https://www.npr.org/2023/04/14/1170238212/macrons-pension-age-france
The people have spoken, and the government's stuck their fingers in their ears and said "LALALAALALALAAALALALALALA!"
While I'll admit I've dreamed of being the elected official to rile the masses into a frenzy, I have never once thought that France would be the grounds for such a spectacle. I may have to give France more respect now, Canada is the new France.
https://www.embracerace.org/resources/why-we-dont-wear-mohawks
This has meant explicitly helping him navigate the code switching of different places and people.For example, in our Quaker community, kids call adults by their first name, it is normal to invite people to share their pronouns, and titles are never used nor a gender assumed.
Yet he knows that he must use “Mr.” and “Ms.” when referring to most of the adults of color in our life, and that reading cues about gender and making an assumption are sometimes more appropriate than forgoing the title. And then there are some white adults for whom we must use the title, and others who will invite him not to. We are working on the nuances while practicing the mainstays of how to be fully who we are and respectful of those we encounter at the same time.
My son having a mohawk felt like cultural appropriation to me — taking an aspect of another’s culture and using it for one’s own benefit or enjoyment, without consent or context.
I shared this with my son, but then suggested that we check this assumption. We reached out to several friends and friends of friends who are Kanien’kehá:ka (the people many of us incorrectly refer to as Mohawk), Native American, or First Nations. The response was resounding and clear: the hairstyle known to us as the mohawk is a style specific to young, warrior men charged with protecting the tribe. For anyone else to wear it is disrespectful and offensive.
I could have stopped there in my conversation with my son — we thought it might be disrespectful, we checked, it is, and so we are not going to do it. That would have been fine and a good modeling of cultural consent. However, as a history teacher, I know there is often more to where things come from and that history can help us understand how we came to the place we are today. So we did some research.
This should be child abuse...
Seriously, this woman is so deep in the PC bullshit she's trying to shape a 7 year old into a social chameleon. The kids not gonna learn to be open minded, he'll learn to walk on egg shells around literally everybody to keep from offending them.
This is exactly the kind of thing that makes me want to throw up my arms and go full on Uncle Ruckus, or the equivalent for every culture.