myrmepropagandist
@arclight @Okanogen @FeralRobots
It's not just reasonable it's what needs to be done after every disaster. How could this have been prevented? What will we do differently?
If those aren't on the table then the public is being asked to accept that "these things happen and nothing can be done" and the scrambling from some of the leadership says they care more about this not "sticking" to them than fixing anything.
To me it's very slick and inspires no trust. It's not leadership.
myrmepropagandist
@CatDragon @arclight @Okanogen @FeralRobots
It's insulting to tell people not to be angry. I go with my 5th grade students to a camp, and this has been giving me nightmares.
At least I won't get as much push back about my insistence that they keep their phones phones on them. next year I think. (taking phones is just lazy, I yell at them to put them away and they *learn* to be polite with technology)
Catherine is not complacent
@futurebird @arclight @Okanogen @FeralRobots it’s what they do every time.
“Oh this isn’t the time to talk about that, let’s pray and put up little cutout angels for the victims, it’s callous and hurtful to the families to bring that up now, no one could have seen this coming”.
Everything from natural disasters to school shootings, same old tired bullshit.
Rich Felker
@futurebird @CatDragon @arclight @Okanogen @FeralRobots In the world we live in, it's horrifying that teachers would even consider taking a child's phone away from them.
No matter how much of a distraction it may be.
It's less bad than the alternative of being trapped in what's developing into a hostage situation with no way to communicate information to the outside or stranded without medical care during a natural disaster or trapped under rubble.
Not to mention the much more mundane needs of documenting abuses by other kids or authorities.
Rich Felker
@futurebird @CatDragon @arclight @Okanogen @FeralRobots Even still, the "we didn't have..." mentality is bs.
Would they say "we didn't have seatbelts so kids don't need them"? Or "we didn't have polio vaccines so kids don't need them"??
myrmepropagandist
@dalias @CatDragon @arclight @Okanogen @FeralRobots
There is a mentality that "we didn't have phones so kids don't need them"
But those cabins probably didn't have party lines, or pay phones. The world isn't set up for people who don't have a phone on their person anymore so taking them away isn't like setting the clock back.
And frankly it's just safer when you can communicate if you need to.
Brian Campbell
@dalias @futurebird @CatDragon @arclight @Okanogen @FeralRobots I mean, there are a lot of people saying "we/our parents/our grandparents didn't have MMR/MMRV, so our kids shouldn't need them."
A lot of those people are in Texas. And their children are dying of measles.
Rich Felker
@unlambda @futurebird @CatDragon @arclight @Okanogen @FeralRobots Yes but I'm talking about people we expect to be reasonable.
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