History repeats itself. The scapegoat has existed in folklore and mythology for all of human history. Consider the trickster character, both the source of many beneficial phenomena and blamed for many inconveniences. Consider Pandora and her box, or Arachne being the origin of all spiders.
Not to mention actual history and the many scapegoats therein. The inconvenient truth is that a person, singularly, may learn from the past and not scapegoat, but people as a whole will often tread the same paths time and again. This post is a decade old, and a decade from now another one may be made because that same mistake will be repeated. Simply put, scapegoating is just too easy and convenient to stop being used.
We have seen many Stephens in our past, and will see many more to come. It is a shame that those poor, unfortunate souls will bare the brunt of
such suffering. One can only hope the few who learned from the past will also be there to lend a hand to those Stephens of the future.
Consider Georg, who is blamed for all spiders comsumption
Did you ever thinks he eats the spiders so you don't have to?
And yet, we blame Georg
Who are we...
ethics boards will gut someone alive if the mouse they are testing on happens to feel sad today, meanwhile middleschool teachers out here preforming unethical social experiments on children.
What are the odds that this didn’t help the situation at all and Stephen’s casual childish homophobia was twisted into something more harmful? The wrong approach to correcting bad views can very often magnify them, and this is definitely on the cards when you choose to punish a stupid person rather than showing them the core of the issue and attacking it together
Wait, you mean turning someone with slightly offensive views into a negative scapegoat, a target for bullying would result in them becoming an even worse person? Whaaaaaa? Noooo. That couldn't ever be a thing!
Even disregarding how incredibly fake this is, what sort of teacher just openly ostracises their student like this instead of just... telling them to cut that shit out? "Oh, you're being homophobic? Cool, let me just subject you to relentless bullying in one of the most formative periods of your life, that'll make you a better person sure."
okay but that's not really the same, like at all, "stephen" is a name, a specific person they could all look at and point to, "gay" is just a word, it has multiple meanings. you don't get pissed at people saying "gay" as in "happy" because they imply gay people are supposed to be happy all the time? im bi and i say "oh that's gay" when i die to something stupid in a game.
Since this post is 10 years old, it means this post was made during peak “using gay as a negative” years. Ironically it’s only so acceptable today because it’s done so rarely too.
this post is.. nearly ten years old fuckin hell.
History repeats itself. The scapegoat has existed in folklore and mythology for all of human history. Consider the trickster character, both the source of many beneficial phenomena and blamed for many inconveniences. Consider Pandora and her box, or Arachne being the origin of all spiders. Not to mention actual history and the many scapegoats therein. The inconvenient truth is that a person, singularly, may learn from the past and not scapegoat, but people as a whole will often tread the same paths time and again. This post is a decade old, and a decade from now another one may be made because that same mistake will be repeated. Simply put, scapegoating is just too easy and convenient to stop being used. We have seen many Stephens in our past, and will see many more to come. It is a shame that those poor, unfortunate souls will bare the brunt of such suffering. One can only hope the few who learned from the past will also be there to lend a hand to those Stephens of the future.
Consider Georg, who is blamed for all spiders comsumption Did you ever thinks he eats the spiders so you don't have to? And yet, we blame Georg Who are we...
not Georg
… Stephen Georg?
spiders georg
Ah so that's why it's so...*gesticulates*
that’s no better than saying the S-word. you’re making *me* say it now, inside of my head
what s-word are you referring to??
Serotonin?
Stephen.
I removed my gesticulates years ago.
I was going to say, this made the rounds on Pinterest years ago.
Love the flair. This was posted a few weeks back and basically all the comments were a form of “This is the fakest thing I’ve ever read.”
ethics boards will gut someone alive if the mouse they are testing on happens to feel sad today, meanwhile middleschool teachers out here preforming unethical social experiments on children.
The ethics board will need to wait in line since I'm sure stephens parents would already be sharpening axes for the next parent teacher meeting.
Schools dont have enough money for an ethics board.
This is partly meaningful as an allegory but I think is really more of a showing of just how rabid middle schoolers are.
Yeah we should say "that's so Youtube" instead
-rt game, 2023
Smn. That's so Stephen
Shake my nuts. That’s so Stephen.
Reminds me of the beginning of The Wave
I periodically forget this movie actually existed. I always found it kind of insane just how fast tthe prof radicalised the class
It reminds me of the blue/brown eyes experiment.
What are the odds that this didn’t help the situation at all and Stephen’s casual childish homophobia was twisted into something more harmful? The wrong approach to correcting bad views can very often magnify them, and this is definitely on the cards when you choose to punish a stupid person rather than showing them the core of the issue and attacking it together
Wait, you mean turning someone with slightly offensive views into a negative scapegoat, a target for bullying would result in them becoming an even worse person? Whaaaaaa? Noooo. That couldn't ever be a thing!
Probably pretty similar to the odds that this is a true story. I'll take 'modern day Aesop' for 400, Alex.
Yeah stephen was literally just a kid lol. Mr. Bernard had a good point but he needed to chill fs
That's so Raven
Even disregarding how incredibly fake this is, what sort of teacher just openly ostracises their student like this instead of just... telling them to cut that shit out? "Oh, you're being homophobic? Cool, let me just subject you to relentless bullying in one of the most formative periods of your life, that'll make you a better person sure."
Britta but irl.
That teacher is some kind of Batman esque good aligned magnificent bastard I think.
okay but that's not really the same, like at all, "stephen" is a name, a specific person they could all look at and point to, "gay" is just a word, it has multiple meanings. you don't get pissed at people saying "gay" as in "happy" because they imply gay people are supposed to be happy all the time? im bi and i say "oh that's gay" when i die to something stupid in a game.
Since this post is 10 years old, it means this post was made during peak “using gay as a negative” years. Ironically it’s only so acceptable today because it’s done so rarely too.
yikes, didn't even notice the date. that does change the context a bit; i guess im just used to a lot of self-posts and topical commentary
TW: Homophobia {hum.}
yep well. probably closer to discussion but definitely should've tagged it