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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is where Carville gets it right. https://www.vox.com/22338417/james-carville-democratic-party-biden-100-days

The messaging on important racial issues is drowned out by borderline shaming jargon like “be less white” or “mitigating the projected whiteness”. The republicans are great and messaging and picking this stuff up, broadcasting it via Fox and boom now the Dems are out of power.

The same with this school reorganization business. Stop using divide jargon. You’re turning people off from an important message. Also, before just enacting knee-jerk policy try and base it on projected outcomes and not on a reaction to racial soundbites from social justice warriors.[/quote]

No one is proposing school reorganization, no one is enacting knee jerk policy. Stop focusing on “racial sound bites” and join the conversation (if you even live here).[/quote]

In fact, that's exactly what's going on. Here's a thought experiment for you: how would you feel if a school system said they wanted to "mitigate the darkening" of the kids in the school feeder pattern? Is that upsetting? Does that sound racist to you? If so, then you realize that a school system telling parents it wants to "mitigate" whiteness is just as offensive. It's not just a matter of poor word choice; it's the ideological worldview that word choice represents. It's divisive and does nothing to solve the larger systemic problems at issue here.[/quote]

I think the language is clumsy also but it’s absurd to pretend it carries the same weight as “darkening.” You must know that!

I think a better analogy would be “mitigating masculinity” in science and math classes or something. It’s possible to get the point across with less divisive language so why not choose that. [/quote]

In a city where white people are a minority; in a school system where white people are the minority, talking about mitigating whiteness is not just a language oopsie. It's a power move driven by a blinkered anti racist ideology. And if I heard talk of "mitigating masculinity" in a science or math class (as opposed to "encouraging girls to get more involved" messaging) I would say it was misandrist and unacceptable too. There's a huge difference between lifting others up and actively attempting to keep other down based solely on the accident of their birth. It's appalling. [/quote]

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