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Old 2nd June 2017, 12:53 PM   #74
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Originally Posted by Jodie View Post
What these young people are doing is wrong but transgenerational trauma or multigeneraltional PTSD related to persecution of a culture crosses all socioeconomic classes. They aren't acting like spoiled brats, they are venting rage that never had a voice before because we are told to get over it, stiff upper lip, and move on. There is a better way to do that, Martin Luther King had it right. So it wasn't a problem to ask all of the brown people to take a day of absence but when white people were asked to leave it caused a problem, see the hypocrisy? It works both ways.
No, I don't see the hypocrisy. Here, let me clarify this for you.

Prior to this year, brown people asked other brown people to take a day of absence with them to demonstrate to white people how valuable brown people are, and to show how integral brown people are to a society that has repeatedly undervalued them.

This year, brown people told white people that they should take a day of absence instead of them... but there isn't a clear explanation of what that is supposed to accomplish.
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