Thread by @webdevMason

Alison Collins, the SF school board commissioner who was stripped of her committee appointments after calling insufficiently woke Asian Americans "house n*****s," is now suing the board & five board members for $15 million EACH for "severe emotional distress," among other things.

https://twitter.com/ggreschler/status/1377393422487613443

According to Collins' complaint, "$12,000,000.00 will only tip the scale in the direction of injustice," and "to protect the public from the gross misuse of governmental power" she must be awarded an addition $3 million from each defendant in punitive damages.

Again, Collins believes she's owed in excess of $60 million because she was stripped of her VP title and committee appointments — but NOT removed from the board — after she tweeted a racial slur against a community 35% of the district's students belong to

Keep in mind that this is the same Alison Collins who thought it was wonderful when Bari Weiss was straight-up fired from her job, because Bari wrote an article Alison didn't like. "It's not cancel-culture, it's called ACCOUNTABILITY."

(Okay, okay, unlike Alison, Bari wasn't *technically* fired. Oh wait, neither was Alison.)

She's seeking cash damages for "spiritual injury to her soul" which she will suffer "in perpetuity, for the rest of her life." This may be the most histrionic document I've ever seen

She's also looking to sue 50 more people once she figures out a few small details, e.g. "who" and "why"

I'd like to just stand back for a second and appreciate that one of SF's most notorious woke scolds is trying to set a precedent protecting city officials who use racial slurs in public

Okay, one more incredible section: the complaint alleges that Collins' fellow board members caused her "clear and present danger, harm, and injuries" by commenting on her offensive tweets, and rebukes them for allowing the public to make comments that called her a "racist."

The complaint is essentially arguing that Alison Collins had a constitutionally-protected right to tweet racial slurs without (nonmonetary) impact to her employment, but that her fellow board members should have to compensate her for merely allowing the public to comment on them

I think Alison Collins might genuinely believe that it's illegal to call her a racist

I ask for so little, please universe, just give me this

Nobody seems to be able to say with certainty exactly how much money is being sought in this insane suit

https://twitter.com/hknightsf/status/1377417308864274433

The children of San Francisco won't be secure in their education until Alison gets a beachside chateau in Half Moon Bay from which to recover from the severe psychic damage of being called a racist by their horrified parents

https://twitter.com/hknightsf/status/1377444132071768067

If you're wondering how Collins got anyone to write this godforsaken thing up and file it, the answer is probably just that she's filthy rich. If you're paying as you go, you can try to sue the pants off anyone you like

https://twitter.com/aarieff/status/1374756276253642752

I'll be honest: I don't fully understand how anyone can make a straight-faced case for being reinstated as VP of the same school board they're personally suing for a considerable fortune

The next SFUSD general meeting (Zoom, viewable by the public) is on April 6, and given that Alison Collins is still on the board that sure ought to be fun

These meetings were a livestreaming clown show *before* all of this, so I can only imagine what sort of flaming trainwreck will be on display next week

https://twitter.com/webdevmason/status/1359326439108059136