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16 Feb 2018, 9:54 pm

I still use people-centered language.


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21 Feb 2018, 9:45 pm

Prep School sued after student hurt her butt playing musical chairs

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What’s next — a ban on hopscotch?

An innocent game of musical chairs at an Upper East Side prep school is headed to court — because one of the students yanked the seat from under ­another kid and she landed on her duff.

Manhattan plaintiff Kate Liggett claims that she was injured when her York Prep high-school classmate pulled out her chair during what was supposed to be a fun class activity in 2016.

The exclusive West 68th Street school — which charges tuition of nearly $50,000 a year and counts Liv Tyler as a grad — is at least partly at fault because it forced her to participate in the game that led to her downfall, according to Liggett’s Manhattan court suit.

York Prep created a “dangerous situation when it knew or should have known that the game of musical chairs as played by the students in the dance class was inappropriate for the students,” her suit says.

First, teacher Fiona Hutchinson “failed to properly educate participants” on safely playing a simple game of musical chairs during their “Expression Through Dance’’ class, the suit says.

Next, the school allowed students “who had disparate physical skills and builds” to play the game, court documents state.

Then Hutchinson forced Liggett, who has since graduated, to play despite her “specific request to be excused from playing,’’ the suit says.

The school compelled Liggett’s participation “under penalty of disciplinary action,” the suit states.

When the music stopped at one point during the game, Liggett claims, one of her classmates, Ethan Levy, suddenly pulled her seat out from under her, sending her crashing to the floor, according to the lawsuit. “Defendant Ethan Levy abruptly moved the chair upon which the plaintiff was about to sit causing plaintiff to fall to the ground,” court papers state.

The suit says Liggett “sustained serious personal injuries, pain and suffering, emotional trauma, distress and medical expenses.”

The case targets Levy personally for recklessness and negligence in pulling the chair out from under Liggett.

But she wants both him and her alma mater to cough up damages to be determined at trial.

The school hosts grades 6 through 12.


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23 Feb 2018, 2:29 am

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Prep School sued after student hurt her butt playing musical chairs
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What’s next — a ban on hopscotch?

An innocent game of musical chairs at an Upper East Side prep school is headed to court — because one of the students yanked the seat from under ­another kid and she landed on her duff.

Manhattan plaintiff Kate Liggett claims that she was injured when her York Prep high-school classmate pulled out her chair during what was supposed to be a fun class activity in 2016.

The exclusive West 68th Street school — which charges tuition of nearly $50,000 a year and counts Liv Tyler as a grad — is at least partly at fault because it forced her to participate in the game that led to her downfall, according to Liggett’s Manhattan court suit.

York Prep created a “dangerous situation when it knew or should have known that the game of musical chairs as played by the students in the dance class was inappropriate for the students,” her suit says.

First, teacher Fiona Hutchinson “failed to properly educate participants” on safely playing a simple game of musical chairs during their “Expression Through Dance’’ class, the suit says.

Next, the school allowed students “who had disparate physical skills and builds” to play the game, court documents state.

Then Hutchinson forced Liggett, who has since graduated, to play despite her “specific request to be excused from playing,’’ the suit says.

The school compelled Liggett’s participation “under penalty of disciplinary action,” the suit states.

When the music stopped at one point during the game, Liggett claims, one of her classmates, Ethan Levy, suddenly pulled her seat out from under her, sending her crashing to the floor, according to the lawsuit. “Defendant Ethan Levy abruptly moved the chair upon which the plaintiff was about to sit causing plaintiff to fall to the ground,” court papers state.

The suit says Liggett “sustained serious personal injuries, pain and suffering, emotional trauma, distress and medical expenses.”

The case targets Levy personally for recklessness and negligence in pulling the chair out from under Liggett.

But she wants both him and her alma mater to cough up damages to be determined at trial.

The school hosts grades 6 through 12.


What's this got to do with so-called 'SJWs'? This is just residents of the Litigious States of America engaging in the national pastime.


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23 Feb 2018, 3:45 am

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ASPartOfMe wrote:
Prep School sued after student hurt her butt playing musical chairs
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What’s next — a ban on hopscotch?

