Wow. The Seven Says censorship committee is working overtime on Friday night. Congratulations for preventing free speech to whomever the little millennial is at the keyboard.
I guess you can only post here if you hate yourself and buy into the white fragility fable.
All these silly people offering "kudos" and calling Hines' nonsense "leadership" are amusing. Amazing how many people fall over each other to be tools in the political correctness religion. Anyone exercising actual thought knows the silly "white fragility" nonsense lacks any kind of critical thinking and is pure henscratch. People like these lemmings cannot have an actual conversation on racism or the lack thereof, so they employ effusive accolades in an attempt to show how PC and cool and hip they are. Get a clue. Self-hate is still hate. Yawn.
I applaud Seven Days for allowing anonymous comments. In an era where angry protesters think it is their right to picket someone's home if they hear something they don't like, it allows people to voice their opinion without fear of reprisal. Can anonymous posting be misused or abused? Of course. But Seven Days can delete anything that's not civil. We already have enough censorship from media outlets like Vermont Digger.
It's sad that people like Vicki Garrison are allowed to inject their personal agenda and hate-filled diatribe into our community. Some of her Facebook posts promoting "toxic whiteness" are beyond decency. And there is no such thing as "racial" justice or "social" justice. There is justice. Equal justice for all races, creeds, and colors. This is why the statue of justice wears a blindfold.
It shouldn't surprise the PC police that honest, decent, non-racist citizens object to being called racist. People see what they want to see, and the race hustlers take full advantage of those who are not comfortable objecting to political correctness run amok. I attended SBHS and never heard a single reference to the Confederacy. This whole mess is about one or two people getting everyone agitated for nothing. Next they'll be demanding the city change its name because of the word "South" in it.
Re: “South Burlington Student's Post on 'White Fragility' Goes Viral”
How much white fagility would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck white fragility?