Without even clicking the link, I’ll guess the reason — all the talk of racism makes white kids feel guilty. Again, if your kids are reading histories of slavery or segregation and identifying with the racists in the story, that suggests you’ve got your own problems to work through. Leave us out.
This may be my lapsed Catholicism speaking, but I don’t think guilt is necessarily a bad thing. I have a clear memory of learning about slavery as a 5 year old and feeling guilty/embarrassed about it, but that feeling developed into empathy/support for social justice, reparations, etc as an adult
I don’t think it’s identifying with the slave owners to feel some guilt that white people currently benefit disproportionately from a system that is in a lot of ways a continuation of Jim Crow policies.
Seriously, I learned in high school that one of my ancestors had enslaved one of my best friend's ancestors. Didn't make me feel guilty. might have made me feel ashamed, if I wasn't ALREADY as ashamed of my ancestors as I could possibly be.
makes the white kid's *parents* feel guilty. Guarantee the kids aren't sitting there going "oh my god i'm history's villain?!"
Not that this is even the issue, but it’s maddening to hear that trigger warnings and safe spaces are antithetical to the education experience because education should be about challenging your comfort zone, and then see this extraordinary show of privileging white fragility. It’s boggling.
Agree! It is not up to BIPOC people to make WP feel better about our overt and covert bigotry. We have to evolve to be able to cope with any discomfort that arises when learning about these topics. It’s empowering in the end to be able to move through those feelings and become actively antiracist
I don't think they're censoring information about systemic racism because it makes white children feel guilty. Rather, I believe they want them to grow up blind, deaf, and dumb on the issue in order to maintain systemic racism. But maybe I'm just stating the obvious here. Feel free to say 'duh.'
And that's how we know it's not really about things that make white kids uncomfortable. What kid has ever sat in history or social studies class hearing about terrible people and thought "I identify with them because they're white and I feel attacked!" No one. They just think "that's terrible."
Absolutely on brand that this public-money-sucking dude is the school board president - dailycaller.com/2023/06/08/o...
I firmly believe that under DeSantis’ leadership as commander-in-chief, our nation’s security will be prioritized.
@jbouie.bsky.social had this right a while back: if black children are old enough to experience racism, white children are old enough to learn about it