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What does shaking your ass at a private party have to do with your academics? This is the dumbest situation, this poor girl.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/oct/07/louisiana-student-punished-by-school-for-dancing-at-private-party
she wasn’t even the one twerking
For fucks sake. I hope her family calls the ACLU.
Seems like the easiest way to get into a really good school would be to sue, whip up a media frenzy, and frame it through a feminist lens. Write an essay about overcoming adversity by standing up for what is right, no matter the cost.
BOOM easy admissions.
Yeah if the school tried to honor what the principal is doing that will be a PR nightmare for them. Honor the scholarship, admit her, do what’s right
I’d get the dance team members in on it for vaguely impugning their reputations, because when asked why nothing happened to them, the answer more or less had the implied subtext “that’s fine for them because we expect them to act like hoes, but you’re our hood ornament and should behave better.”
edit: in case anyone is unclear on my position regarding twerking
I agree. She’s literally getting punished for having fun with her friends at a dance party. And her friends should get the same restitution because they were also, having fun. God forbid this incredibly intelligent girl go on to be anything but an avenue for childbirth, or her friends don’t follow the same path
It sounds like a religious private school, so good luck.
Its Walker High School, a public school.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walker_High_School_(Walker,_Louisiana)
"They basically told me that I should be ashamed of myself," Timonet told a local news outlet. "That I wasn't basically following God's ideals, which made me cry even more."
The principal inserted their religion into their job at a public school.
Well that sounds like a damn easy win for a court case.
It's crazy. She lost benefits over something somebody else did. I can't make sense of it. The dogma and brining faith and religious righteousness into everything is out on hand and needs to stop
This is infuriating.
It has everything to do with it because god said so:
Guys, it’s the same rules as any underaged closet atheist. Study your ass off, become financially independent, then twerk in front of your god fearing scholarship committee
Religion is cancer
Christianity is cancer. My religion supports your right to twerk.
R'amen
I am interested in your religion
It's Satanism.
Satanism is only necessary because religion is cancer though. Just like cancer, we need to use another thing that kills to kill it. I'm 100% in agreement with Satanism's tenants, but it's because they're just humanist ideals wrapped in the garb of religion to use religion as a tool.
All religions are tools. Saying "religion is cancer" overlooks all of the good things that people get out of religion, such as a community with shared values that helps each other. If you can have a religion without superstition and dogma, where's the harm? It's not religion that's cancer. It's superstition and dogma.
Sure, but the term religion implies superstition and dogma. It's literally part of the definition. What is religion without that? Community and tax exempt status? The former is just called community (which also implies shared values) and the latter is mostly a scam.
I'm not saying good things can't come from religion, but they don't come because they are religious. Any good they do is done regardless (or often despite) the supernatural beliefs.
Definitions have to comport with reality, not the other way around. Satanism is not a social club. We have holidays, we have rituals, we have ministers who conduct wedding ceremonies. We even have church services.
I want to let you know I'm not the one downvoting you. I disagree, but I'm not downvoting.
Personally, I don't think The Satanic Temple should be considered a religion. I think the term has been watered down, particularly in the US, because our laws are stupid. As long as there is an incentive to be called a religion it should be, but there shouldn't be an incentive. Why should anyone's beliefs be valued more because they're tied to (usually at least) supernatural beliefs?
TST was created as religious satire. That's the reason for the holidays, riguals, and other services. They need to conform to the appearance of a religion to work as a religion for their own purposes. That isn't to say these are bad or wrong. They're just as valid as any other religion. It's just that the belief that it's founded on is humanism, not something supernatural.
TST agrees with you. In fact, this is almost word-for-word what it says in the FAQ under the question "If you don't believe in the supernatural, how is TST a religion?"
What convinced you of this?
No, I agree with that. It's religious satire. That's why I included the parenthesis.
I'm in.
I mean if you’re going to be that pedantic about a comment that doesn’t strike me as intending to be nuanced and specific, there are versions of Christianity that are fine with twerking too
People say "religion" when they mean "Christianity". This A) isn't fair to other religions and B) helps to enforce Christian hegemony.
People also say “Christianity” when they mean “evangelicalism.”
That, too.
Sounds like someone dodged a bullet! Bullet-dodge ass-dance!
Oh that really pisses me off. The poor girl!
@Coasting0942 @sara ooooooh. This is a religious scholarship? or a religious school? Alrighty then at least that makes sense.
It appears to be a public high school.
A public high school in Louisiana, so essentially a Christian school.
You ain’t from around FoxNews Parish, is ya?
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