So a few days the concept of kids using new technologies to get themselves into trouble was raised. It’s happened again, though this time it’s not a kid but a teacher:

Longmont teacher out of a job after Instagram post insulting student

In short, an art teacher posted a camera-phone photo of a student to Instagram with a caption saying that she hated him. Why does she hate him? That’s unclear, but a few hints are given. The full quote was “STEM kids are trying too hard. I don’t know him, but I hate him,” and there were hashtags such as #stem and #dorkywhiteboy. So it seems her hatred is based on the kid being a STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Math) kid rather than a libarts kid.

What’s funny: according to the schools webpage, Skyline High School is “A STEM and VPA focus school.” So it’s apparently half STEM and half Visual Performing Arts. An odd mix, perhaps, but ok. But it seems that the teacher in question has a problem with STEM. So here’s where the hate crime charges come in.

Had the teacher said she hated a kid for religious or ethnic reasons, you’d have social justice warriors screeching for hate crime charges. Had the religion in question been Islam, you can rest assured you’d have some large subset of the SJW’s saying that it was Islamophobia *and* racist, despite the fact that Islam isn’t a race. Well… choosing to go into STEM is in many ways akin to choosing one religion or another. Thus if hating someone for being Muslim is racist, so is hating someone for going into STEM. Couple that with the #dorkywhiteboy hashtag… and there ya go.

So we’ve got a liberal arts-type who hates STEM-types, and seems to associate STEM with “white boys.” This reminds me of my time in college, many long years ago, arguing with the causeheads. They’d complain about engineering and science clearly being racist fields because the classes were overwhelmingly “dorky white boys.” But when invited to take the classes themselves… well, many excuses were given.

Dorky White Boys of the world, unite!