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Anonymous wrote:Threads like this one make me believe that we're coming undone at the seams.

Growing up in New England, the word in questions was used as a pejorative through the 80s and 90s. I'm sure it was widely used elsewhere.

Did the board member make a good choice? No. Was the word used in poor taste? Yes. Did the board member acknowledge her mistake and apologize? Yes. Should she be thrown off the school board, campaigned against, or canceled because of this particular mistake? No.

This whole name calling business has gotten completely out of hand. Toughen your skin, people, and remember that we're all human.

It is rare and refreshing to find someone reasonable here. Totally agree.

Now substitute the n-word or the f-word for the r-word and see if you’d reach the same conclusion. PP’s was a typical ableist take.

I do. Uttering one word in one instance does not shed light on someone's core persona or belief systems. Unfortunately, as a society, we've developed very thin skin and overly hyped sensitivities, which oftentimes drive us to make wild assumptions and draw ridiculous conclusions about a fellow human being based on, at best, a paucity of data. This is not to the benefit of our society.

Really. Yeah, I’m sure if another board member muttered the N word on a hot mic, you’d be like “she didn’t meeeeean it. Give her another chaaaaance.” Sure, Jan.

I think we can acknowledge the R word is a slur (which many folks still aren’t even aware of, tbh) without attempting to draw an equivalence to the N word, which just makes you look foolish. And to a recent poster’s point, there are many other words used to colorfully and intensely describe “not smart” that have similar derivations as the R word that should be similarly considered slurs.

In many circles the R word is considered just as offensive as the N word. Please stop trying to impose your distinctions on everyone else. It’s demeaning and inappropriate and serves only to reinforce the harm done by KKG’s vile remarks over the years.

Please.

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Anonymous wrote:It’s not at all surprising that this woke mob is devouring their own here in Fairfax county. It’s painful to watch Democrats turn everyone into fragile snowflakes always looking to be offended and patting themselves on the back for their wokeness. Does anyone really think she has any malice or disrespect towards towards disabled people? Acceptable usage of what were once common words change over time. So she didn’t completely expunge all remnants of the word from her vocabulary and one slipped through the cracks. She made a mistake and apologized. Move on people! All you’re doing is driving moderates towards the anti democracy R’s!

No the “woke mob” is defending her because of the color of the skin.

People who are concerned about someone in education using slurs that affect kids are speaking up. And Republicans who couldn’t care less about the kids but are happy to attack a democrat.

Totally agree with you, except for your idiotic last sentence. Republicans do indeed care about the kids - much more so than many of you Democrats seem to, what with your insistence on exposing them to inappropriate sexual material and castigating/punishing them if they forget to call someone by the "correct" pronoun.

No, they don’t. Not in the slightest. They pretend to “care about the kids” to garner votes from dumb people who actually believe it. Kids to Republicans are nothing but pawns used to further their agenda.

Don’t talk about “dumb people” unless you’re prepared to acknowledge that people don’t come much dumber than Karen Keys Gamarra, who ought to be preparing her resignation letter now. Meanwhile kids will continue to lose with such clowns on the School Board.

Wait - she has not resigned yet??

omg

No she has not. Jussie Smollett all over.

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Anonymous wrote:The black member is given a pass. No one else would be. I hate the hypocrisy.

You are wrong there. This whole Board has done worse to kids and none of them have ever been held to account. And none of them ever take responsiBility. You think Karl Fitch or Melanie Maren would have resigned?

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I think the progressive advocacy groups wouldn’t have rushed to accept the weak apology and everyone would have expected some consequences. KG pays no price for repeatedly using a slur that hurts kids that she’s supposed to be in charge of.

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Anonymous wrote:I think the progressive advocacy groups wouldn’t have rushed to accept the weak apology and everyone would have expected some consequences. KG pays no price for repeatedly using a slur that hurts kids that she’s supposed to be in charge of.

I’m not defending KKG. But I’ve seen some pretty sorry behavior from several Board members over two years of listening to meetings and following them closely because of COVID. And I’ve never seen a consequence greater than a weak apology. In fact, they usually cover for each other. I was somewhat surprised a member of the board called KKG out. Even that wouldn’t have happened if Rachna wasn’t such a proponent of SN kids.

This board is amazingly petty, immature and inappropriate.

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Anonymous wrote:I think the progressive advocacy groups wouldn’t have rushed to accept the weak apology and everyone would have expected some consequences. KG pays no price for repeatedly using a slur that hurts kids that she’s supposed to be in charge of.

I’m not defending KKG. But I’ve seen some pretty sorry behavior from several Board members over two years of listening to meetings and following them closely because of COVID. And I’ve never seen a consequence greater than a weak apology. In fact, they usually cover for each other. I was somewhat surprised a member of the board called KKG out. Even that wouldn’t have happened if Rachna wasn’t such a proponent of SN kids.

