Not complaining about the moderation. I’m very grateful to orenwolf for explaining the nature of the complaint so I could repost the information.
Well, of course, I have to allow the possibility. But let me put it this way, do you not agree that this new information makes it less certain that the exercise was motivated by racism? I would have thought it at least adjusts the balance of probabilities.
Anyway, I will leave it there and let you all have the last word.
Merry Christmas / Festivus everyone!
Let me put it this way…I currently reside in a country where folks rightfully and constantly blame the USA for racism, yet they themselves bear the burden of POC acting racist against other POC as routinely as white folks do against Black folks. It’s a Thing
Black folks can’t really be “racist” against white folks in a one-to-one ratio because white folks are currently part of the group in power, but they can certainly support the institutional and casual racism of developed countries like the USA. Being a Kapo (what an appropriate term in this situation!) doesn’t excuse their actions simply because they are not white.
Even if it wasn’t, it’s still a shitty exercise to have third graders participate in! Even if she had the best intentions, it’s still having children act out violence that even grown adults would find traumatizing!
But YES, BTW, Black people CAN be racist and they can be antisemitic. It’s entirely possible, and just her being Black doesn’t mean she has not internalized the bigotry that is in our society.
But over all, whatever her motivation, this was a terrible exercise. Period.
I think you may be a bit confused about what racism is and how it works. Please do not fall into the fallacy of believing that people of color are immune or inonculated against racism simply because they themselves are marginalized. And racism is more than just actively hating or trying to stick it to a certain racial or ethnic group. What one doesn’t do can be just as racist as what one does do, and this represented a spectacular failure to treat the Holocaust with due care and consideration.
No. That’s like thinking women can’t be misogynistic. They can. They are. The behavior betrays the underlying beliefs, regardless of the particular meat suit the perpetrator wears.
The Watkins Elementary School staffer who directed third-graders to reenact scenes from the Holocaust on Friday was convicted of two crimes in New Jersey.
D.C. Public Schools has not said whether it knew of the incidents during her hiring process in 2014. Officials were moving “quickly and decisively” to investigate, Schools Chancellor Lewis D. Ferebee said at a Monday news conference.
