School teacher on leave after "sniper rifle" remark regarding activist Greta Thunberg

[Father Heathen]

Waterloo teacher on leave after "sniper rifle" comment about Greta Thunberg visit

This guy is a science teacher specifically. That, and those he teaches are around Greta's age. Even if jokingly, it's a bit messed up that someone in his position would talk about killing a kid for advocating scientific literacy.

 

[Sunstone]

I hate to say this, but this sort of thing seems to be part of the spirit of our age. You can absolutely bet that Thunberg gets plenty of death threats, rape threats, and assault threats for publicly speaking her mind on a controversial issue. Doesn't matter she's still a child.

 

[Revoltingest]

Some people are so clueless.

 

[Rival]

I hate to say this, but this sort of thing seems to be part of the spirit of our age. You can absolutely bet that Thunberg gets plenty of death threats, rape threats, and assault threats for publicly speaking her mind on a controversial issue. Doesn't matter she's still a child.

She's 16. IMO she's hardly a child and is a young adult. At 16 you can have sex, join the military, have a job, marry and so on. She's a young adult.

 

[Father Heathen]

I hate to say this, but this sort of thing seems to be part of the spirit of our age. You can absolutely bet that Thunberg gets plenty of death threats, rape threats, and assault threats for publicly speaking her mind on a controversial issue. Doesn't matter she's still a child.

Of course, then the "libtard soycialist" are just being "snowflake cucks" for taking issue with such threats/jokes.

 

[Vinayaka]

Some idiot here put target crosshairs on the foreheads of a couple of politicians in our election. Police are investigating. I hope they charge him with issuing death threats.

Talk about uncivilised, this stuff.

 

[Valjean]

I wonder what the Baish's explanation for the post was.

 

[Epic Beard Man]

Waterloo teacher on leave after "sniper rifle" comment about Greta Thunberg visit

This guy is a science teacher specifically. That, and those he teaches are around Greta's age. Even if jokingly, it's a bit messed up that someone in his position would talk about killing a kid for advocating scientific literacy.

He should be fired. I would if I did that at my current job.

 

[Epic Beard Man]

She's 16. IMO she's hardly a child and is a young adult. At 16 you can have sex, join the military, have a job, marry and so on. She's a young adult.

In what country? You’re speaking from your country’s laws and experience. The idea of a 16 year-old being an “adult” hardly resonates universally. Yes, young people have sex, hell I watched my first porn at 10. Doesn’t mean I achieved adult mentality nor maturity.

Again that’s where you live not here in the states

 

[Rival]

In what country? You’re speaking from your country’s laws and experience. The idea of a 16 year-old being an “adult” hardly resonates universally. Yes, young people have sex, hell I watched my first porn at 10. Doesn’t mean I achieved adult mentality nor maturity.

Again that’s where you live not here in the states

She is a young adult in my opinion.

 

[Valjean]

I kind of wish she were ten years older so people would stop obsessing about her age and listen to what she has to say.

 

[Twilight Hue]

The comment is inappropriate yet I can't see it as anything but a joke made in poor taste considering how overly sensitive people get these days.

She's obviously a young teen who's been coached and propped up by adults over a topic she barely knows about, other than what people have told her.

It looks like she's on her way to being a messed up adult like AOC.

 

[Father Heathen]

She's obviously a young teen who's been coached and propped up by adults over a topic she barely knows about, other than what people have told her.

Upon what evidence can you provide to support such a claim? The only thing "obvious" is that you reject the message merely because it jostles your flimsy narrative.

 

[SomeRandom]

She's 16. IMO she's hardly a child and is a young adult. At 16 you can have sex, join the military, have a job, marry and so on. She's a young adult.

To be fair, doesn’t that technically depend on the specific laws pertaining to the region?
I mean sure, down under in the land of beer, she could hold down a job (albeit with rather strict rules about her workable hours and workload, since she is a minor under the law.)
I don’t think she can join the military here but she can join the young cadets or whatever youth version is available. She can’t legally marry without parental consent here. Legal consent for sex being as low as 16 is more about pragmatism to me. Like why would you demonise a teenager for being hormonal?
A 16 year old to me is an adolescent. Too young to be trusted to drink or smoke, but old enough to at least learn how to control a car. So yeah, to me she’s a kid.
But her age has no bearing on the merit of her arguments. And a teacher joking about sniping a minor, during class time (I’m sure many a joke is uttered in the pub after hours) is not particularly an adult or reasonable response. It’s unprofessional at best.

