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Stories about standing up to bigotry Anonymous 05/07/21 (Fri) 22:03:16 2231e5 No.230329

Does anyone have any good stories about how you confronted bigotry and stood up to bigots in your life? Whether that be racism, homophobia, transphobia or any other kind of bigotry.

I did this just yesterday. I am a teaching assistant at a high school in a state with a Republican governor, and the local school board ended its mask mandate and allowed students to go unmasked in the classroom. I am glad to know that, at least in the history class where I teach, most students seem to hold progressive views or reject bigotry. But I look at any maskless student with suspicion. My suspicion was confirmed about one girl (white of course) who stopped wearing a mask after the mandate ended but was always quiet about her views until yesterday, and who also had relatives with Confederate flags on their Facebook profiles. We have a transgirl in the class, who is beautiful and wonderful and blesses our class. Well this other girl deliberately referred to the transgirl as "he". I made it clear that using the wrong pronouns was not okay and told her to apologize, but she still refused to use the correct pronouns and insisted she would keep saying "he", even as the transgirl started to look visibly frightened. The bigot girl was like "I don't care what y'all think, I will stand by my beliefs! I won't lie because you want me!" until she looked like she was on the verge of tears.

I saw an opportunity here to turn the tables on the bigot, since she's a pretty easy target. She is raised by a single mother, they get all kinds of welfare, and she has relatives who are in prison and generally unsavory. She also gets pretty bad grades but loves to tell us she is going to overcome all this and succeed in life, LOL. Well I started taunting her about all that, telling her she was hopeless and had no future, and that if she keeps on being a bigot she is destroying ANY hope except to end up on the streets sucking BBC for crack in a few years. I kept on taunting, and she started crying pathetically. Soon she could barely even talk anymore, just sob. And then, much to the joy, a bunch of students started laughing at her! The laughter was contagious, and eventually even the transgirl who had felt so bullied and terrified a few minutes started laughing hysterically! The teacher joined in too, and even students I know to be conservative (which means they won't have any pity for a welfare brat) were pointing at her and laughing! At one point she was begging one of them "please stick up for me, please!" and instead he just kept laughing at her! Then she said "y'all are fucking sick, please just leave me alone!" and begged to leave class early to be with her boyfriend because "I know he still loves me" but we didn't let her. Instead, we made her sit in the corner and we continued laughing at the humiliated bigot, watching the tears flowing like a river down her pretty, maskless face. I told her that if she comes back to class next Tuesday she WILL apology to the transgirl and all marginalized people in front of ALL the class, or I will post her name and contact info on Twitter and well…let Twitter do their thing.

If you want to know more details about the story you can ask. I must say I am truly inspired by the younger generation, when even my generation (millennials) are way too tolerant of casual bigotry. I am also looking for evidence that this girl also uses the N word though I am confident she does anyway. Any similar stories of your own?

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Anonymous SAGE! 05/07/21 (Fri) 23:13:24 416ef1 No.230343

>>230329

GO BACK TO REDDIT OR KYS, WHICHEVER COMES FIRST

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Anonymous 05/08/21 (Sat) 03:44:19 b45fe6 No.230386

Some gender neutral science class stories.

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Shanna-Swan

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Anonymous 05/08/21 (Sat) 06:13:51 fb5618 No.230401

>>230329

OP is an obvious reddit faggot and I am a White nationalist but unironically this post is pretty based.

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Anonymous 05/08/21 (Sat) 06:14:54 fb5618 No.230403

>>230343

What he did to that bitch was based though

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Anonymous 05/08/21 (Sat) 06:42:18 b9fd66 No.230404

>>230329

This is a beautiful and inspiring story of how diversity, equity, and inclusion can triumph over bigotry. I would like to share my own story of confronting bigotry.

I work for a fortune 500 corporation and we have an active diversity office. The other day we had a mandatory racial sensitivity workshop. The workshop leader, Lata'nya, was body-positive plus sized lesbian person with color. We did this exercise where everyone sits on one side of the room, and to make explicit the implicit bias of whiteness we ask members of a historically marginalized group to go to the other side of the room. We chose pacific islanders, and there was only one in the room. It seemed kind of mean to make her go sit alone on the other side of the room, but that was the point. So the rest of us can visualize how white-people microagressions oppress her.

The next group was native Americans, there were two. They crossed the room and sat with the Cambodian girl. One by one, the moderator called out marginalized groups: blacks, women, handicapped, cross-dressers. As each group crossed the room, the moderator explained how large the "hidden minority" that is oppressed by whiteness is.

Finally I was the only person left on my side of the room, sitting alone, while everyone else in the room faced me. In front of the group stood the moderator, hands on her hips, jerking her neck horizontally, and in a voice that can only be described as "sassy" she asked me if I had anything I wanted to say to the group that was now staring at me looking ready to lynch me.

I paused, looked directly at the moderator and said very slowly and clearly: do you have a problem with me because I'm jewish?

As if she had received her MKULTRA go-code her demeanor changed on a dime. All of the sudden she thought I was the best person in the room and she wanted everyone else to know she thought so. She came over and sat next to me and delivered her workshop from there, constantly turning to me, asking my opinion, agreeing with everything I said, no matter how stupid, and gushed to me about how much "your people" have done for social justice and rights.

This is my story of confronting. This moderator began her workshop biased against me because of my skin color, but I overcame her bigotry and brought her to a more inclusive attitude simply by reframing her social context with a fact about myself that actually wasn't even true.

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Anonymous SAGE! 05/08/21 (Sat) 09:34:07 9b2336 No.230406

the teachers who encouraged this wont be forgotten op. Better get out now while you still can.

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