Metal Blog :: Hessian Action: Sweden fires teacher for metal beliefs
26 06 08 - 13:16
A metal musician who is a teacher who was fired before ever setting foot in a classroom has lodged a discrimination complaint with Sweden's Ombudsman of Justice (JO).
"He based the dismissal on my participation in a hard rock band, something that couldn't be accepted by other staff, or by the student's parents," wrote Koverot in his complaint to JO.
"The contents of the band's lyrics conflict with the school's values," he told the newspaper.
Sweden fires teacher for metal beliefs (The Local)
Why would this surprise anyone?
You can't be fired for being a member of Islamic Jihad. You can't be fired for being from a radical Christian sect that believes in hypostatic union with the Lamb. You can't be fired for blaming other groups for the failures of your own. But you talk about metal and suddenly, people are afraid.
They're afraid because metal embraces ambiguity and a perspective wider than that of humans. Morality is a group agreement to keep us all in line, and it rests upon us taking certain anthrocentric opinions as perspectives as a form of reality more important than physical reality itself. Morality manifests itself in most religions or anything that, by serving the individual, agrees that all individuals must be served.
Metal: the last true dissident group. If you're in Sweden, give these people hell. We're trying to find an email address for the principal so we can send him a few metal DVD rips as a token of our appreciation.
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