Thread by @realchrisrufo

SCOOP: Students at the elite United Nations International School launched an anonymous social media campaign denouncing their teachers as "racists" and "oppressors"—and school administrators immediately caved to their demands.

Here's the full story. 🧵
nypost.com/2021/01/27/man…

The saga began last June, when students launched an anonymous Instagram channel and threatened to publicly "cancel" their teachers and principals for their "vast history of systemic racism," "white liberal racist thinking," and "direct, intentional, repeated racial trauma."

Next, the students demanded that the school institute mandatory antiracism trainings, "decolonize" the curriculum, create "safe spaces," support the "exploration of diverse gender identities," reject the "Eurocentric focus of mainstream academia,” and teach "intersectionality."

Keep in mind: none of the students at the UN School, which costs up to $44,000 per year, are oppressed. These children of privilege have adopted the mantle of the oppressed in order to satisfy their own moral narcissism and exercise power over their elders.

Rather than swat down this hysteria of privilege, the craven leadership at the school immediately caved in to the students' demands: they hired a diversity director, implemented mandatory antiracism training, and began "decolonizing" the curriculum.

I asked the school director Dan Brenner if, as the students alleged, he was a "racist" and "oppressor." He refused to answer the question and sent me an email saying he must commit to "anti-racist beliefs" and repeated the slogan "Black Lives Matter." The children are in control.

The woke hysteria is now swallowing all of our institutions and we need courageous leaders who are willing to draw the line.

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