"Ignorant Education Major"

In my last post I discussed the relentless and frankly very tacky cyberbully who embellished and over generalized what I said on social media. She used what I said to lead others in calling me ignorant and declaring that I had no right to educate their children. Actually, I have more right than they do. Just think:

1) Would you rather someone educate your children on how to publicly harrass, defame, criticize, and discredit another individual? Because that's the lesson that was taught by her post and her comments. Not how to stand up for what you think is right, then let it go instead of getting into an argument on social media. Not how to do the classy thing and not lash out. There was no lesson in fairness from what she did.
2) Do you really want your children to become that kind of writer? Who doesn't report the facts, who libels, who punishes others for thinking differently, who uses the words of others for their own agenda? Do you really want your children to be that self-centered? Down south, when you're self-centered, you get a big ole butt whooping. If you say something mean, you get mouth washed out with soap. Maybe she should go back to school and learn a lesson or two about being nice before she starts trying to critique others.
3) What can your students learn from unfairness, bitterness, deceit, and mockery? Do you want them to learn that they can do these things to others and get away with it? What message would that send?
 I wish I could one day shield my children (and each of my precious students) from the infliction of such harm; but when it does come to them, I hope that they hold their head high and know that they are better than that. Bullies only win if you let them bring you down. Bullies only win if they bring the worst out in you but you can refuse to let them.
There are many examples in literature (which I will be teaching) of antagonists and protagonists; but the protagonist became the hero because he kept his morals. He (or she) fought the antagonist without becoming like him. Not everyone has control over what is said about them or done to them, but how we react matters more than the lies.
4) Is it really any of her business what I do with my life? Clearly from my last post, this journalist likes to spout negativity, so she's just trying to bring others down. The teacher says, keep your eyes on your own paper and mind your own business. If people paid more attention to their own business instead of minding the affairs of others and telling them how to do their job, we wouldn't have so many problems in this country. But in her case, she is in the public eye. She needs to learn that this will happen to her a lot. So cheers to you and all the professional criticism you get from all of your readers who take qualms with what you write!

For the record

Social media in this country has gotten so out of hand. I'll be the first to admit that I'm naive. My tweets are now protected which could have avoided a sticky mess in the first place, but I've never had a problem until now. I wouldn't do something like what was done to me, so it didn't really occur to me that someone else might be that much of just a plain aweful and malicious human being. And she's a journalist! Ha! She stalked my social media so that you would have things to post about me. Baited me, and then posted what I said out of context. And then used what she found out about me as some political joke to egg on her fellow liberal friends. I'd like to set the record straight, for anyone who as an honest human being and doesn't believe everything that's put in front of them. If people say that you don't think for yourself, then maybe you should take this opportunity to start proving them wrong.
It doesn't bother me all that much for someone to post something negatively about me. Everyone has antagonize-rs. But what I don't get is that a) you responded to me first which makes you look like a baiter; b) instead of trying to engage me in a political discussion, since you seem to care oh so much about political views, you made assumptions without confronting me about it (I would have been more than happy to discuss with you, but you didn't want a discussion, you wanted to discredit me) and c) you were so cowardly that you posted it where I couldn't see. Luckily for you my friend knows you and showed me the post.

What I responded to was a quote retweet of an article about a same-sex couple who was trying to change the same-sex marriage ban in my state. They had gone to California to get married, so I was trying to express the thought of "if it was good enough for you to go there to get married, why don't you go back? If my state doesn't suit YOUR needs, why do you have to change it for the millions of people that are happy with it the way that the system works right now?" Which is a valid argument.
The journalist in question (if you can call her that)  reported falsities and generalizations, she should get a job at MSNBC! Actually take that back, she doesn't have the face for TV. She responded with "They're FROM Alabama." Umm, yes thank you I got that. That has no bearing on the matter. They still left the state to get married...And then, I responded with "Maybe they belong in Alabama just like you do." Which okay, I meant those two people in general, because THAT'S WHO WE WERE TALKING ABOUT AND THAT'S WHO THE ARTICLE WAS ABOUT. Then she posts "All gays and liberals to California Carly says" like I made some kind of blanket statement. Ugh. Then she posts it all over Facebook with details about me and my life and career that she could only know from stalking my tweets. How cute.
The most laughable was that she said that I dressed up as Ann Romney for Halloween. Like is that supposed to be a burn because I don't see how that's a burn?
In all of this, I got called entitled, ignorant, a bigot, a racist, and an elitist. Sticks and stones.
The republican party gets roasted and continually made fun of and misrepresented by awful journalists like her who only quote what can defame character, because that's fair and balanced, right? Wrong.