{"id":9472,"date":"2021-02-20T22:29:37","date_gmt":"2021-02-21T02:29:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/?p=9472"},"modified":"2021-02-20T22:29:37","modified_gmt":"2021-02-21T02:29:37","slug":"a-new-york-city-public-school-sent-a-survey-to-white-parents-asking-them-to-identify-their-level-of-whiteness-if-this-insanity-is-not-racism-what-is-it-then","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/2021\/02\/20\/a-new-york-city-public-school-sent-a-survey-to-white-parents-asking-them-to-identify-their-level-of-whiteness-if-this-insanity-is-not-racism-what-is-it-then\/","title":{"rendered":"A New York city public school \u201csent a survey to white parents asking them to identify their level of whiteness\u201d. If this insanity is not racism, what is it then?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/NoneSense-8.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9473\" width=\"161\" height=\"161\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/NoneSense-8.jpg 225w, https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/NoneSense-8-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 161px) 85vw, 161px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Imagine that you are the parent of a child attending\nthis school and you receive such as survey, what would be your reaction? In all\nhonesty, would one of your reaction be one of the options below? <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol><li>Shock\nat this apparent racism and ignoring the survey. <\/li><li>Shock,\nbut filling the survey whilst laughing at the school administration.<\/li><li>Considering\nchanging your child\u2019s school over the level of stupidity.<\/li><li>Considering\nhomeschooling (for the first time of your life). <\/li><li>Considering\nmoving to a sane place (if possible).<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p>Now, for those of you who know the Lebanese context,\nimagine that you receiving a similar survey from your child\u2019s school in Beirut.\nIt is asking you the same, but replacing the absurd concept of \u201c<em>whiteness<\/em>\u201d\nwith another identity characteristic like you religion affiliation (or at least\nyour parents\u2019) or being tall or being short, etc. Imagine if a school is asking\nSunni Muslim parents to do this reflection or Shia Muslim parents or Christians\nversus Muslims or Druze and Jews. How do would you feel about it if you are\nthat target group of parents?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2021\/02\/16\/nyc-public-school-asks-parents-to-reflect-on-their-whiteness\/\">https:\/\/nypost.com\/2021\/02\/16\/nyc-public-school-asks-parents-to-reflect-on-their-whiteness\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Why are the Americans (and with them the Canadians\u2026 and maybe by extension the whole Western world) doing this to themselves? Why are they accepting and endorsing this non-sense wokeism? See the \u201c<em>8 levels of whiteness<\/em>\u201d below, if you do not believe Bambi. \u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Why do we see society\u2019s elite like Hollywood stars,\npoliticians and even governments, companies like Apple, schools\/universities or\nrich people like Bill Gate and Melinda (through their foundation) endorsing the\nwoke ideology and competing to virtue signal, whilst being among the blessed\nones with jobs, high salaries, and recognition? <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When will all this stop? And how will it end?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/NYC-School_Silliness1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9474\" width=\"605\" height=\"403\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/NYC-School_Silliness1.jpg 468w, https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/NYC-School_Silliness1-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/NYC-School_Silliness2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9475\" width=\"626\" height=\"417\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/NYC-School_Silliness2.jpg 468w, https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/NYC-School_Silliness2-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Imagine that you are the parent of a child attending this school and you receive such as survey, what would be your reaction? In all honesty, would one of your reaction be one of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9472"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9472"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9472\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9477,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9472\/revisions\/9477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}