As an aside, I just have to ask, where do you live that allows a 16 year old to get married? I mean without being emancipated or the parents being religiously err “traditional.”

 

[Subduction Zone]

I wonder what the Baish's explanation for the post was.

Too much whiskey? No, I should not bad mouth a general liquor. Too much MD 20/20. There we go, or Tres Locos. No sane or sober person would make such a post.

 

[Valjean]

The comment is inappropriate yet I can't see it as anything but a joke made in poor taste considering how overly sensitive people get these days.

She's obviously a young teen who's been coached and propped up by adults over a topic she barely knows about, other than what people have told her.

It looks like she's on her way to being a messed up adult like AOC.

See, I just don't get it. Why do you say she was coached and propped up by adults?
A 16 year old can read. A16 year old can think and make decisions.

 

[Sunstone]

She's 16. IMO she's hardly a child and is a young adult. At 16 you can have sex, join the military, have a job, marry and so on. She's a young adult.

There is no science that even comes close to supporting the notion that a 16 year old's brain has fully developed into an adult brain. To say that a 16 is mentally an adult -- as opposed to legally an adult, or an adult in the view of one's culture -- is to be short of the mark by at least six or more years. At least six years, more likely closer to eight or ten. The age at which the brain is typically fully wired keeps get pushed further and further into the 20s, you see due to ever more sophisticated brain imaging.

 

[Twilight Hue]

See, I just don't get it. Why do you say she was coached and propped up by adults?
A 16 year old can read. A16 year old can think and make decisions.

Yes that's true, but I'm not privy that she's some type of savant at university level to which if not, her knowledge will be no more or less than any other 16 year old has, much less my own in kind, and relegated to being swayed one way or another by what the experts say pro and con.

She certainly has an opinion, just like we have opinions here, but it's not going to be anything substantial beyond that and let's face it, we are pretty much shaped by the people around us and those we read about that gives us one reason or another to regard or not to regard what is being said about various things.

 

[Rival]

To be fair, doesn’t that technically depend on the specific laws pertaining to the region?
I mean sure, down under in the land of beer, she could hold down a job (albeit with rather strict rules about her workable hours and workload, since she is a minor under the law.)
I don’t think she can join the military here but she can join the young cadets or whatever youth version is available. She can’t legally marry without parental consent here. Legal consent for sex being as low as 16 is more about pragmatism to me. Like why would you demonise a teenager for being hormonal?
A 16 year old to me is an adolescent. Too young to be trusted to drink or smoke, but old enough to at least learn how to control a car. So yeah, to me she’s a kid.
But her age has no bearing on the merit of her arguments. And a teacher joking about sniping a minor, during class time (I’m sure many a joke is uttered in the pub after hours) is not particularly an adult or reasonable response. It’s unprofessional at best.

As an aside, I just have to ask, where do you live that allows a 16 year old to get married? I mean without being emancipated or the parents being religiously err “traditional.”

Being allowed to get married with parental consent is still being allowed to get married.

All I was responding to is the claim that she is a child. As far as I'm concerned if you can legally have sex and therefore your own children you are not a child. At 16 I was always called a young adult and not a child. It strikes me as odd to call someone who has left school a child.

@Sunstone

 

[Mock Turtle]

To be fair, doesn’t that technically depend on the specific laws pertaining to the region?
I mean sure, down under in the land of beer, she could hold down a job (albeit with rather strict rules about her workable hours and workload, since she is a minor under the law.)
I don’t think she can join the military here but she can join the young cadets or whatever youth version is available. She can’t legally marry without parental consent here. Legal consent for sex being as low as 16 is more about pragmatism to me. Like why would you demonise a teenager for being hormonal?
A 16 year old to me is an adolescent. Too young to be trusted to drink or smoke, but old enough to at least learn how to control a car. So yeah, to me she’s a kid.
But her age has no bearing on the merit of her arguments. And a teacher joking about sniping a minor, during class time (I’m sure many a joke is uttered in the pub after hours) is not particularly an adult or reasonable response. It’s unprofessional at best.

As an aside, I just have to ask, where do you live that allows a 16 year old to get married? I mean without being emancipated or the parents being religiously err “traditional.”

In Scotland I believe (without parents' consent - rather than in England, where a parents' consent is required) - hence the popularity of Gretna Green for many English. My mum joked that she got married there, but given her animosity for her abusive father, perhaps she did - apart from the fact that she was actually a lot older when she did marry.

Edit: One has to be 18 to marry without parental consent, but it used to be 21 I believe, so perhaps my mother was not joking, as this age would have been possible - since I can't remember when she got married.