I'm torn: can I take a day off from contentiousness or do I bear down where I'm brimming over with shock & distress? Everyone keeps track of the big horrors. Today I'm thinking of a grade school principal in suburban Philadelphia, Philip Leddy, who accidentally recorded himself on a parent's voicemail saying horrible antisemitic things, with no shock or pushback from other employee(s) in the room. He was quickly fired but will there be deep education so that everyone at that school & in that town truly understands what the casual ugliness adds up to? I suppose the shock is that he's an educated professional man, a school principal, whose children go to school or camp with the children of the man he so casually demeaned. Will he become a martyr? Hard to say. Happy Christmas, everyone.
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