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Anonymous wrote:Is Bullis “Woke”? Also, what about Saint Albans, Landon and Saint Andrew’s Episcopal School Potomac? Are the schools woke?

If you use the term "woke" I know you are a maga idiot.

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Anonymous wrote:Tawdry street Spanish.

I got news for you- they say a whole lotta thinks in Naples Italy don’t belong in high school Italian.

You seem confused. No part of this conversation has anything to do with “street Spanish” (whatever that is) but rather with how the Spanish language is evolving to confront the reality of women’s rights and inclusiveness of non-binary people. PP was arguing that in her circle, no one cares about women’s or gender queer rights. Meanwhile, in the real world, many presidents of Spanish speaking countries, the highest officials responsible for human rights in every Spanish speaking country, organizations like the OAS, most academics, and the Academia Norteamericana de la Lengua Española care very much, and have written reams of articles about how to confront the issue, including detailed debates by prominent linguists about the pros and cons of os/as, the neutral “e”, and using “@“.

The weird tendency of DCUM posters to claim to be native Spanish speakers but clearly have no idea whatsoever about enormous social and political trends in the Spanish speaking world is so strange. I really suspect that these people are Anglo trolls claiming to be Spanish speakers in order to seem credible in their anti-woke crusade.

This is too funny.

The woke brigade trying to force Spanish speakers in the Latinx box is losing. Only 3-4% Hispanics like the term, the majority despises it...but the woke brigade, which is 99% anglo, now wants you to believe that the 96-97% Hispanics who don't like the term....we are "Anglo trolls."

Living in a bubble makes you lose sense of reality I guess.

Also, the poster quoting Fernandez as some kind of role model is quite funny too. A corrupt far-left politician making things worse for the vast majority of his compatriots and increasingly despised by his own party.

If I can bring this back to OP's initial message...if your kids have Spanish and French or whatever classes which includes these x nonsense, be suspicious.

You have no awareness whatsoever of what's going on in government and academia in the Spanish speaking world and you don't seem to understand how the Spanish language works, so yeah, I think you're an Anglo troll whose understanding is limited to "X is bad". Go back to watching Fox news and fretting about immigrants taking your job.

These Demopcratic Hispanic state legislators seem to disagree. Shouldn't they be allowed to own their own truth?

https://nypost.com/2023/02/03/connecticut-hispanic-democrats-want-to-ban-lantix-from-state-documents/

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Anonymous wrote:As a parent from a foreign background, this article resonated with me. I feel lost here and feel like I no longer fit in.

https://www.slowboring.com/p/who-is-included-by-inclusive-language

What this "Slow Boring" author seems not to understand or account for is that elite high schools are responding to the preferences of elite colleges, because the sole purpose of an elite high school is to help its students gain admission into an elite college. If it cannot fulfill this singular purpose it will not survive, no matter what other acculturation in the norms of fancy manners and society it may otherwise provide. College admission is king.

And what this author similarly seems to not understand about elite college "wokeness" is that it is the product not only of demands from the culture at large (and, crucially, the demographic of affluent teenagers that elite colleges cater to) but also its highly educated and abnormally intelligent faculty, who often lead the charge in determining intellectual and cultural norms on campus. Although this imperfect attempt at semi-meritocracy has been under attack in America for decades, for the most part smart people still run universities (not necessarily in the administration buildings, but in the lecture halls and research labs). So colleges tend to be on the progressive cutting edge, because the more educated you are, the more likely you are to hold progressive beliefs. If you really understand systemic racial and economic oppression you are going to support efforts to dismantle it (unless you are a sociopath or otherwise lacking in normal moral sensibilities, super-ego, empathy, or conscience). Even if those efforts to dismantle become absurd or performative (as, of course, they eventually do as dumber and less genuinely other-regarding people jump onto the PC train) the efforts are rooted in the result of education itself: a deeper, more nuanced, and more accurate understanding of how the world actually works.

If you don't like it, don't fret: the pendulum will swing again because not everyone with power and influence in American culture is smart or well-educated, or equipped with a functioning super-ego.

This is just like saying people who don't understand Puritanism are people who aren't close to God.

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Anonymous wrote:Is Bullis “Woke”? Also, what about Saint Albans, Landon and Saint Andrew’s Episcopal School Potomac? Are the schools woke?

If you use the term "woke" I know you are a maga idiot.

Anonymous wrote:Is Bullis “Woke”? Also, what about Saint Albans, Landon and Saint Andrew’s Episcopal School Potomac? Are the schools woke?

