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"...I was informed by the head of the high school that my philosophical challenges had caused “harm” to students, given that these topics were “life and death matters, about people’s flesh and blood and bone.” I was reprimanded for “acting like an independent agent of a set of principles or ideas or beliefs.” And I was told that by doing so, I failed to serve the “greater good and the higher truth.”

He further informed me that I had created “dissonance for vulnerable and unformed thinkers” and “neurological disturbance in students’ beings and systems.” The school’s director of studies added that my remarks could even constitute harassment."

That statement is phrased as a set of Objective judgements (i.e., the Moral Error of "Whiteness", according to the Edicts of the Woke.) Presumably, the escape clause preserving the Reprimand from that Contamination is the absence of any factual support offered to support its conclusions.

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