NYT article on LCPS high school re: racism

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Anonymous wrote:Jimmy btw is NOT a black student. He's a mixed race student.

Most black people are “mixed race.” He is black.

This thread is so incredibly cringe.

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It’s not a good reflection on society that a mixed-race high school senior would think he could throw a white girl totally under the bus for a stupid remark she’d made three years earlier, and that a bunch of craven adults would take the bait. It’s revolting, but at least he’s been called out for being a manipulative little twerp and others are trying to mitigate the harm he caused.

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Anonymous wrote:It’s not a good reflection on society that a mixed-race high school senior would think he could throw a white girl totally under the bus for a stupid remark she’d made three years earlier, and that a bunch of craven adults would take the bait. It’s revolting, but at least he’s been called out for being a manipulative little twerp and others are trying to mitigate the harm he caused.

Yeah yeah we get it. White kids can do no wrong. All their misdeeds are innocent mistakes. But the Black kid who refuses to let them use the N word and claim to be BLM activists is manipulative and revolting.

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Also he didn’t cause harm. Her actions did.

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Anonymous wrote:The NYT makes Leesburg sound like some backwards place. I don’t know whether to lol at the Loudoun Moms who think their community is so posh or be slightly dismayed by New York’s disdain for DC/Nova.

It’s the NYT. Unless you live in NYC, LA, Portland, or Seattle, you are a backwards, unwoke redneck whom they look down upon. Which is why we subscribe to the WSJ instead.

It is a redneck backwoods judging from all these racist comments about Jimmy here and the other ones defending Mimi and her great parents. People in nova want to think they’re progressive and better than others but they’re not. We are Missouri with more degrees.

+1. I didn’t even know where Loudon Cty was, but these comments are something else and reinforce the article’s description of the place. I’d never raise my black kids in a place like Leesburg.

-VA native in NW DC

It’s Loudoun, not Loudon, and no one really cares where you decide to raise your kids. That’s up to you. However, there are very few areas as economically segregated as NW DC, and it’s served by a public school system that makes no attempt even in 2020 to integrate the schools.

People in Loudoun for the most part still have enough common sense to look at each situation on its merits, which is why they realize that an 18-year-old boy who intentionally tries to sabotage a classmate’s future over a crude and flippant (if exuberant) 3-second comment she’d made 3 years earlier is far more worthy of criticism than the classmate. If you have a hard time with that, please do stay the hell away. We’re more than happy for you to stay on the other side of the river.

PP here. There are parts of NW DC that are actually pretty integrated, and when it was time to buy, we intentionally chose one of these areas (note: not all of NW DC is west of Rock Creek Park). My kid plays with kids in the neighborhood from all different backgrounds. Wilson High School is also quite diverse.

Back to my point, the posters here aren't doing Loudon Cty any favors with the general tone of the commentary here. The overwhelming support for the girl and lack of empathy for black students such as Jimmy in your schools is a shame, but not surprising given what I've heard about far out areas of NoVa. I'm sure there are progressive, open-minded folks in these areas too, but for the most part, they don't see to be commenting here.

How do you see this as progressive? Even Obama would say Jimmy was being overly vindictive. This is the progressive society I want. I want one where we all work to lift each other up. This isn't how it's done.

Absolutely no one think this kid is a great humanitarian. But there are too many posters who want to crucify him and “forgive” the young lady when the truth is that both of them did something stupid and both of them have to deal with the consequences. It’s just shocking that no one seems to empathize with the circumstances of the young man and I’m not sure how the poster who insists that he lives in a 1.3 million dollar house knows where he lives. And as if being rich can somehow make hearing the n word feel less bad. Give me a break.

Well I think trying to kick someone out of the college they want to go to is a big deal. I don't necessarily blame Jimmy for that. I blame society. The cancel culture has gone too far. That's all this thread is about. Neither Jimmy nor Mimi did anything spectacularly wrong or right. But now that we don't have a vindictive leader as president, we need to start reteaching children that getting even isn't the way to move forward.

