Tag Archives: bullying
The Susan G. Komen Foundation-Planned Parenthood Ethics Train Wreck
The fight over the Komen Foundation’s abandonment of Planned Parenthood has no heroes and many ethics miscreants. Continue reading →
Filed under Bioethics, Gender and Sex, Government & Politics, Health and Medicine, Journalism & Media, Public Service, Philanthropy, Charity
Tagged as abortion, abuse of power, bullying, Democrats, excuses, fairness, honesty, integrity, non profit ethics, Planned Parenthood, Susan G. Komen for the Cure, Susan G. Komen Foundation, Terri Schiavo
Comment of the Day: “Let’s Have An Open Debate on Both Sides …”
A Comment of the Day that should have been a letter to a school newspaper. Continue reading →
“Let’s Have An Open Debate on Both Sides of This Controversial Issue. Wait…Your Side Offends Me. Shut Up. You’re A Bully.”
Shut up, they explained. That’s public education and tolerance! Continue reading →
Was Butch Cassidy a Sexual Harasser?
“There are no rules in a knife fight!” Consent to harassment? Continue reading →
Abuse of Government Power+ School Administrator Cowardice = Student Persecution
Three state employees gang up on a student who was doing nothing but expressing the opinion that the Governor of Kansas sucks. Continue reading →
Comment of the Day: “Better Late Than Never: The ACLU Finally Opposes the High School War On Off-Campus Speech”
Our often hyperbolic correspondent Elizabeth offers her rebuttal to the apparently unshakable conviction of commenter Xenophon that the needs of school discipline justify schools punishing students for a personal blog or Facebook post, in this case, one critical of a teacher. Continue reading →
Better Late Than Never: The ACLU Finally Opposes the High School War On Off-Campus Speech
No school should have authority to discipline students regarding what they communicate to each other when they aren’t in school, and that includes offensive comments, teasing and bullying. Now the ACLU is taking some action to make that point stick. Continue reading →
Hilary Swank Gets Nelly Furtadoed. And It’s Still Wrong
An American performing artist sells her performing talents to a brutal foreign leader, and is bullied and shamed by human rights advocates and media critics into apologizing profusely and donating the large fee to charity. This was wrong in March, and it’s wrong today. Continue reading →
Filed under Around the World, Arts & Entertainment, Business & Commercial, Citizenship, Government & Politics, Journalism & Media, Popular Culture, Professions, Public Service, Philanthropy, Charity, U.S. Society
Tagged as artists, audiences, bullying, Chechnya, commerce, dictators, Hilary Swank, Human Rights Foundation, performers, Ramzan Kadyrov
Unethical Employer of the Week: William Ernst
Introducing the Unethical Employer of the Week. Continue reading →
Filed under Business & Commercial, Law & Law Enforcement, Workplace
Tagged as bosses, bullying, employees, hostile work environment, sadism, William Ernst
Children’s Book Ethics: “Maggie Goes On A Diet”
Paul Kramer’s fable about an obese 14-year-old who turns her life around by losing weight is as potentially damaging as the worst of children’s literature, and that’s pretty bad. Continue reading →
Filed under Arts & Entertainment, Business & Commercial, Education, Gender and Sex, Health and Medicine, Humor and Satire, Literature, Popular Culture, U.S. Society
Tagged as "Maggie Goes on a Diet", "The Rainbow Fish", "The Ugly Duckling", anorexia nervosa, body image, bullying, children's literature, conformity, diets, girls, Hans Christian Anderson, Paul Kramer, responsibility, self-esteem
