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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I would suggest reading through all of these: https://www.instagram.com/blackatsidwellfriends/?hl=en

When you're done, ask yourself if you really believe each of these submissions. If you do, I've got a bridge to sell you.

When you create Instagram accounts that let people submit anonymously (meaning, even the Instagram account doesn't know who is submitting it because it's just through a Google doc: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSddU6JM8MCUpWlT-vQ0D82WOgxoA7M-ut7tBMj6NwtuYYkmSw/viewform), you have a recipe for some fact mixed with some fiction. I have no idea what the motives were of the person who started all these accounts, but they've done nothing except marginalize people with real stories, who are lumped in with the fiction writers having some fun.

Having read this board for years, it's clear that there are people who take perverse enjoyment trolling on DCUM. What makes anyone think they don't do the same thing on these Google doc submissions?

The person running these accounts is irresponsible for making them look authentic when they're even less verified than what's posted on DCUM (which at least has Jeff able to see URLs to police trolling at some level).[/quote]

NP. The person running these accounts? It’s not one person. It is alums or current students. Sorry to disappoint you but some of the STA stories are true and were known at the time they happened like the holocaust photos incident as well as the racist incidents in the class of 2024 as those came up in the spring. Some were surprising and shocking and sad but I do not have the right to say they are not true especially when other posters commented agreeing they happened with their names attached to comments. I can’t imagine they would lie.[/quote]

This.

First, many of the accounts on the IG pages are not even anonymous. Second, many of them are easily corroborated or already known about.

For instance, it is a matter of public record that STA students created and shared a picture whereby the heads of african american and jewish members of the community were photoshopped on top of holocaust victims (including dead corpses). As another example, it is well known (and documented in the school disciplinary record) that a bullying set of boys relentlessly pressured another boy to kill himself. As another, numerous separate accounts (some i believe were not anonymous) recounted overtly racist comments by a particular coach, throughout their years at sta.

Would anyone from STA like to deny that these are fake? If I recall, some of these incidents were in the national news. Go on. Tell me which ones are fake. Same with those of you who attack the sidwell posts. Which ones are fake? Go on.

Maybe parents at these schools—not just sta/ncs, but all of them—ought to reconsider their defensive knee-jerk “fake news” reactions and consider actually LISTENING (and if purely listening is just too hard, they’re welcome to fact check.  This isn’t that hard to do). There’s too much smoke for there not to be fire. The people who accuse students across the country of just making things up are either totally and willfully blind or terrified of having their world view and world order challenged that they resort to weakest forms of rebuttal: “Liar.”

This is not a zero-sum game. My (non-white) existence is only a threat to you because your conspiratorial insecurity allows it to be. There’s a better way: Listen. Learn. Work together. Build a community that allows for many types of students to be excellent in different ways. These are all elite schools—truly elite. There’s room enough for everyone, of various races, ethnicities, and creeds, to carve out or perpetuate a privileged life that most people could only dream of. And all students who learned a diversity of perspectives and experiences benefits, in millions of ways.

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