Posted on 08/22/2022 6:36:10 AM PDT by simpson96
A teacher on TikTok has an order for whites — especially ones in academia: Stop putting others in peril.
Ours is an unprecedented era, in which people use phones as soliloquy slingshots to shoot monologues into the ether. Such messages are often edited for polish and delivered as if eager masses are waiting to listen and learn.
It’s the new national pastime.
And in a recent video shared by Libs Of TikTok, a woman identifying herself as a teacher drops science on America’s — and education’s — poorly pigmented.
Starting off, she clangs the community bell:
“Okay, white educators. This one is for you.”
She then cuts the clip to perform the look-to-the-side-and-lower-your-voice-and-adorably-raise-your-eyebrows-and-squint move found in an astonishingly large number of TikTok tangents.
[I’m unsure as to whether this expression is now a platform prerequisite for posting.]
Continuing:
“I mean, really, most of these are gonna be for y’all.”
She’s concerned about school safety:
“White educators should be a safe space for black students.”
The line is then repeated for emphasis.
Per the lady’s presumption, Caucasian educators marvel that they can’t connect with black kids. And it’s time for those teachers to accept that they come across as scary:
“If you’re wondering why you’re not able to connect with ‘those kids’ (insert another instance of the aforementioned Standard TikTok Expression [STTE]), it’s probably because they don’t feel safe around you.”
A caption appears on the screen:
Think about how exhausting that is, and the emotional trauma of the BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and People Of Color) experience.
The woman then coughs up some candor:
“I mean, I’m going to be perfectly honest with you. There are many white people — especially white strangers — that I have my guard up. And it’s because I’m trying to protect myself from them. I don’t know if this is a safe person. And it’s the same with children.”
She leaves us with a handy rule of thumb:
“[I]f you decide to gloss over instances of racism or decide that Black Lives Matter is a political thing, you’re not a safe person.”
I can’t confirm that she’s a teacher; however, her presentation is typical of where we are.
It seems to me her message comes courtesy of the past few years’ insistence — that America is racist, that colors shouldn’t co-exist…and that both sides of the political aisle’s agreement with only one side of the aisle’s ideology is the definition of “safety.”
Not too long ago — in the area of race relations — the country was apparently on a positive path. Humanity looked to be evolving beyond the idea that shades of skin distinguished warring tribes.
As for “safety,” the term had always referred to shelter from real harm.
For decades, America appeared to be maturing; and for the most part, it was trying to preserve its toughness.
But a substantial turn has been taken: We’ve traded resilience for fragility, unity for fragmentation.
For all the talk of “diversity” being a strength — which, inherently, it is not — we’ve lost what actually makes us strong: togetherness, agreed upon by tolerant, independent thinkers.
But forget all that — these days, it’s all about TikTok. So try and stay safe, in a nation overrun with white people.
So she’s a bigot.
Imagine a white teacher saying black people shouldn’t teach white kids.
Math?
MATH is an acronym for: White Man is A Slave Driver.
Oh, the letters don’t match your white supremacist alphabet?
We don’t follow your CAT, Critical Alphabet Theory.
My sentiment too, in spades.
I’m exhausted and traumatized from all the woke racist propaganda being thrown all about in our country today. I for one am over it and refuse to give these race baiters too much attention anymore. They have done over-played their hand to where all I hear is blah blah blah blah blah blah blah.
Took me a while to dredge up Colonel Dax from Paths of Glory but it eventually came to me. I agree!
I don’t know... has she seen the videos of students jumping on top of desks like animals, and harassing the teacher in some of these online videos?
It’s not the teachers who are making these classrooms unsafe
I have a family member who was a teacher- she refused to continue to work in certain areas.
Years ago the NY State Board of Regenta stopped requiring those who wanted to teach a competency exam. They determined doing so was waaayyycist.
Lord only knows who is in those classrooms these days.
They can have it if they want it.
I won’t stand in their way.
Blacks are the biggest problem for everyone.
an education degree sadly is very simple to obtain...
"I wish all the “white people” would stopping forcing her to live here and let her go home where they don’t have “white peoples.”"
**raised**
Ping
How can a "White Educators" be a "safe space"? Perhaps "White Teachers" could "provide" a safe space, but how would they BE a "safe space. Ah. I get that she probably isn't an English teacher, which is possible since they likely don't teach it anyway.
And any time an "Educator" (Leftist, and those scare quotes are MINE) says "I'm going to be perfectly honest with you" Leftist blather is sure to follow. Bank on it.
And then she says:
"There are many white people, especially white strangers, that I have my guard up, and it's because I am trying to protect myself from them, I don't know if this is a safe person. And it's the same with children. So, if you decide to gloss over incidences of racism, or decide that "Black Lives Matter" is a "political thing" (reverse scare quotes are hers) you're not a 'safe' person.
Gee.
The truth would be said as: "There are many black people, especially black strangers, that I have my guard up, and it's because I am trying to protect myself from them, I don't know if this is a safe person since 40% of all rapes, murders, armed robberies, assault and batteries in this country are committed by 1-2% of black men. And it's the same with children. So, if you decide to gloss over incidences of racism violence, or decide that Black Lives Matter not wanting your house and business burned to the ground, or having your car or face stomped on by a racist mob is a "political thing" (reverse scare quotes are hers) you're not a 'safe' person."
The differences between those two statements above are that one is entirely based on racism, and Black Lives Matter is not only a political organization, but an evil Marxist one at that, and the second statement is based entirely on fact, particularly about violent crime.
Them that can, do. Them that can’t, teach.
Poor thing, she’s stuck on stupid.
Happens from time to time.
5.56mm
Sounds like she wants a society free from the white, productive class. Maybe she can propose a type of separate but equal system and the formation of a nation state just for people that look like her.
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