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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Wow. So much white fragility. AKA snowflakes.

Put on your big girl panties and read the book. You won’t melt. 
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[b]It’s not the reading it, it’s the discussing such a loaded topic with coworkers that’s the problem. Do you honestly not see how a white person who disagrees with the book’s premise and says so during the discussion, could be placing themselves in a very precarious situation?[/b] [/quote]

If someone isn’t willing to read a book with an open mind and discuss on any level (even if they disagree), then that person isn’t intellectually curious enough to be in a teaching position.

I’d also be curious why they “disagree with the premise”.
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Uh, you don't understand the issue, PP.  RIF (reading is fundamental).  It isn't that the poster is concerned about reading and discussing the book, the poster is concerned about a supervisor hearing the poster's opinion, disagreeing and then penalizing the poster for his/her opinion.

I agree with the poster that this is a great danger.  The supervisor could think the book is the greatest truth ever written or the supervisor could think the whole thing is hogwash; either way a subordinate disagreeing with a supervisor's opinion during a book club "discussion" could have negative consequences for the subordinate.

Your simplistic approach shows your immaturity.  Try to look outside of yourself a little bit.  Once you have a job and experience the work world perhaps your worldview will grow to accept that others can make have opinions that are valuable.[/quote]

We grownups know how to discuss points from a variety of materials without throwing in opinions. PP can discuss the book without revealing opinions.

If PP doesn’t want to acknowledge that our country, society, and education here in the US has deep racist roots then that’s a different story. 
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Again, you seem to be coming at this from a place of limited experience.  A supervisor who has strong negative feelings about a subordinate could certainly use this little book club as an opportunity to browbeat a staff member.  Would the staff member then be able to go to HR to document a hostile workplace?  Yes but the staff member would still have gone through the horrible experience.

I hope that OP is not talking about a DMV school system.  I cannot imagine any school system in this area that is so remiss that it would allow OP's book club to take place as a mandatory activity for staff members.  The potential for blowback onto the school system seems exponential.[/quote]

Browbeat a known racist? I’d be ok with that. 
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