Erin Condren (Planner lady) Under Attack

As a fellow senior parent I get the desire to have something semi normal/traditional. I can see where they thought this would be low risk (have there been any outbreaks associated with outdoor events?). But they bucked the rules in a big way.....I don’t know what the current gathering size is limited to there but I doubt it’s anywhere near the amount they had. They also tried to compare what they did to the BLM protests, that was their biggest mistake as there’s no comparison to be had there.

You seem incapable of understanding that some things are worth risking the danger for and some things are shallow, self-centered pleas for attention.  The generations that came before ours were asked to sacrifice huge things for the betterment of humanity, up to and including their lives.  In comparison, what we've been asked to do is trifling and our complete inability to do it without breaking down and whining about rights and freedom and demanding rights of passage is utterly pathetic.   

This doesn't mean we can't/shouldn't mourn what has changed or what we might not get to do but what it shouldn't mean is that we do whatever the hell we damn well please and tell everyone else to get over it.   It all comes down to character and far too many people, Erin Condren included,  have shown that theirs is utterly lacking. 

Yep. Every single BLM protest I've been to has had people handing out masks and hand sanitizer. I'd have a lot more sympathy for those kids if they'd done the same. And those people putting a graduation ceremony on the same level of importance as a BLM protest is gross. I understand graduation is an important life event, but come on...

My issue is the fact that they LIED....and yes the others that are protesting concerns me too. If these rites of passage are the WORST things than will happen to them, they need to consider themselves lucky




She (Erin) was the parent in charge of the committee so she did have something to do with it. AND she is quoted in the article...

I saw that response..good for her. 

Jesus fucking Christ! As you just demonstrated, YOU are part of the problem.

First, you're an adult.  YOU reach out to HR if you feel you have a valid complaint.

The history books are filled with examples of Black people NOT treated with kindness.  They're tired.  This is why bridges and highways are being blocked.  This is why a few block section of Seattle is being occupied.  This is why protests won't go away.  THEY ARE TIRED OF BEING LESS THAN.  THEY ARE TIRED OF PEOPLE KILLED BY COPS.  And this time they will be heard.  And they should be heard.  And for everyone else, it's time to stop talking and listen.  And support. And ACT.

Well they all need to grow up and accept that things are not going to go their way throughout life. The sooner they learn that, the better it is for them all in the future.
DD has had no prom either. She was disappointed that it wasn't going to happen but she's accepted that things are not " normal" at this time. She's also been deprived of taking her final year exams. She's not moaned about missing her prom or having that final week of end of school celebrations that they normally have.She is concerned about how her final grades will be assessed in the absence of those exams but in her word " what will be will be"

She certainly doesn't think what she has missed is in any way comparable to the reasons for the protest marches.

Erin Condren....Lori Laughlin.... separated at birth?

In just what magical city were ALL THE PROTESTERS wearing masks?  Because I have yet to see a protest with mask compliance.  I mean, some wear the masks, sure. But total compliance?  Nope.  

I agree. Teens are idiots. BUT she is the MOM - not a teen. And she's not any smarter than a teen.

And equating grad ceremony to BLM is nauseating. Just like the clueless supporters of that comparison.

Pretty sure all their parent’s brains are fully formed and well developed though. And they’re the ones who planned this.

No, your "recent understanding" is misinformed. You might want to do some reading. -- Yes, every white person can be "lumped into the same group"....that would be the group of white people. A dirt-poor white person has white privilege just as a filthy-rich one does. (of course the filthy rich one has many other privileges also, but those would be subjects for a different post...) -- White privilege is basically something white people never think about, until their eyes are opened. That doesn't mean you're not a tolerant person. That doesn't mean you don't try to treat everyone equally. It doesn't mean you're not "accepting and understanding". It simply means that throughout your life you've never had to worry about certain things. You probably never even thought of most of those things.

For example....When he was in middle school I could let my ds walk to basketball practice with his buddy, through the neighborhood at night, and I never worried. One day a friend told me that she was afraid to let her son do the same. My first thought was that she was a bit overprotective, these were middle school kids, they weren't alone, it's a good neighborhood, she needed to let go a bit. My face must have registered some of that while my brain was thinking of what to reply (because I didn't want to insult her by insinuating she was overprotective) and she told me it was because he was black. That had never once occurred to me. That is white privilege.

Ds now lives in rural Georgia (and he looks like my stereotype of a rural southern guy, with a full beard, lol). One evening after dark he was driving home from school down some very not-busy road and he was pulled over. The police officer had noticed his expired Virginia inspection sticker without noticing that he had Georgia plates on the car (no inspection required in Georgia). Ds was polite of course and pointed out the Georgia plates and said he hadn't taken the VA sticker off yet because he needed to get a scraper thing since it was really stuck on. The policeman laughed at his mistake, they chatted for a minute, then said goodnight. Throughout the entire exchange, including the very beginning when all ds knew was that police lights were flashing behind him, ds said he never felt afraid. Sure he had that first "uh oh" that we all get when we see police lights behind us. But he knew he hadn't intentionally done anything wrong, and he felt no fear at being pulled over on a rural Georgia road at night. That is white privilege. 

Of course there are a million other examples just like that. It's not an insult to me or to my ds to say we have had white privilege all our lives. It's quite true and it's just a fact. Personally it just never occurred to me growing up because no one ever talked about it....I don't think it was even in our vocabulary back then since I'm old . But my ds and dd have been made aware by me and by dh, because that's our responsibility now that we ourselves are aware and understand more than we used to.

Go do some more reading.