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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If you have a white male child, why would you ever send him to a school that makes them feel “white guilt” or they are a “male oppressor” as a 14 year old boy!  All you parents that send your kids to these woke schools deserve what you are getting![/quote]

I send my white male child to a school that is explicitly pro-equity and inclusion. He doesn't feel white guilt. Why should he feel guilty about learning about systemic racism? He didn't create it! And he sure as heck doesn't want to be a part of it. He chooses to be part of the solution, not stick his head in the sand. He feels courageous and helpful and kind, not guilty. And no, he doesn't feel like a "male oppressor." He feels like a young man who sees women as equals, and recognizes that men AND women have been dealt a crappy hand by sexism. He sees what a limited range of emotions his dad was allowed to feel growing up, and how he is now teaching his dad how to be a more open and emotionally aware man. Its really sweet, and they really adore each other. And he sees that women have been excluded from power for oh, the last thousand years or so, and that correcting that may take a minute.

There is no guilt, no shame, and no disempowerment in any of that. I find it so odd that people think that recognizing oppression means you have to identify with the oppressors just because you happen to share their skin color or gender. Why would you do that? [/quote]

[b]That’s nice and good for him.  But unfortunately regardless of how he feels, he will be judged by others and UMR as part of the problem. He will never be accepted and always looked negatively at for having white privilege.   Your son will have to constantly virtue  signal to fit in and will still be seen a part of the problem no matter how much he feels he is not.[/b]

Why shouldn’t white men be judged based on being born white? Women are judged for being women and their shortcomings are defined by “not maleness” and minorities are judged by the color of their skin or not having an American accent. 
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So two wrongs make a right? Why can’t people be judged for who THEY are not what group they belong to?[/quote]

Perhaps a taste of the wrong will spur genuine taste for change. [/quote]

Strange bedfellows you have. How does that feel?  [/quote]

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