another antisemitic vandalism incident at Walt Whitman yesterday

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:And now this:

https://twitter.com/bdubbsonline/status/1604511608646025219?cxt=HHwWhoCy9dKzr8QsAAAA

Hate incidents are all too common at the W's. With incidents including kids in blackface or n* word cards, it's no surprise, but this seems to stem from the lack of diversity at these schools compared to the rest of the county.

At the more diverse schools, kids seem more understanding of others, unlike the segregated schools. This seems to happen constantly at the W's. Just search this forum and you'll another incident like this every couple of months at one of the W's. Sure, it's easy for some parents to pretend this goes on everywhere, but it doesn't. Incidents like this make the news.

I think this is a good point.

[Anonymous]

Why is everyone suspecting students at Whitman? Vandals don’t typically sh** where they live. If it’s students, I doubt they’re from Whitman. The Whitman hate runs deep on these threads.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:And now this:

https://twitter.com/bdubbsonline/status/1604511608646025219?cxt=HHwWhoCy9dKzr8QsAAAA

Hate incidents are all too common at the W's. With incidents including kids in blackface or n* word cards, it's no surprise, but this seems to stem from the lack of diversity at these schools compared to the rest of the county.

Yah slurs are never used in the east county Or maybe it is just so commonplace as not to make news compared to the once and a blue moon at the Ws. Go to a school in the DCC and tell the low-income Latino kids they can't use the N word anymore... good luck with that. But its ok right because even though its thrown around thousands of times a day in those environments, it isn't coming from a stupid well off white kid? Care to guess what the graffiti says at Kennedy HS in the boys bathroom? Einstine or Blair? Do you think the reaction would be the same when it happens at the Ws.

This. people overlay their societal bitterness on kids and then nitpick to fit the narrative. Kids are universally oblivious and or stupid so the chance of actual disproportionate stupid stuff is really 0 so what is different is the attention and the fake outrage. This isn't mentioning the hypocrisy of labeling all W rids rich racists and screaming bloody murder when people insinuate that east county school are all poor gang members.

See folks, things will never change at the W schools when you have parents (the two above) making excuses for racist incidents.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why is everyone suspecting students at Whitman? Vandals don’t typically sh** where they live. If it’s students, I doubt they’re from Whitman. The Whitman hate runs deep on these threads.

They are almost always Pyle or Whitman students.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why is everyone suspecting students at Whitman? Vandals don’t typically sh** where they live. If it’s students, I doubt they’re from Whitman. The Whitman hate runs deep on these threads.

They are almost always Pyle or Whitman students.

Where’s your proof of that? Just a lot of toxic speculation that is deeply unfair to Whitman students, all of whom were victimized by this hate crime.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why is everyone suspecting students at Whitman? Vandals don’t typically sh** where they live. If it’s students, I doubt they’re from Whitman. The Whitman hate runs deep on these threads.

Yes, we don't know the culprit(s), but I don't know why you would doubt they're from Whitman. It has happened before.

https://theblackandwhite.net/67825/news/two-whitman-students-and-one-alumnus-arrested-for-recent-racist-graffiti/

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why is everyone suspecting students at Whitman? Vandals don’t typically sh** where they live. If it’s students, I doubt they’re from Whitman. The Whitman hate runs deep on these threads.

They are almost always Pyle or Whitman students.

Where’s your proof of that? Just a lot of toxic speculation that is deeply unfair to Whitman students, all of whom were victimized by this hate crime.

Why would someone have driven from somewhere else to scrawl some generic hate screed on the Whitman sign? Also, not sure I agree that ALL Whitman students were victimized by this crime... I'm sure there are plenty of them on whom it had absolutely no effect. I agree there's a lot of speculation here, but generally speaking, this sort of dumb vandalism usually is committed by someone nearby. Doesn't seem unreasonable to think this likely was, too.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why is everyone suspecting students at Whitman? Vandals don’t typically sh** where they live. If it’s students, I doubt they’re from Whitman. The Whitman hate runs deep on these threads.

They are almost always Pyle or Whitman students.

Where’s your proof of that? Just a lot of toxic speculation that is deeply unfair to Whitman students, all of whom were victimized by this hate crime.

All the previous incidents were Whitman students no reason to believe this is any different.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why is everyone suspecting students at Whitman? Vandals don’t typically sh** where they live. If it’s students, I doubt they’re from Whitman. The Whitman hate runs deep on these threads.

They are almost always Pyle or Whitman students.

Where’s your proof of that? Just a lot of toxic speculation that is deeply unfair to Whitman students, all of whom were victimized by this hate crime.

Why would someone have driven from somewhere else to scrawl some generic hate screed on the Whitman sign? Also, not sure I agree that ALL Whitman students were victimized by this crime... I'm sure there are plenty of them on whom it had absolutely no effect. I agree there's a lot of speculation here, but generally speaking, this sort of dumb vandalism usually is committed by someone nearby. Doesn't seem unreasonable to think this likely was, too.

