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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]And people wonder why so many White families end up moving away or going private by High School. [/quote] Are you staking the position that white families leave DC because they cannot be racist without pushback? That strikes me as a very cynical take on the white residents of MoCo and Nova, but maybe you know better than I.[/quote] Teenagers do unkind things to each other, do dumb things and can be generally unempathetic. If they do these things around members of their own race, its generally no biggie and life goes on. If it crosses racial lines, it potentially becomes life ruining. Stand around any DCPS HS at dismissal, and watch how the students treat each other. [b]The name calling, the language, the horse-play, the yelling; none of that ever causes a walk-out. Why is that?[/b] [/quote] Nobody's this dumb. If kids can horseplay at dismissal, they should be able to be racist? What is the connection in your mind, exactly? Is a little racism between friends how you let off steam? But if you're raising your kids to think that racism is just being generally unempathetic, and believe that being racist is "life ruining" for the racist but somehow also a false accusation on the part of the recipient of your child's unkind dumbness, then good riddance to you and your white family. The way you people are telling on yourself is bizarre. Like an Onion writer is floating trial balloons in this thread, finetuning a piece about horrible white parents.[/quote] DP. I am raising my kid to respect and listen when someone tells him that his words/actions are hurtful (even if he did not intend them that way). But I will also defend him to the last if someone tries to ruin his life over an innocent mistake or “unnkind dumbness.” PP’s point is that kids engage in “unkind dumbness” all the time (including on social media) but there’s only one scenario where this can result in life-changing consequences. [/quote]
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