David Colin, a Tennessee substitute teacher posted an
unusually thoughtful, educational judgment on his Facebook page this past
November 9th, the day after the presidential election. He reasoned:
“The only good Trump supporter is a dead Trump supporter.” He admitted to a
local television station (WTVF-Nashville) that he made the post, and that he
followed it up a month later with this bon mot: “Shooting them sounds more
appealing than getting along with them…”
And I
was just going to ask the old liberal bromide of a question: “Can’t we all just
get along?” Guess not.
Wishing
that tens of millions of your countrymen were dead because they hold differing
political views doesn’t seem particularly tolerant or inclusive to me, but
maybe I’m just not an expert on tolerance and inclusiveness. In any case, David
tried, on camera, to place his statements in perspective: “That morning after
there was…millions of volatile comments made by millions of people.” This
heat-of-the-moment ‘excuse’ is obviously a pathetic ruse given his post a month later.
He then
attempted a different approach, telling WTVF: “I don’t want this to be about
the posting. It’s more about what comes after, using people’s freedom of speech
and trying to use that to browbeat one side against the other.”
Remarkable.
I’m
sure he doesn’t want it “to be about the posting” at this point. No, he’s just
championing free speech! Progressives, politically-correct warriors that they
are, deny free speech to anyone who doesn’t agree with them, yet, when they make outrageous statements with
implied threats of physical violence or death, they are immediately taken aback
if anyone questions their motive for making them.
Can you
imagine if a teacher had publicly made those posts about President Obama and his supporters? That news would’ve led
every network newscast for a week straight, and the New York Times and the
Washington Post would have had separate sections on the endemic racism,
violence and gun culture in the nation, with special reports on the
‘anti-government extremist whackos’ lurking around every corner.
When
asked if he would make the same post again, Colin replied, “I’d probably phrase
it a little bit different, but I would still speak out.” Probably?
According
to the station, Colin was still employed by the company that contracted him to
substitute teach at the Rutherford County Schools, though he won’t be placed in
schools again until a pending investigation is completed.
Had he
made those remarks about Obama, he would have been summarily dismissed from his
job, made to undergo extensive sensitivity training, and quite possibly been
thrown into Gitmo.
Another
local television station, WZTV (also in Nashville), reported that the
substandard substitute is also accused of posting what amounts to a
call-to-arms on Facebook on January 16th. Here is an excerpt from
that diatribe: “So, where do we go from here? Rallies and demonstrations are
pretty much futile, since the lunatics just laugh at us knowing we haven’t the
guts to stand up and take the actions needed. Writing and complaining falls on
deaf ears. Not until the first shot is fired will the recovery begin.” He
thinks those he’s threatening are lunatics?!
Those
zany educators! There are reports from around the country of teachers at all
levels- in their classrooms in front of students- engaging in hysterical
fulminations against the president, comparing him to historical villains,
staging faux assassinations and/or holding impromptu workshops for students and
faculty to come to terms with their grief. It’s good to know our kids are in
such sane, capable, steady hands.
Memo to
Mr. Colin: I don’t know if you have any knowledge of the Revolutionary War,
but, if “where you go from here” is
firing the first shot, you and yours will not be on the side of the Patriots.
Your
coats will be red.
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