When I was a teacher, I dealt with a lot of disrespect in some towns and only a little in others. The students who were the most disrespectful to me are ones my more experienced colleagues claimed were as just disrespectful toward them, yet said students always tried to convince me that it was my fault they were being disrespectful because I didn't deserve to be respected. You could speculate that this was an unrepresentative sample of these towns, but it does take a village to raise a child.
And yet, since leaving the profession, I heard Joe Biden claim (in retrospect falsely) that if a subordinate behaves disrespectfully, he will fire them on the spot. No "depending on who it is you're disrespecting and to what extent they deserve to be disrespected" caveat whatsoever.
There seems to be a bit of a discrepancy here. If the public wants people to be respectful by default, why didn't they raise own their sons and daughters to be? If the public believes respect is earned and not given, why don't politicians trying to get re-elected include "well, depending on who is being disrespected and how deserved it is, I guess" in their promises?
Sometimes even within the same profession there's a discrepancy. "Contempt of cop" arrests seem to be widely perceived as retroactively justifying whatever disrespect the suspect showed the officer, yet when some town councilor in Youngsville was caught driving drunk, her disrespectful behaviour toward the police was considered relevant in how badly it reflects on her all the same, instead of people assuming the cops must have deserved whatever disrespect they were given like they would with a teacher. So again, why the discrepancy? Does the public believe respect is earned and not given, or not?
Submitted April 01, 2023 at 04:03PM by Planet_Breezy https://ift.tt/WmIhrLG
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