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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Sorry, I don't have time right now to read the original article, so forgive me for jumping in. BUT I have an 11 year old boy and am really following this closely since I first saw it a few months ago. I can't believe how insidious some of these messages are, so hats off to everyone who is preaching awareness, both in their families and with others. We are at a very diverse DC public school and here are some things I have observed my son do:

1) the OK sign held down on the leg. When asked where he learned it, what he thinks it means, who at school does it, he says he doesn't know, they think it's funny, it doesn't mean anything and many friends do it (of all races). I have told him it can be a white power symbol and absolutely must never do it.
2) joking around playing fortnite online with friends and saying, oh are you triggered? Again, he says that everyone says it and it doesn't mean anything. Again long talk about what tiriggering means and why it's not a joke. (we have PTSD military family members so that was pretty simple to connect for him.)
3) were just at some chain restaurant with 1000 TVs and one shows a commercial with kids playing ball, argument, white boy is picked on by larger brown and diverse kids, sits sad and alone until a white girl comes along and they solve the problem (no sound so I couldn't figure out what the drama was). Turns out it is some "values" org showing this ad on Fox News channel. We had a conversation about what the ad is doing by showing the white boy being ganged up on by a diverse group of kids. He is a pretty sensitive kid, so his first instinct was to feel bad for the kid (of course that is okay) but miss the insidious and subtle undertext.

Seriously this stuff is out there and very very scary.[/quote]

DP.  Re #3, it may be a subliminal white supremacist ad, I don't know, but I would also note that diversity is the norm on TV and in ads but that white kids cannot be shown picking on POC kids.  So in an ad about helping outcast kids, only white kids can be shown to be picked on or outcast.  As you point out, this doesn't send a great message.  But neither would the reverse.  [/quote]
WTF? Can you read? The message is that the white kid is victimized by kids of color. Never okay.[/quote]

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