This is from the Other Place, I hope it's allowed.
In middle school, late 90s, I knew an Asian girl who was in commercials. I remember her talking about it later on in high school that she was explicitly there to add diversity to the commercial and she knew it.
I bring this up because we've artificially made things look more equal as a society even when they were not. Always push back for actual numbers, be it diversity in schools or anything else.
If the school isn't diverse why are they tryng to make it look diverse?
I mean, it’s a recent Reddit post, so while it’s a disgusting concept, it is undoubtedly fabricated.
I went to elementary school in the 70s in California, middle class--back when there was still a middle class. Until high school I only saw black people on TV (The Jefferson's, Sanford and Son, Flip Wilson, etc.) and sometimes around town. In high school there were two black students.
This is digital blackface.
And, not the funny kind, either.
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Awwww, that's adorable, "I'm a raccoon just like my T-shirt, Mommy!"
It's a classic, some might say an antique:
Uhhhh, or become more diverse? Why are they trying to display themselves as something they're not.
Become more diverse?
Have fun explaining to parents that you need to expell their students for some DEIs.
"But Mr and Mrs Smith I ensure you we picked the whitest ones - I'm afraid Timothy has to leave".
You are a monster /s
It's all artificial bullshit. For decades not just since ai. Orchestrated DEI is for fake people, authentic people already lived with acceptance.
We live in a society that tries to create an unatural foundation, and that doesn't mean that not being about "DEI" unaturalness is racist or fascist. It means that they try to create an unatural foundation in which they constantly need to keep tabs on and manipulate in order for it to exist. Essentially the creation of illusion that needs to be maintained like an artificial biom. It's not a foundation based off truth. It's a foundation that constantly creates wars against the universe to maintain. It's like planting a hydroponic plant inside a home and wondering why it died when it was placed in nature... Because it was never natural or authentic to begin with. That's not racism or homophobia, transphobia etc, that's reality.
If one claims that ideology and lifestyle than it will be constant work to create the narrative that it's truth because it's authentically not reality or truth. You can respect all and understand equality isn't something that exists in terms of nature, and understanding that manually trying to create the equality throws the entire universe off until we live a lifestyle that isn't real and needs war and things that are unnatural and inauthentic to maintain.
You can't fuck with natural law. And if you do disorder ensues. Just look around at all we do to maintain the unatural culture we call privilege and freedom. It's not authentic peace and it's not authentic freedom. Look at all these nations begging for submission to their ideology that need war to maintain.
You can respect ALL (and I mean ALL) without participation in the false lifestyle of the manufacturing a narrative of inauthenticity in order for control.
IMO representation matters, but it should he authentic representation, not tokenism.
Exactly.
You started to lose me at the end with the sci-fy logic of "natural law." But it sounds like a good movie premise.
Kewl. Thanks for replying.
Science loses me too, after all nature is science and science is understanding. So that means understanding nature, which is essentially God, means that understanding nature is understanding God. Which is science... Fuck it though. No point in it.
Why even think about it right? Fuck it, I have Netflix and marvel movies to watch and video games to play, I don't even need to live in this world my body is in, I can exist in someone else's idea, at least for a few hours and then scroll till bedtime.
i would like to introduce you to the concept of "hyper-realism"
i think it will benefit you
I'll look into it... I'm definitely hyper.. ADHD hyper focused etc. I can't exist in the modern world and am sure I'll end up dead or homeless.
A lot of people really do not understand that blackface is problematic.
Or... How about you start accepting more nonwhite children into your school? Maybe even seek funding to enable a more diverse cohort of kids to afford your fees?
In most circumstances, the schools are assigned simply by geographic area.
When they end up all-white, the real problem is that the community is de-facto segregated.
In turn, that means the real problem is that the zoning code doesn't allow a diversity of housing types at different price points.
And of course, the implication of that is that the real problem is that minorities tend to be less wealthy than the white people, because of centuries of all sorts of institutional and systemic racism.
TL;DR: it's a lot more complicated than "accept more nonwhite children into your school."
Also, in large swaths of rural America, there simply aren't non-whites to "accept".
If it's what the US calls Public School, that's all very true and it's why children get bused all over Los Angeles, with various strategies to combat the history of redlining.
For instance there are Magnet Schools in affluent neighborhoods where the wealthiest of the local kids go to private schools, drawing kids with specific interests and/or skills from less affluent neighborhoods to help keep the school open for the local public-school kids.
In my experience the racial groups tended to socialize separately anyway, but I'm old, hopefully that's less true. And even so, at least you don't have kids growing up who've never met a different-color person.
I like how everyone is ignoring how it is somehow ‘problematic’ that there happens to be a school class somewhere that just happens to only have with kids in it.
Not uncommon in many parts of the U.S. Think about Salt Lake City.
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