The "White People Are Mosquitoes" Video in FCPS

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Change the white head to a purple or orange head and get rid of the swatting part & I will support the video.

Otherwise, it is just county-approved racism against a person with light skin that encourages violence.

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Agreed. This could be a useful message - if it was aimed at *everybody*.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Being offended at that mosquito video is like a man being offended when one points out the fact that most rapists are men.

Oh noes, let me play a tiny violin for your fragile hurt ego when faced with facts.

- half white woman

I'm a white woman and I'm not offended, actually enjoying watching this stupid, divisive garbage, which people like you think is opening people's eyes and making them think about their pathetic self, do quite the opposite. I have never seen less empathy for the POC community than I do now. In fact, it's almost comical the way people are laughing now.

You just expended a lot of words, probably attempting to sound intelligent, but really just sounds like nonsense. And ignorant nonsense at that. You took away "divisive garbage" from something that is not remotely either of those things. Why? Because you like to just say and do whatever you want, or let others do so, without educating on them why they shouldn't do so?

There's someone pathetic here. But it's the person in your mirror.

Now that's an impressively obtuse word salad. Congrats?
DP

[Anonymous]

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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?

There was also a flamethrower.

Yes. Do you think the video was saying, literally, take a flame thrower and kill white people? Because I thought it was hyperbole, showing a woman so sick of being bitten by mosquitoes that she felt LIKE taking a flame thrower to all of them buzzing around her. Somehow I was able to distinguish between this cartoon frustration and.... reality.

DP. I agree, however - let's not pretend that liberals wouldn't have blown that flame thrower out of all proportion had the video been directed at them. Absolutely no doubt they would be feigning outrage over the purported "violence" being depicted.

I don't see how it's productive to tell students they are entitled to "feel" like taking a flame thrower or a flyswatter to other people just because they've said microaggressions (and, of course, happen to be white).

There's a certain amount of paternalism involved in thinking some students deserve to be patronized this way, and others should just suck it up and accept that they are now the official bad guys, even at their public schools.

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So true. Paternalism and condescension. The left's specialty.

God, you two are dumb. It's not telling them how to feel. It's representing how it is often felt. I've experienced this first hand as a woman. After a lifetime of being mistaken for the "secretary" and being called sweetie, and told to smile . . .

But, I'm SOOOO lucky I have you to tell me that I'm not entitled to feel that way.

How interesting that none of the examples you list were included in this video. You just proved the point: microaggressions happen to everyone, yet that's not the message of the video. I'd be very careful about calling others "dumb" when you can't even grasp the point.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:That is a fantastic video. I am not white and it sums up some of the things I have to hear all the time. And the teacher telling the kid to aim lower academically has happened to us. Ex. Teacher telling us maybe our 4th grader should aim higher than a CC because he seems really smart. He might actually be able to get into a 4 year college right away. So disheartened to hear. Both my husband and I have graduate degrees but in the teacher’s mind he is a poor brown kid and we are too dumb to know about colleges.

What do you think of VA DOE's Equity and Grading video?
Minorities can't be expected to do homework or have parents that will make sure they do their homework so stop grading homework.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:None of you -who don't like- the racial make-up of our country --- that whites will soon be in the minority --- do any good complaining about it. You not liking it is not going to change anything.

That this is what you think people are discussing is so telling. Hint: it's not.

Whites won’t be in the minority anytime soon. They may lose a majority but will continue to have a plurality for decades.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:That is a fantastic video. I am not white and it sums up some of the things I have to hear all the time. And the teacher telling the kid to aim lower academically has happened to us. Ex. Teacher telling us maybe our 4th grader should aim higher than a CC because he seems really smart. He might actually be able to get into a 4 year college right away. So disheartened to hear. Both my husband and I have graduate degrees but in the teacher’s mind he is a poor brown kid and we are too dumb to know about colleges.

What do you think of VA DOE's Equity and Grading video?
Minorities can't be expected to do homework or have parents that will make sure they do their homework so stop grading homework.

Exactly. The soft bigotry of low expectations. How about having high expectations and expecting families to rise to them?
DP

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:That is a fantastic video. I am not white and it sums up some of the things I have to hear all the time. And the teacher telling the kid to aim lower academically has happened to us. Ex. Teacher telling us maybe our 4th grader should aim higher than a CC because he seems really smart. He might actually be able to get into a 4 year college right away. So disheartened to hear. Both my husband and I have graduate degrees but in the teacher’s mind he is a poor brown kid and we are too dumb to know about colleges.

