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Anonymous wrote:I simply don’t understand the term “white fragility” being throw around by the same people who in the very next breath spew about how mean and oppressive white people are and how much their lives are ruined because other people didn’t play nice

Sounds like you really have no idea what the term means—and yet, here you are, posting.

The PP is probably exhausted trying to keep up with all the weaponized anti-white (or anti-male or anti-straight) phrases spat out by intolerant Marxist gender & race studies departments.

This month's entry, "white fragility" (which is being thrown around all over twitter also)

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Anonymous wrote:I simply don’t understand the term “white fragility” being throw around by the same people who in the very next breath spew about how mean and oppressive white people are and how much their lives are ruined because other people didn’t play nice

Sounds like you really have no idea what the term means—and yet, here you are, posting.

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Anonymous wrote:Jee. Zus. Christ.

The fact that OP and others are willing to put up even a small fight about this shows such fragility, such lack of empathy, and such intolerance for societal change or flexibility. ONE publication that represents all non-white kids and you feel the need to raise this as an "issue" that offends you and speculate as to what it means for your white, and as such, tremendously advantaged kid? I guess you're motivated by a sense of commitment to your child, which is fine because we all are and should be, but in reality this point/attitude is far more detrimental to society as a whole than it is to your kid (which is to say: it isn't, at all.).

This is not the hill to die on. Get some perspective.

I say this as a white parent with a white child who attended a DCPS where s/he was the ONLY white kid in the class for four years. We talked about it. A lot. We hoped this would give our child a more nuanced, color blind view of the way the world should work. In some ways it did. But you know that? The world doesn't yet work like that, and that's a shame. Our child knows that the kids from that school were on the whole poorer, and had more disadvantages brought on my systemic and generational poverty. Can s/he articulate that? Not entirely. But s/he knows that's the world we live in, and has some growing perspective that we shouldn't have to live in that world. So how do we change it? A very small step is by WELCOMING emails like this that flip the script that has gotten us into such a problem; if you're challenging that, you're part of the problem.

Not "seeing themself" in ONE email, or 10 (that let's get real, they don't even see) isn't going to do one bit of lasting damage to your child. Of course make sure your child feels part of their school community, but don't disproportionally link this to that.

Yuck.

I like you. I hope we’re friends in real life. People like you makes me love living in DC. OP makes me cringe.

-biracial mom of AA kids

Aww thanks - I hope so too! I am as white as they come and to be perfectly honest we left DCPS for a variety of reasons. But I am also a professor with a population of students that is incredibly diverse. The more people who work to facilitate opportunities -- even ones as simple as pictures in a newsletter -- for people who have disadvantages, the better off we all are.

Umm...

Oh, I'm so sorry! I forgot that you are entitled to private information about my child!

It's not a good look to make assumptions, especially when your goal is to be inflammatory and assume the worst.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Jee. Zus. Christ.

The fact that OP and others are willing to put up even a small fight about this shows such fragility, such lack of empathy, and such intolerance for societal change or flexibility. ONE publication that represents all non-white kids and you feel the need to raise this as an "issue" that offends you and speculate as to what it means for your white, and as such, tremendously advantaged kid? I guess you're motivated by a sense of commitment to your child, which is fine because we all are and should be, but in reality this point/attitude is far more detrimental to society as a whole than it is to your kid (which is to say: it isn't, at all.).

This is not the hill to die on. Get some perspective.

I say this as a white parent with a white child who attended a DCPS where s/he was the ONLY white kid in the class for four years. We talked about it. A lot. We hoped this would give our child a more nuanced, color blind view of the way the world should work. In some ways it did. But you know that? The world doesn't yet work like that, and that's a shame. Our child knows that the kids from that school were on the whole poorer, and had more disadvantages brought on my systemic and generational poverty. Can s/he articulate that? Not entirely. But s/he knows that's the world we live in, and has some growing perspective that we shouldn't have to live in that world. So how do we change it? A very small step is by WELCOMING emails like this that flip the script that has gotten us into such a problem; if you're challenging that, you're part of the problem.

Not "seeing themself" in ONE email, or 10 (that let's get real, they don't even see) isn't going to do one bit of lasting damage to your child. Of course make sure your child feels part of their school community, but don't disproportionally link this to that.

Yuck.

I like you. I hope we’re friends in real life. People like you makes me love living in DC. OP makes me cringe.

-biracial mom of AA kids

Aww thanks - I hope so too! I am as white as they come and to be perfectly honest we left DCPS for a variety of reasons. But I am also a professor with a population of students that is incredibly diverse. The more people who work to facilitate opportunities -- even ones as simple as pictures in a newsletter -- for people who have disadvantages, the better off we all are.

Umm...

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Jee. Zus. Christ.

