A teacher on TikTok has an order for whites — especially ones in academia: Stop putting others in peril.
It is a unique era where phones are used as soliloquy slingshots for delivering monologues into cyberspace. These messages can be edited and polished to look professional and sent as though the masses want to hear and learn.
It’s the new national pastime.
A recent video was shared by Libs Of TikTok, a woman identifying herself as a teacher drops science on America’s — and education’s — poorly pigmented.
She starts by ringing the bell of the community.
“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.”
TikToker cares about safety in schools
“White educators should be a safe space for black students.”
For emphasis, she repeats the phrase.
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 dangerous:
“If you’re wondering why you’re not able to connect with ‘those kids’ (insert another instance of the aforementioned Standard TikTok Expression [STTE]), it’s probably because they don’t feel safe around you.”
On the screen, a caption appears:
It is exhausting, and it can cause emotional trauma for Black, Indigenous and People Of Color.
The woman then spits out some candor.
“I mean, I’m going to be perfectly honest with you. There are many white people — especially white strangers — that I have my guard up. And it’s because I’m trying to protect myself from them. I don’t know if this is a safe person. And it’s the same with children.”
Here’s a tip she leaves with us:
“[I]f you decide to gloss over instances of racism or decide that Black Lives Matter is a political thing, you’re not a safe person.”
Imagine being a white student in this teacher’s class who says she has her guard up around white people because they might not be safe pic.twitter.com/cjHDTNXubG
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) August 21, 2022
I can’t confirm that she’s a teacher; however, her presentation is typical of where we are.
It seems to me her message comes courtesy of the past few years’ insistence — that America is racist, that colors shouldn’t co-exist…and that both sides of the political aisle’s agreement with only one side of the aisle’s ideology is the definition of “safety.”
Not too long ago — in the area of race relations — the country was apparently on a positive path. It appeared that humanity was moving beyond the notion of shades of skin separating warring tribes.
As for “safety,” the term always referred to freedom from real harm.
America looked like it was maturing for decades. For the most part though, America tried to maintain its strength.
But a substantial turn has been taken: We’ve traded resilience for fragility, unity for fragmentation.
For all the talk of “diversity” being a strength — which, inherently, it is not — we’ve lost what actually makes us strong: togetherness, agreed upon by tolerant, independent thinkers.
But forget all that — these days, it’s all about TikTok. In a country dominated by whites, it’s important to stay safe.
-ALEX
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