His name is Dean Nafarrete, associate principal of Otay Ranch High School near San Diego. I have no idea how his name is pronounced but it really doesn't matter since he seems to have doomed himself to being called "PC Principal" now and forever unto the end of time. How did he accomplish this distinction? By interrupting a speech at that school sponsored by the Young America's Foundation by Ben Shapiro. Breitbart explains how and why the school's PC Principal halted Shapiro's speech at the 44 second mark in the video below to dismiss the students to keep them from hearing Thought Crime ideas:
On Tuesday afternoon, Breitbart News Senior Editor-at-Large and Daily Wire Editor-in-Chief Ben Shapiro spoke at Otay Ranch High School, near San Diego.
A capacity crowd of over 450 students turned out to hear the speech, sponsored by Young America’s Foundation, at the largely-minority public school. They listened with interest – until a school administrator, Dean Nafarrete, dismissed the students halfway through the speech, telling them that Shapiro’s conservatism “crossed a line.”
...Nafarrete said he would “dismiss the students” because Shapiro “crossed a line” by discussing the realities of income mobility in the United States. Asked about whether the government ought to take money from rich Americans and give it to poor Americans to help poor Americans rise from poverty, Shapiro explained that handouts did not accomplish that goal: only hard work and prudent fiscal management did that.
Shapiro added that America’s permanent poor were not poor because they had been exploited by wealthier Americans, but because permanently poor Americans are typically not good with money, which is why lottery winners with a history of poverty largely fall back into poverty after spending their winnings.
“The reason people are permanently poor in the United States,” Shapiro said, “isn’t because they don’t have money, it’s because they suck with money. The reasons people are temporarily poor can vary.” As a rumble ran through the crowd, Shapiro continued, “That’s not even controversial. If you’re permanently poor [in America] for your entire life, you’re not great with money by definition…”
GASP! Stop! Please stop! Paging PC Principal!
That’s when Nafarrete stepped in and dismissed the students. “I’m sorry, Mr. Shapiro,” he said, “I’m at a point right now, where, quite frankly, I’m going to dismiss the students… With all due respect, Mr. Shapiro, Mr. Shapiro represents a narrative that he’s providing to all you guys based on his opinions, what he believes, what he wants to share with all of you. I know that the education was there for all of you to understand, the left side, right side, whatnot, but also the opportunity was allowed for him to impress some of his opinions on certain things… I think what this is getting into now, it’s starting to cross a line.”
Shapiro interjects, “What would that line be?”
Nafarrete continues, “For those students who would like to be dismissed, I’m going to allow you to go ahead and do so at this time.”
Many of the students booed Nafarrete’s announcement. Approximately half the students left.
If all this sounds somewhat familiar it might be because it seemed like a replay of South Park featuring PC Principal as you can see in the following video (strong language alert):
Many observers, including MRC Culture's On TV Blog Editor, Alexa Moutevelis Coombs, have praised this season's South Park for it's brilliant mockery of PC Culture. Among the main characters this season is PC Principal whose political correctness was reflected by the real live PC Principal of Otay Ranch High School. Some might have thought that South Park's PC Principal was over the top but in reality he is perfectly personified by many real life PC Principals in both high schools and colleges around the nation including the one who halted Shapiro's speech.
One of the obsessions of South Park's PC Principal is creating "safe spaces" for students and the PC Principal of Otay Ranch High School is similarly obsessed:
As they left, Shapiro told Breitbart News, Nafarrete stated that he had to let the students go in order to “protect” their feelings, since many came from low-income homes. Shapiro responded that Nafarrete was doing them no favors by coddling their feelings, since reality still exists; earlier in the speech, Shapiro had told the students that the greatest obstacle to their own success was making good choices, rather than external factors.
Exit question: Who will be the first brave student of Otay Ranch High School to print out the picture of South Park's PC Principal and then ask their real life PC Principal to autograph it?