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He didn’t try to kick her out of a college! He simply shared HER OWN VIDEO and the college said she didn’t meet their standards of admission. That’s on her.

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Anonymous wrote:The NYT makes Leesburg sound like some backwards place. I don’t know whether to lol at the Loudoun Moms who think their community is so posh or be slightly dismayed by New York’s disdain for DC/Nova.

It’s the NYT. Unless you live in NYC, LA, Portland, or Seattle, you are a backwards, unwoke redneck whom they look down upon. Which is why we subscribe to the WSJ instead.

It is a redneck backwoods judging from all these racist comments about Jimmy here and the other ones defending Mimi and her great parents. People in nova want to think they’re progressive and better than others but they’re not. We are Missouri with more degrees.

+1. I didn’t even know where Loudon Cty was, but these comments are something else and reinforce the article’s description of the place. I’d never raise my black kids in a place like Leesburg.

-VA native in NW DC

It’s Loudoun, not Loudon, and no one really cares where you decide to raise your kids. That’s up to you. However, there are very few areas as economically segregated as NW DC, and it’s served by a public school system that makes no attempt even in 2020 to integrate the schools.

People in Loudoun for the most part still have enough common sense to look at each situation on its merits, which is why they realize that an 18-year-old boy who intentionally tries to sabotage a classmate’s future over a crude and flippant (if exuberant) 3-second comment she’d made 3 years earlier is far more worthy of criticism than the classmate. If you have a hard time with that, please do stay the hell away. We’re more than happy for you to stay on the other side of the river.

PP here. There are parts of NW DC that are actually pretty integrated, and when it was time to buy, we intentionally chose one of these areas (note: not all of NW DC is west of Rock Creek Park). My kid plays with kids in the neighborhood from all different backgrounds. Wilson High School is also quite diverse.

Back to my point, the posters here aren't doing Loudon Cty any favors with the general tone of the commentary here. The overwhelming support for the girl and lack of empathy for black students such as Jimmy in your schools is a shame, but not surprising given what I've heard about far out areas of NoVa. I'm sure there are progressive, open-minded folks in these areas too, but for the most part, they don't see to be commenting here.

How do you see this as progressive? Even Obama would say Jimmy was being overly vindictive. This is the progressive society I want. I want one where we all work to lift each other up. This isn't how it's done.

Absolutely no one think this kid is a great humanitarian. But there are too many posters who want to crucify him and “forgive” the young lady when the truth is that both of them did something stupid and both of them have to deal with the consequences. It’s just shocking that no one seems to empathize with the circumstances of the young man and I’m not sure how the poster who insists that he lives in a 1.3 million dollar house knows where he lives. And as if being rich can somehow make hearing the n word feel less bad. Give me a break.

Well I think trying to kick someone out of the college they want to go to is a big deal. I don't necessarily blame Jimmy for that. I blame society. The cancel culture has gone too far. That's all this thread is about. Neither Jimmy nor Mimi did anything spectacularly wrong or right. But now that we don't have a vindictive leader as president, we need to start reteaching children that getting even isn't the way to move forward.

She would’ve been a pariah if she went there now that she’s been outed and frankly the school doesn’t need the distraction. Sucks for her but maybe she shouldn’t have used such foul language that EVERYONE knows the whites never ever can use in the first place.

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Anonymous wrote:Jimmy btw is NOT a black student. He's a mixed race student.

Most black people are “mixed race.” He is black.

This thread is so incredibly cringe.

Maybe because he identifies that way, but I can also consider him white if we are to pick just one race to identify with. To me, like Obama, he is mixed race. Fine by me if he wants to identify only as black, but I don't have to see it that way.

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Anonymous wrote:Jimmy btw is NOT a black student. He's a mixed race student.

Most black people are “mixed race.” He is black.

This thread is so incredibly cringe.

