The only thing we’re certain that Slate was trying to accomplish with a recent article was to put the click-trolling on overdrive:
https://twitter.com/BecketAdams/status/373066392666267648
Maybe “if you send your kids to private school, you are Hitler” would have been less lazy.
Slate is off to the races early with its trolling posts: http://t.co/bksARPtIXo
— Lee Doren (@LDoren) August 29, 2013
Here’s the full actual headline:
If You Send Your Kid to Private School, You Are a Bad Person: You are a bad person if you send your children t… http://t.co/6F3120K7Xu
— Panoply (@Panoply) August 29, 2013
Is that from some of the same folks who might otherwise decry blanket statements about entire groups of people? Well, whatever, a click is a click.
Much deserved mockery ensued:
I know I said I wasn't going to read.I'm an idiot like her (a diff. kind) That's the biggest piece of incoherent garbage you'll read today.
— LMR (@LilMissRightie) August 29, 2013
Can someone tell me where @slate's offices are so I can stand outside with a sign saying "WTF"? http://t.co/QdJNffxqw3
— CatsPolitics (@CatsPolitics) August 29, 2013
If I were trying to sell people on public school, I don't think I'd use getting drunk in a trailer park before a game as a selling point…
— Susie Moore (@SmoosieQ) August 29, 2013
The vapidity of @abenedikt's entire argument is an indictment of the education she received in a "terrible" public school.
— Cam Edwards (@CamEdwards) August 29, 2013
"But *I* went to a crappy school and I turned out okay!" No… no you didn't.
— Cam Edwards (@CamEdwards) August 29, 2013
If you don’t want to deliver the click that Slate all but begs for in that headline, here’s an adequate summary of the article:
I FUCKING LOVE KIDS SO MUCH I CALL THEM SPAWN! EVERYONE WHO DISAGREES WITH ME IS A BAD PERSON. FUCK YOURSELVES WINGNUTS!!1!!! ~ @abenedikt
— LMR (@LilMissRightie) August 29, 2013
"As rotten as my school’s English/history/science/social studies/math/art/music/ language programs were…" Ah, you sold me on public school
— LMR (@LilMissRightie) August 29, 2013
We’ll close it out with a pearl of wisdom:
https://twitter.com/KristinaRibali/status/373082955037417472
Excellent advice. And so we move on.
