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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Another foreigner here attempting to navigate the D.C. private school landscape.

Two terms that are tortured by U.S. progressives are "liberal" and "BIPOC." Liberal used to mean someone who was open to new ideas; based conclusions on empirical facts; rejected dogma; and was a humanist. Today, "liberal" is used as a pejorative by the right to mean anyone who is on the left politically, and is used a badge of honor for those on the left who accept "the agenda" (which is ever-shifting): today it's race essentialism, anti-male bias, and a post-gender world. True liberals who remain focused on shared humanity and accept biological science have been left out in the cold in the U.S. (and the U.K.--this might be an English speaking world phenomenon), and are now labeled with terms like "TERF" (trans-exclusionary radical feminist) and "Karen," (which is such a misogynistic term, it disgusts me, I guess I am a Karen.) The coalition behind this seems to be made up of mainly nasty super-online men and impressionable teenage girls. It's insane to me as a parent that we've all just accepted it.

"BIPOC" is another one that is mystifying to a non-U.S. liberal. It means "Black, Indigenous, People of Color". So, in the U.K., for example, I guess people with Celtic blood are BIPOC? But they're not, because the POC trumps the I, which any good progressive knows, LOL. What color qualifies as POC, btw? Are we bringing back color lines? To someone approaching this without context, it is simply insane, and wildly totalitarian... but Americans just can't seem to see this. It's this weird collective guilt / Kabuki theatre that America seems to have to perform continuously to make up for the fact that is a powerful, prosperous democracy that most people around the world would do anything to live in.[/quote]

“Americans just can’t seem to see this” — what? You have summarized the worldview of a few administrators at Sidwell and GDS, not America as a whole. If you want out of the liberal private school bubble then get out of the liberal private school bubble. Perhaps as a foreigner you don’t know that 90% of American children go to public schools.[/quote]

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