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Apr. 5th, 2009 11:27 amPharyngula: Flagrant anti-gay discrimination in a Canadian nursing college:
The nursing student has basically been flunked out of the nursing college by this "not homophobic at all" faculty.
Update: It seems now possible, from additional evidence, that the nursing student was actually a bad student, and only cried "homophobe" to cover her failings at the school. It seems a lot of posts from her various accounts in the time-frame expected have "disappeared" recently, as have many comments from the person in question at reddit.com soon after someone skeptically challenges them. Hard to read much more, as reddit.com's one of the worst UIs for a bbs I've seen yet, but the interpretation of some who are looking at the header details of the emails invovled show that they're out of order from the original story.
This is not to say that there are not real cases of homophobia out there like this, just as there are real racists and bigots out there in other ways as well. This only means that, yet again, accusations of such a nature demand more proof and additional corroboration before making conclusions, and there are those who will use the emotional stigma involved in their minority's persecution in order to get (real) special treatment.
When I was at Thom McCann ('89), there was this employee who constantly called in sick, did half-assed work while there, had among the lowest in commissions for extras, etc, and was, of course, fired. Employee, who happened to be black, then fired off a letter to district management claiming she was fired 'cause my boss was racist (he was 2nd generation Italian, with an accent, hardly fitting the white supremist stereotype). Boss was ordered by district to reinstate her. Boss reluctantly did, gave her an agreed-upon start date, which she promptly failed to show up on, calling in sick (yet again).
Needlesstosay, Boss fired her again. Boss's next to hirelings were both black, one of which got caught stealing from the register, while the other was the model employee (and we majorly disagreed about the music over the P.A., but it never affected our performance), which goes to show that unlike most things you can see or know about (like religion, sexual orientation, or race), nothing defines a person better than their own actions.
Your sexual orientation is something important that patients have a right to know so that they can decide if they wish to have you as their caregiver. I myself am not homophobic at all, but I would not want a lesbian nurse caring for me when I am vulnerable. I would just not feel comfortable with that.Isn't that along the lines of "I don't want to sound racist, but I could never live under a black president..."?
The nursing student has basically been flunked out of the nursing college by this "not homophobic at all" faculty.
Update: It seems now possible, from additional evidence, that the nursing student was actually a bad student, and only cried "homophobe" to cover her failings at the school. It seems a lot of posts from her various accounts in the time-frame expected have "disappeared" recently, as have many comments from the person in question at reddit.com soon after someone skeptically challenges them. Hard to read much more, as reddit.com's one of the worst UIs for a bbs I've seen yet, but the interpretation of some who are looking at the header details of the emails invovled show that they're out of order from the original story.
This is not to say that there are not real cases of homophobia out there like this, just as there are real racists and bigots out there in other ways as well. This only means that, yet again, accusations of such a nature demand more proof and additional corroboration before making conclusions, and there are those who will use the emotional stigma involved in their minority's persecution in order to get (real) special treatment.
When I was at Thom McCann ('89), there was this employee who constantly called in sick, did half-assed work while there, had among the lowest in commissions for extras, etc, and was, of course, fired. Employee, who happened to be black, then fired off a letter to district management claiming she was fired 'cause my boss was racist (he was 2nd generation Italian, with an accent, hardly fitting the white supremist stereotype). Boss was ordered by district to reinstate her. Boss reluctantly did, gave her an agreed-upon start date, which she promptly failed to show up on, calling in sick (yet again).
Needlesstosay, Boss fired her again. Boss's next to hirelings were both black, one of which got caught stealing from the register, while the other was the model employee (and we majorly disagreed about the music over the P.A., but it never affected our performance), which goes to show that unlike most things you can see or know about (like religion, sexual orientation, or race), nothing defines a person better than their own actions.
