Re woke:Oklahoma State Department of Education employees received this warning this morning:

[Swede]

Link to tweet

[no_hypocrisy]

1. IOW, "Your Integrity or Your Job".

[gratuitous]

2. Looking forward to a whopper of a lawsuit

I wonder why the superintendent is so publicity-shy about what he's* doing?

*Assuming his pronouns are he/him.

[hippywife]

4. He's a weak-ass little nazi wannabe.

Everyone hates him.

[Marthe48]

12. Enough voters liked him to lodge him

in their state house. Why these fascists get voted in, I'll never know.

GOTV

[hippywife]

16. The problem in OK is...

people can't be bothered to vote. Fewer than 55% of eligible voters even bothered for the 2020 election.

[niyad]

3. DofE person doesn't know the "who" or "that" usage? Not encouraging. And that is

before we even get to the absolutely threatening, menacing content of that memo.

[RobinA]

25. It Looks To Me

like they don't know a lot of things about basic writing. What an embarrassment. And that's without even considering the politics.

[niyad]

28. Sadly true.

[Ptah]

5. full image:

[Jilly_in_VA]

6. Hey Matt baby

Whistleblowers are protected by federal law. Get over your puffed-up self.

[getagrip_already]

7. kind of makes him look impotent, no?

> You may not leak this.

> Information leaked.

What are you gonna do about it mattie old boy? Issue another stern memo?

[Hekate]

8. I suppose this counts as an "internal document," too. Someone gonna get fired, Matt?

[Fla Dem]

9. 'Opened the state up to lawsuits': Oklahoma attorney, lawmaker react to OSDE email

OKLAHOMA CITY (KOKH) — An attorney is saying the Oklahoma State Department of Education (OSDE) committed a First Amendment violation.

This comes after Ryan Walters' chief advisor sent a threatening email to OSDE staffers, calling it a "final warning" to employees who disagree with Walters' beliefs.

Employment attorney Mark Hammons says this "absolutely" qualifies as grounds for a lawsuit.
"One of those [OSDE] employees comes to me, I've got the smoking gun about motivation on that," Hammons said. "That is such a stupid thing."

More.....
https://okcfox.com/news/local/opened-the-state-up-to-lawsuits-oklahoma-attorney-lawmaker-react-to-osde-email-state-department-of-education-mark-hammons-ryan-walters-matt-langston-chief-advisor-whistleblower-private-public-toxic-hostile-environment-sue-suing-senator-mary-boren-legal

Yes, please do state employees, let's drown them in law suits.

[flying_wahini]

10. Oh yeah? You and whose Army? ..... Okla teachers prolly

[Warpy]

11. I love that the first thing somebody did was leak it

All of this stuff deserves a middle finger and civil disobedience.

[Brother Buzz]

26. There's a sinister twist about the leak

-snip-

The OSDE employee who shared the email with News 4 this morning asked that their name not be revealed.

However, Langston alluded on social media the emails served as a trap.

He referenced an article about the Tesla CEO, Elon Musk sending similar emails that were encoded with either one or two spaces between sentences, forming a binary signature that identified the leaker.

-more-


https://kfor.com/news/local/ryan-walters-versus-the-state-of-oklahoma-osde-threatens-to-fire-employees-who-share-information-with-media/

[Warpy]

30. Dunno, sounds like a lot of technobabble hooey to me

and Musk has been caught doing that before. Besides, Langston aint that important.

If the leaker is identified, probably by some right winger working for News 4, s/he can be proud, saying that email could have been copied from some overreaching government flunky in Moscow or Pyongyang.

[Brother Buzz]

31. Indeed, it may be the best Langston could conjure up

At the end of the day, this story blew up in the idiot's face.

[Carlitos Brigante]

13. Wow!!! Woklahoma, who knew...... nt

[bucolic_frolic]

14. He should have stuck with AI

at least it wouldn't rely on "beliefs to fight the liberal woke culture".

This dude is laughable.

[Permanut]

15. Professionalism and integrity..

Right, got it

[Ford_Prefect]

17. SO much for transparency in OK public education???

A private corporation might institute such a clause. For one which serves the public and paid by public money, not unless there were compelling specific reasons. The claims of Walters, and others, regarding liberal woke culture, indoctrination, and pornography leave them open to lawsuit and provide no reasonable basis for such demands of non-disclosure and policy. Someone fired over this will have quite broad grounds for swift Federal legal action. This is like the COVID conspiracy crap as it has no basis in reality at all.

It is fascism pure and simple. He might as well demand that all employees of SDE must belong to and vote for Republican party dogma. It is in effect the same assertion.

[Takket]

18. That wasn't written by the Onion?

Nothing like spewing a bunch of politically charged hate filled nonsense and then saying employees have to adhere to the highest level of ethical standards. Only thing that statement was missing was this guy’s head spinning 360 degrees like The Exorcist.

[Turbineguy]

19. Would that include this document?

It has been leaked.

[NCjack]

20. Who classified as secret those documents?

[maxsolomon]

21. Empathy is now a named threat to Conservatives.

They certainly have re-defined these terms quite cleverly. It probably took millions in think-tank funding to get here.

[NowISeetheLight]

22. If They're So Proud

If they're so proud of the "anti-woke" agenda they're pushing they should have no problem with transparency. Unless of course they actually realize they're doing something underhanded.

[PatSeg]

27. That's a good point

Why should any of this be a secret?

[Midnight Writer]

23. "The authority of Superintendent Walters to wage war on 'Woke' will not be questioned!"

[Efilroft Sul]

24. Educators should hire private investigators to look for dirt on Langston and Walters.

I'll bet they have something to hide that can be used against them. Destroy them.

[Behind the Aegis]

29. That asshole doesn't even live in Oklahoma!

This is how fucking brazen these shitstains are!