I never cared for that crew.
Sandi in particular was a real a-hole toward me. He posted some pretty nasty lies about me and PM’ed threats to me saying he was going to contact my workplace. I believe it all stemmed from me saying Michael Jackson was a weirdo.
Probably the only poster I truly would have liked to punch.
The lies people will tell themselves to cope with their own insecurities.
No one threatened you. What an outrageous claim.
The extent of what was stated was that your myopic, unsubstantiated certainty of MJ's guilt (despite his innocence in a court of law) was disappointing to see in someone who repeatedly claimed to be a faculty member of a public school in a district with a high volume of troubled kids, and it was further stated that while you likely approach your students' cases in the same manner, one hopes your colleagues do not.
That's it.
Is it wrong for one to hope that your fellow public school faculty members are more open-minded than you?
Of course not.
The fact that you inferred any kind of threat from the conversation (not to mention that you held onto it for 15 years since his death in 2009) signifies that it prompted some level of self-reflection on your part. This is a good development! The last thing we want faculty members at troubled schools to be doing is jumping to conclusions, because the students always come first.
Thankfully you were reminded of that fact.
There's no need to applaud anyone for helping you along the way to this reminder, but stop saying you were threatened into trying to become a better faculty member, and please stop insinuating anyone pmed you threats because of Michael Jackson out of the blue. No one would ever pm you about that. You pmed people about MJ incessantly because you were obsessed with him.
Your ego just didn't like one of the replies about how your obsession with the case pertains to your station in life, thus your ego reframed it all as a targeted personal attack when it was never anything of the sort.
An observation that perhaps you weren't fit for your duty that you routinely bragged about having is nothing more than that--an observation.
For now let's entirely ignore the fact that you felt the need to include that you wanted to punch Sandinista (IF WE TALK ABOUT HOW IT'S WRONG FOR A SELF-PROCLAIMED PUBLIC EDUCATOR TO SAY THEY WANT TO RESORT TO PHYSICAL ASSAULT, YOU MIGHT HARBOR IT AS A PERSONAL THREAT FOR ANOTHER 15 YEARS OH NO!)
