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While I am dismayed that my children are told explicitly in school that they may not use words that others may use, and that they should be condemned for actions that others with different skin should be excused for, it is difficult to see the parallels between the examples Ms Harris cites and what Brown was trying to fix.

Better to pick the BIPOC-only classes that have sprung up in public schools, the school-sponsored 'affinity groups' that welcome everyone but white people, 'grading for equity,' or the selective enforcement of rules. These may create only a very mild version of segregation's harms, but the real harm is in legitimizing unequal treatments by race, which leads us to unknown but likely much more unpleasant consequences.

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Agreed! I was rather dismayed to see our local high school offering separate graduation ceremonies specifically for Black and for Latino/Latina students. Granted, this was in addition to, not instead of, the main event; but I couldn’t help noticing that there wasn’t a separate event for white or for Asian students. (And to be clear, this is in a public school district that is majority-minority.)

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Well geez. Maybe eventually they'll put *themselves* at the back of the bus and insist on their own water fountains lest they get white cooties.

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