'Exhausted' and Trauma-Torn TikTok Teacher Tells White People to Stop Making the World UnsafeBy Alex Parker
Aug 22, 2022
A teacher on TikTok has an order for whites — especially ones in academia: Stop putting others in peril.
Ours is an unprecedented era, in which people use phones as soliloquy slingshots to shoot monologues into the ether. Such messages are often edited for polish and delivered as if eager masses are waiting to listen and learn.
It’s the new national pastime.
And in a recent video shared by Libs Of TikTok, a woman identifying herself as a teacher drops science on America’s — and education’s — poorly pigmented.
Starting off, she clangs the community bell:
“Okay, white educators. This one is for you.”
She then cuts the clip to perform the look-to-the-side-and-lower-your-voice-and-adorably-raise-your-eyebrows-and-squint move found in an astonishingly large number of TikTok tangents.
[I’m unsure as to whether this expression is now a platform prerequisite for posting.]
Continuing:
“I mean, really, most of these are gonna be for y’all.”
She’s concerned about school safety:
“White educators should be a safe space for black students.”
The line is then repeated for emphasis.
Per the lady’s presumption, Caucasian educators marvel that they can’t connect with black kids. And it’s time for those teachers to accept that they come across as scary:
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Source:
https://redstate.com/alexparker/2022/08/22/exhausted-and-trauma-torn-tiktok-teacher-tells-white-people-to-stop-making-the-world-unsafe-n615682
