superintendent by going “Soft On (Hair) Crime”.
But this guy just likes to exert his white authority over black people.
Or his rich authority over poor people. Although, in Houston, the de facto racial caste system makes it interchangeable.
I guess I’m trying to just differentiate two different worlds of behavior . Maybe it’s not as big a deal as I make it, but I have a real problem with inconsistency and hypocrisy.
I have a real problem with inconsistency and hypocrisy.
I think the term “hypocrite” gets overused, mostly because the standard being followed isn’t always what the label implies.
If you’re a white supremacist or a simple elitist, then there’s no hypocrisy in doing favors for your white son and fucking over your black student. I don’t think that this lack-of-hypocrisy makes the behavior any more laudable, though.
The dude picked his kid up after a crash and had him sent to a hospital, right? As long as we are taking the events of the article as factual. I’m sure if the police were concerned about a DUI, they could get that info.
The superintendent said he alerted law enforcement about the one-vehicle crash and damage to the pole. Then he drove his son to their home near Cotton Lake and let the teen’s mother take him to be checked at a hospital.
Its wild, kids already found guilty of drinking and driving somehow and people are calling for/upvoting for castration of the father 15 years later. Probably a decent percentage of the people will also believe our judicial system is fucked, and posted DefundThePolice stuff a bunch a few years ago.
But I won’t fault anyone for not wanting to turn their kid over to police over property damage and the fear of the child’s life being ruined
Its easy to when you already have a reason to dislike them.
When the same guy is pulling kids out of school for their haircuts, I will absolutely fault him. This guy has no concern for anyone outside of his immediate social circle. He’s immiserating children under the pretext of conformity, while keeping his drunk-driving son on the road to potentially kill another family with his reckless behavior.
The contradiction between behaviors - one that’s strictly authoritarian for “conformity” sake and the other that’s hostile to basic traffic laws - illustrates a guy who has no business operating in an administrative capacity.
Bingo. If he kicked a kid out for locs and turned his son over to the authorities with a rousing “laws were broken, and I’m not asking for mercy” speech during sentencing, then he’s just an authoritarian-loving jerk and you can respect that even if you won’t grab a drink with him.
But this guy just likes to exert his white authority over black people. Not his innocent lilly-white drunk-driving son.
I mean, I wouldn’t respect that either. If anything, I’d respect a guy who shielded his students from draconian municipal/state punishments for a fucking haircut and shielded his son from draconian municipal/state punishments for driving. But you don’t get to be superintendent by going “Soft On (Hair) Crime”.
Or his rich authority over poor people. Although, in Houston, the de facto racial caste system makes it interchangeable.
I guess I’m trying to just differentiate two different worlds of behavior . Maybe it’s not as big a deal as I make it, but I have a real problem with inconsistency and hypocrisy.
I think the term “hypocrite” gets overused, mostly because the standard being followed isn’t always what the label implies.
If you’re a white supremacist or a simple elitist, then there’s no hypocrisy in doing favors for your white son and fucking over your black student. I don’t think that this lack-of-hypocrisy makes the behavior any more laudable, though.
The dude picked his kid up after a crash and had him sent to a hospital, right? As long as we are taking the events of the article as factual. I’m sure if the police were concerned about a DUI, they could get that info.
Its wild, kids already found guilty of drinking and driving somehow and people are calling for/upvoting for castration of the father 15 years later. Probably a decent percentage of the people will also believe our judicial system is fucked, and posted DefundThePolice stuff a bunch a few years ago.
I found the dumbass, it was mob.