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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Very Entertaining to see non black parents tie themselves in knots to explain how black students should feel about the use of the N word.

The plot has truly been lost. I would not feel comfortable with any white person using the N word in front of my black child in any setting academic or not. So I completely understand the demands for an apology. [/quote]

Equally entertaining to see some Black parents decide that how they view this situation is the only way any Black parent would view it. All Black people are the same, is that it?

Yes, the plot is lost. On that, we do agree.

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It doesn’t matter how ANY black parent would view it. It matters how the black students who sat in that class and their families felt about it.

It’s seems that they took offense…so why are you so hellbent to say that they shouldn’t have felt offended?[/quote]
No one can control how a student feels, but a school can determine its policy towards students who claim to feel offended/harmed/traumatized. It would be wise for GDS to examine its own policies after the fallout at Harvard and Penn. The school cannot privilege one racial group’s protests of “harm,” but then ignore other groups. 
Teachers who have arguably valid reasons for teaching material with “offensive” content should be allowed to teach as they see fit. 
Parents who encourage children to believe that they are intellectually fragile are not doing their kids any favors. Especially given the objective privileged circumstances of most GDS students, these cries of harm and offense at the sound of a word in a careful classroom context are a farce in the face of real world crises.[/quote]

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