I spoke at a high school the other day. Talked about white privilege & increasing racist attacks, also law enforcement power under Trump...
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they're also upset that I talked abt racism & knowing your rights. they've been told that politics don't belong in school. this is a tragedy
My civil response to this, I feel as though both parties have responded in harsh manners during this turbulent timepic.twitter.com/Vgxps20bZs
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thanks for coming to talk to me civilly. there's a lot to talk about here, but one thing that's really fundamental is that
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your school told you that I was coming to talk about cybersecurity. the people who organized my talk for you asked me to
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cover social and political issues. that is why they invited me. that's all the work I do. you can google me and see this.
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they told me about previous issues of racism at the school and about how many folks in the community are undocumented
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so, I wrote the kinds of talks I usually write. heavily political. also cybersecurity! when I was met with a hostile
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response, I was stunned and definitely responded angrily. indifference to racism makes me angry.
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to occur, knowing the theme of the presentation, the student body would have responded quite differently
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that is really helpful to know. you know what would have been cool? if the school said "we want to have a session on
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