‘You wanted this, liberals … you got it. Good and hard.’
Karen Vieth
About the fallout at troubled Sherman Middle School, the irony is that whistle blower Karen Vieth is a Madison teachers union rep. A liberal in good standing in the Peoples Republic. Member of the Madison Teachers Inc. team that picks which Democrats to endorse for elective office.
But she is reaping the bitter fruit of liberal policies. Criticize the teaching environment in a school for 12 to 14-year-olds where the “positive behavior support coach” is hospitalized breaking up student fights? Blame the principal for disappearing into her office even after three years of coaching? The school district hierarchy race-shames you.
The greater irony is that it was President Barack Obama’s administration that forced districts to set what amounts to racial quotas in school discipline. Thankfully, a Wisconsin-based conservative action group is moving to restore order in the classroom so that children of all colors can succeed.
‘You blame the principal; I blame your politics’
Ms. Vieth’s seismic cri du coeur, “Closing the Door on the Madison Metropolitan School District,” had attracted 96 comments as of 9:30 this morning (06-16-18), with few repeaters and only two dissenters. Most are deeply sympathetic but some are pointing fingers at Madison’s guilty-liberal culture. A commenter named “The Barber” posts:
As a Union teacher rep I imagine that you likely voted for the liberal policies you have now had the opportunity to experience. … Your silly notions about punishment and corrective action are part and parcel of why the school has turned into a free-for-all. You blame the principal for all of this insanity. I blame your politics and those of your colleagues. You wanted this, you got it. Good and hard.
Another named “Mike” piles on:
I have sympathy for the children but none for the teachers involved in this. You have voted and lobbied for a consequence-free environment for decades and now you have it. You have voted and lobbied for race to be the deciding factor in employment and now you have it.
‘The race card will be played’
Presumably signing his real name, Ed Olson demands:
People … need to ask themselves why this type of stupidity can possibly happen. Who can put someone like this in charge and continue to ignore incompetence? You can go up the ladder in administration and eventually land at [Superintendent Jennifer] Cheatham. Who hired and appointed Cheatham? Who continues to enable this?
The answer of course is the school board. The board is completely populated by “progressives” endorsed (ironically) by the teacher’s union. … If anyone runs for the school board with a message of accountability and discipline, they will immediately run into the same problem as Ms. Vieth. The race card will be played.
Ed, Mike, and The Barber are correct. The school district’s race-based Behavior Education Plan is the bitter fruit of the Obama administration’s “Dear Colleague” directive giving school administrators “guidance” on how to comply with federal law in maintaining school discipline.
Tell the Madison school board that discipline is Life’s Lesson #1.
Obama forced racial quotas in school discipline
National Review magazine elucidates:
Threatening lawsuits if the administrators didn’t comply with the “guidance,” the January 2014 letter coerced many school systems into adopting illegal racial quotas in their disciplinary decision-making.
The Obama letter utilized the “disparate impact” approach to civil-rights enforcement, whereby a policy that does not discriminate on its face, in its intent, or in its application is nonetheless deemed illegal if it has “disproportionate” statistical effects among different racial and ethnic groups.
… There is overwhelming evidence that Obama-era policies culminating in this “Dear Colleague” letter pushed schools to avoid disciplining students who needed to be disciplined. It made avoiding politically incorrect numbers more important than maintaining school safety.
MMSD is trying to make the numbers work by reducing school suspensions of students of color. Improving behavior and … you know, actually teaching, is secondary. Even so, the racial disparity continues virtually unchanged. African-Americans are 19% of enrollment but continue to be 62% of all suspensions. More here.
Who suffers? The kids
National Review continues:
The victims of this unfair and unlawful policy are most likely to be well-behaving, minority students — and their teachers — whose classrooms become disrupted and dangerous. And it doesn’t do misbehaving students any favors either, since a lack of early corrective action may only encourage even more disruptive and potentially dangerous behavior. This is what some refer to as the school-to-prison pipeline.
