Discussion: Department Of Ed Fumbles Apology For Misspelling W.E.B. Du Bois' Name

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It’d be hilarious if someone at the Dept. of Education is trolling Betsy DeVos - product of a pricey private school education. This is on her watch.

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In its subsequent apology, the Department of Education misspelled the word “apologies.”

Amazing that Pres. Obama has time to send out these tweets whilst on vacation.

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Duh Vos’ Duhpartment in akshun.

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Ian Milhiser’s tweet made me LOL.

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In their defense, he’s black with a French name. Who can be bothered to get that right? They’re probably looking into deporting him as we speak. Wait till they figure out he’s already dead.

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Betsy DeVos says: You can understand our confusion. “Those people” don’t usually have that many vowels in their names.

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Putting a Trump sympathizer / supporter / apologist in charge of official US Dept of Education Tweets inevitably produces results like the ones we see here.

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Oh to be an SNL writer… No work, just pull the transcripts & tweets.

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I hear that W.E.B. Du Bois is doing great things. I think he’ll go far.

Also, it appears that Mrs. DeVos is going out of her way to prove that her detractors were right in calling her unqualified for the job.

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In its subsequent apology, the Department of Education misspelled the word “apologies” as “apologizes.”

“our deepest apologizes for the earlier typo.”

They didn’t misspell “apologies.” Their mistake was writing “deepest” when they meant to write “dumb-shit Secretary DeVos.”

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She actually seems to be pretty good at it, too!

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It’s Du Bois and not the Blahh Guy you dip shytes!

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Is W.E.B. DeBois another notable, undead person in African-American history? Just asking, Betsy DuVos.

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Remember how the Secret Service kept letting people jump over the fence a few years ago because they they didn’t like being punished for the Colombian hookers and wanted to take it out on Julia Pierson?

This is what it looks like when decent people do that for a decent reason.

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Straight of Batshit De Vos’s mouth and quoted in Dark Money (the Koch book) by Jane Mayer.

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Hilarious! If they signed it “Keystone Cops” they would have spelled it K-y-s-t-o-n-e K-o-p-s too.

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Yes. He and Frederick Douglass are rooming together in NW DC.

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I remember in the 60s, when the W.E.B. duBois Club was active on university campuses, that white conservatives mistook it for the Boys Clubs of America, (now Boys and Girls Club), thus causing not a few threats and angry phone calls to The Boys Club.

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