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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]While Yorktown was locked down, the pro-forced child masking organization (formerly the pro-closed school organization) Smart Restart was Tweeting this out.  One of the leaders of the Arlington Education Association (teachers union) is high up in the organization too.

Disgusting

[twitter]https://twitter.com/smartrestartaps/status/1491865248558690306?s=20&t=yhZnJHa06Tw8ZUIhBFH9Yg[/twitter][/quote]

I mean.  They're not wrong.  Priorities are messed. up.[/quote]

Agreed - I cannot believe people care more about damn masks than they do about guns. Seriously? My kid doesn't give a shit about wearing a mask, but she called me on her way home from school (she attends Swanson) freaked out about this. You know how I consoled her? By telling her there wasn't an "active shooter" - do you understand how messed up that is? That phrase left my mouth and I had to consider it CONSOLATION?? JFC, I can't believe what we have come to.

And to add - thank you, teachers, for everything that you do. I hope you know that many of us out here appreciate you. [/quote]

I care about both. My young kid is really struggling with masks And very happy it looks like they will be coming off soon. I also have been very active in advocating for gun control and am heart broken about school. The cartoon is is offensive because it’s politicizing. It’s assuming you can’t possibly care about both issues because duh we all know good liberals are pro mask and anti gun. I agree with the poster that said the cartoon is disgusting. [/quote]

I find it very off putting too, and it an insight into how they view people who disagree with them. [/quote]

Apparently people are just intent on being offended.  The cartoon is merely putting things into perspective.  Parents are equating trauma from mask mandates for public health safety in a pandemic to the trauma of a lockdown situation due to a threat or active shooter in a school building.  The danger and the fear and trauma of wearing a mask in school doesn't even compare to the danger and fear and trauma of locking down and hiding from a potential shooter threat!  The kids in the cartoon understand the ridiculousness of that. The cartoon isn't politicizing anything - actual adults already politicized masks long ago, and gun control and safety has been political beyond the decades since school and mass shootings.  [/quote]

Stupid cartoons like this one shouldn’t be used by any group that wants to be taken seriously by intelligent people.[/quote]

I also believe that if APE had put out such a cartoon the response would be quite different.

And also so one of the most popular clubs at APS high schools is Rifle club.  It amazes me that the same people who scream about how anti-gun they are have no problem sending their child off to target practice each week. [/quote]

How interesting you assume they are the same people. You know what they say about assuming.[/quote]

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