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Has Violence Against Teachers Become Accepted by Society?

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wxw · 1790606626 · focus · HN ↗
> My experience made something painfully clear: violence against educators has become so normalized that society now treats it as an expected part of teaching.
I don’t think this is normalized at all.
Something about the ad-riddled website and way this is written makes me wonder if this is even a real article.
1. nailer · 1790607093 · focus · HN ↗
  > I don’t think this is normalized at all.
  Oh good, wxw disagrees. They've supplied zero supporting arguments, making discussion impossible, but at least Hacker news knows wxw's position.
  1. monideas · 1790608342 · focus · HN ↗
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    calmworm · 1790609851 · focus · HN ↗
    > To be fair
    Opening with “to be fair” doesn’t make a straw man fair.
    monideas · 1790610325 · focus · HN ↗
    I don’t know what you’re calling a strawman, but the point is that wxw’s response is simply an epitome of the underlying problem. He’s just engaging in political discourse completely in line with the ideological superstructure which is ultimately responsible for this very problem (violence against teachers being normalized). You can’t expect the typical person to be able to transcend that, hence “to be fair”.

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