An innocent game of musical chairs at an Upper East Side prep school is headed to court — because one of the students yanked the seat from under ­another kid and she landed on her duff.

Manhattan plaintiff Kate Liggett claims that she was injured when her York Prep high-school classmate pulled out her chair during what was supposed to be a fun class activity in 2016.

The exclusive West 68th Street school — which charges tuition of nearly $50,000 a year and counts Liv Tyler as a grad — is at least partly at fault because it forced her to participate in the game that led to her downfall, according to Liggett’s Manhattan court suit.

York Prep created a “dangerous situation when it knew or should have known that the game of musical chairs as played by the students in the dance class was inappropriate for the students,” her suit says.

First, teacher Fiona Hutchinson “failed to properly educate participants” on safely playing a simple game of musical chairs during their “Expression Through Dance’’ class, the suit says.

Next, the school allowed students “who had disparate physical skills and builds” to play the game, court documents state.

Then Hutchinson forced Liggett, who has since graduated, to play despite her “specific request to be excused from playing,’’ the suit says.

The school compelled Liggett’s participation “under penalty of disciplinary action,” the suit states.

When the music stopped at one point during the game, Liggett claims, one of her classmates, Ethan Levy, suddenly pulled her seat out from under her, sending her crashing to the floor, according to the lawsuit. “Defendant Ethan Levy abruptly moved the chair upon which the plaintiff was about to sit causing plaintiff to fall to the ground,” court papers state.

The suit says Liggett “sustained serious personal injuries, pain and suffering, emotional trauma, distress and medical expenses.”

The case targets Levy personally for recklessness and negligence in pulling the chair out from under Liggett.

But she wants both him and her alma mater to cough up damages to be determined at trial.

The school hosts grades 6 through 12.


What's this got to do with so-called 'SJWs'? This is just residents of the Litigious States of America engaging in the national pastime.


The prep school is having students play musical chairs a game more appropriate for first graders not 6th through 12th graders.

In this case litigation is being used instead of other techniques to attempt to eliminate every risk in life.

Both of the above shows the adults babying and spoiling these kids which creates SJW’s.
Litigious society does that also.


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24 Feb 2018, 12:42 am

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The prep school is having students play musical chairs a game more appropriate for first graders not 6th through 12th graders.

In this case litigation is being used instead of other techniques to attempt to eliminate every risk in life.

Both of the above shows the adults babying and spoiling these kids which creates SJW’s.
Litigious society does that also.


You still haven't made any connection between this and any sort of 'social justice'. If they're not fighting for 'social justice' it's absurd to insist this has anything to do with so-called 'social justice warriors'. Not all whiners are the SJW boogieman.


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24 Feb 2018, 12:47 am

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A Minnesota school district is dropping two classic novels, “To Kill a Mockingbird” and “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,” from its required reading list because of the books’ liberal use of a racial slur.

Officials at Duluth Public Schools say the move, which follows similar ones taken by other school districts in Virginia, Mississippi and Pennsylvania in recent years, was a response to complaints they had received in the past. The books are still available in libraries, and students can read them on their own time, but school officials will look at other novels on the same topic to add to its curriculum, Michael Cary, director of curriculum and instruction, told the Duluth News Tribune.

“We felt that we could still teach the same standards and expectations through other novels that didn’t require students to feel humiliated or marginalized by the use of racial slurs,” Cary, who was not available for comment Wednesday, told the paper.

Harper Lee and Mark Twain didn’t shy away from using the n-word when they wrote the American classics. Both books have historically been among the American Library Association’s list of 100 most frequently challenged books. Twain’s “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,” a story about a poor white boy and a slave, most recently made the list in 2015, when a group of students in Montgomery County in Pennsylvania said its use of the n-word made them uncomfortable.

Lee’s “To Kill a Mockingbird,” a book about racism in the United States, has long been targeted for removal from libraries and schools. In 1966, a school board in Virginia invited the ire of the Pulitzer Prize-winning author, who mocked the board in a letter to the Richmond Times-Dispatch.


