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What Catholic-School Alums Think of the MAGA Teens
‘I have been on the receiving end of that stare.’
[The Covington incident] all felt very familiar — the disrespect to elders, to indigenous people. There was a field trip my class took once, and on the way back an indigenous woman approached the bus to sell her handicrafts and some of my classmates taunted her with questions and double entendres.
It all felt very familiar. I am familiar with that bullying smirk. I have been on the receiving end of that stare. As an overweight and effeminate not-yet-out gay teen in the late ’90s and early ’00s I was bullied on a daily basis. That “I’m not doing anything, I’m just staring at you, so you can’t tell on me” look is forever burned on my brain, that entitled smirk. Being in a Catholic school that teaches that homosexuality is a sin only made them more entitled to believe they were in the right. It was a huge part of the environment; a macho, misogynistic, classist, athletic culture was not only the norm but sometimes even encouraged.
[The Covington incident] all felt very familiar — the disrespect to elders, to indigenous people. There was a field trip my class took once, and on the way back an indigenous woman approached the bus to sell her handicrafts and some of my classmates taunted her with questions and double entendres.
It all felt very familiar. I am familiar with that bullying smirk. I have been on the receiving end of that stare. As an overweight and effeminate not-yet-out gay teen in the late ’90s and early ’00s I was bullied on a daily basis. That “I’m not doing anything, I’m just staring at you, so you can’t tell on me” look is forever burned on my brain, that entitled smirk. Being in a Catholic school that teaches that homosexuality is a sin only made them more entitled to believe they were in the right. It was a huge part of the environment; a macho, misogynistic, classist, athletic culture was not only the norm but sometimes even encouraged.
https://www.thecut.com/2019/01/catholic-school-alumni-respond-to-covington-catholic-video.html?utm_campaign=nym&utm_source=fb&utm_medium=s1&fbclid=IwAR39Gr0ixa7x6e7w3rXmTnUcSg5F0x6t4YP3QUGGHgTMclMcHWkcNyjVrBA&fbclid=IwAR1oH8TOw7wRxI4LAP400B6l-NbZTKphAPP7m9_jXaPifbK6Rv8JgdkkZQw
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