> a mandatory, whites-only student and faculty Zoom meeting
What the flying fuck? Is this even legal in New York State? Is the author credible? (Noticed the article got flagged.)
What the flying fuck? Is this even legal in New York State? Is the author credible? (Noticed the article got flagged.)
The world's gone batshit.
It's time to knuckle down, shut the fuck up and get through with it.
The best part is one is mixed-race but presents white so she has to go to the whites-only zoom. Students and faculty collectively decided that she's not mixed-race enough (50/50) to self-identify.
She's an LGBT, mixed-race conservative. The only thing they see is that she looks white and is conservative.
It's been a multi-year struggle against a coordinated administrative effort to kick her off her scholarships and out of school. She mostly keeps her opinions to herself, but teachers and peers stalk her social media (including to the point of creating a fake profile of a family member and trying to add her to see her private posts) and pick ideological battles she wants no part of.
It's absolutely abuse and harassment.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zersetzung
has "Cancel culture" in its "See also" section.
I hope her life will improve in a reasonable college (if there still are any left).
As much as I hate the way she's being treated, she's lucky to get her backbone early in life. She's already a very strong and capable adult.
Silence is suspicious:
Teachers praise insights when they articulate the existing framework or expand it to apply to novel domains. Meantime, it is common for teachers to exhort students who remain silent that “we really need to hear from you.”
[..]
A recent faculty email chain received enthusiastic support for recommending that we “‘officially’ flag students” who appear “resistant” to the “culture we are trying to establish.”
When I questioned what form this resistance takes, examples presented by a colleague included [..] “just silence.”
But we're not following the one-drop rule, so I guess that's some kind of progress...
Anyway, Weiss is both a troll and a hypocrite, so it's easy to discount her posts as flamebait. That doesn't mean she's always wrong, of course, but she's got a well earned reputation which suggests one should take her with more than a pinch of salt (IMO, this is basically true for anybody who decides to "publish" on a substack blog).
[0] https://theintercept.com/2018/03/08/the-nyts-bari-weiss-fals...
I miss the days when everything was about sex.
https://law.stanford.edu/2019/12/20/the-outrage-industrial-c...
This was in the spring of 1980.
Biden's very first EO caused the DOE to reverse course and suspend their previous decision that it violated civil rights laws and now creating racial affinity groups in schools is ok according to the DOE.
https://nypost.com/2021/03/07/education-dept-curbs-decision-...