The "White People Are Mosquitoes" Video in FCPS

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Anonymous wrote:Overall issue: minorities will, very soon, be the majority in this country. It's just demographics. Very soon. Just fact. Institutions in our society are trying to prepare everyone for that fact. In case they don't know. In case anything will help with change.

It's reasonable to assume that intent is coming from a good place.

This seems like the ultimate non-sequitur to me. FCPS has very few schools that aren’t now majority-minority and the “White” students often come from very diverse backgrounds, including the Middle East, Eastern Europe, and Russia. So why push videos like this unless it’s some flex to demonstrate that Whites can now be singled out at will for ridicule or demonization? It seems like it will incentivize some White families to leave for less hostile environments or could end up radicalizing some White students in ways that otherwise wouldn’t have occurred.

There are far kinder ways to teach kids to respect each other and their differences than what this video and similar tools are peddling. Hint: they don’t involve flamethrowers to torch your peers for micro-aggressions.

The video includes all kinds of microaggressions. It doesn’t single out white people.

No reasonable person watching that video would reach that conclusion.

Take off your red cap and go rewatch it.

It covers all sorts of microaggressions from various people.

I guess certain white people want to play victim about anything they can.

Well, let's recap. The first person committing a micro-aggression is a blonde White girl/woman. She then turns into the pesky, annoying mosquito. The group of victims of frequent micro-aggressions early in the video are all non-White. Conversely, the speakers committing the micro-aggressions all have typical White accents. There is one White (gay) victim of a micro-aggression. But then White people are shown as indifferent to the micro-aggressions suffered by the Black woman wielding the flamethrower. The bad cop is a White guy. Then there's another group of victims of micro-aggressions, all non-White. They get to use the flyswatters to squash the mosquito (i.e., the White person at the beginning of the video).

It's an offensive anti-White video that shouldn't be shown in FCPS schools.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Overall issue: minorities will, very soon, be the majority in this country. It's just demographics. Very soon. Just fact. Institutions in our society are trying to prepare everyone for that fact. In case they don't know. In case anything will help with change.

It's reasonable to assume that intent is coming from a good place.

This seems like the ultimate non-sequitur to me. FCPS has very few schools that aren’t now majority-minority and the “White” students often come from very diverse backgrounds, including the Middle East, Eastern Europe, and Russia. So why push videos like this unless it’s some flex to demonstrate that Whites can now be singled out at will for ridicule or demonization? It seems like it will incentivize some White families to leave for less hostile environments or could end up radicalizing some White students in ways that otherwise wouldn’t have occurred.

There are far kinder ways to teach kids to respect each other and their differences than what this video and similar tools are peddling. Hint: they don’t involve flamethrowers to torch your peers for micro-aggressions.

The video includes all kinds of microaggressions. It doesn’t single out white people.

No reasonable person watching that video would reach that conclusion.

Take off your red cap and go rewatch it.

It covers all sorts of microaggressions from various people.

I guess certain white people want to play victim about anything they can.

Well, let's recap. The first person committing a micro-aggression is a blonde White girl/woman. She then turns into the pesky, annoying mosquito. The group of victims of frequent micro-aggressions early in the video are all non-White. Conversely, the speakers committing the micro-aggressions all have typical White accents. There is one White (gay) victim of a micro-aggression. But then White people are shown as indifferent to the micro-aggressions suffered by the Black woman wielding the flamethrower. The bad cop is a White guy. Then there's another group of victims of micro-aggressions, all non-White. They get to use the flyswatters to squash the mosquito (i.e., the White person at the beginning of the video).

It's an offensive anti-White video that shouldn't be shown in FCPS schools.

White accents???

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Overall issue: minorities will, very soon, be the majority in this country. It's just demographics. Very soon. Just fact. Institutions in our society are trying to prepare everyone for that fact. In case they don't know. In case anything will help with change.

It's reasonable to assume that intent is coming from a good place.

