This is from the Other Place, I hope it’s allowed.
Idk. Reads like rage bait.
I would agree with you, but this is exactly what my wife’s principal would do.
If the school isn’t diverse, why are they trying to make it look diverse?
Exactly. People have gotten so weird about all this. Representation is great and needed, but only if its authentic. Artificially creating the appearance of diversity is weird. Using AI to do it makes me barf.
I mean, it’s a recent Reddit post, so while it’s a disgusting concept, it is undoubtedly fabricated.
This is digital blackface.
An even better example is those white etsy vendors that make AI videos of black people who say they need to sell their artisans crafts to stay afloat…and it’s just white people drop shipping from China
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:
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.
Link to article?
There is no article, it’s just a post on reddit
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
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IMO representation matters, but it should he authentic representation, not tokenism.
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i would like to introduce you to the concept of “hyper-realism”
i think it will benefit you
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You started to lose me at the end with the sci-fy logic of “natural law.” But it sounds like a good movie premise.
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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.
Yreka or Barstow?
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.
