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Unacademy Teacher Fired for telling students to 'Vote for Educated Leaders' Remark during lecture.

www.news18.com Sacked Unacademy Teacher Stands Firm on 'Vote for Educated Leaders' Remark | Controversy Explained - News18

The video and its subsequent response sparked a significant reaction on social media, with numerous users rallying behind Sangwan's statement. However, some others disagreed, asserting that personal opinions should not be shared within classrooms.

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If "Vote for Educated Leaders" is truly a controversial statement, then we're all fucked.
Your leaders absolutely should be educated, not even necessarily in politics, but Bob next door who's only got two neurons in his head fighting for third place shouldn't be leading any country
- The indian PM has a controversial masters degree ( mostly a fake one), so when someone says vote for educated people , he feels its an personal attack on him and his party !
  
  You forgot to name the prestigious degree: "Entire Political Science"
- Did you just wake up from hypersleep? We definitely are fucked my guy.
  
  Can I hypersleep until we make our way round to not being fucked?
- You want to use water? Like from the toilet?

I mean if he chose to communicate his preference, that's a problem. But "Vote for educated leaders" shouldn't be exactly controversial. If you're angry, is it because you know the ppl that you voted for are uneducated?
- Well that is where societies get to. Being educated or uneducated becomes equivalent to a political stance. There are plenty of examples of educators getting murdered by governments, sometimes en masse.
  
  Pol Pot took it a step further and murdered anyone who wore glasses, because wearing glasses was seen as being educated.
  Authoritarians of every type hate the educated, because the educated often hate authoritarianism.
  
  What's more concerning is when a society is populated by people who have take the most facile understanding of a position, and then go about confidently as if they understand it. Like, say, if a news article has a rage porn headline and then people don't read it to understand what actually was going on but make comments on websites as if there was no nuance to the subject whatsoever. ... Very concerning.
- He said, "Next time vote for someone who is well-educated so you don’t have to go through this again." I agree with him, and moreover I think teachers should be allowed to express themselves because everything is political. But I can't in good conscience argue that this was a politically-neutral statement. In particular, the words "Next time" are saying very plainly that he doesn't think it went well this time. This is a political argument against the current ruling government.
  
  he made a response on youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fU09ODTvMqg
  He said he meant to be politically neutral.
  
  This thread is fucking chilling in its ironic self righteousness.
- If only there were an article we could read that makes this clear...

It’s so incredibly sad how adults need to be reminded and told to vote for people that have a background with real education. I can’t believe people don’t care about education when it comes to voting for someone to be put in your government. I feel sorry for those people who don’t. You know it’s the people who don’t that have lives that revolve around politics and consume it everyday
- Religion and education are two things that violate the law of supply and demand. The less of either that you have, the less you want.

Quirk of a polarized political system thanks to FPTP-voting. Sooner or later even the lamest, most basic stuff suddenly turns political and "controversial" while billionaires laugh all the way to the bank. It's by design and what happens when groups of individuals are allowed to hoard obscene wealth and use it to rule the masses.
- I mean - I dislike financial inequality as much as the next person, but attributing the failing education system and polarization to “billionaires” will get us nowhere.
  The vast majority of politicians, educators, propagandists and just insecure people are not billionaires. Don’t take away their responsibility, they are not mindless babies.
  
  Except that the money flowing to the top 1% are the result of politics. The tax cuts which funnel money out of the public coffers and into billionaires' pockets also require cuts to services, like education. Polarization is what's required to motivate voters to continue to vote against their own interests. They're very much connected.

BJP wants to turn india into hindu theocracy.
- There's absolutely a trend/coordinated effort among the global right wing to basically turn every country into Russia, strong dictator, highly nationalistic, one religion forced on everybody, and much much more. It's happening in America, Europe, Canada, and all of their media and influencers are working together to push the same "values" on everyone, homophobic, transphobic, misogynistic, racist, and anti-intellectual, anything "woke".
  It's time for us to unite globally against the Right wing and their allies, that's the real world war we're going to have to go through in order to stop them from holding us back and to fix this world's problems.
  
  It’s time for us to unite globally against the Right wing and their allies
  Democrats 🤝I.N.D.I.A alliance

Now I know to avoid Unacademy.
- If "vote for someone educated" has you acting like this, you're a buffoon.
  
  Brother, he's not saying he's going to avoid that teacher, he's saying he's going to avoid the place that fired him for saying "Vote for educted leaders". Don't be a buffoon.
  
  Another teacher also came out supporting him: https://newsroompost.com/india/babita-mam-calling-for-vote-to-educated-leader-goes-viral-after-karan-sangwan/5272032.html
  She might also get fired unfortunately due to the pressure of andh-Bhakts (Blind-nationalists)
  
  How dare you call conservatives buffoons! What if they see your hurtful comment and have someone read it to them?
  
  Miss. He's avoiding it now because they fired the guy

It feels like we've been devolving as a species for the last 20 years or so, I'm pretty tired of living in interesting times.
- Last 20 years are very boring time. This is how stagnation works.

Shame on him what if I want stupid dumb idiot leaders?
- Then you're in luck!
  
  Always has been
- You are in your element

Stop voting for fascists just because they blame all your problems on marginalized people, already.

I'd love to see those who disagree with his statement answer the question "when is a good time to not vote for educated leaders?" that applies more than 0.01% of the time.
Even religious people shouldn't disagree with it. If you want someone with religious background in then you want them to be educated in matters to do with that religion. That they themselves don't consider that education is telling.

That's a real shame but it says a lot about the motivations of politicians and the fear they have of education. If I ran my own school, I'd be reaching out to him to hire him.

It’s really telling when politicians feel attacked by such a statement.

Teacher fired for promoting education. Got it.

He's clearly pushing the anti republican agenda... SMH
- I guess what Lemmy has in common with Reddit is that nobody reads the article. This happened in India.
  
  half of lemmy users are reddit migrants
- Yeah, I could certainly picture some right wing nut complaining it's an attack on their conservative/Christian values
  
  This happened in India. Right wing nut, sure, but probably not Christian.

Yea, I agree with his statement but it was implied who he was talking about and when you add his social media posts showing a bias to a specific political party it was a no brainer and why would ask your students in a class to not vote for a particular political party.

While I agree that leaders should be educated. It's not a teachers place to tell any student what or who to vote for.

Summarize what's wrong with the US in one sentence:
Unacademy Teacher Fired for telling students to 'Vote for Educated Leaders' Remark during lecture
- Read the article and tell me what’s wrong with your post in one sentence.
  
  It's a colony again?
- Bruh, this literally didn't even happen in the US; it happened in India.
  Even if you didn't read the article, it's in the article URL LMAO:
  
  Well, it sounds like something that would happen in US.

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