This board is amazingly petty, immature and inappropriate.

You can disagree with their decisions but no one else has used a slur. And she did it during a board meeting! You can’t find anything else similar.

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Anonymous wrote:I think the progressive advocacy groups wouldn’t have rushed to accept the weak apology and everyone would have expected some consequences. KG pays no price for repeatedly using a slur that hurts kids that she’s supposed to be in charge of.

I’m not defending KKG. But I’ve seen some pretty sorry behavior from several Board members over two years of listening to meetings and following them closely because of COVID. And I’ve never seen a consequence greater than a weak apology. In fact, they usually cover for each other. I was somewhat surprised a member of the board called KKG out. Even that wouldn’t have happened if Rachna wasn’t such a proponent of SN kids.

This board is amazingly petty, immature and inappropriate.

You can disagree with their decisions but no one else has used a slur. And she did it during a board meeting! You can’t find anything else similar.

Okay. You win. KKG got away without resigning because she’s black, and not because people have incredibly low expectations of this Board and are just waiting their tenure out.

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Anonymous wrote:I think the progressive advocacy groups wouldn’t have rushed to accept the weak apology and everyone would have expected some consequences. KG pays no price for repeatedly using a slur that hurts kids that she’s supposed to be in charge of.

I’m not defending KKG. But I’ve seen some pretty sorry behavior from several Board members over two years of listening to meetings and following them closely because of COVID. And I’ve never seen a consequence greater than a weak apology. In fact, they usually cover for each other. I was somewhat surprised a member of the board called KKG out. Even that wouldn’t have happened if Rachna wasn’t such a proponent of SN kids.

This board is amazingly petty, immature and inappropriate.

You can disagree with their decisions but no one else has used a slur. And she did it during a board meeting! You can’t find anything else similar.

Okay. You win. KKG got away without resigning because she’s black, and not because people have incredibly low expectations of this Board and are just waiting their tenure out.

DP. Agree with you. It’s not like the rest of them aren’t also raging buffoons and hypocrites. If there were minimal standards of competence and integrity, most of them would already have been replaced by now.

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Wow, what a pathetic statement by KG tonight. She is giving the system homework to assist the caring culture. She is the one who didn’t exhibit caring culture! All “restorative justice” should have focused on what she is doing herself, not trying to spread the blame. As far as her statement about her commitment to students throughout her time on the board, she has been an awful member who is always virtual and is only focused on photo opportunities and creating unnecessary programs that she could attach her name to. Self promotion, not service to students has been her focus.

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Anonymous wrote:Wow, what a pathetic statement by KG tonight. She is giving the system homework to assist the caring culture. She is the one who didn’t exhibit caring culture! All “restorative justice” should have focused on what she is doing herself, not trying to spread the blame. As far as her statement about her commitment to students throughout her time on the board, she has been an awful member who is always virtual and is only focused on photo opportunities and creating unnecessary programs that she could attach her name to. Self promotion, not service to students has been her focus.

She’s never impressed me nor did the fact that she was caught using a slur in public surprise me. I had a private conversation with her once where she went off about how it was important to “teach [a particular school community] a lesson,” which would have been bad enough but was made even worse once it was clear she’d confused two different schools. But the Fairfax Democrats will always protect her no matter what she does.

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They won’t even censure her for using an ugly slur. Obvious who gets the Teflon treatment in FCPS and who doesn’t.

Throw all the bums out.

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Anonymous wrote:They won’t even censure her for using an ugly slur. Obvious who gets the Teflon treatment in FCPS and who doesn’t.

Throw all the bums out.

Honestly, it doesn’t seem like anyone on the SB gets the “Teflon treatment” right now. They are pretty much all disposed except maybe Meghan McLaughlin.

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Anonymous wrote:Wow, what a pathetic statement by KG tonight. She is giving the system homework to assist the caring culture. She is the one who didn’t exhibit caring culture! All “restorative justice” should have focused on what she is doing herself, not trying to spread the blame. As far as her statement about her commitment to students throughout her time on the board, she has been an awful member who is always virtual and is only focused on photo opportunities and creating unnecessary programs that she could attach her name to. Self promotion, not service to students has been her focus.

She’s never impressed me nor did the fact that she was caught using a slur in public surprise me. I had a private conversation with her once where she went off about how it was important to “teach [a particular school community] a lesson,” which would have been bad enough but was made even worse once it was clear she’d confused two different schools. But the Fairfax Democrats will always protect her no matter what she does.

+1 Also, NAACP

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Thought for sure I’d come back to this after 2 weeks and see that she’d resigned. Seriously?

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Anonymous wrote:Thought for sure I’d come back to this after 2 weeks and see that she’d resigned. Seriously?

It is appalling someone who uses slurs like this not once, not twice, but three times, has not resigned.

Simply disgusting!