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STIFFED: Florida cancellation of David statue backfired BIGTIME as Christian college dumps school

STIFFED: Florida cancellation of David statue backfired BIGTIME as Christian college dumps school

STIFFED: Florida cancellation of David statue backfired BIGTIME as Christian college dumps school

It’s been a hell week of finding out for ultra Florida Man Barney Bishop, the board chair of Tallahassee Classical School, thanks to the firing of its principal over an art lesson.

Three delicate parents were somehow upset by a basic study of Renaissance artist Michelangelo and his most famous statue, which just happens to be of a giant naked man doing full-frontal.

They complained to Barney, calling the classical art piece “pornography.”

The David lesson had been taught at the school for years without complaints, but because of the manufactured MAGA hysteria over children being “groomed” by drag queens in libraries full of “pornography,” Principal Hope Carrasquilla was forced to resign after an ultimatum from Bishop.

 

The statue of David by Michelangelo.
Avert thine eyes from the flaccidity, young Floridians!

Hillsdale College, which the National Review called “one of the most important institutions in American conservatism” will no longer license its classical education curriculum to Tallahassee Classical, said spokeswoman Emily Stack Davis in a press statement.

“Tallahassee Classical previously held a license to use Hillsdale’s curricular materials,” the statement said. “That license has been revoked and will expire at the end of the school year.”

I love the finding out part of things, mainly because this one got personal for me.

After the story went viral, I called Barney and attempted to get a few questions answered, but he instead told me to go fuck myself before hanging up on me.

Yes, a man in charge of children’s education spoke to a woman in the media writing about him like that.

Also, he’s just supremely stupid, because he called me back after reading an email I’d sent before I called him, not realizing we’d already spoken.

Then he yelled over me for eight minutes, complained I was wasting his time when he was the one who called, told me to go fuck myself again, and hung up on me again.

He also called me again the next day after I sent an email to the school’s main info account.

Which is read by GUESS WHO?

Yeah, he didn’t remember talking to me twice already, so that was a short and not-sweet call.

THIS is who Barney Bishop is.

The poster child for free speech who talked over a woman for eight minutes because the truth hurt his pwecious snowflake fee-fees.

Twitter was bouncing Barney around but good over this.

Also, I called him again, but he didn’t answer and his voicemail is strangely full.

But my money’s on him calling me back and not remembering who I am, so watch this space for updates.

Tara Dublin
Tara is a reported opinion columnist at Occupy Democrats. She's a woefully underappreciated and unrepresented writer currently shopping for a super cool novel that has nothing to do with politics while also fighting fascism on a daily. Follow her on Twitter @taradublinrocks

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