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Oak Ridge, Tenn., where many at the high school were sons and daughters of PhDs working for the national laboratory.

 

If we'd behaved anything like these kids as high schoolers on a trip, the teachers and parents would have torn us new ones before we even got back on the bus. There's no fucking way.

 

maybe you didn't have very fine teachers or parents

 

But what if they behaved consistent with their religious beliefs, aren’t you then the one who is intolerant and hurtful? Their religious beliefs and training is a white male patriarchy where women are subservient to her father than her husband. There are clear lines of responsibility within the family and those are based on well established religious beliefs. Additionally, reaching out to nonbelievers to convert them is a basic tenet of their religion. Colonization and imperial rule for forced conversion has been the well established rule of the belief system for the majority of the last 1,000 years.

 

Everyone doesn't ignore them in Times Square. The people who walk in NYC every day ignore them. Some tourists who are in
NYC for the first time converse with them. Most of these kids were tourists who probably were in DC for the first time.

 

They weren't tourists. They were there to participate in a specific political demonstration, which is perfectly OK, but it ain't wandering around gawking at the monuments.

 

True as that may be, I'm not really asking why the kids were beefing with them. They're kids.

I'm asking why the chaperones, presumably adults, tourists or not, don't hustle them off.

 

Three cheers for the white teens. Meanwhile, we're a couple of weeks from the anniversary of Parkland and I don't think he'll be quite as emotional over that. Unless he regales us with another tale of how, bone spurs and all, he'd rush in and save the kids.

 

...and where all of you, regardless of background, were unified by the fact you all glow in the dark.

 

After the demonstration when they were allowed to sight see, that pretty much is a tourist. Don't know any of those kids so can't say how many times
they've been to DC, but people visiting a place for the first time see it differently than someone who walks through every day.

 

1. I don't even know what you're responding to half the time.

2. Uh, no. The video had nothing to do with the Black Israelites. It seemed to suggest the Covington boys were catcalling - or something - a random white girl walking. But the video is 8 seconds long, features the girls a good 20 or 30 feet past the boys (which indicates some kind of prior exchange may have taken place), and starts well after the boys have started saying something. It may also have been posted on Twitter by someone who didn't take the video and wasn't there.

 

No argument there.

And I suspect it's true of most schools and most teachers and parents, too, of today. Which is why it was one school, not 12, and, further, a subset of kids within that school, not all of them.

That's why making it emblematic of all, or even many, white people, is problematic.