A QAnon digital soldier marches on, undeterred by theory s unravelling
17 Jan, 2021 08:16 PM
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Valerie Gilbert posts dozens of times a day on Facebook to promote QAnon from her Manhattan apartment. Photo / Meghan Marin, The New York Times
Valerie Gilbert posts dozens of times a day on Facebook to promote QAnon from her Manhattan apartment. Photo / Meghan Marin, The New York Times
New York Times
By: Kevin Roose
Valerie Gilbert posts dozens of times a day in support of an unhinged conspiracy theory. The story of this meme queen hints at how hard it will be to bring people like her back to
Revolution Consumes New Yorkâs Elite Dalton School
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The Dalton School, an elite private prep school in New Yorkâs Upper East Side, is experiencing something of a moral panic, and not about whether or not to have spring sports during Covid-19. On Dec. 18 my blog, The Naked Dollar, revealed a list of race-based demands from 120 Dalton teachers. The Naked Dollar isnât particularly well-known, but the story quickly went global.
fed up.
Hence, they’re demanding a change: They want anti-racism, and they want it now.
As reported by The Washington Free Beacon, a group of staff at New York City’s Dalton School have allegedly petitioned the administration to implement a series of “anti-racist” measures.
In case you’re not hip to the term, anti-racism isn’t the lack of racism.
Per CNN, it “means more than ridding yourself of racist attitudes, beliefs and behaviors. It means you’re also actively fighting that reprehensible trinity as it manifests in your life on a daily basis.”
“Calling people racist names or threatening people on the basis of race,” the outlet reports, is merely “the tip of the iceberg.”
Socialism: If you build it, they will leave.
Do you live in New York City?
If not, congratulations. You may have been spared preposterous virtue-signaling petri dishes like The Dalton School, an “elite”school on Manhattan’s upper east side where for a mere $54,000 per annum young Stephanie or Dylan can spend their days on Zoom because the school, unlike almost every other New York private school, refuses to open because of lazy teachers claiming to be terrified of our latest Chinese import, the CCP Virus.
“Go Forth Unfraid®” is Dalton’s official motto, but that is obviously a misnomer.