Chabot elementary in Oakland received racist and threatening emails, forcing 50 students and staff to vacate the premises
Jesus… these losers have nothing better to do than harass children’s events? Just let the kids have fun
Agreed. It is so ridiculous.
Christian Conservatives ushering in a new golden age of violent racist extremism.
All the while screaming about the radicalised left.
Projection much? 👀
With these kinds of people, every accusation is a confession.
This is all conservatives are.
“We are all domestic terrorists”
Don’t fall prey to othering.
There are plenty of conservatives who do not make bomb threats and find this kind of radicalism abhorrent. My parents, for example. I disagree with them on very many things, but they aren’t evil people. Misguided, certainly.
There are plenty of conservatives who do not make bomb threats and find this kind of radicalism abhorrent.
They should speak up in contexts other than this, then.
They should speak up in contexts other than this, then.
How often do you listen to conservative voices beyond those that are outrageous? Because the ones that make headlines which filter into our bubbles are outliers.
Gotta remember everyone is in a bubble. My sister, for example, is sometimes shocked that my views are more rational and reasoned than her conservative bubble’s view of left-leaning people, which is mostly based on shock headlines.
If your entire understanding of people different from you comes from headlines then you don’t have a good picture of who those people are. This applies to all groups of “people different from you.”
If your entire understanding of people different from you comes from headlines then you don’t have a good picture of who those people are.
Then they should speak up when it matters instead of whining that no one heard them not speaking up.
Do you know what they call the guy who isn’t a Nazi but voted for the party because he likes their domestic tax policy?
What the conservative party is and does is clear now. They’re openly racist, fascist, and Christian nationalist. They gathered at CPAC under a banner that said “We Are All Domestic Terrorists”. They regularly call for the murder of anyone who isn’t a cishet white Christian, they’re the leading source of domestic terrorism in the US, and they are constantly threatening a civil war. Anyone who still supports them at this point is knowingly complicit, no matter their stated reason.
They don’t do the bomb threats themselves, but they’re certainly aligned with the terrorist interests and policy goals. They also “hold their noses” and vote conservative anyway.
They’re not evil; they just vote for, support the policies of, and are aligned with evil.
They don’t do the bomb threats themselves, but they’re certainly aligned with the terrorist interests and policy goals. They also “hold their noses” and vote conservative anyway.
They’re not evil; they just vote for, support the policies of, and are aligned with evil.
So I assume that when James Hodgkinson shot up Republican congresspeople playing baseball you made sure to abandon any beliefs you had in common, right? And then when the next terrorist was right wing, you switched back? Seems silly, but since we don’t want the Thought Police to think we might share views with someone who commits heinous acts we all have to do that, right?
I mean, I don’t assume you’re evil, but we wouldn’t want to think you were aligned with evil, and what Hodgkinson did was certainly wrong.
Okay, what conservative-but-not-evil things do your parents believe?
I understand that a lot of people vote how they’ve always voted, but the Biden administration should be as right-wing as anybody needs to go.
Beyond that just lies shameless greed, gleeful abuse, prideful stupidity and seething bigotry. Each day it gets harder to forgive people who support that because what… They want slightly more neoliberalism?
Not every conservative but when it’s domestic terrorism, it’s a conservative.
I believe the term is “domestic terrorists”.
Remember when the conservatives said those on the left would become unhinged wen they didn’t get their way?
What happened to losing with dignity?
It was another example of projection. They really meant that if they don’t get their way, they will become even more unhinged.
Absolutely bonkers how a terror organization like LOTT can operate in broad day light and face no legal consequences, let alone any from the public in general.
What is LOTT I tried searching, but came up with the CA lottery commission, and John Lott.
Libs of Tiktok
Yes yes, you’re all condemning this, but I tell you… think of all the salty little liberal tears those children were crying!
The kids were probably thrilled to be out of class. I would have been.
When I was a kid, I probably would have been. In the age of school shootings, I don’t know.
For a fire drill, sure, I was always glad to get out for a bit. But when there’s an actual danger of a bomb or active shooter, I’d probably be nervous.
You can’t be in a school shooting if you’re not at school. 😉
NSA: We have the ability to spy on every single phone call in the United States
School: So you’ll arrest whomever made the bomb threat against us?
NSA:
Christians.
Making sure no one has any fucking fun.
It’s a cult!Anyone else misread that as “Chatbot elementary”? Lol
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.
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.
It’s definitely not okay, but [attempt at justification]
