Guy Chamberlin Posted December 3, 2022 Share Posted December 3, 2022 On 11/14/2022 at 12:43 PM, Ulty said: This is kind of interesting...I would like to know more about what point this teacher was trying to make? Was this a white supremacy flex, directly to a group of black students? Was he trying (and failing) to make engage in a nuanced discussion about implicit bias? (which is a little too complex for a middle school classroom) What was the context of this conversation, how did this comment end up coming out? I thought the same thing. My first reaction was "hey, give him points for honesty" and that seems to be his defense. It was more illuminating that the young black students he's addressing felt comfortable calling him out to his face, saying they lost respect for him. If further give and take conversation flushed out the deeply held racist beliefs we typically don't say out loud, it still counts as a teachable moment. I'd be curious what the students thought about this guy before these comments. Maybe they did respect him. Maybe he was always a pompous d!(k, and that's why the phones came out to record him, knowing it could get him fired. There are a lot of interesting conversations we're not having because the prevailing wisdom is to not open your mouth. 1 Link to comment
RedDenver Posted December 3, 2022 Share Posted December 3, 2022 4 minutes ago, Guy Chamberlin said: I thought the same thing. My first reaction was "hey, give him points for honesty" and that seems to be his defense. It was more illuminating that the young black students he's addressing felt comfortable calling him out to his face, saying they lost respect for him. If further give and take conversation flushed out the deeply held racist beliefs we typically don't say out loud, it still counts as a teachable moment. I'd be curious what the students thought about this guy before these comments. Maybe they did respect him. Maybe he was always a pompous d!(k, and that's why the phones came out to record him, knowing it could get him fired. There are a lot of interesting conversations we're not having because the prevailing wisdom is to not open your mouth. The word "interesting" is doing a lot of work here. Link to comment
Guy Chamberlin Posted December 3, 2022 Share Posted December 3, 2022 1 hour ago, RedDenver said: The word "interesting" is doing a lot of work here. I think it can handle it. Link to comment
nic Posted December 20, 2022 Share Posted December 20, 2022 Apparently we need to cast tall blue people to play tall blue people. 3 Link to comment
NM11046 Posted December 20, 2022 Author Share Posted December 20, 2022 Who in the world is Kathia Woods? Are we now to count anyone with a twitter account and a personal opinion as a indication of a cultural thought? 1 2 Link to comment
teachercd Posted December 20, 2022 Share Posted December 20, 2022 3 minutes ago, NM11046 said: Who in the world is Kathia Woods? Are we now to count anyone with a twitter account and a personal opinion as a indication of a cultural thought? Yes. Because that is how it starts. One person voices a concern and others either follow and agree or they don't. 1 1 1 Link to comment
funhusker Posted December 20, 2022 Share Posted December 20, 2022 16 minutes ago, teachercd said: Yes. Because that is how it starts. One person voices a concern and others either follow and agree or they don't. Yep. One person makes a Tweet (possibly even a sarcastic one). And then a media outlet tells hundreds of thousands, if not millions, that people should be mad at Hollywood. Weird folks all around... 1 Link to comment
teachercd Posted December 20, 2022 Share Posted December 20, 2022 13 minutes ago, funhusker said: Yep. One person makes a Tweet (possibly even a sarcastic one). And then a media outlet tells hundreds of thousands, if not millions, that people should be mad at Hollywood. Weird folks all around... Wash Rinse Repeat Link to comment
nic Posted December 29, 2022 Share Posted December 29, 2022 Exercise is now rooted in white supremacy. Just keep digging. https://time.com/6242949/exercise-industry-white-supremacy/ 1 Link to comment
funhusker Posted December 29, 2022 Share Posted December 29, 2022 18 minutes ago, nic said: Exercise is now rooted in white supremacy. Just keep digging. https://time.com/6242949/exercise-industry-white-supremacy/ It's a dumb headline. The article isn't saying that exercise was rooted out of racism. It had a couple of sentences about how women were encouraged to be stronger to "have more white babies". Now we both gave clicks to an article solely because of a misleading headline. At least I'm assuming you clicked on it and actually read it before bringing it here. 2 Link to comment
Archy1221 Posted December 29, 2022 Share Posted December 29, 2022 2 hours ago, nic said: Exercise is now rooted in white supremacy. Just keep digging. https://time.com/6242949/exercise-industry-white-supremacy/ Is there anything these type of people won’t say is racist at this point? 1 Link to comment
Lorewarn Posted December 29, 2022 Share Posted December 29, 2022 3 hours ago, Archy1221 said: Is there anything these type of people won’t say is racist at this point? Is there anything in the dominant culture of the United States that's been around for 150 years that doesn't have at least some entanglement in a racist past? 1 1 2 Link to comment
funhusker Posted December 29, 2022 Share Posted December 29, 2022 3 hours ago, Archy1221 said: Is there anything these type of people won’t say is racist at this point? Where in the article did it say exercise is racist? Link to comment
nic Posted December 31, 2022 Share Posted December 31, 2022 On 12/29/2022 at 5:41 PM, funhusker said: Where in the article did it say exercise is racist? The White Supremacist Origins of Exercise The lead in... 1 Link to comment
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