Fortuitously, the Wisconsin Institute for Law & Liberty (WILL), this week urged the secretary of education to toss the Obama administration’s “Dear Colleague” letter into the circular file. We close with one more comment from Karen Vieth’s blog:
Todd Kasper says: “All in favor of voting for Karen for school board say yes.”
Blaska’s Bottom Line: Notice something, Dave Zweifel? Act 10 is not the issue here. Meanwhile, the school board’s Cops Out of Our Schools committee meets next Wednesday, June 20, at 4 p.m. in the MMSD admin bldg at 545 W. Dayton Street. Priorities, people!
Education
Blaska Policy Werkes 
The incredible pretzel twist of flawed non logic, mixed with racism, ignorance and desperation to tap into the right wing echo chamber money is incredible to watch….
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Accusing Karen Vieth of racism, Jeff Simpson?
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Dave, beyond the Fiefdom of Dane, read how SJW’s conquered the Edina schools by focusing through the racial lens. SHOCKING –> https://www.americanexperiment.org/reports-books/educational-excellence-threatened-ideology-edina-schools/
or
Click to access F17-Kersten-Edina-Schools-10-p..pdf
Adults need to audit politics in the classroom!
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Nope….not at all. I know Karen, great teacher. I am strictly accusing you of racism Dave
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Then you’ve lost the debate.
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jeffsimpson7 wrote, “Nope….not at all. I know Karen, great teacher. I am strictly accusing you of racism Dave”
I think those words are literally libelous.
You should publicly apologize right now and withdrawl that false statement or suffer the consequences of making false public statements meant to damage a person’s reputation; a written defamation.
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Yo jeff,
We await your counter-case. Thus far you’ve only presented a tautological comment that in no way is compelling. Are you up to it?
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My counter case will come this week on my blog…. this weekend was too busy to write anything up.
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Or intelligent, apparently.
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The struggle against racism is sooooooooooooooooooo time-consuming. My heartfelt sympathies to you and all your fellow social justice warriors, Jeff.
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To borrow the AG’s habit of quoting Biblical scripture to justify public policy, “That which a man [or school board] sows, that shall he reap.”
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Lefties eatin’ their own? Dig it!
Reminds me of the cautionary tale of one Dr. Judith Grossman, who helped craft a world that deemed Y-Chromosomal Units as lower forms of life.
Quoth she: “I am a feminist. I have marched at the barricades, subscribed to Ms. magazine, and knocked on many a door in support of progressive candidates committed to women’s rights. Until a month ago, I would have expressed unqualified support for Title IX and for the Violence Against Women Act.”
The talented Dr. Grossman, her life’s work consumed with making this a better world for at least half of us (as an EVIL male, I’m part of the “other half”), received an epiphany that would be politely described as “poetic justice.”
Her own little bundle of joy was ensnared by the world she helped to create.
“But that was before my son, a senior at a small liberal-arts college in New England, was charged—by an ex-girlfriend—with alleged acts of ‘nonconsensual sex’ that supposedly occurred during the course of their relationship A FEW YEARS EARLIER. (bolds mine).
“What followed was a nightmare—a fall through Alice’s looking-glass into a world that I could not possibly have believed existed, least of all behind the ivy-covered walls thought to protect an ostensible dedication to enlightenment and intellectual betterment.”
She was positively aghast that Sonny would NOT be afforded the presumption of innocence.
The humanity!
http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424127887324600704578405280211043510?mg=reno64-wsj&url=http%3A%2F%2Fonline.wsj.com%2Farticle%2FSB10001424127887324600704578405280211043510.html
I’m reminded of what Major G. F. Devin (Peter Jason) presciently tells Gunny Highway (Clint Eastwood) in “Heartbreak Ridge.”
“Be careful what you wish for, you might just get it.”
The Gotch
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i forgot to add bipolar schizophrenic
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@jeffsimpson7;
Sooooo, an Effete Entitled Endomorph (heh) weighs in to play the heavy.
S’matter, yer ox get gored?
