Iâd still sue. Trump does it all the time. It gets everyoneâs attention.
But in this case, we all know this was an intentional action to defame someone. Why not make life miserable for whomever made the bigoted decisionâŚand everyone else who knew but didnât say anything? Some of them might not get into the college they wanted or lose their scholarships.
Bigots have to learn that bad decisions will have consequences. If we start when they are young, maybe they wouldnât end up being a pig like Trump by the time they are fully grown?
But, but, but the one who did this will lose their perfect attendance cert if we suspend them. Then their daddy is a politician. Weâll punish someone you can bet on that. How about the student who complained.
I think she has a case, because the student next to her is identified as Build that Wall Rodriguez.
Next she ought to sue TPM for the stupid stock photo they are purporting to be about her.
The school obviously has diversity issues.I googled the name Isis and not surprisingly it has fallen from baby name popularity in the last few years. These days with all the auto check it should be easy to avoid accidents like this, but seems like it makes folks quite lazy to really check things. I see errors in books all the time these days that look like spell check errors or auto-fix errors. In the only English class I had to take as a engineering major, I had to read my essays backwards and check any word I had any doubt about in order not to fail by having more than 5 misspelled words. Reading it forward it was too easy to see what I wanted and not what I wrote.
Color me skeptical, but Iâm not ready to jump on the âobviously this was an anti-Muslim attackâ bandwagon. I was misidentified as someone else in my own yearbook multiple years in a row. The image in question doesnât look like her stock photo in the grade lineup, but rather a candid from another section of the yearbookâthose sections are pretty notorious for misidentifications because the kids putting together the yearbook often donât know everyone in the school. If there is another student named Isis Phillips, and there is a passing resemblance between the two girls, I donât think jumping on the yearbook team is productive at this point. More information is definitely needed here.
-Case
She says the school reached out and told her it was a âtypo,â but she adds âI beg to differ.â
I gotta go with the school here; I think a typo is likely. Try typing âBayan.â Youâll find that you actually type âIsisâ 9 times out of 10.
Yeah, but on the next page is someone named âSome, I Assume, Are Good Peopleâ Lopez.
In 1978 I was playing varsity football for an all boy Catholic school in Orange County. We went to the CIF playoffs and played Chaffey High School in I think it was the second round⌠As we walked through the parking lot, we had to walk through a large group of students who had assembled to welcome us. They yelled âFaggotâ, Homo" as well as a host of Anti-Catholic remarks targeting Priests, Nuns, as well as the Pope.
Upon our exit after the game, our bus was attacked and pelted with rocks, shattering the windows.
I guess getting beat (28-14) by a bunch of âfaggotsâ was tough to take.
The main employer at the time was Kaiser Aluminum. This area, Rancho Cucamonga, used to be basically like Youngstown, Ohio. Very white and Blue Collar.
It appears times have changed somewhat, they have moved on from Catholics and Gays to Muslims.
So this past year your pre-season money was on the Philadelphia 76ers taking the title I guess.
So the reissue will have her name as âIsil Phillips?â
My money is on not rushing to judgement based on a single personal account of something, when none of the basic fact-finding that could be done has even been attempted.
Here is my first suspect for the so-called typo:
But not all students are showing her support. Trevor Santellan, who worked on the yearbook, told the New York Daily News in a Twitter message that he thinks Zehlifâs reaction is âout of proportion.â He said on a campus of 3,200 students, there will be âimperfectionsâ during production.
âIf anything, sheâs being racist against herself because she misinterpreted it and not us,â Santellan said. âBecause we thought of it as a beautiful name that parents gave to a kid. She obviously didnât.â
Itâs a longstanding proofreading practice.
As a typesetter in the 80s-- we used this method.
Also learned that if you were made to proofread your own typeset copy that resulted in legal action?
You could not be held personally liable.
jw1
No so fast.
Leicester City won the Barclays Premier League this season with preseason odds at 5000-to-1.
Only the sixth different team to win the league title in 38 years.
jw1
Yes it has. Multiple news outlets (Google is a wonderful thing) have published multiple accounts of staff, students and yearbook staff providing statements and versions of what they know. Several accounts acknowledge an âIsis Phillipsâ was a student at the school for some time, but that she had transferred, was no longer a student, and wasnât pictured in the yearbook, putting further doubt about a transposition of names. And of all the students in the school, the one that was labeled âIsisâ, an Isis no longer there or in attendance, this young lady was tagged as being her? Yeah, TOTAL coincidenceâŚ
Iâm no attorney, and I welcome correction from our resident lawyers, but what Bayan Zehlif should do is
sue the fuck out of the school and the district.
We had to read a short story before class and then write an essay about the story in class. I think I failed the first few assigned due to âmajorâ errors, spelling being the my most common major error. Iâd probably have never passed if not for the backwards reading and if the slightest doubt, checking it. NC State didnât offer any English major at the time and engineers always said English 101 was the English departments revenge for that on engineers!