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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Please quibble away. The point is, unpacking is a helpful exercise and may be of particular interest for those who have Black people in their lives that they are especially close to to ensure that they aren’t unintentionally, unconsciously mistreating the group as a whole. If one wants to be an ally or even neutral, you have to invest in learning, so you can first just be safe to be around. [/quote]

I'm not opposed to affinity groups, but I think everyone at the school should be encouraged to form them according to any of the ways they want to slice themselves. There are a lot of communities that need to be able to advocate for their interests in our schools. DC has been used to thinking only in terms of black/white, but as the city became a little more cosmopolitan in the last couple of decades, that's no longer the extent of who is here and who has concerns about, among other things, the tunnel vision fixation on black/white.

I am opposed to top-down re-education movements that proceed according to rigid ideologies intended to oversimplify and elide complicated issues to deliver the "correct" conclusion, however. [/quote]

+1 billion.[/quote]
So you’re fine with affinity groups, but not black ones? Because they are top down? Wha?[/quote]

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