The Gotch
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Erratum:
“i forgot to add bipolar schizophrenic”
You also forgot to add capitalization and punctuation. The City of Pride, and It Shows must be positively glowing because those who tend its educational (and I use that reference advisedly) policy are so freakin’ brilliant.
Per Common Core predicates, all youse have to do tell us how you ended up being stupid and youse get a participation”A.”
And doesn’t ridiculing people for, you know, like, anything** (in this case a schizoaffective disorder) violate the Lefty Tolerance Manifesto?
**anything except being White and part of the EVIL Partriarchy, that is.
The Gotch
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jeffsimpson7 wrote, “i forgot to add bipolar schizophrenic”
That statement shows ignorance. You literally don’t know what the hell you’re talking about, you’re just slinging libelous insults.
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jeffsimpson7 wrote, “i forgot to add bipolar schizophrenic”
You might want to get your Histrionic Malevolence Syndrome checked by a professional.
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Her son was a student at a liberal arts college in New England. Does anyone there still have consensual sex, or is that now regarded as just another symptom of patriarchal oppression?
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Just a heads up all. If I’m not mistaken Jeff Simpson is a member of the Monona Grove School Board. The Cap Times interviewed him after the hub bub to remove the book To Kill A Mockingbird from the schools curriculum. Blaming the actions of a school board will not sit well with him.
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HA! Perfect! Odd that he neglected to mention that little tidbit.
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Yes I am on the MGSB which is about all you got right in that paragraph. I was not interviewed I wrote the op-ed and I have no problem blaming the actions of school boards….Unlike you here i blame where the blame belongs.
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Hang in there Jeff. The only time you hear anything from these guys is when Blaska chums the water. Give them an ax to grind, mention liberals, Obama and the blood-lust begins. Half of them couldn’t find the Sherman Middle School without google maps.
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You want blood lust? Mention Trump (or Walker) in front of a pack of liberals and watch the feeding frenzy begin. No chum needed–the reaction is spontaneous.
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Blood lust?
Walk around with a MAGA hat and prepare to have your skull cracked, or harassed/ridiculed, and legally refused service in some establishments.
Dontchyajustlove Lefty tolerance and their goon squad Antifa.
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Right wing snowflake victims. funny
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Wrong. Born and raised on Madison’s Eastside. Or daughter went to the same Highschool both her parents did. She graduated in 2007. Well known fact even back then unless your grades qualified you to take the TAG classes your days in school were pretty much wasted. The teachers spent a good share of class time reprimanding the same students who day after day disrupted the class and disrespected the teacher. Lucky for us our daughter qualified for those classes. From friends whose grandchildren attend those very same schools it has gotten much worse. We as parents brought this up to the school board back then and as far as I know it has been an issue every year since then. Perhaps try asking some students who attend our Madison Middle or High Schools what they think. Then ask yourself why nothing has been done to make it better for those students who want to learn. This issue has nothing to do with Dave chumming the waters. Those waters were chummed by us parents going back to the mid 80’s. They ignored us back then and it continues this day. What a shame.
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Good lord Jeff Simpson. My whole point was to point out you were a member of a school board. To verify this I mentioned you were interviewed by the Cap Times. Interview or an op-ed what difference does it make? Again the whole point was the piece mentioned you were a member of a school board. Which I felt was important since the discussion was about the actions or lack of by a school board. Your response has the same tone as does our favorite history teacher/Madison Alder Matt Phair when someone disagrees with him or questions him. Turning it back on me…”which is about all you got right”. Not sure what the purpose of that snarcky comment was. But like Matt I’m sure it makes you feel like you got one up on me. Not even close. Sucks to be you. Oops there goes that blame thing again.
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Because you had a tone of one-upping me…ive never shied away from who i am or that I am on the MGSB. Dave knows that he likes to point it out often.
As for your other post…the “students who want to learn”….who exactly is that? are you saying some kids do not want to learn?
Yes there is so much ignorance in dave’s post that he is doing all he can do …that is to chum the waters….
