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I'm torn between thinking that if this is a hoax, the hoaxer should be banned with extreme prejudice, and hoping that there will be another hoax designed to appeal to right-wingers.
The sign of a good Usenet troll post is that it is a mirror held up to as many groups as possible.
I'm surprised you think the appeal of the OP is confined to left-wingers. The bad guys are all government beaurocrats, the current boogey men of the right and a group championed by the left.
You've got a point. The OP would appeal to both-- I was probably biased by the left-wing appeal being at the end of the post.
I come down strongly on the "hoax" side because I spend a lot of time "reviewing" the emails that my father and other relatives exchange. These are of the sort Obama born in Kenya, Obama dissed dead soldiers and their families, Obama pushing Sharia law, Obama hates Flag pins.
As far as I'm concerned, I have seen 100s of the hoaxes designed to appeal to right wingers. You can see them too: go to snopes.com, search on Obama and False ,stop reading when you get bored.
As to banning, if we really are supposed to be learning rationality here, how does it help to erase all evidence that in large numbers we got tricked? And it didn't even take Omega to do it to us, it was just another Beta like ourselves? If this does turn out to be a hoax designed to appeal to us, it should be taught as something we need to watch out for.
I initially considered this post pretty credible, but then this thread happened; and I subsequently realized that it was kind of interesting that the post's description of the education system seemed to systematically have something in it to offend pretty much everyone's political views. That struck me as ... odd.
I find myself not having much of an opinion on whether it is true or not; but then, I don't expect to take any particular action based on whether it is true, so I feel pretty safe not caring.
Seconded.
That's interesting.
If this were a hoax, it would certainly appeal to right-wingers. In general, the way the school board is debating this issue, the democrats are in favor of teacher recommendations and "helping the poor black kids", whereas the republicans (although, on the school board, they're all teapartiers) are the ones running with the "Data Driven Decisions D^3" slogan.
What specifically is the school board debating? Allow the Principal to keep some minority students in honors classes?
That would be the first 7 paragraphs.