• Kid Unfurls Confederate Flag in Class, Declares "White Privilege Day," Gets Suspended
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[URL="https://mic.com/articles/145222/kid-unfurls-confederate-flag-in-class-declares-white-privilege-day-gets-suspended#.8JDvxuCVU"]SOURCE 1 [/URL][URL="http://www.wisn.com/news/student-announces-white-privilege-day-at-nicolet-hs-school-officials-say/39854496"]SOURCE 2[/URL] [QUOTE]A bold and presumably hormone-addled student at Nicolet High School in Glendale, Wisconsin, did that thing teenagers do where they unfurl the Confederate flag in class and declare it "White Privilege Day." [/QUOTE] [QUOTE]According to local ABC affiliate [URL="http://www.wisn.com/news/student-announces-white-privilege-day-at-nicolet-hs-school-officials-say/39854496"]WISN[/URL], Nicolet administrators suspended the child after the incident Wednesday, calling the student's actions disruptive and upsetting to fellow students.[/QUOTE] lol
What an idiot.
remember that friends don't let friends go to /pol/
Fucking 10 outta 10.
It all went as well as everyone expected, someone getting a nice dosage of suspension..
in all honesty i find it too ridiculous and hilarious to find it insulting of course i understand other people may see it differently
[QUOTE=da space core;50457509]in all honesty i find it too ridiculous and hilarious to find it insulting of course i understand other people may see it differently[/QUOTE] i feel like laughing at him is far more effective than getting upset at him ever would be
My favorite part of the "Heritage not hate" argument is that it is a heritage of hate.
[QUOTE=cpt.armadillo;50457607]My favorite part of the "Heritage not hate" argument is that it is a heritage of hate.[/QUOTE] Well no, the whole problem is that their heritage isn't actually "white", their "white pride" often is just more directly linked to racism and a lack of understanding of what the institution of slavery actually was, or more specifically, how harmful it was. Being white doesn't make you a descendant of slave owners though, that's a really wrong way to see the problem. I don't think people would have much of a problem with folk being proud of their actual heritage, like, German, Italian, Irish or whatever, but there isn't really a "white heritage", unlike native and African Americans whose distinct and original heritages and cultures ended up forcibly mixed and mashed together by racism and slavery, thus linking their otherwise distinct identities into a single group merely because they're phenotypically similar to one another. Most African Americans don't know exactly which country of Africa their families are from, particularly because they've eschewed their original family names, unlike most white people who often know, merely by looking up their last name, exactly where their ancestors came from.
I wonder how far ther race baiting will go in 2016. Full blown race riots? I hate all this privilege stuff and micro aggression bullshit. I wish we could just get along instead of judge each other for our races. I feel like we've taken 20 to 30 years worth of steps backwards in race relations in this country. Suddenly it's okay for people to be racist again, both black and white
[QUOTE=Big Bang;50457854]Well no, the whole problem is that their heritage isn't actually "white", their "white pride" often is just more directly linked to racism and a lack of understanding of what the institution of slavery actually was, or more specifically, how harmful it was. Being white doesn't make you a descendant of slave owners though, that's a really wrong way to see the problem. I don't think people would have much of a problem with folk being proud of their actual heritage, like, German, Italian, Irish or whatever, but there isn't really a "white heritage", unlike native and African Americans whose distinct and original heritages and cultures ended up forcibly mixed and mashed together by racism and slavery, thus linking their otherwise distinct identities into a single group merely because they're phenotypically similar to one another. Most African Americans don't know exactly which country of Africa their families are from, particularly because they've eschewed their original family names, unlike most white people who often know, merely by looking up their last name, exactly where their ancestors came from.[/QUOTE] I don't know if you can equate black people who can trace their families back to slavery and black people who's ancestors willing came to the US in order to create a better life for themselves. Their family experiences are no more similar than a white man from Ireland or a white man from Germany.
[QUOTE=proboardslol;50457913]I wonder how far ther race baiting will go in 2016. Full blown race riots? I hate all this privilege stuff and micro aggression bullshit. I wish we could just get along instead of judge each other for our races. I feel like we've taken 20 to 30 years worth of steps backwards in race relations in this country. Suddenly it's okay for people to be racist again, both black and white[/QUOTE] honestly i blame what the internet has become. everyone can find their own corner of agreement they can jump into and shut themselves off from dissenting opinions
[QUOTE=Ninja Gnome;50457957]honestly i blame what the internet has become. everyone can find their own corner of agreement they can jump into and shut themselves off from dissenting opinions[/QUOTE] The rampant anti-intellectualism those camps have created has gotten really tiring, it's just fucking impossible to have any amount of discussion on an issue without someone being a shithead.
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