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So Blaska is “chumming the waters.” How about Karen Vieth and all the parents and teachers who have posted their agreement with her? Are they “chumming the waters,” too? And if there is ignorance in my post, how about enlightening us?
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@Humble Squire;
“Are they ‘chumming the waters,’ too?”
Absolutely! But it all started with that uppity Vieth. She (does being being a teacher trump being an EVIL White X-Chromosomal Unit?) invoked raaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaacism with nary a mere mention that the Sherman Middle School principal was Black.
THAT was a career Lefty after-market add-on. But you’s will never hear from them; they’re otherwise occupied, pearls perilously clutched as they swoon, with predictably smothering horror, onto their fainting couches.
It’s what the talented John Leo called Stealth Racism, a raaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaacism so steadfastly insidious that (and this is where it gets good) It_Doesn’t_Even_Exist.
Welp, doesn’t exist anywhere but the vivid imagination of @jeffsimpson7, et al.
Why? Because it needs to be manufactured from whole cloth by White Guilt Suffocated career Lefties. You know, like @jeffsimpson7 who, to borrow a phrase, employed an incredible pretzel twist of flawed non logic and a number of other necessary Lefty ingredients to try (highfreakin’lariously, I might add) and make commenting Righties feel guilty.
Trouble is, it didn’t work with me. It’s quite possible it didn’t work with any number of the other unenlightened knuckle-draggers that frequent this site; this thread in particular
I’m left to ponder: should I feel guilty about not feeling guilty?
The Gotch
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Jeff Simpson,
All your Histrionic Malevolence Syndrome is showing us is just how much of an intellectual coward you are.
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A particularly insightful post. I had no idea Obama’s fingerprints were on this mess, though it makes perfect sense. Who better to tell you how to run your schools than the federal government? And of course Madison liberals were (and I stress the past tense) never happier than when they were obeying to the letter any dictate that came down from the lofty heights of the Obama regime. Yet another example of the simplistic moral calculus that animates liberals. Too many students of color being punished for bad behavior? Impose quotas. Demand that teachers give free passes to minorities. Cook the numbers so they agree with the outcome you desire. Problem solved. I was especially taken with that image of the Sherman School principal literally closing the door (of her office) to shut out the chaos in the hallways of the institution she ostensibly leads. The perfect metaphor for Madison schools in particular and the city in general. Problems? What problems? We can’t have problems here–the liberals are in charge.
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Simpson, I expect an answer. Second call. You wrote:
“Yes there is so much ignorance in Dave’s post that he is doing all he can do …that is to chum the waters….” You also wrote: “The incredible pretzel twist of flawed non logic, mixed with racism, ignorance and desperation to tap into the right wing echo chamber money is incredible to watch….”
Are you calling me a racist? Are you calling Karen Vieth a racist? Are you calling the parents, teachers, and former teachers who responded to her post “racist”? What, exactly, has either of us said that you consider ignorant? Or are you throwing down the race card and running from the table because you have nothing to back it up? A modern version of Joe McCarthyism.
Answer me, Jeff Simpson.
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Jeff my daughter was one of those students who wanted to learn. Those students who disrupt and disrespect on a daily basis did not and do not want to learn. I’m guessing you’re thinking I’m referring those that don’t want to learn are students of color. The student disruptors come in all ages, shapes and colors. Perhaps you should pay a visit to LaFollette High School and take a stroll down those hallways while class is supposed to be in session and get back to us and let us know what you think. The only ignorance comes from you for turning a blind eye to what’s really going on in our schools. Please stop pulling up that race card to those that disagree with you. It’s getting over used and makes you look foolish. If it makes you feel better so be it. I feel sorry for you. No winder the schools are such a mess.
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https://www.cogdis.me/2018/07/the-myth-of-school-chaos.html
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Jeff,
You still haven’t provided any explanation as to why you called Blaska or his blog racist or retracted your accusation, is that because you’re too much of a coward to publicly admit when you’re wrong?