What do you think of VA DOE's Equity and Grading video?
Minorities can't be expected to do homework or have parents that will make sure they do their homework so stop grading homework.

Exactly. The soft bigotry of low expectations. How about having high expectations and expecting families to rise to them?
DP

So a single mom should be the same as a stable family

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Change the white head to a purple or orange head and get rid of the swatting part & I will support the video.

Otherwise, it is just county-approved racism against a person with light skin that encourages violence.

+1
Agreed. This could be a useful message - if it was aimed at *everybody*.

Liar.

It was aimed at everyone.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:That is a fantastic video. I am not white and it sums up some of the things I have to hear all the time. And the teacher telling the kid to aim lower academically has happened to us. Ex. Teacher telling us maybe our 4th grader should aim higher than a CC because he seems really smart. He might actually be able to get into a 4 year college right away. So disheartened to hear. Both my husband and I have graduate degrees but in the teacher’s mind he is a poor brown kid and we are too dumb to know about colleges.

What do you think of VA DOE's Equity and Grading video?
Minorities can't be expected to do homework or have parents that will make sure they do their homework so stop grading homework.

Exactly. The soft bigotry of low expectations. How about having high expectations and expecting families to rise to them?
DP

So a single mom should be the same as a stable family

Correct. We should also disincentivize single motherhood in every way possible.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Being offended at that mosquito video is like a man being offended when one points out the fact that most rapists are men.

Oh noes, let me play a tiny violin for your fragile hurt ego when faced with facts.

- half white woman

I'm a white woman and I'm not offended, actually enjoying watching this stupid, divisive garbage, which people like you think is opening people's eyes and making them think about their pathetic self, do quite the opposite. I have never seen less empathy for the POC community than I do now. In fact, it's almost comical the way people are laughing now.

You _enjoy_ less empathy for POC?

That is f’ed up.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:That is a fantastic video. I am not white and it sums up some of the things I have to hear all the time. And the teacher telling the kid to aim lower academically has happened to us. Ex. Teacher telling us maybe our 4th grader should aim higher than a CC because he seems really smart. He might actually be able to get into a 4 year college right away. So disheartened to hear. Both my husband and I have graduate degrees but in the teacher’s mind he is a poor brown kid and we are too dumb to know about colleges.

What do you think of VA DOE's Equity and Grading video?
Minorities can't be expected to do homework or have parents that will make sure they do their homework so stop grading homework.

Exactly. The soft bigotry of low expectations. How about having high expectations and expecting families to rise to them?
DP

So a single mom should be the same as a stable family

Are you suggesting that a single mom can't provide a stable family life for her kids?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:That is a fantastic video. I am not white and it sums up some of the things I have to hear all the time. And the teacher telling the kid to aim lower academically has happened to us. Ex. Teacher telling us maybe our 4th grader should aim higher than a CC because he seems really smart. He might actually be able to get into a 4 year college right away. So disheartened to hear. Both my husband and I have graduate degrees but in the teacher’s mind he is a poor brown kid and we are too dumb to know about colleges.

What do you think of VA DOE's Equity and Grading video?
Minorities can't be expected to do homework or have parents that will make sure they do their homework so stop grading homework.

Exactly. The soft bigotry of low expectations. How about having high expectations and expecting families to rise to them?
DP

So a single mom should be the same as a stable family

Correct. We should also disincentivize single motherhood in every way possible.

So you’re majorly pro-choice?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Forget about the racial bit. Comparing a race to an animal is inappropriate. I would be equally upset if they compare to White's the polar bears

That’s not what happened.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:That is a fantastic video. I am not white and it sums up some of the things I have to hear all the time. And the teacher telling the kid to aim lower academically has happened to us. Ex. Teacher telling us maybe our 4th grader should aim higher than a CC because he seems really smart. He might actually be able to get into a 4 year college right away. So disheartened to hear. Both my husband and I have graduate degrees but in the teacher’s mind he is a poor brown kid and we are too dumb to know about colleges.

What do you think of VA DOE's Equity and Grading video?
Minorities can't be expected to do homework or have parents that will make sure they do their homework so stop grading homework.

Exactly. The soft bigotry of low expectations. How about having high expectations and expecting families to rise to them?
DP

So a single mom should be the same as a stable family

Are you suggesting that a single mom can't provide a stable family life for her kids?

It's certainly harder.