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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Well, if he -- or you -- [b]are taking it upon yourselves to define other students as "non-white" instead of as individuals with individual opinions, that's already, as you would say "problematic".[/b] It's also interesting that if, indeed, the students who are POC , without exception, are calling your son out for having a "white savior" attitude, your thought is to post anonymously on a forum that skews decidedly white and UMC to get support for this viewpoint being problematic-- instead of trying to understand and directly address the attitudes and possibly the behavior that your son's classmates brought to his attention.

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DP. You're joking, right? 
I teach and we have been getting non-stop training this year aimed at unveiling our hidden prejudice, in addition to being told that "being color-blind" and dealing with people as individuals instead of focusing on race is a form of aggression. 
So what I've been teaching my own children for almost two decades about race being a social construct that has no basis in reality and skin pigmentation coming from melanin concentration in response to UV exposure is apparently racist, or something. 
I am no longer interested in engaging on this issue and have instructed my college-aged kids to do the same. Just stay out of it to stay out of trouble.[/quote]

Nope. I’m not joking.  Lumping together people from a variety of cultural backgrounds as “non-white” is focusing on what their race is NOT — as some sort of unifying characteristic. That is usually a problem. Focusing only on race as opposed to individuality is also a problem.  Being “color-blind”, ignoring the reality of how people of different races are often viewed and treated is a problem. I’ve never heard of any training of any sort that suggests that teachers —or anyone— should not “deal with people as individuals “.  Since I don’t know more about your “training”, I’ll stop there.  The point of my comment though, was to suggest that if multiple people, from different backgrounds, are saying the same thing, that “thing” that they are saying should at least be examined to understand if the criticism has some validity. [/quote]

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