By the way Jeff, the blog post you linked to is a great example of a Democrat/Progressive/Socialist, whatever the heck you people call yourselves today, showing off their Rhetorical ABC’s skills. Good luck trying to convince anyone of anything using your kind of “logic”.
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The mindset of the self-righteous makes it especially difficult to apologize and/or admit wrongdoing. By doing so their entire psychological construct may come crashing down.
Too risky for the cowardly.
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actually I did respond in my blog….that was the whole point of it. I get it anonymous readers of this drivel who like to be told how to think do not get a blog with actual facts but you should read it again ….maybe an actual original thought or an actual fact will pop into your head.
https://www.cogdis.me/2018/07/the-myth-of-school-chaos.html
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jeffsimpson7 wrote, “actually I did respond in my blog….that was the whole point of it.”
Hogwash!
No Jeff, you haven’t explained specifically why you called Dave or his blog racist yet and you certainly haven’t retracted your accusation.
Try again.
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i did explain in my blog, obviously you have not read it. This whole blog is one big dog whistle…..i have no need to retract, I stand firmly by my claim.
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jeffsimpson7 wrote, “i did explain in my blog, obviously you have not read it. “
So prove me to be a blithering idiot and quote yourself where you explained specifically why you called Dave or his blog racist. Do it now.
jeffsimpson7 wrote, “This whole blog is one big dog whistle….”
And your blog is constantly race baiting with ZERO proof!
jeffsimpson7 wrote, “i have no need to retract, I stand firmly by my claim.”
Only a morally bankrupt individual would make such a claim without first proving their claim which you have not done. You should be sued for defamation.
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Jeff Simpson is what is known as a demagogue.
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A racist demagogue.
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A modern-day Joe McCarthy. Unable to prove his defamations. Content with making wild, unsupported charges, then doubling down when called on it. No wonder even some Lefties keep their distance from this guy.
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I wrote, “No Jeff, you haven’t explained specifically why you called Dave or his blog racist yet and you certainly haven’t retracted your accusation.”
jeffsimpson7 replied, “i did explain in my blog”
Jeff,
I have gone through your blog completely at least three times now and I’ve found absolutely nothing that can even remotely be a specific explanation as to why you called Dave or his blog racist, it’s simply not there. That leads me to four possible explanations:
1) You’re an idiot.
2) You’re a liar.
3) You’re both and idiot and a liar.
4) You’ve hidden the explanation somewhere in there with unreadable echo chamber dog whistle codes that require a top secret ideologically obsessed anti-Conservative hate-filled code breaker.
I’ll let you choose which one describes your so-called explanation best.
People like you should be sued for defamation.
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You can lead a righty to facts but you can not make them think.
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Jeff wrote, You can lead a righty to facts but you can not make them think.
As was implied by someone over on your blog, you wouldn’t know a fact if it bit you in the ass.
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Jeff,
I directly challenged you…
“So prove me to be a blithering idiot and quote yourself where you explained specifically why you called Dave or his blog racist.”
It’s my opinion that you’re an intellectual coward to ignore this. The sad thing is I know you why you ignored it, you cannot prove what I asked using the quotes I asked you to use because the quotes don’t exist, you’ve lied multiple times. It’s my opinion that you are the worst kind of coward that exists in politics, a pompous ass cowardly liar who is also an idiot.
Have a nice day.
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Something struck me last night about Jeff Simpson’s blog, the title.
He titled his blog space “Cognitive Dissonance”, I asked my self why did Jeff title his blog that way.
“Cognitive Dissonance, the mental conflict that occurs when beliefs or assumptions are contradicted by new information. The unease or tension that the conflict arouses in people is relieved by one of several defensive maneuvers: they reject, explain away, or avoid the new information; persuade themselves that no conflict really exists; reconcile the differences; or resort to any other defensive means of preserving stability or order in their conceptions of the world and of themselves.”
