The incident unfolded after the school faced a surge in online harassment over a playdate event organized over the weekend for the school’s Black, brown, and Asian and Pacific Islander families.
If you’re more angry at that than bomb threats against a school, you really need to work on your priorities, because that’s not what you should be focusing on.
All-women spaces exist to provide safe harbour from harassing men, because that’s all said organisation can realistically do to ensure it doesn’t happen.
School environments are very different in that they are much more controlled and that educators can take on a more disciplinary role.
If the non-white kids are getting harassment from the white kids to the point where such a safe space is necessary, normally I wouldn’t be able to tell if that’s a bigger condemnation of the school’s inability to handle racism or the community’s tolerance for racism in their kids.
The fact that there’s a fucking bomb threat over this however, is very enlightening of the community in which this school operates. It really reveals just how hostile an environment that community really is to minorities.
So with that in mind I can definitely see the rationale for a PoC-only playdate.
I’m saying that a) the fact that it is necessary and b) the fact that bomb threats were called signals that that the racism problem is so bad that not even the school, which does have disciplinary powers, can effectively do much about it. School is a big part of a kid’s life but that can easily be overridden by teachings from family.
The fact that school wide action needed to be taken, not even to punish the culprits but to provide minorities a temporary safe space, signals that they cannot contain these incidents and deal with it on the basis of individual incidents. Usually that’s because either the are inept or unwilling to do so, or because the problem is too widespread.
Considering the extremely hostile response to the PoC-only playdate, I’d bet my left nutsack that it’s a problem far too widespread to handle the usual way.
TL;DR
What I’m saying here is that there’s very likely a lot of hate being taught to the white kids in avenues the school cannot deal with. Like, if they were gonna kick people out for racism, they’ll end up kicking out half the school.
A segregated playdate is not a step forward.
If you’re more angry at that than bomb threats against a school, you really need to work on your priorities, because that’s not what you should be focusing on.
It’s definitely not okay, but people often have strong reactions to racism.
It’s “racism” in the same way that all-women’s spaces are “sexist” against men.
Regardless, this is a discussion that does not belong here because it takes away from the actual issue at hand.
All-women spaces exist to provide safe harbour from harassing men, because that’s all said organisation can realistically do to ensure it doesn’t happen.
School environments are very different in that they are much more controlled and that educators can take on a more disciplinary role.
If the non-white kids are getting harassment from the white kids to the point where such a safe space is necessary, normally I wouldn’t be able to tell if that’s a bigger condemnation of the school’s inability to handle racism or the community’s tolerance for racism in their kids.
The fact that there’s a fucking bomb threat over this however, is very enlightening of the community in which this school operates. It really reveals just how hostile an environment that community really is to minorities.
So with that in mind I can definitely see the rationale for a PoC-only playdate.
Yeah, you’re right, the white kids never harass the kids of color. That never happens.
I think you misread the comment.
I’m saying that a) the fact that it is necessary and b) the fact that bomb threats were called signals that that the racism problem is so bad that not even the school, which does have disciplinary powers, can effectively do much about it. School is a big part of a kid’s life but that can easily be overridden by teachings from family.
The fact that school wide action needed to be taken, not even to punish the culprits but to provide minorities a temporary safe space, signals that they cannot contain these incidents and deal with it on the basis of individual incidents. Usually that’s because either the are inept or unwilling to do so, or because the problem is too widespread.
Considering the extremely hostile response to the PoC-only playdate, I’d bet my left nutsack that it’s a problem far too widespread to handle the usual way.
TL;DR
What I’m saying here is that there’s very likely a lot of hate being taught to the white kids in avenues the school cannot deal with. Like, if they were gonna kick people out for racism, they’ll end up kicking out half the school.