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Anonymous wrote:LOL at anyone using the word “woke” like it’s a bad thing. Do you realize how backward you sound? Move to Florida or Hungary or something where you’ll fit in with the mouth breathers.

I was thinking the same thing.

This is so offensive to all that raise their children to value someone for their character and nothing else.

You sit in your little palace and you judge people for not being "woke" while your kids attend a 35k+ year school. If you care so much about equity, how much have you donated to sponsor a kid at school? If you care so much about DEI, how many hours have you spent at a soup kitchen or community center helping that diamond in a rough kid get to that next step because all they need is to know that you, or someone believes in them?

If you answered " no" to any of the above, then STFU you hypocrite.

And no, I don't breathe out of my mouth but I also don't judge who do.
Shame on you. I'm embarrassed for.you.

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Anonymous wrote:LOL at anyone using the word “woke” like it’s a bad thing. Do you realize how backward you sound? Move to Florida or Hungary or something where you’ll fit in with the mouth breathers.

I was thinking the same thing.

This is so offensive to all that raise their children to value someone for their character and nothing else.

You sit in your little palace and you judge people for not being "woke" while your kids attend a 35k+ year school. If you care so much about equity, how much have you donated to sponsor a kid at school? If you care so much about DEI, how many hours have you spent at a soup kitchen or community center helping that diamond in a rough kid get to that next step because all they need is to know that you, or someone believes in them?

If you answered " no" to any of the above, then STFU you hypocrite.

And no, I don't breathe out of my mouth but I also don't judge who do.
Shame on you. I'm embarrassed for.you.

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Anonymous wrote:Hong Kong may be wishing England was back. Hasn’t been
so good for them recently.

Dimwit it was a 100 year lease from China. At the end of 100 years, it reverted to China in 1998. Eventually China asserted itself as it actually owns the territory.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Tawdry street Spanish.

I got news for you- they say a whole lotta thinks in Naples Italy don’t belong in high school Italian.

You seem confused. No part of this conversation has anything to do with “street Spanish” (whatever that is) but rather with how the Spanish language is evolving to confront the reality of women’s rights and inclusiveness of non-binary people. PP was arguing that in her circle, no one cares about women’s or gender queer rights. Meanwhile, in the real world, many presidents of Spanish speaking countries, the highest officials responsible for human rights in every Spanish speaking country, organizations like the OAS, most academics, and the Academia Norteamericana de la Lengua Española care very much, and have written reams of articles about how to confront the issue, including detailed debates by prominent linguists about the pros and cons of os/as, the neutral “e”, and using “@“.

The weird tendency of DCUM posters to claim to be native Spanish speakers but clearly have no idea whatsoever about enormous social and political trends in the Spanish speaking world is so strange. I really suspect that these people are Anglo trolls claiming to be Spanish speakers in order to seem credible in their anti-woke crusade.

This is too funny.

The woke brigade trying to force Spanish speakers in the Latinx box is losing. Only 3-4% Hispanics like the term, the majority despises it...but the woke brigade, which is 99% anglo, now wants you to believe that the 96-97% Hispanics who don't like the term....we are "Anglo trolls."

Living in a bubble makes you lose sense of reality I guess.

Also, the poster quoting Fernandez as some kind of role model is quite funny too. A corrupt far-left politician making things worse for the vast majority of his compatriots and increasingly despised by his own party.

If I can bring this back to OP's initial message...if your kids have Spanish and French or whatever classes which includes these x nonsense, be suspicious.

You have no awareness whatsoever of what's going on in government and academia in the Spanish speaking world and you don't seem to understand how the Spanish language works, so yeah, I think you're an Anglo troll whose understanding is limited to "X is bad". Go back to watching Fox news and fretting about immigrants taking your job.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:LOL at anyone using the word “woke” like it’s a bad thing. Do you realize how backward you sound? Move to Florida or Hungary or something where you’ll fit in with the mouth breathers.

I was thinking the same thing.

This is so offensive to all that raise their children to value someone for their character and nothing else.

You sit in your little palace and you judge people for not being "woke" while your kids attend a 35k+ year school. If you care so much about equity, how much have you donated to sponsor a kid at school? If you care so much about DEI, how many hours have you spent at a soup kitchen or community center helping that diamond in a rough kid get to that next step because all they need is to know that you, or someone believes in them?

If you answered " no" to any of the above, then STFU you hypocrite.

And no, I don't breathe out of my mouth but I also don't judge who do.
Shame on you. I'm embarrassed for.you.