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Still not extradited and the LA County has no record of him being logged as an inmate, he shoulda went to Turkey to get his hairline fixed when he had the chance, instead of popping out at high profile events in LA.
they put him in guantanamo bay for terrorism since he snuck in with fake documents.
Hopefully he's getting water boarded right now...town or drown
It's cold. We're gonna get snow this weekend. We're done for 5 months, brehs.
what if they really did put him somewhere like that for that reason? or maybe in ICE jail with the mexicans
dawg what if they put breh in a cage like those mexican childrenamerican fukkery smh
Who cares about cases if hospitalizations is still low..covid is here for good
Ontario the only place whos doing this
I'm pretty sure things will be the same in the major cities breh. We got arenas and stadiums with 20000 people in it, unmasked. Cases are relatively low in the major cities. It's gonna be places with low vaccination rates and high case counts like Sudbury that are going to feel it. Ah well, fukk em
OPINION
‘OK’ gesture gets Hamilton high school student kicked out of co-op placement
She says it was an “OK” sign.
Others say it was a symbol of white supremacy.
Though the discrepancy was never resolved, a high school student was kicked out of her hospital co-op placement after flashing the gesture in a social media photo.
“It wasn’t meant to be racist and it wouldn’t happen again,” says Megan Breeze, a Grade 12 student at Sherwood Secondary. “I thought it means ‘OK.’ Like a thumbs-up sign.”
Megan, 17, wants to be a child psychologist. So it was a huge opportunity to learn about health care when she was accepted into a co-op program at Juravinski Hospital at the beginning of the school year.
She was interviewed for the position by a teacher from her school.
Along with students from other schools, she spent three weeks in a classroom learning about hospital cleaning, basic care and COVID protocols before being allowed to work in customer service and among patients in general medicine.
Mostly, Megan cleaned stuff. But sometimes she was able to interact with patients.
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“It was great,” she says. “I was really excited. I really wanted to do that co-op.”
To capture their achievements and promote the program, Megan’s teacher took photos of the students going about their duties and snapped group shots of the teens.
In one of those pictures — a selfie by the teacher with four students in the background — Megan’s hand is on her leg, her index finger pressed against her thumb, her other fingers pointed toward the floor. Another student is making a peace sign.
The teacher posted the photo to a public Instagram account. She didn’t note any concern. Megan says she made the same gesture in a few other photos too.
Five years ago, that hand sign would not have caused a stir. Most would have recognized and accepted it as an OK sign, albeit upside down.
That was then.
Today, some see it as a symbol of hate.
In 2019, the Anti-Defamation League, a U.S. Jewish civil rights organization, added the hand sign to its “Hate on Display” database.
The ADL said it was recognizing the sign had been co-opted by the far right and had become a symbol of white supremacy.
Also in the database: the “Hitler salute.”
The ADL says the OK sign is used on extremist online message boards, such as ***** and 8chan to promote hate.
It began with far right supporters taking images of famous people flashing the OK sign and posting them as memes, declaring it was a nod to white supremacy.
But soon, real white supremacists were using the symbol. For instance, the white supremacist in Christchurch, New Zealand who killed 51 worshippers at mosques, flashed the gesture during a court appearance.
The new, hateful, meaning of the symbol may be obvious to some but likely obscure to most.
In Hate on Display, the ADL says “the overwhelming usage of the ‘okay’ hand gesture today is still its traditional purpose as a gesture signifying assent or approval. As a result, someone who uses the symbol cannot be assumed to be using the symbol in either a … white supremacist context unless other contextual evidence exists to support the contention … Many people have been falsely accused of being a racist or white supremacist for using the ‘okay’ gesture in its traditional and innocuous sense.”
It certainly seems reasonable and prudent to acknowledge that context is important.
But that didn’t seem to be an option for Megan.
After just a few days in the co-op program, her parents got a call from the Hamilton-Wentworth District School Board saying she was not to go to the hospital, but should come in to the school for a meeting instead.
Her dad went with her for that meeting. They were told she was being removed from her placement because someone had complained about her hand sign. And she was in jeopardy of being suspended.
“They said it was a racist sign,” says Megan. “I didn’t know.”
She says she tried not to cry during the meeting.
“I was accused of being a racist.”
She wasn’t told who made the complaint. She was not suspended and was told the complaint will not appear on her academic record. But she is banned from being at Juravinski Hospital.
“I wasn’t given much information except I was being kicked out of my co-op.”
A hospital spokesperson says the initial complaint came to Hamilton Health Sciences.
HHS was “made aware of online posts from a learner that could have been interpreted to be contrary to the HHS values-based code of conduct,” Wendy Stewart said in an emailed response to The Spectator.
“We informed the school board when we were made aware of the posts in early October. As the pictures in the posts were taken at HHS sites, we acted decisively to emphasize that we expect all persons who come to our sites, regardless of whether they are an employee, patient, visitor or vendor to behave in a manner that ensures everyone at HHS feels respected, safe and welcome.”
An email from school board spokesperson Shawn McKillop says: “A community member noticed an unacceptable symbol in a social media post and reported it to HWDSB and program partner, Hamilton Health Sciences. The symbol, which can be interpreted as promoting hate, does not align with HWDSB’s commitment to equity and inclusion. Symbols of hate that promote racism or white supremacy ideology are not tolerated in HWDSB or anywhere in our community. The image was immediately taken down.”
McKillop says other details of the situation are “confidential” but adds that “staff take the necessary time to support students in reaching an understanding of their actions.”
Perhaps.
If she didn’t know before, Megan certainly knows now how her hand gesture can be construed and what the consequences are.
But a lot of questions remain.
Did she or should she have known better? Are we all expected to know that an OK sign is now not OK? Was Megan given an opportunity to learn and repair the damage? Did the punishment fit the crime?
