L.A. Prep School Graphic Teaching Students Fat, Short, Unattractive People Are Oppressed
On 3/8/21 at 2:17 PM EST
Eighth grade students enrolled in a human development course at a Los Angeles preparatory school were recently shown a graphic that appeared to identify individuals who are fat, short, unattractive as oppressed, according to an Instagram account detailing experiences within the school community.
The Instagram account @wokeathw is run anonymously and has received coverage in the Harvard-Westlake School newspaper. Since it began posting content last September, the account has shared nearly 50 messages and screenshots from students and parents within the school community. Most of the posts raise concerns students and parents have about the political undertones of class assignments or messages received from teachers and other school faculty.
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Washington’s new national security establishment is coming straight outta Beverly Hills.
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“Probably the battle of Waterloo was won on the playing-fields of Eton, but the opening battles of all subsequent wars have been lost there.” George Orwell,
Future generations may well wonder how it came to pass that the federal government’s homeland security policy fell into the hands of a select group of people raised within a mere 23 neighborhoods inside the Los Angeles Basin, situated south of the Santa Monica Mountains, west of La Cienega Boulevard, north of the Santa Monica Freeway, and east of the Pacific Ocean. The area is known locally as the Westside. I grew up there myself from the age of 12 but I have no ready answer for the curious.
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