And you gotta socialize your kids to keep their mouths shut too. My daughter attends a progressive school, and she’s intuited that there’s a de-facto racial hierarchy that she’s none too happy about. (She was recently invited to attend a school-sponsored weekly lunch for black girls, but once a month because she’s half white and half south Asian and I guess that’s how the math works out.) I pointed out that she needs to keep her mouth shut about it if she doesn’t want to get cancelled.
Funny thing is, she already kinda knew that. Even at 11 she had an inkling about the possible social consequences of complaining about that.
I live in an ultra-progressive big blue city suburb, spend a fair amount of time in local politics (which revolve around our schools, and particularly equity) and I don't know anyone who wouldn't say that was deeply fucked up. You worry about cancellation, but you could probably get news coverage for that decision. It is deeply not normal.
I don’t see the relation between racially segregated activities in a US school, and a UK non-profit that helps minorities and migrants facing domestic violence. (One that, looking at the Wikipedia page, seems kinda racist insofar as it focuses on domestic violence among Asians specifically, as if there isn’t plenty of domestic violence among white Britons.)
And I disagree that people in the UK wouldn’t take exception to segregating students by race and declaring half south asian people to be 1/4 of a black person for purposes of such activities: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/10/23/right-is-winning...
Funny thing is, she already kinda knew that. Even at 11 she had an inkling about the possible social consequences of complaining about that.