Racism - It's a real thing.

I'm not sure that you read the article you actually attached there Nic ... first off 21,000 signatures were submitted asking for renaming (and there's nothing about those opposed to closing it.  Where did you get the 93,000 figure?).

And they're just re-theming the ride.  So it's there but will be about a Disney theme (Princess & the Frog)

I don't want to assume I understand what you were trying to say with your post - do you feel that because more people were advocating for leaving the name as is that it's noteworthy that Disney is renaming it?  Are you upset that it's been renamed?  Do you support the retheming?  Are you surprised it took a few years?  Are you pointing out with the stats (again not in the attached article or referenced in any way) that there are more folks supporting a theme that is racist in nature than those that aren't ?  Are you pointing out that they renamed one of the Splash Mountains but not the other?

 
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?
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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. 

 
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. 
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The word "interesting" is doing a lot of work here.

 
teachercd said:
Yes.  Because that is how it starts.  One person voices a concern and others either follow and agree or they don't. 
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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...

 
nic said:
Exercise is now rooted in white supremacy. Just keep digging. 

https://time.com/6242949/exercise-industry-white-supremacy/
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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.

 
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