A full-page newspaper defends the punishment high school student Darryl George has faced over his hairstyle.

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    9 months ago

    You csn get arrested for not snitching on your own sons location?

    You can get arrested for obstructing a police investigation. In this particular case, it appears that the father picked up and removed his son from the crime scene. Possibly also tampering with the crime scene. He has made himself an accessory to the crime after the fact. No different than a get-away driver for a bank robbery.

    Also, I dont think holding a father responsible for the crimes of his son

    The father isn’t being indicted for crashing a pickup truck. He’s being held for obstructing justice, which is an entirely different crime.

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        9 months ago

        His son shouldn’t be on the road if he’s crashing a five-ton vehicle into a telephone pole. Hiding him in order to sober him up means putting him back out on the road to do this shit again.

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            9 months ago

            I won’t fault anyone for not wanting to turn their kid over to police over property damage

            When the same guy is pulling kids out of school for their haircuts, I will absolutely fault him. This guy has no concern for anyone outside of his immediate social circle. He’s immiserating children under the pretext of conformity, while keeping his drunk-driving son on the road to potentially kill another family with his reckless behavior.

            Its easy to when you already have a reason to dislike them.

            The contradiction between behaviors - one that’s strictly authoritarian for “conformity” sake and the other that’s hostile to basic traffic laws - illustrates a guy who has no business operating in an administrative capacity.

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              9 months ago

              Bingo. If he kicked a kid out for locs and turned his son over to the authorities with a rousing “laws were broken, and I’m not asking for mercy” speech during sentencing, then he’s just an authoritarian-loving jerk and you can respect that even if you won’t grab a drink with him.

              But this guy just likes to exert his white authority over black people. Not his innocent lilly-white drunk-driving son.

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                9 months ago

                he’s just an authoritarian-loving jerk and you can respect that

                I mean, I wouldn’t respect that either. If anything, I’d respect a guy who shielded his students from draconian municipal/state punishments for a fucking haircut and shielded his son from draconian municipal/state punishments for driving. But you don’t get to be superintendent by going “Soft On (Hair) Crime”.

                But this guy just likes to exert his white authority over black people.

                Or his rich authority over poor people. Although, in Houston, the de facto racial caste system makes it interchangeable.

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                  9 months ago

                  I mean, I wouldn’t respect that either

                  I guess I’m trying to just differentiate two different worlds of behavior . Maybe it’s not as big a deal as I make it, but I have a real problem with inconsistency and hypocrisy.

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                    9 months ago

                    I have a real problem with inconsistency and hypocrisy.

                    I think the term “hypocrite” gets overused, mostly because the standard being followed isn’t always what the label implies.

                    If you’re a white supremacist or a simple elitist, then there’s no hypocrisy in doing favors for your white son and fucking over your black student. I don’t think that this lack-of-hypocrisy makes the behavior any more laudable, though.

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        9 months ago

        I meant using his sons fuck up as an example of him being a bad person.

        That’s where everyone is going off the fucking rails in different directions from my edit.

        I get trying to protect your children as a parent. I’m a father myself and can fathom a reaction of trying to protect a child to the point of going to jail over something.

        You entirely missed the point yourself when you misunderstood the issue as related to him being held responsible for the crimes of his son. He committed the crime of obstruction regardless of whatever crime his son was suspected of, but that’s not even the problem here.

        What I CANNOT FUCKING ABIDE is the insane hypocrisy this fuck demonstrates through allowing exceptions to the LAWS for his child that he will defend and go to jail over, while demanding someone else’s child fall in line to school guidelines that are malleable and far less rigid in both application and enforcement than any legal criminality.

        This all reads like some purebred racial prejudice fully baked into governing committees remaining alive and well in pockets of Texas even close to major cities. Not that it’s that different literally everywhere else that isn’t a major metro/suburb/college town.