SOURCE: https://www.britannica.com/science/cognitive-dissonance
After reading that definition of Cognitive Dissonance I can fully understand why the author chose that particular title; his writing clearly shows us that he’s often confronted with such conflicts due to his terribly biased opinions, his constant baseless accusations, his complete lack of logic, and his obvious disconnect with reality.
The subtitle of his blog “a blog of the people, for the people, by the people” is laughable nonsense. It’s really obvious that his blog is there for one purpose and one purpose only, it’s to fully employ the Progressive Rhetorical ABC’s against Conservatives and to feed his own narcissistic tendencies.
I think I could safely bet the family farm that Jeff Simpson publicly and privately smears President Trump for his unprofessional and sometimes hateful rhetoric but rationalizes his own completely unprofessional and constant hateful rhetoric. So much ignorance and hypocrisy coming from the political left, so little time.
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Another epic smackdown by Zoltar.
Jeff Simpson has doubled down on his racial slur but still without explaining why or offering any evidence. Me thinks he is hiding something, unwilling to reveal publicly outside his Lefty dinner parties.
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Batman,
What’s really sad is that it’s so damned easy to tell when a “Progressive” hack doesn’t have anything intelligent to say outside of their Progressive Rhetorical ABC’s because as soon as they open their ignorant mouths nothing but spewings of chunky bunk with occasional unsubstantiated drooling of lies are presented as arguments; it’s actually all regressive totalitarian bull shit not progressive ideological thinking. Progressives can’t sell their own idiotic ideology to anyone who isn’t a blithering idiot (that’s why public schools and college campus are dumbing down their students) so the only thing left in their playbook is to try and demonize any thinking behind opinions that oppose them. It’s anti-Constitutional and morally bankrupt.
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P.S. When a Progressive rabid attack dog realizes that they came to a rhetorical debate completely unarmed intellectually they head for the hills with their tail between their legs hoping to live to fight another day.
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Jeff Simpson,
We here at the Blaska Manor do not take kindly to being called racists without supporting evidence.
Step back from the alter of Al Sharpton/Jesse Jackson and read/listen to the following ten black intellectuals.
Then ask your self why you have never heard of them.
Taleeb Starkes
Larry Elder
Chloe Valdary
Candace Owens
Walter E. Williams
Thomas Sowell
Derryck Green
Jason Riley
Carol Swain
Antonia Okafer
All have posted five minute videos on PragerU except Sowell.
Some are distinguished published writers/professors.
https://www.prageru.com/videos/top-5-issues-facing-black-americans
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Jeff Simpson writes the following comment on his linked blog:
“The problem is, and you can deny it, but the dog whistles are obvious, is that people like Blaska and Esenberg are pointing out that the problem is we are not using corporal punishment on the kids of color enough so they are running wild in the schools. Not true.
as the possibility of racism in our schools — Our schools and all of society are full of institutional racism. Yet no one wants to get down and dirty and fix that, we just want to make sure the kids who we arent reaching and cause some disruption in the classroom pay with a pound of flesh.”
First, show us where Blaska writes about a lack of corporal punishment.
Second, you state that no one wants to get down and dirty to fix societal institutional racism.
Really Jeff; I just gave you a list of ten super smart black people who are. Unfortunately, Leftys won’t listen to those who reject the victim mentality, insist on taking responsibility, and fearlessly highlight self-defeating trends within black culture.
Do you really think schools can fix the broken fatherless (70%nationally) dysfunctional black family? And what makes you think a lack of accountability for school time transgressions helps kids from those families. You repeatedly call for more money. All the money in the world will not magically reverse bad policy that is setting these kids up for failure.
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That statement from him is another good reason for Jeff Simpson to get sued, I’ve never seen Dave write such a thing nor have I heard Dave Blaska say such a thing. As far as I can tell it is a blatantly false accusation, like the racist accusation, that is specifically meant to harm the reputation of someone he disagrees with. As far as I can tell, Jeff Simpson is a bald-faced partisan liar and someone need to hold this partisan hack responsible for his libelous statements.
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Door #3 Zoltar
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