This was a teachable moment. And the hospital and board of education flunked.
.......apologist for supremacists....
that shyt is all over tiktok, tinder, bumble, instagram, youtube etc. the evil cac kids know exactly what it's about especially the ones in non-major canadian cities. oh they love their racism in the boonies.
‘OK’ gesture gets Hamilton high school student kicked out of co-op placement
She says it was an “OK” sign.
Others say it was a symbol of white supremacy.
Though the discrepancy was never resolved, a high school student was kicked out of her hospital co-op placement after flashing the gesture in a social media photo.
“It wasn’t meant to be racist and it wouldn’t happen again,” says Megan Breeze, a Grade 12 student at Sherwood Secondary. “I thought it means ‘OK.’ Like a thumbs-up sign.”
Megan, 17, wants to be a child psychologist. So it was a huge opportunity to learn about health care when she was accepted into a co-op program at Juravinski Hospital at the beginning of the school year.
She was interviewed for the position by a teacher from her school.
Along with students from other schools, she spent three weeks in a classroom learning about hospital cleaning, basic care and COVID protocols before being allowed to work in customer service and among patients in general medicine.
Mostly, Megan cleaned stuff. But sometimes she was able to interact with patients.
YOU MIGHT BE INTERESTED IN...
“It was great,” she says. “I was really excited. I really wanted to do that co-op.”
To capture their achievements and promote the program, Megan’s teacher took photos of the students going about their duties and snapped group shots of the teens.
In one of those pictures — a selfie by the teacher with four students in the background — Megan’s hand is on her leg, her index finger pressed against her thumb, her other fingers pointed toward the floor. Another student is making a peace sign.
The teacher posted the photo to a public Instagram account. She didn’t note any concern. Megan says she made the same gesture in a few other photos too.
Five years ago, that hand sign would not have caused a stir. Most would have recognized and accepted it as an OK sign, albeit upside down.
That was then.
Today, some see it as a symbol of hate.
In 2019, the Anti-Defamation League, a U.S. Jewish civil rights organization, added the hand sign to its “Hate on Display” database.
The ADL said it was recognizing the sign had been co-opted by the far right and had become a symbol of white supremacy.
Also in the database: the “Hitler salute.”
The ADL says the OK sign is used on extremist online message boards, such as ***** and 8chan to promote hate.
It began with far right supporters taking images of famous people flashing the OK sign and posting them as memes, declaring it was a nod to white supremacy.
But soon, real white supremacists were using the symbol. For instance, the white supremacist in Christchurch, New Zealand who killed 51 worshippers at mosques, flashed the gesture during a court appearance.
The new, hateful, meaning of the symbol may be obvious to some but likely obscure to most.
In Hate on Display, the ADL says “the overwhelming usage of the ‘okay’ hand gesture today is still its traditional purpose as a gesture signifying assent or approval. As a result, someone who uses the symbol cannot be assumed to be using the symbol in either a … white supremacist context unless other contextual evidence exists to support the contention … Many people have been falsely accused of being a racist or white supremacist for using the ‘okay’ gesture in its traditional and innocuous sense.”
It certainly seems reasonable and prudent to acknowledge that context is important.
But that didn’t seem to be an option for Megan.
After just a few days in the co-op program, her parents got a call from the Hamilton-Wentworth District School Board saying she was not to go to the hospital, but should come in to the school for a meeting instead.
Her dad went with her for that meeting. They were told she was being removed from her placement because someone had complained about her hand sign. And she was in jeopardy of being suspended.
“They said it was a racist sign,” says Megan. “I didn’t know.”
She says she tried not to cry during the meeting.
“I was accused of being a racist.”
She wasn’t told who made the complaint. She was not suspended and was told the complaint will not appear on her academic record. But she is banned from being at Juravinski Hospital.
“I wasn’t given much information except I was being kicked out of my co-op.”
A hospital spokesperson says the initial complaint came to Hamilton Health Sciences.
HHS was “made aware of online posts from a learner that could have been interpreted to be contrary to the HHS values-based code of conduct,” Wendy Stewart said in an emailed response to The Spectator.
“We informed the school board when we were made aware of the posts in early October. As the pictures in the posts were taken at HHS sites, we acted decisively to emphasize that we expect all persons who come to our sites, regardless of whether they are an employee, patient, visitor or vendor to behave in a manner that ensures everyone at HHS feels respected, safe and welcome.”
An email from school board spokesperson Shawn McKillop says: “A community member noticed an unacceptable symbol in a social media post and reported it to HWDSB and program partner, Hamilton Health Sciences. The symbol, which can be interpreted as promoting hate, does not align with HWDSB’s commitment to equity and inclusion. Symbols of hate that promote racism or white supremacy ideology are not tolerated in HWDSB or anywhere in our community. The image was immediately taken down.”
McKillop says other details of the situation are “confidential” but adds that “staff take the necessary time to support students in reaching an understanding of their actions.”
Perhaps.
If she didn’t know before, Megan certainly knows now how her hand gesture can be construed and what the consequences are.
But a lot of questions remain.
Did she or should she have known better? Are we all expected to know that an OK sign is now not OK? Was Megan given an opportunity to learn and repair the damage? Did the punishment fit the crime?
This was a teachable moment. And the hospital and board of education flunked.
.......apologist for supremacists....that shyt is all over tiktok, tinder, bumble, instagram, youtube etc. the evil cac kids know exactly what it's about especially the ones in non-major canadian cities. oh they love their racism in the boonies.
what if they really did put him somewhere like that for that reason? or maybe in ICE jail with the mexicans
american fukkery smh
He should use his phone call to call the GGs...and tell em "get the burner broski" 
I NEED her BADDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD
i feel like she got a huge clit.