That's not even the cringiest part of Huck Finn.



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24 Feb 2018, 12:51 am

Purdue: ‘Avoid’ Words with ‘Man’ in Them

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A writing guide at Purdue University advises students to avoid words with “man” in them — such as “mailman” and “mankind” — in order to write “in a non-sexist, non-biased way.”

“Although MAN in its original sense carried the dual meaning of adult human and adult male, its meaning has come to be so closely identified with adult male that the generic use of MAN and other words with masculine markers should be avoided,” the guide states.

“Writing in a non-sexist, non-biased way is both ethically sound and effective,” it advises. “Non-sexist writing is necessary for most audiences; if you write in a sexist manner and alienate much of your audience from your discussion, your writing will be much less effective.”

According to the guide, “mankind” should be replaced with words such as “humanity,” “people,” and “human beings,” and “mailman” should be replaced with “mail carrier.” One of the other words it cautions against is “man-made,” suggesting that students use instead the word “synthetic,” “manufactured,” or “machine-made.”

Do not these language police notice that “manufactured” has “man” in it?

Confession I have used the word woMAN many times in my life. I apologize for propagating and enabling patriarchal microagressions by using the W word. Oh dear I apologize for offending other short people by using the word MICROaggressions


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24 Feb 2018, 12:57 am

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I still use people-centered language.


me too.


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24 Feb 2018, 1:14 am

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ASPartOfMe wrote:
The prep school is having students play musical chairs a game more appropriate for first graders not 6th through 12th graders.

In this case litigation is being used instead of other techniques to attempt to eliminate every risk in life.

Both of the above shows the adults babying and spoiling these kids which creates SJW’s.
Litigious society does that also.


You still haven't made any connection between this and any sort of 'social justice'. If they're not fighting for 'social justice' it's absurd to insist this has anything to do with so-called 'social justice warriors'. Not all whiners are the SJW boogieman.


SJW the pejorative term is not about social justice but an attitude, a way of looking at the world. SJW’s think a lot of things are about social justice when they are not. A key component of the SJW world view is the attempt to eliminate all risk.

This suit is not may not be about social justice per se but it is likely informed or influenced by SJW type thinking. The speading of SJW mentality into the larger society is relevent to the threads topic.


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24 Feb 2018, 11:41 am

The problem with SJWs is that they can't let go of their own fear mongering mantra.

Like these videos:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3dUKFsci84g&t=1s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hY2lSSqgQ5s

Interesting how both people got banned by the same person. :roll:



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24 Feb 2018, 11:51 am

Aaendi got banned yesterday? Why? I didn't feel he was an antagonist. Even Bandodger was in my opinion worse. And Moro, well while he seeks arguments, I know plenty of autistic people like him and have known him outside of WP for years now.



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24 Feb 2018, 12:01 pm

^ He was banned because he keep posting topic after topic minimizing rape, and had a general misogynistic attitude towards women.

Truthfully, I should've banned him a long time ago. Of course, this will just lead to more people insisting that all the mods are ultra-liberal, man-hating feminists, but, seeing as how "feminist" has come to mean, "a person I disagree with," I don't care.


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24 Feb 2018, 12:18 pm

He's just like that because he got raped in college and got blamed for it.



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and had a general misogynistic attitude towards women.

I wonder what does that mean.



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24 Feb 2018, 12:55 pm

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He's just like that because he got raped in college and got blamed for it.


That's unfortunate, but it's not the job of this forum to perpetually tolerate his sh_tty attitude.

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I wonder what does that mean.


It means he had a generally misogynistic attitude towards women.


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24 Feb 2018, 1:11 pm

I do hope that word is being used correctly. It has become my most hated word because no one uses it correctly. And because so many use it. You can be deeply sexist and chauvinistic and not one iota misogynistic. People like to slap the word hate on any dissenting view of certain topics, such as being anti-gay. At least there it often is motivated by hate, but it can just as easily be someone viewing a homosexual relationship with roughly the same mindset as looking at someone writing 2+2 = 5. It's just wrong to them.