Upon entering the home of Twitter, you immediately notice three people in the living room. The lyric-posters, the my-parents-suck-ers, and the Social Justice Warriors. You can’t help but notice the excessive, hard-to-ignore yelling coming from the direction of the Social Justice Warrior. They seem to have tons to say, which is fine, but how much of their 140 character rant is research-based?
False Tweet: The school increased water prices because they want us to have heatstroke and die. They’re making us broke and using our hard-earned money for the Senior Circle.
Really though: The drought is a tough situation. Thank God the school’s bottled water has ALWAYS BEEN $1. Anyway, it would be horrible if students had to drink from the water fountains. That’s just disgusting! The water is HOT. If only our school had water cooling systems—that would be a dream. Phew, good thing Sam’s Club sells packs of twenty four bottles for seven dollars. Why is the money even going to the Senior Circle? Honestly, the school should really have separate accounts for district and administrative projects and lunch money. Geez, don’t they know anything? My dollars are NOT for these frilly remodels.
False Tweet: The dress code limits my freedom as a woman!
Really though: The dress code is applied to both girls and boys, it is not sexist. If there are situations in which the code is not enforced equally to both sexes, then the blame lies in the enforcement of the code, not the code itself.
When you go to specific parks—public facilities—you’re not allowed to ride your bike. Does this limit your freedom as a civic commuter? No, it’s just a rule to abide by. The whole “safety” fiasco that everyone on Twitter and their mothers got so upset about was in reference to actually dangerous apparel such as spikes, not bra straps or showing shoulders. Hating the dress code does not make you a feminist. If you want to run around butt-naked in the streets outside of school, no one is stopping you.
False Tweet: It is so atrocious that even our buildings are being remodeled. How dare they force us to walk up to the portables?
Really though: How RUDE of them to use our tax dollars on our educational facilities. Oh, no! An extra TWENTY steps? We might as well be training for the Olympics. And it’s not like the statistics show no difference in tardies ever since the portables were installed (except Wednesday mornings—weird).
Although there is great support for every Twitter warrior’s burning will to make a change, it’s probably best to do a little research first.