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Teacher in Viral Video Who Defended J.K.
Rowling Has Been Fired. Here's His Reaction.

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Posted By: ladydawgfan, 5/17/2024 3:29:16 PM

It happened in February. It’s a video where a teacher, Warren Smith, is seen engaging in a conversation with a student who alleged that J.K. Rowling was transphobic. It quickly went viral. In less than five minutes, Smith, uncondescending, forces the student to rethink his position. The student admits he feels like an idiot after the pair discussed the phrasing and logical trajectory of the debate about the Harry Potter creator who has become persona non grata for her views on gender despite being an ardent leftist. [Video] Now, Mr. Smith has been fired from his teaching position, where he had devoted four years of his life.

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Fired for teaching students HOW to think instead of WHAT to think. What's wrong with this picture???!!!

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Reply 1 - Posted by: thekidsmom66 5/17/2024 3:52:07 PM (No. 1719789)
OP, isn't that sad?? That SHOULD BE the standard. I teach at a Classical Lutheran school, and that's exactly what our goal is - teach them HOW to think things through for themselves. Of course, if people know how to think for themselves, they have a much smaller chance of just going along with what the powers that be tell them. They want dull, slow "subjects", not learned, thinking, informed citizens.
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Reply 2 - Posted by: bamboozle 5/17/2024 4:21:18 PM (No. 1719802)
So he was fired not for teaching how to think but rather what the school feared he might say?
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Reply 3 - Posted by: Omen55 5/17/2024 4:21:25 PM (No. 1719803)
Sue dem!
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Reply 4 - Posted by: Venturer 5/17/2024 4:21:30 PM (No. 1719804)
Who would have believed 25 years ago that homosexuals Bi-sexuals, Trans-sexuals and perverts of every sort would have the political power they now enjoy. Now they are priests in some religions, they are protected by laws, they enjoy jobs they shouldn't have and get people fired for opposing them. Well they can marry, but thank God they cannot breed.
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Reply 5 - Posted by: DW626 5/17/2024 5:34:07 PM (No. 1719844)
I thought it was close to impossible to get fired as a teacher.
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Reply 6 - Posted by: billa57 5/17/2024 5:50:09 PM (No. 1719852)
Democrats have a Stalinist style group think.
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Reply 7 - Posted by: MindMadeUp 5/17/2024 5:56:56 PM (No. 1719853)
If you've ever listened to his videos, you'll know this guy is brilliant. In normal times, he'd be snatched up to teach at some other major university, but the problem is his brilliance leads him to logical conclusions that fly in the face of Woke nonsense.
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Reply 8 - Posted by: BarryNo 5/17/2024 6:53:55 PM (No. 1719879)
The autocracy does not believe in thought, only doctrine.
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Reply 9 - Posted by: Kate318 5/17/2024 7:17:21 PM (No. 1719888)
Hopefully, someone snatches him up quickly. Paging Hillsdale College…
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Reply 10 - Posted by: LaValette 5/17/2024 7:37:29 PM (No. 1719902)
Can anyone name the college involved?
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Reply 11 - Posted by: mifla 5/18/2024 4:36:54 AM (No. 1720032)
Have someone who is not towing the party line? Fire him. Liberalism at work.
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Reply 12 - Posted by: 5 handicap 5/18/2024 5:57:08 AM (No. 1720051)
There is great need to identify the School so good parents will not be duped into sending the children there to be force fed garbage by paedophiles.
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Reply 13 - Posted by: Strike3 5/18/2024 9:21:30 AM (No. 1720136)
Every successful person who refuses to drink the Kool Aid eventually becomes a target of the left. They can try to smear JK Rowling but they can't take away her billions of dollars earned by brilliant writing or her castle in Scotland. I wonder if the kid has ever read one of her books?
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Reply 14 - Posted by: cahaba2 5/18/2024 10:59:28 AM (No. 1720191)
Why does he not identify the school? It doesn't matter how many viral videos he has, his claim of being fired really doesn't pass the credibility test until he identifies the school.
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