Oh just someone who felt the County is segregated and just wanted to build a case for redisticting…couldn’t happen in MoCo though. Would never happen in MoCo.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why is everyone suspecting students at Whitman? Vandals don’t typically sh** where they live. If it’s students, I doubt they’re from Whitman. The Whitman hate runs deep on these threads.

They are almost always Pyle or Whitman students.

Where’s your proof of that? Just a lot of toxic speculation that is deeply unfair to Whitman students, all of whom were victimized by this hate crime.

Why would someone have driven from somewhere else to scrawl some generic hate screed on the Whitman sign? Also, not sure I agree that ALL Whitman students were victimized by this crime... I'm sure there are plenty of them on whom it had absolutely no effect. I agree there's a lot of speculation here, but generally speaking, this sort of dumb vandalism usually is committed by someone nearby. Doesn't seem unreasonable to think this likely was, too.

I don’t find your analysis convincing. People drive to synagogues to deface them. Whitman probably has one of the highest rates of Jewish students in the county so it would not totally surprise me if an anti-Semite that wanted to target a public school picked them. I really don’t know what happened but I don’t think it’s reasonable to assume Whitman students because it’s at Whitman. We live in an adjacent cluster and there are so many Jewish families and I don’t perceive any sort of wide spread anti-semitism. The kids may have issues but accepting religious difference is not among them. It’s a very religiously diverse area.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why is everyone suspecting students at Whitman? Vandals don’t typically sh** where they live. If it’s students, I doubt they’re from Whitman. The Whitman hate runs deep on these threads.

They are almost always Pyle or Whitman students.

Where’s your proof of that? Just a lot of toxic speculation that is deeply unfair to Whitman students, all of whom were victimized by this hate crime.

Why would someone have driven from somewhere else to scrawl some generic hate screed on the Whitman sign? Also, not sure I agree that ALL Whitman students were victimized by this crime... I'm sure there are plenty of them on whom it had absolutely no effect. I agree there's a lot of speculation here, but generally speaking, this sort of dumb vandalism usually is committed by someone nearby. Doesn't seem unreasonable to think this likely was, too.

I don’t find your analysis convincing. People drive to synagogues to deface them. Whitman probably has one of the highest rates of Jewish students in the county so it would not totally surprise me if an anti-Semite that wanted to target a public school picked them. I really don’t know what happened but I don’t think it’s reasonable to assume Whitman students because it’s at Whitman. We live in an adjacent cluster and there are so many Jewish families and I don’t perceive any sort of wide spread anti-semitism. The kids may have issues but accepting religious difference is not among them. It’s a very religiously diverse area.

Despite it being diverse, Judaism has never been within favor anywhere, especially MCPS. The only reason we get off holidays is too many teachers take off and not enough subs. It's been an ongoing issue for many years. MCPS does not do enough education on religious tolerance, just their pet projects.

[Anonymous]

Any leads (or leaks) yet on who is responsible for the graffiti? If they had footage, I imagine someone ready would have been arrested?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:And now this:

https://twitter.com/bdubbsonline/status/1604511608646025219?cxt=HHwWhoCy9dKzr8QsAAAA

Hate incidents are all too common at the W's. With incidents including kids in blackface or n* word cards, it's no surprise, but this seems to stem from the lack of diversity at these schools compared to the rest of the county.

At the more diverse schools, kids seem more understanding of others, unlike the segregated schools. This seems to happen constantly at the W's. Just search this forum and you'll another incident like this every couple of months at one of the W's. Sure, it's easy for some parents to pretend this goes on everywhere, but it doesn't. Incidents like this make the news.

Not so sure. We are a very diverse Middle School and had a temporary sub spewing hateful antisemitic teaching to kids for months before principal would remove her. Likely she will reappear at another county school soon.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why is everyone suspecting students at Whitman? Vandals don’t typically sh** where they live. If it’s students, I doubt they’re from Whitman. The Whitman hate runs deep on these threads.

They are almost always Pyle or Whitman students.

Where’s your proof of that? Just a lot of toxic speculation that is deeply unfair to Whitman students, all of whom were victimized by this hate crime.

All the previous incidents were Whitman students no reason to believe this is any different.

True, but W parents always look to excuse or sweep their children's terrible behavior under the rug.

[Anonymous]

Even the students at Whitman think it was someone at Whitman. One girl told the newspaper it seemed like too much of a coincidence that it happened two days after a lesson on antisemitism by Jewish students. There is antisemitism at Pyle, so I wouldn’t be shocked if kids at Whitman did it. I think the letters to teachers came from the outside tho because that happened after the sign was talked about on CNN.