Maybe because he identifies that way, but I can also consider him white if we are to pick just one race to identify with. To me, like Obama, he is mixed race. Fine by me if he wants to identify only as black, but I don't have to see it that way.

Nobody asked you lmao . You don’t get to decide other people’s race Jesus

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Anonymous wrote:Also he didn’t cause harm. Her actions did.

He’s a manipulative little twit, as was clear from a video he’d posted on You Tube where he told a DIFFERENT girl he might expose her to community attack for having called him “dumb” (shortly after he’d pointedly said to her face that he didn’t like her in the presence of another student).

Just because his mother is black doesn’t mean he gets a pass for acting like a psychopath. It’s not right that the other girl ended up at community college while he jetted off to California. If you think the girl deserved to have her entire life upended for one stupid comment at 15, you should focus your energy on getting all these black rap artists to stop using the n-word in music they damn well know will be marketed to white kids. They are the ones who have made sure it is still bandied about so often.

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Anonymous wrote:Jimmy btw is NOT a black student. He's a mixed race student.

Most black people are “mixed race.” He is black.

This thread is so incredibly cringe.

Maybe because he identifies that way, but I can also consider him white if we are to pick just one race to identify with. To me, like Obama, he is mixed race. Fine by me if he wants to identify only as black, but I don't have to see it that way.

This is ahistorical. Even being 1/8 Black made someone Black in this country due to the one drop rule. Jimmy is half Black. By U.S. definitions, that makes him Black because society sees him as a Black man when they look at him. He may be half white but gets done if those protections and privileges due to his skin color and obvious presentation as being Black.

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Anonymous wrote:Jimmy btw is NOT a black student. He's a mixed race student.

Most black people are “mixed race.” He is black.

This thread is so incredibly cringe.

Maybe because he identifies that way, but I can also consider him white if we are to pick just one race to identify with. To me, like Obama, he is mixed race. Fine by me if he wants to identify only as black, but I don't have to see it that way.

I don’t know you, but this statement makes you sound like an oblivious racist- congratulations!🎉

This is just like the people who incoherently insisted that Barack Obama wasn’t “really black” but yet hated white people and was bad for race relations.

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Anonymous wrote:Also he didn’t cause harm. Her actions did.

He’s a manipulative little twit, as was clear from a video he’d posted on You Tube where he told a DIFFERENT girl he might expose her to community attack for having called him “dumb” (shortly after he’d pointedly said to her face that he didn’t like her in the presence of another student).

Just because his mother is black doesn’t mean he gets a pass for acting like a psychopath. It’s not right that the other girl ended up at community college while he jetted off to California. If you think the girl deserved to have her entire life upended for one stupid comment at 15, you should focus your energy on getting all these black rap artists to stop using the n-word in music they damn well know will be marketed to white kids. They are the ones who have made sure it is still bandied about so often.

Consider how you’re speaking about a kid. You’re really angry and sick

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Anonymous wrote:Also he didn’t cause harm. Her actions did.

He’s a manipulative little twit, as was clear from a video he’d posted on You Tube where he told a DIFFERENT girl he might expose her to community attack for having called him “dumb” (shortly after he’d pointedly said to her face that he didn’t like her in the presence of another student).

Just because his mother is black doesn’t mean he gets a pass for acting like a psychopath. It’s not right that the other girl ended up at community college while he jetted off to California. If you think the girl deserved to have her entire life upended for one stupid comment at 15, you should focus your energy on getting all these black rap artists to stop using the n-word in music they damn well know will be marketed to white kids. They are the ones who have made sure it is still bandied about so often.

Her life was upended by her own actions and community college isn’t the end of the world. How many young black men have had their futures ruined or their lives taken from them because they were in the wrong place at the wrong time? Life isn’t fair, I guess this isn’t a rule white people have had to contend with yet.

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“Cancel culture” is trope invented by the alt right and white nationalists who want a world free of consequences for them and their offspring.