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[quote=Anonymous]I bet you probably want to push your views onto people who disagree with you, in the name of progressivity and equity and whatever? So you're just the pot calling the kettle black.

I do think it is natural for all parents to take a strong interest in their children's education. What we have seen in the past year was effectively a progressive side trying to gaslight a more conservative reaction for having the wrong views and calling it racist and bigoted if someone disagreed with them.

I must admit that the people who are most obsessed with race and calling other people racists are.... progressive white people. If they are so consumed by racism maybe it's a reflection of their inner secret selves, they are the real racists. It makes sense, it's the elite progressives who are the first to flee for private schools or for rich school districts in the name of their children's education and the first to move if a local school seems to decline in quality. They are also the ones who project, to a remarkable degree, what the correct views should be onto nonwhites. They rant about white supremacy and colonialism and then turn around and tell non whites that they can't be anything but progressive liberals in their outlook and voting habits, and throw tamper tantrums when non whites vote for the Republicans or run for office as Republicans. They are the ones who make up terms like Latinx and impose it on Spanish speakers who have absolutely no history of the term for it is linguistically impossible in Spanish.

It really is astonishing, isn't it?
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I'm black. I won't venture to psychoanalyze white progressives, but I often cringe at how cavalierly they make reference to white (male) privilege, systematic racism, etc. Don't get me wrong, I think white supremacy, anti-blackness, etc. are real things that need to be confronted, but some of it seems a bit performative and just makes me feel uncomfortable in mixed company.  Do white people talk like this when they are alone?

At any rate, sometimes it can be easier to be around black people [i]precisely[/i] because so much just doesn't have to be said...if you know what I mean.[/quote]

There is a lot of one-upping among white people. Lots of competitive virtue signaling. I can't say it's a part of daily life, but it does come up with certain topics like schools. In NYC I've become accustomed to well-educated, self-righteous white progressive education parents suggesting that G&T parents like myself are morally deficient, because we have enrolled our children in a G&T program. By and large, these are Ivy (or equivalent)-educated, suburban-raised people with at least one high-earning professional parent (MD or JD) who wouldn't know struggle if it hit them in the face. I think much of this posturing is performative, because none of their "solutions" will do anything to improve the living conditions or status of those who are most needy. This segment of the Left is largely ideological, but not practical.[/quote]

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