vol.2 wrote:
BIL wrote:
Casting a desire to victimise, wherever it comes from, as an "urge" is a dangerous rationalisation as it is.
It wasn't given as one. OP trumped that up. It was presented as the feelings of a community, not a rationalization. In order to start fixing a problem, you have to understand how and why everything works first. You do that by listening to people and forming a better picture of the situation. That's the dialog part.
The author herself poisons any notion of dialogue by casting non-blacks as racial antagonists. Some ideas are innately radioactive.
CRT Enthusiast wrote:
Your daughter might not have done anything deliberately to harm anyone or to invite mistreatment, but her presence disrupts something truly fragile: the feeling of safety Black kids get from being with other Black kids.
Oh no, not the disgusting presence of white people. Judging by the US's genocidal rates of black on black homicide, I suspect the author's "safety" may be a false refuge.
Balkan Race Relations Dept wrote:
Those kids see their parents struggling to afford to live in an area that is changing to better reflect people like you. They think of how they and the adults they love have been treated by White folks in positions of authority their entire lives (perhaps including some of the teachers at this Black school). They know the world is kinder to your child than it is to them. The combination of that knowledge, that pain, and their youth can be very volatile.
They "know" this, huh. Just an inborn disgust response to white people. It's no wonder these kids are constantly fighting off the urge to attack, it must be maddening.
Subtext wrote:
"But if you dismantled Whiteness, with your White People Powers, we wouldn't have to hate you!"
Oh I see. As Bryan says, the situation at hand is deeply entrenched and beyond the control of common individuals. What solutions are to be reached on the ground, once you've designated entire races and their children as parasites? Haiti is coming to mind, here. Whatever retribution was had at the time - and those slaves were victimised atrociously - the place is now a nightmare beyond the worst US ghetto. It's very racially pure, though.
It's okay when we do it wrote:
School integration is complicated, and the U.S. has never worked to implement it in any meaningful way. The haphazard integration that has been born of gentrification has and will continue to hurt a lot of kids. I am sorry that your daughter was one of them, and I hope you are able to help her get through this difficult time with the right attitude.
Yeah, I do hope the kid and her family don't end up despising you and yours for tarring her as reaving ogre-spawn.
Cherry on the race war sundae wrote:
Imagine if your daughter had been very popular at this school, well-liked and embraced by her peers. What if her Whiteness had made her a celebrity of sorts, accepted and celebrated by students and teachers alike because of the ways that society typically privileges White girlhood? How might you have reacted to that? Would you have been concerned about how this could impact the Black girls in her class? What if she were the valedictorian in that all-Black school? Would that have been a problem to you?
Notice the total lack of disconnect between the preceding racially-charged scenario and the pupil's hypothetical success. Crab bucket writ in screaming neon signage.
Sly Cherry Chunks wrote:
Holy shit Lindsay, not even
MovieBob will go near this one.
I told em,
Hotdog-chan a crazy bitch (■`ω´■)BryanM wrote:
It's hard to call it neutered when it has control of the strongest empire in the history of the earth.
It's neutered in the context of this discussion, IE, if a Christian fundamentalist intimates that a schoolteacher should be sacked or beheaded for showing a cartoon of Jesus, your response will (correctly) be
"Fuck off you absolute muppet."In this context, the complainants are treated gingerly, as if they have a leg to stand on.
Their religion
is, in a sense, neutered - in a true theocracy, the teacher would be Paty'd in short order - but you can go a long, patently un-earned way, when the state is carrying you on its meekly supplicating shoulders.