Keep jumpin’ that shark

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by David Safier

How can you ridicule the totally ridiculous?

Protest Planned Against NJ School's Obama Song

Conservative groups plan to rally Monday near a New Jersey school where students performed a song celebrating President Barack Obama.

The planned rally has school district officials planning to beef up security at the B. Bernice Young School in Burlington Township, which houses kindergartners through second-graders. 

Right. Tell the kids who were singing that song how wrong they were to sing it. Shame them. Create an atmosphere of fear around the school.

I don't have the figures, so I'll put this as a series of questions. How many schools are there in the U.S.? How many classrooms in those schools? How many innocuous, yet sometimes silly, things happen in those classrooms every day, especially in elementary schools? How many of those cause the students to feel a greater sense of pride, which may increase their desire to work hard in school and succeed?

Now remind me, what are we protesting about?

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2 thoughts on “Keep jumpin’ that shark”

  1. It doesn’t matter what the prostest is about. As the recent inane rightwing collective head explosion over the President being awarded the NObel Peace prize shows, it doesn’t matter what the issue is.

    The object is to “Create an atmosphere of fear”.

    Period.

    That’s all, They have no rational arguments, they’re not INTERESTED in rational arguments. By their reckoning Might makes Right, in the old-school feudal world meaning of the term.

    If I can beat you up I win.

  2. David, I want to correct you – this is not a protest – this is a hissy fit, a temper tantrum! Protest requires cognitive process – even protests I may not agree with – but they have a point. To tell children not to be proud of the President of our United States is just, as I said, a hissy fit.

    I’ll bet if you could get some of those folks to sit down over a nice cup of coffee or tea, calm down a bit and talk about what in thier lives is really bothering them – well, I’d be willing to bet it would be much different than it looks.

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