Understanding and interpreting statistics is an incredibly important and useful skill. Thank you for at least trying to teach them about that.

At my daughter’s school someone scratched swastikas into a few desks, and my daughter jumped to the defense of a good friend who was called a terrorist. Her friend was crushed and didn’t know how to react, but my daughter told them off.

Would you say the same thing though if a guy came up to a woman giving an interview and demand that she hug him, even though she has no idea who he is?

no, just be willing to accept there will be backlash.

Just look at the comments on the Buzzfeed article, the rightwingers are of course, dismissing, defending, or literally claiming fake news. And there’s the people saying so what I was bullied? I frequent the Buzzfeed comments section, and the Trumpians are the most willfully ignorant, bigoted, sexist(men and women) and…

its not like just anyone is gonna be coming up for a hug

A few days after the election, a family member in high school found swastikas scrawled on some books he had left in the library. The Cheetolini supporters in the extended family were twisting every way they could to insist that this had nothing to do with the election. It was just a coincidence!

Yeah, I hear next week Trump plans to announce that he’ll send all Native Americans back where they came from.

I taught high school English. The vast majority of the students were Hispanic, perhaps 20% black, very few whites, more Asians than whites.

In a business situation, I am fine. But as a single woman, there are a lot of men who feel quite entitled to my personal space. And if I (kindly) rebuff them when they ask me out, I think they are signaling their civility (in acquiescing) by then a.) asking my name and b.) holding their hand out to shake. This sounds…

Yes. But the point is that when the president of the United States of America acts like a shit-head kid, it emboldens shit-head kids to become actual scum-bags.

“...so she was a quick hugger?”

So you are saying that this is a situation in which close, affectionate physical contact with someone you don’t know is mandatory?

I’ve shared before, but I was out at a bar in NE DC with friends and as soon as Trump won Ohio a group of college students started doing Nazi salutes and cheering. Fun fact? These were Gallaudet students, so they are all hearing impaired. Pretty sure neither Trump nor Hitler respected the deaf. Obviously wenleft the…

But they act like shitheads in part because they’re testing boundaries—they’re developing a sense of what is and isn’t an okay way to act. And they’re learning, now, that it’s socially acceptable to be hateful. So, like, yes, kids are always assholes, but that doesn’t mean that this isn’t cause for concern, or that…

Nah.

HE STILL COULD HAVE SAID HELLO!

“The incidents BuzzFeed collected didn’t just occur in states where Trump won; they were documented in even “liberal” cities that overwhelmingly voted against him, proving that his rhetoric is pervasive and damaging beyond his frenzied supporter rallies.”

Of course. When a culture of bigotry and racism is normalized, children will obviously pick up on it. Even ones too young to really grasp what they’re repeating. This sort of stuff causes downstream effects throughout American culture.