NO a school did not ban a cute Wonder Woman lunchbox

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

Once again, the Internet, and several mainstream news outlets who should know better fall for a fictitious tale of oppressive political correctness run going out of control:

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HELLO DO NOT BELIEVE EVERYTHING YOU READ ON THE INTERNET! 

This week a lot of people are sharing a “story” that originated on Imgur/Reddit:

Letter a friend of mine’s daughter received from school today. Her Wonder Woman lunchbox features a violent super hero that does not comply with the school’s dress code. Pictures of the lunchbox are also attached. (m.imgur.com)

Along with a letter. purportedly from the school board, telling the parent that little Laura’s Wonder Woman lunchbox promoted violence, was a picture of said lunchbox — and gasp, horror it was a benign Wonder Woman item seemingly based on that Jose Luis Garcia Lopez style guide everyone was gushing about the other day. Good god! Political correctness run amok! Are we raising a generation of pansies, think of the children blah blah.

The story has been picked up about 8 trillion times since then, everywhere from The Mary Sue to EW to People to ACTUAL REAL NEWSPAPERS. Even Lynda Carter has gotten involved.

All based on a single unsourced, uncredited photo posted by a user who has since deleted their account. A poster who wasn’t even the parent but “A friend.” I mean, come on.

More at:
http://www.comicsbeat.com/no-a-school-did-not-ban-a-cute-wonder-woman-lunchbox/

[JI7]

1. probably clickbait

[hfojvt]

2. you expect me to believe THIS story

that I am reading on the internets?

8 trillion times?

Like that's believable.

[pinboy3niner]

3. You expect me to believe you're the REAL hfojvt?

Just because you have an unauthenticated username? I strongly suspect somebody's genius cat is using the keyboard again!

[hfojvt]

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Sometimes the monkeys produce some Shakespeare. Other times not so much.

Even ten years ago I was getting messages online from computer programs. I figured that out when I saw the same sequence multiple times.

Imagine some anti-social genius somewhere writing a program called "stir up excrement" which would create multiple user names and invade a message board. I mean, if computers can play basically unbeatable chess, then why not play the "game" of conversation? Or is that too much like AI? Wouldn't a computer potentially have massive ability to analyze people's responses to various threads and replies and thus perhaps be able to predict and provoke various responses?

Is it live or is it Speicus?

[pinboy3niner]

6. If this keeps up, we'll have to submit all site registrants to a Turing test

Starting with you and me.

P.S.--I don't believe you're a monkey, so at least you've got that going for you.

[MicaelS]

4. A story like this is easy to believe given...

The Zero Tolerance culture which has run amuck in today's school systems.

[Squinch]

7. Which has been created in your mind by stories like this one.

Or the "bread shaped as a gun" gets student expelled

or the "kid using his finger as a gun" gets student expelled

or all the others that never happened.

Notice, too, that all these stories seem to hit at something that can be considered a liberal value: non-violence, gun control, etc. It's just another story told to the low information voter about how those damn liberals are taking over "my Murica."

[yardwork]

13. Lol! Actually, that's the whole point of lies like this - to make you believe them.

I have three children ranging in age from preteen to early 20s. I'm here to tell you that most of the stuff you read about "political correctness" and "zero tolerance" in schools is nonsense. The schools have way too much to contend with to be dealing with lunch boxes. Trust me.

[Enrique]

8. PC run amok!

that school is everything wrong with today's liberal elites!!!!!

[FLPanhandle]

9. The internet lied to me? Shocking.

[oberliner]

10. Amazing how this was picked up by so many so-called legitimate news sources

And none made any effort to verify the claim - identify the school or the parents in question, etc.

[GreatGazoo]

11. I have a Lasso of Truth around my modem so it blocks those stories

[Recursion]

12. Remember when journalists confirmed things?

Those were good times.

[Starry Messenger]

14. People love to hate on schools.

[snooper2]

15. I called it LOL, and people went on in that thread of course

She had to cover it to protect the school!

Poor school would have a witch hunt they don't deserve that!