why do i hate that artist thing that people keep posting on my facebook so much? why am i such a jerk?

it's a riddle

The "6 hours later" gag seems pretty harmless compared to most of this thread

I've really been prepared for imagining I'm a hungry hippo...

i've never seen a facebook post "shared" by a hungry sea turtle

nyt did a good piece on working class sea turtles who voted trump, interesting perspective

Yeah, it's refreshing to see things from their point of view.

Also, I'm pretty sure a jelly fish smells different than a plastic bag.

they should just make plastic bags out of jellyfish carcasses. if we can put a man on the moon...

http://theendearingdesigner.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/Fast-Food-Sizes-Ads-vs-Reality-1.jpg

Now imagine you're a hungry sea turtle.

https://scontent-lax3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/994073_941702799198349_6577129238738459728_n.jpg?oh=9a2278e4ede15807b35d755c0d021137&oe=5B06EE89

Now imagine you're a hungry sea turtle.

As opposed to a song about fingernails.

Learned so much about the human spirit from Too Fighters

https://scontent-lga3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/27750383_10208906557699561_3248336623527691082_n.jpg?oh=1788bb8433afcf036f0b08cd6259df79&oe=5B19F48D

wow

There's clearly at least one wall.

Ppl should stop meaning quite so well

Did you find that in a left-leaning FB group or a right-leaning FB group?

that was circulating around last year after the election. i had some variation of it hanging on my door.

(classroom door)

What about Preston and Cody?

"YOU are not going to shoot us. ... (are you?)"

Yeah, I don't think that's as shallow or empty as a lot of the stuff here.

female students: men are not able to grab you

if only they'd stop trying

I understand the cynicism but literal statements are good for, you know, children

the problem for me is that it puts the words "rapists" and "drug dealers" right next to the word "latino/a", day after day week after week. yeah there's a "not" there but it's still defining that category in relation to racists' ugliest thoughts instead of something of positive

affirmative positive statements are better but decrying the negative ones are essential

using "latino(a)" vs "latinx" suggests a lack of responsible preparation
also telling teenagers who follow islam that they aren't terrorists as their defining quality but hey

I hate to say it but a significant portion of the country still has no idea that latinx is a thing, even in that group, unless it's really wired-in teens or involved adults? I feel like my teacher friends would know but it's still seems very inconsistently known

Dude the kids would be wondering what a "latinx" even was

Dear Latinx Students,
i _DID_ google this.

xps latinx feels common parlance in NYC but i guess that's NYC for you!

Dear white male students just stfu and go away I can't even

xxxxxxxp, but "I'm not just saying that as a 45-year-old rock musician, but..." is kind of a self-own.

I think this is the original?

My English teacher put this on her door today.. pic.twitter.com/ZYGiPtgiCJ

— Natalie Gomez (@natssfatss) November 10, 2016

underlining the word 'not' in that other one just makes it look kind of sarcastic

https://i.upworthy.com/nugget/582c8c1e1d51f7001c000278/attachments/posts-735-2ed4a1ed56a144749956160f5f38de4a.jpg?auto=format&ixlib=imgixjs-3.3.0&w=700

https://bloximages.newyork1.vip.townnews.com/gonzagabulletin.com/content/tncms/assets/v3/editorial/c/6a/c6a283ea-a86a-11e6-a687-2381e71cd170/58265bc071641.image.jpg?resize=1200%2C945

Would be better to say "I know you are not terrorists."

"oh really? Thanks for noticing"

jmm said what I was thinking.

In DC there is a charter school called "The School Without Walls."

When it sustained some damage in an earthquake several years ago, I was like "well DUH."

"Dear physically disabled children: you are NOT cripples nobody wants to play with. Keep that in your hearts!"

also excludes muslim students who are terrorists imo

ugh having flashbacks to the Clinton campaign where the ads repeated & promoted all the worst things Trump said but in scary black and white to show we don't approve. like you are still associating those words together.

maybe come up w something positive next time

Or, perhaps, be full on positive, or full on negative- either works, just put your damn back into it. This weak-ass trying to be positive but just ending up with 'hey, that nasty stereotype about your religion/ethnicity isn't true, mmmkay'... just looks like the sort of thing online nazis would invent to mock libruls. Putting up a big poster in class saying FUCK TRUMP though, likely would make the kids feel a bit better.

I'm trying to think how I would react as a kid to a "Muslims are not terrorists" sign. I would probably think "why does this have to be pointed out, are there Muslim terrorists?"

it's like if MacDonald's new slogan was "our food is not poison". You would start to think about how that food actually could be poison.

once again, and forever more

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R15LkyO8gq8

(for posterity, once this link dies, it was a link to the "salt in your eyes" sketch by kids in the hall)

But, like, the signs are not just refuting nasty stereotypes but actual things the actual President of the USA explicitly stated, right? Why would a Muslim kid not know this?

>>> it's like if MacDonald's new slogan was "our food is not poison". You would start to think about how that food actually could be poison.

^
There is a recent McDonalds advert like this that specifically says that their chicken nuggets are made of chicken meat, not other things as people have claimed.

Here is a whole column about it.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/nov/12/paddington-law-of-unintended-consequences-m-and-s-mcdonalds-commercials

It is amazing. The ad is basically a series of people saying that they’ve heard there’s all sorts of dodgy stuff in McNuggets — “bits”, “beaks”, “beaks, feet”, “innards, feathers”, “bits, beaks and feet” – while a warmly indulgent voiceover reassures us it’s not true and that they’re actually made from “100% chicken breast”.

I’m sure that’s factually correct. The voiceover does not claim the chickens are free range and they aren’t. The cash value of the antibiotic-infused breast of a captive chicken is almost certainly so low that there’s really no need to start the fiddly business of harvesting whatever those creatures’ tortured existences have left of their beaks and feet, and then grinding them to the point where they could pass relatively safely through a human. So I don’t dispute the claim for an instant.

Nevertheless, at the end of the ad, three words are left echoing round your head: McNuggets, beaks and feet. Over those 40 seconds, the two concepts – “McNuggets” and “beaks and feet” – are inextricably joined in the mind, as if by some psychological welder.

This is such a peachy example of extreme foolishness I barely know where to start. How certain must the advertisers have been that everyone thought McNuggets were 100% beaks and feet, that they felt they had nothing to lose by addressing the issue head on? “I know what you’re all thinking – they’re just beaks and feet! But let me tell you, you’re wrong!” But what if that’s not what everyone was thinking? For every customer whose suspicions are allayed, there may be several who had never thought any such thing but now can’t get the idea out of their heads.