Update: 10/12: Hadn’t realized Glenn Reynolds linked to this post. Vetting problems, indeed.
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The literary term irony is used in different ways. For example, something that appears to mean one thing but actually means another is irony. The incongruity between the actual result of an event and the expected result of an event is irony.
Our president appointed a homosexual activist named Kevin Jennings to head the Department of Education’s Office of Safe and Drug Free Schools. Jennings’s present job entails “creating safe schools, responding to crises, drug abuse and violence prevention, ensuring the health and well being of students and promoting development of good character and citizenship.”
Twenty-one years ago, while Jennings was a high school teacher, a teenage boy (a student) told him he was “involved” with a man he met in a public bathroom. Jennings didn’t call the police and report the molestation/statutory rape, however; he told the boy to use condoms. (Source)
This is irony: A man charged to lead an office focused on the well-being of children failed to protect a child preyed upon by an adult. Rather than calling the boy’s parents and/or child protective services and/or warning the kid to stay away from strange men in public bathrooms, he advises him to use a condom to avoid contracting nasty diseases while being buggered.
Then again, should we be surprised?
Totally and absolutely disgusting.
And ironic.
