Posted on 06/15/2021 10:11:29 PM PDT by blueplum
At some point non-blacks (or people outside ANY protected group) are going to realize they should just avoid mentioning them altogether; these discussions are traps that can be used by the Communist Cancel Culture to get rid of ANYONE (since there are no longer right answers, and truth is irrelevant).
The left is accomplishing what many failed to do for centuries: Removing “otherized” people from day-to-day conversations.
It's a shame but true - and good advice for navigating today's upside down world.
Tired of walking on eggshells so I basically avoid any people who I deem as being overly-sensitive about things. It's self-preservation.
What an idiot. The best advice he could give is to recommend the autobiography of Douglass - and leave it at that. Let students read and draw their own conclusions about Douglass - a great American.
Applies to sports teams’ names as well; if they want to erase Indians from our history - no argument from me anymore...
Don’t know whether “black” or “African American” is the correct term/password du jour? Simply say neither - EVER.
“But the group said that a school board in a district with a majority black student population requires ‘cultural proficiency....”
Proficiency in math and English are optional, however.
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I’m sorry. It must be-a struggle having friends and relatives who are brain damaged leftists.
My maternal side of the family are radical leftists in thinking, however they live conservative lifestyles. I do believe I am the only full on conservative on my mother’s side. I know the frustration.
It makes no sense. There’s no reasoning with them even when using personal histories of leftists ideology messing with their lives or in desperation using crayons and paper.
Failure to engage is same as losing
Push back like a Trump
The only people who can push back are those in safe jobs, independently wealthy people, or retirees.
Like Trump.
Oh please
Rich envy on free republic is tiresome
And not conservative
Are you disputing what I said? Many retirees aren’t rich at all, but the reason why “old people” speak their minds so freely is because they can’t be “canceled”.
Douglass could read and write, and worked as a skilled worker in a shipyard, alongside free blacks. The free blacks carried documents identifying them as free.
To escape the South, all he had to do was borrow the ID of a free friend, and get on a train to NY.
“cultural proficiency” = toe the party line or else
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