The fact that OP and others are willing to put up even a small fight about this shows such fragility, such lack of empathy, and such intolerance for societal change or flexibility. ONE publication that represents all non-white kids and you feel the need to raise this as an "issue" that offends you and speculate as to what it means for your white, and as such, tremendously advantaged kid? I guess you're motivated by a sense of commitment to your child, which is fine because we all are and should be, but in reality this point/attitude is far more detrimental to society as a whole than it is to your kid (which is to say: it isn't, at all.).

This is not the hill to die on. Get some perspective.

I say this as a white parent with a white child who attended a DCPS where s/he was the ONLY white kid in the class for four years. We talked about it. A lot. We hoped this would give our child a more nuanced, color blind view of the way the world should work. In some ways it did. But you know that? The world doesn't yet work like that, and that's a shame. Our child knows that the kids from that school were on the whole poorer, and had more disadvantages brought on my systemic and generational poverty. Can s/he articulate that? Not entirely. But s/he knows that's the world we live in, and has some growing perspective that we shouldn't have to live in that world. So how do we change it? A very small step is by WELCOMING emails like this that flip the script that has gotten us into such a problem; if you're challenging that, you're part of the problem.

Not "seeing themself" in ONE email, or 10 (that let's get real, they don't even see) isn't going to do one bit of lasting damage to your child. Of course make sure your child feels part of their school community, but don't disproportionally link this to that.

Yuck.

I like you. I hope we’re friends in real life. People like you makes me love living in DC. OP makes me cringe.

-biracial mom of AA kids

Aww thanks - I hope so too! I am as white as they come and to be perfectly honest we left DCPS for a variety of reasons. But I am also a professor with a population of students that is incredibly diverse. The more people who work to facilitate opportunities -- even ones as simple as pictures in a newsletter -- for people who have disadvantages, the better off we all are.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Jee. Zus. Christ.

The fact that OP and others are willing to put up even a small fight about this shows such fragility, such lack of empathy, and such intolerance for societal change or flexibility. ONE publication that represents all non-white kids and you feel the need to raise this as an "issue" that offends you and speculate as to what it means for your white, and as such, tremendously advantaged kid? I guess you're motivated by a sense of commitment to your child, which is fine because we all are and should be, but in reality this point/attitude is far more detrimental to society as a whole than it is to your kid (which is to say: it isn't, at all.).

This is not the hill to die on. Get some perspective.

I say this as a white parent with a white child who attended a DCPS where s/he was the ONLY white kid in the class for four years. We talked about it. A lot. We hoped this would give our child a more nuanced, color blind view of the way the world should work. In some ways it did. But you know that? The world doesn't yet work like that, and that's a shame. Our child knows that the kids from that school were on the whole poorer, and had more disadvantages brought on my systemic and generational poverty. Can s/he articulate that? Not entirely. But s/he knows that's the world we live in, and has some growing perspective that we shouldn't have to live in that world. So how do we change it? A very small step is by WELCOMING emails like this that flip the script that has gotten us into such a problem; if you're challenging that, you're part of the problem.

Not "seeing themself" in ONE email, or 10 (that let's get real, they don't even see) isn't going to do one bit of lasting damage to your child. Of course make sure your child feels part of their school community, but don't disproportionally link this to that.

Yuck.

I like you. I hope we’re friends in real life. People like you makes me love living in DC. OP makes me cringe.

-biracial mom of AA kids

Anonymous wrote:I simply don’t understand the term “white fragility” being throw around by the same people who in the very next breath spew about how mean and oppressive white people are and how much their lives are ruined because other people didn’t play nice

Anonymous wrote:I simply don’t understand the term “white fragility” being throw around by the same people who in the very next breath spew about how mean and oppressive white people are and how much their lives are ruined because other people didn’t play nice

Anonymous wrote:Jee. Zus. Christ.

The fact that OP and others are willing to put up even a small fight about this shows such fragility, such lack of empathy, and such intolerance for societal change or flexibility. ONE publication that represents all non-white kids and you feel the need to raise this as an "issue" that offends you and speculate as to what it means for your white, and as such, tremendously advantaged kid? I guess you're motivated by a sense of commitment to your child, which is fine because we all are and should be, but in reality this point/attitude is far more detrimental to society as a whole than it is to your kid (which is to say: it isn't, at all.).

This is not the hill to die on. Get some perspective.

I say this as a white parent with a white child who attended a DCPS where s/he was the ONLY white kid in the class for four years. We talked about it. A lot. We hoped this would give our child a more nuanced, color blind view of the way the world should work. In some ways it did. But you know that? The world doesn't yet work like that, and that's a shame. Our child knows that the kids from that school were on the whole poorer, and had more disadvantages brought on my systemic and generational poverty. Can s/he articulate that? Not entirely. But s/he knows that's the world we live in, and has some growing perspective that we shouldn't have to live in that world. So how do we change it? A very small step is by WELCOMING emails like this that flip the script that has gotten us into such a problem; if you're challenging that, you're part of the problem.

