Posted on July 3, 2008 at 2:01 pm by Christina Hentges
It’s reductio ad absurdum
I’ll ignore the rest of Leo Casey’s EdWize post this morning in favor of this one comment:
Are Checker and the boys in a competition to publish the ultimate reductio absurdum?
Leo: Meet Amber, Stafford, and Christina. Women. Who write for this blog (and have done so for several weeks now). If you’re going to call out the Fordham team, find a more gender-neutral way to do so. And you call yourself a liberal.
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July 4th, 2008 at 10:09 am
Christina, you seem to have a fine sense of justice and a keen eye for sleights. It was unfair of Leo Casey to imply that the Flypaper bloggers were - in blanket fashion - males.
But was it fair or unfair when Liam Julian implied - or even boldly asserted - in his NRO article, that “the staff members at Douglass aren’t cutting it.” Is that all staff members. All the front line classroom staff. Is that a blanket assertion like Leo’s.
If they can be compared - which is the opinion more likely to offend: Liams’ or Leo’s? Either being labelled incompetent or “just plain bad at their jobs” in an article in a leading conservative online publication, or a sexist (though surely not intended) assumption in an education blog. (Though kudos to Leo Casey for the overall point of his post re the whole teacher-martyr thing
). What’s your thoughts?