Anonymous wrote:I feel like we can all agree that lunchables are disgusting.

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Anonymous wrote:OMFG. There are lots of white people who understand that black and brown kids are treated more harshly in discipline and have to worry about interactions with police and other issues that my white kids cannot imagine. We are allies. But the surest way to alienate people like me is to conflate those types of issues with utter bullshit about how unhealthy food can't be called unhealthy for fear of hurting people's feelings. The nutritional value of food isn't dependent on race - high calorie, high fat, processed foods are not good for black people, white people, green or yellow. Childhood obesity is a huge problem (especially in the black community in DC). We don't need to demonize those kids, but neither do we have to pretend it is a valid choice to be obese and diabetic or start to buy into some bullshit that it's a legitimate expression of "blackness" that we need to embrace and encourage.

This feels like the wasted opportunity around BLM and police reform. Lots of people supported reforming the police. But many allies were alienated when that morphed into calls to literally defund and disband the police. Then we were further alienated when the PC and woke police decided that if we didn't support the defund/disband goal that we weren't really allies at all.

The issue isn't whether or not the food is healthy. It's going to a child, and telling him to go home and tell his mother that something she did was wrong.

Sorry, that's highly offensive. Teaching a kid that he should listen to a white stranger rather than his own mother is way worse than allowing a kid to eat lunchables.
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You said the quiet part out loud.

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Anonymous wrote:OMFG. There are lots of white people who understand that black and brown kids are treated more harshly in discipline and have to worry about interactions with police and other issues that my white kids cannot imagine. We are allies. But the surest way to alienate people like me is to conflate those types of issues with utter bullshit about how unhealthy food can't be called unhealthy for fear of hurting people's feelings. The nutritional value of food isn't dependent on race - high calorie, high fat, processed foods are not good for black people, white people, green or yellow. Childhood obesity is a huge problem (especially in the black community in DC). We don't need to demonize those kids, but neither do we have to pretend it is a valid choice to be obese and diabetic or start to buy into some bullshit that it's a legitimate expression of "blackness" that we need to embrace and encourage.

This feels like the wasted opportunity around BLM and police reform. Lots of people supported reforming the police. But many allies were alienated when that morphed into calls to literally defund and disband the police. Then we were further alienated when the PC and woke police decided that if we didn't support the defund/disband goal that we weren't really allies at all.

The issue isn't whether or not the food is healthy. It's going to a child, and telling him to go home and tell his mother that something she did was wrong.

Sorry, that's highly offensive. Teaching a kid that he should listen to a white stranger rather than his own mother is way worse than allowing a kid to eat lunchables.
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Anonymous wrote:Oh no heaven forbid people call unhealthy food unhealthy. This society is going straight to hell. We can't even speak basic facts anymore because it's discriminatory. "My favorite color is red" will soon be banned because you might offend a nearby listener who likes blue better and has an anxiety attack

Anonymous wrote:OMFG. There are lots of white people who understand that black and brown kids are treated more harshly in discipline and have to worry about interactions with police and other issues that my white kids cannot imagine. We are allies. But the surest way to alienate people like me is to conflate those types of issues with utter bullshit about how unhealthy food can't be called unhealthy for fear of hurting people's feelings. The nutritional value of food isn't dependent on race - high calorie, high fat, processed foods are not good for black people, white people, green or yellow. Childhood obesity is a huge problem (especially in the black community in DC). We don't need to demonize those kids, but neither do we have to pretend it is a valid choice to be obese and diabetic or start to buy into some bullshit that it's a legitimate expression of "blackness" that we need to embrace and encourage.

This feels like the wasted opportunity around BLM and police reform. Lots of people supported reforming the police. But many allies were alienated when that morphed into calls to literally defund and disband the police. Then we were further alienated when the PC and woke police decided that if we didn't support the defund/disband goal that we weren't really allies at all.

Anonymous wrote:+1. Over-the-top time and resource wasting training.

Teachers should focus on teaching math, writing, reading, social studies etc. and students on learning. I say this as a liberal and a Democrat.
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You can’t teach if you don’t have respect for a child’s culture and are able to build relationships with them and do not address implicit biases against certain groups of students.