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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]“I realized that the last time I felt this type of anger and embarrassment was when I was in high school at Sidwell Friends”[/quote]

Funny, she (presumably) reported her own medium piece about a Lululemon racist incident that wasn’t

We read it for fun (Asian family) and no one thought a frazzled salesperson repeating distancing rules sounded racist. There’s racism for sure and some behaved inexcusably during Covid but this ain’t it

Yet somehow the “professorial lecturer and writer” as it’s signed by her, worked her old school into it. Mind boggles.

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To be fair, the incident in Lululemon did in fact sound racist and I have plenty of Chinese-American friends who had similar incidents occur throughout the country, even in California with a high Asian population. [/quote]

To be fair what about it sounded racist to you other than Lululemon? And why did she go to Lululemon since it’s racist? And how did Sidwell get dragged into this too?!

What a weirdo[/quote]

You didn't read the article did you? The store was treating an Asian customer differently than caucasian customers. That is racist, sweetheart.[/quote]

DP. If what she described actually happened at Lululemon, I agree with you. It was racist. However, I don’t understand why she mentioned Sidwell in the article. I don’t believe this woman never experienced another racist incident, between high school and her 50s.

Why does she feel the need to blame Sidwell for everything? It’s a very strange fixation. [/quote]

I’d love to hear from the salesperson. There is no way it happened the way she wrote it. Based on what I know about her, she wanted to write about the topic and read about all the despicable anti-Asian racism during the pandemic, went to Lululemon to manufacture some sort of outrage, went up and close to the salesperson who may have freaked out as she would with anyone else, then didn’t confront her or correct her but lurked to see if anyone else would be treated in the exactly same way, and they blew it out of all proportion

Why do I think this - because I too shopped in Lululemon during the pandemic. There’s one around the corner. Nothing ever happened at all. In fact, I appreciated their pandemic rules. And if I were to go incite someone to be a racist to an Asian and make it believable, Lululemon, whose owner is notorious for the anti- Asian naming of the stores, would be the venue of choice

I apologize in advance if I’m wrong but the story seems very manufactured and the real purpose is to drag Sidwell for the “anger and embarrassment” the author claims to still feel decades later for some undisclosed reason. Also, if it’s all true, why did she take it down?![/quote]

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