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:!marseyprisma: :marseyobey: lmao someone found her son's AHS spreadsheet :marseyobey: :marseyramen:

https://slate.com/human-interest/2021/10/kids-social-justice-vigilantes-parenting-advice-care-feeding.html

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Dear Care and Feeding,

My son, “Jack,” 14, has been maintaining a spreadsheet that tracks all of his classmate’s problematic actions. Jack has always had difficulty fitting in, but he is a compassionate and intelligent boy. We do not allow our children to have their own computers to prevent the risk of them being radicalized by alt-right websites, so our kids share a laptop that we monitor and control access to. We found an excel spreadsheet in Jack’s folder that listed the names of all of his classmates, as well as dates and descriptions of their problematic behavior.

Some of the descriptions I saw include “has a mom who is a cop,” “no pronouns in insta bio,” “laughed at a fat joke,” “lists problematic show as one of their favorites,” “mimicked a foreign accent,” and “used cis-normative language.”

While I am pleased to see Jack taking an interest in his peers, I get a weird feeling about his spreadsheet. As much as I don’t condone the behaviors mentioned, it seems a bit creepy for him to be monitoring his classmates. I also wonder what he is trying to do with the document.

Another concern is that we are white and some of the kids on the list are Black. Given the long history of white people policing Black existence, I question whether Jack is the right person to be taking on this task and whether it would be more appropriate coming from a BIPOC person.

We have asked Jack about the spreadsheet and he denies involvement, but we know that it couldn’t be anyone else. Am I right to be concerned about Jack’s list? I don’t know that it is the best way for him to engage with his peers and promote social justice. On the other hand, I am proud of how committed he is to this cause and I don’t want to stop him from bearing witness to injustices within his own community.

—Problematic or Productive?

Dear PoP,

Based on what you’ve mentioned here, his list does seem a little creepy. Kids at that age should be having fun, not documenting every transgression his peers are making. Also, the fact that he’s blatantly lying about his involvement in creating this list should be a huge red flag. If everything is on the up and up, then what does he have to hide? I would personally call his bluff and say, “OK, if this spreadsheet has nothing to do with you, then let’s delete it.” If he raises a stink, then you know that something bigger is at play here.

I respect your viewpoint about being uncomfortable with Jack policing the behavior of his Black peers, but as a Black man, that should be the least of your concerns. Your main objective is to find out why he wants to monitor his classmates in the first place. Is he trying to be a social justice vigilante in an effort to be viewed as cool? Does he want his classmates to be “cancelled” for doing things that he considers to be wrong as a form of payback for not being accepted by them? The possibilities are endless. If you don’t feel equipped to get to the bottom of it, then I highly recommend getting a therapist involved because his behavior is not typical for a 14-year-old.

On a positive note, there are far worse things Jack could be doing than this—and it seems as if his heart is in the right place by being in the corner of marginalized groups. He could use his energy to volunteer as a Big Brother, write for the school newspaper (if they have one), or look for other opportunities at school to make everyone feel included.

I just think the spreadsheet is something that could end up being bad news for him, and I hope you enroll him in therapy so an unbiased mental health professional can tell him the same thing.

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Good find. Each sentence reads more like satire than the last but I fear this is real.

EDIT: I take it back this is clearly bait and I'm dumb for ever thinking otherwise. I'm still not sure why Salon would have posted it.

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The letter is totally bait

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More dramanauts should troll advice columns. "Ask [Name]" columnists would fall for some crazy bait

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That's what trolling was like before Usenet, from what I have read.

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No you dumb cute twink you'd unironically be doing their work for free. Become a journ*list instead. :marseybluecheck:

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True.

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That one is probably bait. But the one below?

I am a single African-American man with an 8-year-old daughter and a 6-year-old son. Our neighborhood is mostly African-American, but a white family moved in about two years ago. They’ve been friendly, open, and pleasant people, and after a short period of getting to know them, they’ve been arranging time for their kids to play with other kids in the neighborhood. This slowed down when Covid hit, and even then it never fully stopped.

About a week ago, my daughter Danielle came back from a playdate with one of their girls and said, “Daddy, the [neighbors name] is the only family I know of where the parents don’t hit each other? Is it because they’re white?” I know what I should have said. I should have told her that there are good people and bad people no matter what their race is, and that no group of people is more inclined to hit each other than any other, and that they’re just good people.

Father's reaction

That is not what I did. Instead, I broke down crying. The reason I did so is I’m a single father, and my children’s mother is in prison for assaulting me with a deadly weapon. She is currently serving a 16-year prison sentence. I don’t think they fully realize that (Danielle was three and Levon was 1 when she was arrested), but they do know that Mommy did something bad and had to go away.

Is everyone trying to bait this columnist or something? :marseyconfused: Or am I just an r-slur? :marseyretard:

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Nah this one is actually believable. For how much the asians hate black people they sure do act like them.

Edit: referring to the domestic abuse here

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Huh? Who's Asian in that story? I thought the whole family is black and the columnist himself is also black? :confused:

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Hurrhurr durr durr you can only reference data within the article and not talk about anything else.

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Oh, I was confused because I didn't know what you meant by Asian when you referred to domestic abuse. I mean, even with stereotypes, which Asian are you talking about here? Ricecels, currycels or hummuscels? So many to choose from. :marseythonk:

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All of them. It's a very white thing to not be the man of your house by beating your kids and wife to keep them well behaved.

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Actually getting thhe wife to go to jail for domestic violence? King shit

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No, imprisoning the side piece as she is about to rat roll is the King move

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Daddy, the [neighbors name] is the only family I know of where the parents don’t hit each other?

Of course this is where you immediately make it a black vs white thing, even though your kid made zero reference to race.

The insecurity of brack people is astounding.

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Did you read the rest of the paragraph?

Is it because they’re white?” I know what I should have said. I should have told her that there are good people and bad people no matter what their race is, and that no group of people is more inclined to hit each other than any other, and that they’re just good people.

The daughter mentioned race, not him.


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Slate letters are usually trolls, but the insane hosts always take them seriously.

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i bet its the same dude writing all the letters as a hobby and just chuckling and showing his friends as the hosts try and give serious responses

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yeah it might not be real BUT IT COULD BE REAL IT'S SO HARD TO TELL IN CURRENT YEAR AND THAT'S A HUGE ISSUE!!!!!!!!

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