If you wanted to find a busy-body-positive social justice gender warrior and had no interest in joining Instagram or TikTok, a school board might be the first place to look for her. Moth to a flame that.
And if you’d like to see such an individual discriminate in the name of non-discrimination (oft referred to as Inclusion, Equity, or Diversity), allow them to speak (as if you could stop them).
If you want accountability for those contradictions, instances are rare, but even a blind squirrel, as they say.
To borrow from Skip, here’s the shot:
“I believe that Mr. D’Elia would make an excellent president,” [Jennifer Solot] said. “However, I feel that electing the only cis White male on this board, president of this district, sends the wrong message to our community: a message that is contrary to what we as a board have been trying to accomplish.”
Mr. Greg D’Elia is white (a race) and heterosexual (a gender choice), but if they picked him, despite his qualifications, that wouldn’t be non-discriminatory even though he serves on a board whose majority appears, to my untrained eye, as majority human female (77.77%).
[Note that had he announced he was a woman before vying for the top job on this board, whether he was or not, he would be a shoo-in (this is Pennsylvania)]
Speaking of Diversity, have you seen much of that at the public school? Women predominantly fill the positions. Finding an (identifies as) male school teacher is not as rare as locating a busy-body-positive social justice gender warrior who is held to account for her hypocrisy, but it’s close.
A heterosexual man teaching in a grammar school is almost unheard of; they are so rare. Endangered would be the term if we were talking about wildlife in a habitat. But no one is gluing themselves to the Cafetorium stage in outrage or concern (except perhaps over the food, but let’s not get distracted). Instead, we get “sends the wrong message to our community.” A community that’s mostly white, by the way.
So (chaser), what message did Ms. Solot send?
“As a result of this incident, Ms. Solot has decided to resign from the board effective January 2, 2023,” Elliott said. “She wishes to apologize for her poorly chosen words and does not want to be a distraction from the great things happening in our schools on a daily basis. The district thanks Ms. Solot for her five years of service to the Upper Moreland community as a board member.”
And how odd is that? If we’re being honest, her remarks – on the spectrum of hypocritical exhortations – were almost polite. He’d make an excellent president who supports diversity (who doesn’t), except he can’t because he has a penis and is unwilling to share it with other men.
By the way, they have a woman of color and a man of color (cis-status unknown) on the board, but no one voted for them. Relax. It’s not racist. They didn’t want the job, which is the exact reason why many occupations lack an abundance of women or people of color.
Like Professional Hockey, to name one. Not to be confused with how school boards with women like Jen Solot treat parents and taxpayers (generalizing), though not Jen so much anymore, seeing as she’s retired herself for conduct unbecoming. But is it, unbecoming, I mean?
The busy-body-positive social justice gender warriors can’t help themselves even if she meant it in the nicest way possible. You are capable and qualified, but I have to vote for someone else because you’re a white man.
That’s racism and sexism in the same breath; pretending it’s not doesn’t change this fact. It is also liberal privilege, and that always jumps the queue.
But this time, it cost someone their ability to use that privilege to influence a school board. Very rare, indeed.
