Landon is woke?
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Anonymous
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According to one anonymous student, Landon is oppressively liberal: https://www.mcgop.com/a_conservative_at_woke_left_landon.
What are experiences of people on these boards? |
Anonymous
| Landon woke? You have got to be kidding!!đđ |
Anonymous
No personal experience with Landon other than having gone to its rival school in the mid-late 90's and knew a bunch of them but looking at their public IG I don't see much in the way of 'wokisms'. Be shocked if any of the lax bros and football players I knew from back then morphed into the modern woke crowd. Really shocked. https://www.instagram.com/landonschool/?hl=en |
Anonymous
Those students graduated. |
Anonymous
| OP, look at the source you are citing. You may as well have cited a Trump based domain, or a Koch brother domain. |
Anonymous
Well for one thing, this was not written by a high school student. Or Dad had did some heavy editing. |
Anonymous
This is an oxymoron |
Anonymous
| This kid sounds like an ahole. Being conservative and being an ahole are not the same thing and one is a perfectly valid reason to feel âshunned.â Hyperbole about âliberal tearsâ and faux outrage over being called âracistâ is not being conservative. |
Anonymous
| This is hilarious. I love it. |
Anonymous
Redundant, actually. |
Anonymous
Why? This is the case in many liberal universities. My DC who had stats strong enough to be considered for many ivies decided not to apply because he didn't want to be "politically correct" in everything he wrote, said. |
Anonymous
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Landon has gone around the bend to being so woke that even the moderates at the school are concerned. You have to remember that with teacher/coach/mentor philosophy there
is a lot of space for influence. That can be a great thing or toxic if it veers into too much into being too woke. |
Anonymous
Can you give me an example of âpolitical correctnessâ that is unacceptable to you? Itâs been my experience that when people complain about âpolitical correctnessâ itâs usually just about not wanting to extend someone respect or courtesy, even when you happily extend the same respect or courtesy to others. Not being able to argue or protest against abortion is oppression. Your friends being turned off by you doing so is not oppression. Being asked to use specific pronouns is not oppression. Not being allowed to make a good faith argument that non-binary genders are a social construct is oppression. Your friends being turned off by you doing so is not oppression. The op-ed OP linked only gives one example, which is a kid who left the water polo team rather than cover up his upper thigh MAGA tattoo. Itâs an interesting question and I think I come down on the side of the kid, that he should have been allowed to play with his tattoo. But if you want me to believe that would be the âconservativeâ position if a Texas football player had a âtrans rightsâ tattoo⌠Certainly taking the tattoo story and wrapping it in a bunch of whining and hysterics, as this kid did, suggests heâs not interested in arguing about principles and values at all. He just wants to make memes for the MAGAverse. But thatâs not a good way to make friends and influence people IRL. |
Anonymous
PP here. My DC is pro-life. He spent a lot of time on the campus of a very liberal university and felt he couldn't express his opinions. He is now at a Catholic university. He feels now he can express himself without being shunned and enjoys hearing all sides of a debate vs. being in an echo chamber. |
Anonymous
Sorry I just want to clarify that I donât disagree with the water polo players that a MAGA tattoo is offensive and an aggression. And I think itâs perfectly reasonable for those players to raise that with their coach and this kid. Iâm not saying he doesnât have to defend the tattoo or that the team wouldnât have to wrestle with how to be a team when one player has that tattoo. Just as I think the school probably shouldnât be in the business of removing kids from teams because of tattoos, I would certainly support the other players protesting. Itâs also possible that the coach just didnât want the headache and that the policy is that the coach picks the roster, in which case the schoolâs hands would be tied. Conservatives are all about âat willâ employment, right? Political opinion is not a protected class so I donât think he would have a legal leg to stand on but I still think they shouldnât have kicked him off the team. You donât want to be in the position of determining the offensiveness of tattoos. The other question would be what the school dress code says about visible tattoos and how they interpreted that to apply to uniforms. If they have a visible tattoo rule that they feel applied, that would be firmer ground. To be clear I would oppose the visible tattoo rule too. Iâm pretty liberal. |