Not "seeing themself" in ONE email, or 10 (that let's get real, they don't even see) isn't going to do one bit of lasting damage to your child. Of course make sure your child feels part of their school community, but don't disproportionally link this to that.

Yuck.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Jee. Zus. Christ.

The fact that OP and others are willing to put up even a small fight about this shows such fragility, such lack of empathy, and such intolerance for societal change or flexibility. ONE publication that represents all non-white kids and you feel the need to raise this as an "issue" that offends you and speculate as to what it means for your white, and as such, tremendously advantaged kid? I guess you're motivated by a sense of commitment to your child, which is fine because we all are and should be, but in reality this point/attitude is far more detrimental to society as a whole than it is to your kid (which is to say: it isn't, at all.).

This is not the hill to die on. Get some perspective.

I say this as a white parent with a white child who attended a DCPS where s/he was the ONLY white kid in the class for four years. We talked about it. A lot. We hoped this would give our child a more nuanced, color blind view of the way the world should work. In some ways it did. But you know that? The world doesn't yet work like that, and that's a shame. Our child knows that the kids from that school were on the whole poorer, and had more disadvantages brought on my systemic and generational poverty. Can s/he articulate that? Not entirely. But s/he knows that's the world we live in, and has some growing perspective that we shouldn't have to live in that world. So how do we change it? A very small step is by WELCOMING emails like this that flip the script that has gotten us into such a problem; if you're challenging that, you're part of the problem.

Not "seeing themself" in ONE email, or 10 (that let's get real, they don't even see) isn't going to do one bit of lasting damage to your child. Of course make sure your child feels part of their school community, but don't disproportionally link this to that.

Yuck.

You deliberately taught your white kid that brown kids are poor and disadvantaged. Is that good for her? Is that good for them?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Jee. Zus. Christ.

The fact that OP and others are willing to put up even a small fight about this shows such fragility, such lack of empathy, and such intolerance for societal change or flexibility. ONE publication that represents all non-white kids and you feel the need to raise this as an "issue" that offends you and speculate as to what it means for your white, and as such, tremendously advantaged kid? I guess you're motivated by a sense of commitment to your child, which is fine because we all are and should be, but in reality this point/attitude is far more detrimental to society as a whole than it is to your kid (which is to say: it isn't, at all.).

This is not the hill to die on. Get some perspective.

I say this as a white parent with a white child who attended a DCPS where s/he was the ONLY white kid in the class for four years. We talked about it. A lot. We hoped this would give our child a more nuanced, color blind view of the way the world should work. In some ways it did. But you know that? The world doesn't yet work like that, and that's a shame. Our child knows that the kids from that school were on the whole poorer, and had more disadvantages brought on my systemic and generational poverty. Can s/he articulate that? Not entirely. But s/he knows that's the world we live in, and has some growing perspective that we shouldn't have to live in that world. So how do we change it? A very small step is by WELCOMING emails like this that flip the script that has gotten us into such a problem; if you're challenging that, you're part of the problem.

Not "seeing themself" in ONE email, or 10 (that let's get real, they don't even see) isn't going to do one bit of lasting damage to your child. Of course make sure your child feels part of their school community, but don't disproportionally link this to that.

Yuck.

I like you. I hope we’re friends in real life. People like you makes me love living in DC. OP makes me cringe.

-biracial mom of AA kids

Anonymous wrote:Jee. Zus. Christ.

The fact that OP and others are willing to put up even a small fight about this shows such fragility, such lack of empathy, and such intolerance for societal change or flexibility. ONE publication that represents all non-white kids and you feel the need to raise this as an "issue" that offends you and speculate as to what it means for your white, and as such, tremendously advantaged kid? I guess you're motivated by a sense of commitment to your child, which is fine because we all are and should be, but in reality this point/attitude is far more detrimental to society as a whole than it is to your kid (which is to say: it isn't, at all.).

This is not the hill to die on. Get some perspective.

I say this as a white parent with a white child who attended a DCPS where s/he was the ONLY white kid in the class for four years. We talked about it. A lot. We hoped this would give our child a more nuanced, color blind view of the way the world should work. In some ways it did. But you know that? The world doesn't yet work like that, and that's a shame. Our child knows that the kids from that school were on the whole poorer, and had more disadvantages brought on my systemic and generational poverty. Can s/he articulate that? Not entirely. But s/he knows that's the world we live in, and has some growing perspective that we shouldn't have to live in that world. So how do we change it? A very small step is by WELCOMING emails like this that flip the script that has gotten us into such a problem; if you're challenging that, you're part of the problem.

Not "seeing themself" in ONE email, or 10 (that let's get real, they don't even see) isn't going to do one bit of lasting damage to your child. Of course make sure your child feels part of their school community, but don't disproportionally link this to that.

Yuck.