this post was submitted on 06 May 2024
111 points (100.0% liked)

Politics

10168 readers
2 users here now

In-depth political discussion from around the world; if it's a political happening, you can post it here.


Guidelines for submissions:

These guidelines will be enforced on a know-it-when-I-see-it basis.


Subcommunities on Beehaw:


This community's icon was made by Aaron Schneider, under the CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0 license.

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone 68 points 4 months ago (4 children)

“How would these students know how to barricade a door?” Daughtry asked on Newsmax, as he charged that protesters wouldn’t have been capable of measures like locking doors with chains, blocking them with vending machines, or disabling security cameras.

Come the fuck on. I’m too old to have been through school shooter drills, but I’m not too stupid to remember that for the last 20 years this is what kids have been taught to do to deal with psychopaths with guns on campus. They start teaching it in kindergarten! At this point a kid not knowing how to do this stuff is like a kid that doesn’t know to stop, drop, and roll when on fire.

[–] Rozz@lemmy.sdf.org 54 points 4 months ago (2 children)

How could these adults possibly know how to put heavy things in front of doors and wrap something around something? How I ask you!?

[–] snooggums@midwest.social 14 points 4 months ago (1 children)

It's like the NYPD jas never watched a horror movie before.

[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 8 points 4 months ago

Or they watched too many bad ones where the characters make hella dumb decisions like investigating the spooky sound in the shed full of sharp objects.

[–] cook_pass_babtridge@beehaw.org 10 points 4 months ago

If someone graduates from Columbia without knowing how to block a door then I feel the money has been wasted on them.

They know perfectly well that they're spewing bullshit.

The facts don't matter to many people, sadly.

I know plenty of people who would go "heh damn college fucks deserved it" without knowing the first thing about what college or protest, simply "that generation getting what they deserve" is good enough

[–] apis@beehaw.org 12 points 4 months ago

It is also a natural thing to think of, and easy for anyone over the age of 7 or 8 to figure out how to do it effectively.

[–] BarryZuckerkorn@beehaw.org 5 points 4 months ago

I'm too old for school shooter drills, but I'm like basically the perfect age for being terrified of velociraptors after watching Jurassic Park in theaters. Not only do I know how to barricade a door, but I also know how to use mirrors to visually trick people into seeing hallways that aren't there!