Recent comments in /f/vermont

SmoothSlavperator t1_j7pyrp3 wrote

Reply to comment by TheTowerBard in Burlington High girls’ basketball team calls out ‘culture of racism’ in Vermont school sports by RamaSchneider

I'm a scientist near a major city. I work in STEM in an environment where I am the minority. I have two godchildren, neither are white. One is the offspring of a refugee, the other is the offspring of an undocumented immigrant. I speak 3 languages and can partially understand about 5 additional.

At what point did I say racism should be tolerated? I asked for more information.

Combatting racism is a lot like combatting terrorism. If you come in heavy handed, it causes people to dig in and you wind up with more racists. Racism is learned either from their upbringing environment or their life experiences. You have to TEACH people to not be racist, you can't beat them over the head with it and expect them to change. Half the kids you see slipping like that aren't even racist, they're still developing emotionally and think they're being edgy or cool by doing such things. You have to show them that that is not the way. Your saviorism is getting in the way of developing any real strategy to combat the issue. Its like herding cats.

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Necessary_Cat_4801 t1_j7pyouo wrote

Reply to comment by Kixeliz in Vermont’s rates of homelessness are (almost) the worst in the country by DaddyBobMN

And the weird part of this is advocates have a perverse incentive to go along and paint it as a local problem rather than a national problem. They will minimize the people coming from out of state, even going so far as to say that people who are homeless in Burlington are from Burlington as opposed to Rutland, for example. Obviously the reason is the pushback against helping outsiders, so it's portrayed as a local issue when it really isn't.

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you_give_me_coupon t1_j7pykp9 wrote

Reply to comment by 0fficerGeorgeGreen in Burlington High girls’ basketball team calls out ‘culture of racism’ in Vermont school sports by RamaSchneider

I mean, what /u/anusty said is at least plausible. People with skeletons in their closets are often quick to go on the attack, to direct scrutiny away from themselves. Like all the "male feminists" who turn out to be sex pests. And a 5-second glance at /r/ShitLibSafari shows there's plenty of racist attitudes among the woko haram/VPR-tote-bag crowd.

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