This seems like the ultimate non-sequitur to me. FCPS has very few schools that aren’t now majority-minority and the “White” students often come from very diverse backgrounds, including the Middle East, Eastern Europe, and Russia. So why push videos like this unless it’s some flex to demonstrate that Whites can now be singled out at will for ridicule or demonization? It seems like it will incentivize some White families to leave for less hostile environments or could end up radicalizing some White students in ways that otherwise wouldn’t have occurred.

There are far kinder ways to teach kids to respect each other and their differences than what this video and similar tools are peddling. Hint: they don’t involve flamethrowers to torch your peers for micro-aggressions.

The video includes all kinds of microaggressions. It doesn’t single out white people.

No reasonable person watching that video would reach that conclusion.

Take off your red cap and go rewatch it.

It covers all sorts of microaggressions from various people.

I guess certain white people want to play victim about anything they can.

Well, let's recap. The first person committing a micro-aggression is a blonde White girl/woman. She then turns into the pesky, annoying mosquito. The group of victims of frequent micro-aggressions early in the video are all non-White. Conversely, the speakers committing the micro-aggressions all have typical White accents. There is one White (gay) victim of a micro-aggression. But then White people are shown as indifferent to the micro-aggressions suffered by the Black woman wielding the flamethrower. The bad cop is a White guy. Then there's another group of victims of micro-aggressions, all non-White. They get to use the flyswatters to squash the mosquito (i.e., the White person at the beginning of the video).

It's an offensive anti-White video that shouldn't be shown in FCPS schools.

MANY of the examples were NOT about racism. It’s not “anti-white”. That is, unless you’re trying to push MAGA propaganda. Who else would link to the federalist FFS.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Where’s the balance?

White people invented and created 99 percent of everything in modern civilization. Also created the only countries the world flocks to and even breaks into out of desperation to be in a white created environment.

Make a movie about that.

Ugh, 99% of all movies made has been about that.

Not surprisingly, white supremacists are perfectly fine with racism.

But everybody flocks from all over the world to be close to and live in countries full of mosquitoes. It’s like they are gluttons for punishment.

And those immigrants, including those from Africa, miraculously do extremely well here, out-earning native born Americans within a generation. It's amazing that they are able to overcome all of the microaggressions. It's almost like hard work and free will pay off in a free country.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I watched the video. I think it actually tries to explain micro aggressions in a clever way. And yes at the end, the POC seem very annoyed by the micro-aggressions and hit the mosquitoes. Is that what you mean by saying the video implies minorities could engage in violence against white people? Because that is not what I got at all from this video. You know what is scary OP? How some conservatives are completely overreacting to CRT and the like. See Florida. I agree that we should focus on academics more than anything. But this fear mongering is scary. And the Federalist is biased AF OP. They are right wing and very much pro-school choice/not fond of public schools. But I am guessing you are already knew that, no?

I am a minority and think that video is horribly racist. I would NOT be happy if the schools showed this to my mixed race kids.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Where’s the balance?

White people invented and created 99 percent of everything in modern civilization. Also created the only countries the world flocks to and even breaks into out of desperation to be in a white created environment.

Make a movie about that.

Ugh, 99% of all movies made has been about that.

Not surprisingly, white supremacists are perfectly fine with racism.

But everybody flocks from all over the world to be close to and live in countries full of mosquitoes. It’s like they are gluttons for punishment.

They aren’t here for the white supremacists. Sorry, they just aren’t that into you.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Where’s the balance?

White people invented and created 99 percent of everything in modern civilization. Also created the only countries the world flocks to and even breaks into out of desperation to be in a white created environment.

Make a movie about that.

Ugh, 99% of all movies made has been about that.

Not surprisingly, white supremacists are perfectly fine with racism.

But everybody flocks from all over the world to be close to and live in countries full of mosquitoes. It’s like they are gluttons for punishment.

And those immigrants, including those from Africa, miraculously do extremely well here, out-earning native born Americans within a generation. It's amazing that they are able to overcome all of the microaggressions. It's almost like hard work and free will pay off in a free country.

“Free country”.

Spoken like an entitled racist.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I was saddened the other day when my white ES kid came home from school and I asked "what did you learn today.?" And the kid said glumly "same thing as everyday. White people are bad."

