Racism argument going on in Seattle PI, I'm not sure what to make of it.

[icymist]

Planning ahead is considered racist?

By ANDREW J. COULSON
GUEST COLUMNIST

Are you salting away a little money for your retirement? Trying to plan for your kids' education? If so, Seattle Public Schools seems to think you're a racist.

According to the district's official Web site, "having a future time orientation" (academese for having long-term goals) is among the "aspects of society that overtly and covertly attribute value and normality to white people and Whiteness, and devalue, stereotype and label people of color."

Huh?

Not all the district's definitions of racism (and there are lots of them) are so cryptic. The site goes on immediately to say, "Emphasizing individualism as opposed to a more collective ideology" is another form of "cultural racism."

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Comments from readers:
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Only in Seattle, home of rabid liberalism.
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And they wonder why all us "non minorities" moved to the burbs.

Actually, the way the forced school integration turned out, those who wish to have their children go to school with people just like themselves sort of won out.
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"Emphasizing individualism as opposed to a more collective ideology"

Isn't that right out of the Communist Manifesto?


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School district pulls Web site after examples of racism spark controversy

By DEBERA CARLTON HARRELL
P-I REPORTER

An outpouring of criticism forced Seattle Public Schools on Thursday to pull a Web site that viewed planning for the future, emphasizing individualism and defining standard English as examples of cultural racism.

The message had appeared under an "equity and race relations" section of the district's Web site and was mentioned Thursday in an opinion piece by a Libertarian writer in the Seattle P-I. Criticism of the site has been building in the world of blogs for weeks.

In its place Thursday was a message that the site will be revised to "provide more context to reader around the work that Seattle Public Schools is doing to address institutional racism."

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[MadMaddie]

1. This is the kind of stupid shit that pisses me off....

I agree....it sounds like the Communist Manifesto.....

Not only do you have the Neocons with their overt racism....

I am assuming this writer is a minority....you have people like this basically saying let's dumb down education....so everyone can belong....
No child left Behind is dumbing down our children...


life is a bitch....and sometimes we all need a helping hand but America is based on Individualism not "the Cyborg Collective"!!

[Solo_in_MD]

2. I read the site before it was pulled

About as bad a piece of works as it gets