VEINS: In Massachusetts, a Growing War Between Trans-Crazy Wealthy White Liberals and the Black and Brown Students Who Bully Them

The best story you'll read all day, from John Sexton.

He quotes from this New Yorker article.

I'll quote about half of it. To read more, go to Sexton's recap, or go to the New Yorker for the full article.

This week the New Yorker published a lengthy story about the meltdown taking place at a Middle School in Amherst, Massachusetts. Amherst is described as a town where there are more BLM signs than there are black people. The city is 70% white and about 12% black and Hispanic, but the public schools have a higher percentage of minorities because many well off white and Asian families send their kids to private schools.

Ben Herrington, a former member of the school committee at Amherst Regional Middle School (ARMS) said of Amherst, "Amherst is a town that loves to bill itself as being a woketopia. We have this Berkeley East persona that we put out. We aren't really like that, though."

Actually, it sounds to me like they are really like that, at least many of the white people in town are. But the black and Hispanic kids and adults seem to be part of an earlier edition of progressivism, one in which black people were considered the most oppressed group and therefore at the top of the invisible but widely understood pyramid of oppression.

Under the new rules, trans kids (most of whom are white) are claiming space as the most oppressed group and that sets up a conflict which can't easily be solved. The problems seem to have started when the black superintendent took over and created a new DEI assistant job....

Some of the people who were hired were allegedly relatives of Cunningham. She hired two school counselors, Dykes and Santos, who were later accused of bringing religion into the school and of being hostile to trans students.

Many people I spoke to alleged that both Dykes and Santos brought religion into the school. Dykes told colleagues and students that she would pray for them or, if they were facing some dilemma, ask if they had prayed on it. According to the Title IX investigation, Santos brought up the Bible and Jesus when speaking with students...Often, the counsellors did not call gender-nonconforming students by their preferred pronouns...

Uh-oh.

Dykes's sincerity in trying to "get it right" on behalf of trans kids would ultimately come into serious doubt. But there were other regrettable incidents in which the culprit may have been simple human error and the ordinary bureaucratic disarray of any sizable public school. Jo changed their name twice in middle school, and the district was slow to correct their name in its databases. As a result, Jo's mother said, Jo "spent most class periods that had substitute teachers in the Student Support Center, because they could not deal with the constant misgendering and deadnaming."

So some of this sounds like a case of trans students being special snowflakes who expect the entire world to jump every time they create a new identity for themselves. On the other hand, no one should have to put up with bullying at school and some of that was happening. But here again there was a problem for woketopia. Most of the bullies were minority kids.

Jo and their mother continued to report incidents of alleged bullying and harassment to various staffers at ARMS. Although one boy received a suspension, Jo and their mother were dismayed that the school did not mete out more consequences. Like many other progressive school districts, Amherst uses restorative-justice practices, which prioritize mediation and reconciliation over punishment, as part of an effort to redress racial disparities in the disciplinary process. "What's unique about Amherst is that there are racial and class dynamics that layer on top of the gender dynamics, and those have certain demographic tendencies," a longtime administrator in Amherst told me. Jo and Casey are white; the boys accused of bullying them and other trans students at arms were mostly Black and Latino...

So there are white, well off trans kids being bullied by less well-off black and brown kids. Thanks to the adoption of restorative justice policies, these kids are supposed to meet face to face to work out their differences. But what actually happened is one Latino boy told Jo he believed there were only two genders. Jo's father responded by suggesting the boy should be removed from the school or even sent "to Mars."

So good. So good.

Now, how this will be portrayed by the television media is with a lot of video of white kids, which will be suggested to be the bullies, and no mention of race.

They do this with every story involving Villains with Inconvenient Skin Colors -- they whitewash the situation they're crying about.

As they did with mostly black and some hispanic thugs playing the knockout game with Jews in New York. Somehow this transformed into a lecture to white MAGA people living in the suburbs and country.

posted by Disinformation Expert Ace at 03:10 PM

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