Frater Libertas links some fascinating comments by sportscasters joking that a prominent quarterback might not be able to read because he was homeschooled. Of course, if the same sportscasters had not been educated in the government schools, they might have been able to read the study that demonstrates that if you want to find illiterate adults, you look for the products of the government schools.
Please, let's have compassion on the poor illiterate, uneducated sportscasters. Maybe if they're lucky, they'll meet a homeschooled child who will be willing to teach them their phonics, grammar, and logic.
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What vile bigotry. And people will try to mitigate it by saying, "Well, yeah, it wasn't very nice, but I know this homeschooling family who...."
As if "What about Chris Brown?" would be a tolerable defense of a public remark about how black men can be presumed to beat the women in their lives.
Or even more to the point, as if "What about Chris Brown?" were a legitimate defense of a joke about Barack slapping Michelle around. Exact parallel: well known football player (POTUS) of demonstrable intelligence (good domestic character) mocked for being ill-educated (joked about being evilly violent) based on an inaccurate stereotype about homeschoolers miseducating their kids (black men beating women) that is rooted on the misbehavior of a demonstrably small percentage of the respective group.
Personally, I think the idea of sportscasters insulting anyone's inteligence is hilarious on the face of things.... :^)
Bring on the derision, this family is going to home-school!
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