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General News Teacher makes child write right handed because lefties are "sinister"

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  1. GeeLee

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    Oklahoma teacher orders

    O.....Kay.....
     
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    Sinistrality FTW :3 :3 :3
     
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    Back in the sixties, my mother was forced to change from left to right handed in elementary school simply because they didn't have the resources or knowledge to approach it. Not bc it was sinister. wtw
     
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    Is that the joke? Sinister = left handed.
     
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    Quick, capture that teacher! This is surely a sign of a time traveller from the past! We must learn of what kind of sorcery they used to get here!
     
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    What the fuck.
     
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    Ironically, aspects of sexual orientation are similar to aspects of handedness and how handedness works. People mistreated left handed people and said they were possessed by the devil. In a sense, homosexuals today are what left handed people were decades and centuries ago. I'm not surprised that some people still hold on to these centuries old arguments that make no sense at all.
     
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    I saw something on that once. They remind me of this:
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    Do anything different from the masses and they'll want to clobber you for it. That's what history class taught me.
     
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    Happened to my grandmother back when she was a kid, she was left handed and forced to use her right hand. I had the same thing happen, i still use my left hand to do things but i can't use it for writing etc because i have no practice writing with my left hand, though my attempts show i could write better, faster and clearer with my left than my right.
     
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    No, it's an actual belief, but it was much more likely to have happened to your grandmother than a modern child. I've never heard of this still being a thing, but it very much used to be.
     
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    The word sinister comes from the italian sinistra meaning left hand side. As has been said already, left handed people were treated like us LGBT are now. Unfortunately, it seemed that religion perpetuated the myth that left handed people are sinister. I'm glad that religion doesn't think that us LGBT are not worthy. :bang:
     
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    It's because the left hand is associated with the left hand of god (lucifer), who fell the right hand being michael or jesus (depending on your denomination). Learned that from sabbath school. Left hand is supposedly the devil's tool.
     
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    My grandma went through this in the 1940s! To this day she writes & eats right handed because it was beaten into her at a convent.
     
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    My mom went through this in the 70's. I think. She is prettty old. :wink:
     
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    My mom told stories about a left-handed boy in one of her grade school classes who had his hand hit with a ruler by the teacher every time he used his left hand.

    Todd
     
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    Here's something I've always wondered about those times and places...

    Let us say a child, for whatever reason, has no right hand. They only have their left. Are they, then, allowed to use that hand or, because it is so EVIL, they need somebody else to write stuff for them?
     
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    Pfft. This is an easy question to answer. You chop the left hand off for balance, and the severed hand is burned at the holy altar so that the evil wu-wu from it burns away and the individual is purified. They are then baptized and forced to live their lives in submission to God repenting for their sinful ways like everyone else.

    Come on now. That's just common sense!

    P.S. Reading and Writing are unnecessary skills. That is what preachers are for, they will tell you what to think.
     
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    I thought this none since way of thinking died back in the 60's - 70's. My mom was left handed and her Racist, bible thumping step-father did this to her for the same reason. My mom is ambidextrous now but better with her left.
     
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    God damnit that is so fucking retarted!!! I am so glad I'm homeschooled now. I really don't miss the bull shit from teachers.
     
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    Haha I must be the devil then to these idiots. Left hand pride!