I call BS on this. If that happened I'd march my liberal white @ss right over to the school and heads would roll. Again, METAPHORICALLY. I wouldn't actually chop off heads.

I have heard this from several biracial.kids.

[Anonymous]

I'm not even white and I think any comparison of people to animals is inappropriate

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Where’s the balance?

White people invented and created 99 percent of everything in modern civilization. Also created the only countries the world flocks to and even breaks into out of desperation to be in a white created environment.

Make a movie about that.

+1

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There's a link to the "white people are mosquitoes" video that was shown to FCPS students in the attached article: https://thefederalist.com/2023/02/06/public-schools-are-avoiding-crt-ban-with-trojan-horse-of-social-emotional-learning/

I found the video patronizing and threatening, especially with the suggestion that minorities reasonably could engage in violence against white people who engage in "microaggressions." Mind you, I have no problem with teaching kids to be kind to one another, or to think about how their words, even if not ill-intentioned, might hurt other students. But this video is crass and heavy-handed, to put it mildly, and shit like this only proliferates because the likes of Dr. Reid and the current School Board think it's a good way to demonstrate their commitment to "equity."

I don't know if Lunquist-Arora plans to run for School Board or not (I wish she would), but the current School Board has done nothing but aggravate tensions within FCPS and preside over the school system's continued decline. They need to be sent packing this fall.

Wow the right wing crazy federalist.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There's a link to the "white people are mosquitoes" video that was shown to FCPS students in the attached article: https://thefederalist.com/2023/02/06/public-schools-are-avoiding-crt-ban-with-trojan-horse-of-social-emotional-learning/

I found the video patronizing and threatening, especially with the suggestion that minorities reasonably could engage in violence against white people who engage in "microaggressions." Mind you, I have no problem with teaching kids to be kind to one another, or to think about how their words, even if not ill-intentioned, might hurt other students. But this video is crass and heavy-handed, to put it mildly, and shit like this only proliferates because the likes of Dr. Reid and the current School Board think it's a good way to demonstrate their commitment to "equity."

I don't know if Lunquist-Arora plans to run for School Board or not (I wish she would), but the current School Board has done nothing but aggravate tensions within FCPS and preside over the school system's continued decline. They need to be sent packing this fall.

Wow the right wing crazy federalist.

If you think they’re “right wing crazy” you’ve gone off the deep end.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Where’s the balance?

White people invented and created 99 percent of everything in modern civilization. Also created the only countries the world flocks to and even breaks into out of desperation to be in a white created environment.

Make a movie about that.

Ugh, 99% of all movies made has been about that.

Not surprisingly, white supremacists are perfectly fine with racism.

But everybody flocks from all over the world to be close to and live in countries full of mosquitoes. It’s like they are gluttons for punishment.

They aren’t here for the white supremacists. Sorry, they just aren’t that into you.

They must really like majority White countries!

[Anonymous]

One of the most racist things I've seen in a while.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There's a link to the "white people are mosquitoes" video that was shown to FCPS students in the attached article: https://thefederalist.com/2023/02/06/public-schools-are-avoiding-crt-ban-with-trojan-horse-of-social-emotional-learning/

I found the video patronizing and threatening, especially with the suggestion that minorities reasonably could engage in violence against white people who engage in "microaggressions." Mind you, I have no problem with teaching kids to be kind to one another, or to think about how their words, even if not ill-intentioned, might hurt other students. But this video is crass and heavy-handed, to put it mildly, and shit like this only proliferates because the likes of Dr. Reid and the current School Board think it's a good way to demonstrate their commitment to "equity."

I don't know if Lunquist-Arora plans to run for School Board or not (I wish she would), but the current School Board has done nothing but aggravate tensions within FCPS and preside over the school system's continued decline. They need to be sent packing this fall.

Wow the right wing crazy federalist.

If you think they’re “right wing crazy” you’ve gone off the deep end.

You cannot be serious, thinking that the federalist is not right wing. It’s not that hard to acknowledge the leaning of publications, even if you agree with them, and like what they are saying.