Intra-county rivalry in MoCo

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Aren't cities in the US overwhelmingly progressive? Isn't that where white flight destroyed the tax base? Isn't anyone else worried about that, especially now that the redistricting/bussing process has begun?

Please explain why having fewer white people is a bad thing?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Aren't cities in the US overwhelmingly progressive? Isn't that where white flight destroyed the tax base? Isn't anyone else worried about that, especially now that the redistricting/bussing process has begun?

Please explain why having fewer white people is a bad thing?

Because they take their money with them. Having a large exodus of any demographic is a bad thing. You sound racist.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Aren't cities in the US overwhelmingly progressive? Isn't that where white flight destroyed the tax base? Isn't anyone else worried about that, especially now that the redistricting/bussing process has begun?

Please explain why having fewer white people is a bad thing?

Because they take their money with them. Having a large exodus of any demographic is a bad thing. You sound racist.

Actually it's also pretty racist to suggest that only white people have money.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Aren't cities in the US overwhelmingly progressive? Isn't that where white flight destroyed the tax base? Isn't anyone else worried about that, especially now that the redistricting/bussing process has begun?

Please explain why having fewer white people is a bad thing?

Because they take their money with them. Having a large exodus of any demographic is a bad thing. You sound racist.

[Anonymous]

Actually losing the asian americans rather than whites from Montgomery County will tank them. MCPS is hostile to asian americans even though as a whole they deliver the highest test scores in the county. The recent racial modeling changes to the magnets that changed entrance from being the top performers to using geography letting MCPS drop asian participation by 8% is not sitting well with many asian american communities. If it look closely at the PARCC scores over the past several years, asian americans have stayed high, whites have dropped and minorities have really dropped. The curriculum that has been in place for the last seven years has really damaged the school system and the kids who have been in it since the beginning will be entering high school next year. Scores will continue dropping and if asian americans leave at a higher rate than has been happening it will tank.

Wealthy whites are attracted by high test scores so if the asian americans leave, the wealthy whites will follow. Add in bussing and letting the DCC cannibalize the W schools and its game over.

[Anonymous]

I really don't think anyone I know would care if asians left and took white people with them. What would the net effect be? Fewer bad drivers and less traffic? Ok. Where's the downside?

[Anonymous]

I’d be fine if we lost white fat communists from Takoma Park

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’d be fine if we lost white fat communists from Takoma Park

Pffffft, but who'd be left?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

People don't move out of Scandinavian countries with FAR higher rates of tax contribution. And they won't move away from here, either. Not with all the amenities that our county could provide if our budget were increased in funding by six-fold. People would be clamming to move here, not moving out.

If you can't see the difference between uprooting yourself and leaving behind your job, family, friends to move to a totally different country vs moving across the river from Potomac to McLean or across the highway from MoCo Takoma Park to PG Takoma Park without having to give up any of those, then I can't help you.

There is no “PG Takoma Park” hasn’t been for many years.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Excuse me.... I hate to break this to you, but you are NOT not a Progressive.

You're just a Rotary Club republican LARP'ing as a Democrat.

Why don't you stop lying to yourself and accept what you are. Or change your mindset.

LOL. So the only wealthy people who can be progressive are those willing to pay any amount of taxes, no questions asked? Good luck with that.

Being a Progressive means you stand for certain things. One of which is an understanding that people with more resources need to be willing to contribute more of those resources than others with less, so that they may help out those who need it. This isn't a revolutionary concept, ok? Until such time as we have a fully equitable society where literally everyone has the same standard of living and there is no classism, there needs to be a mechanism where the government can even out the distribution of financial resources.

If you can't understand why this is important.... well, you're a republican.

God these people are unbearable.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:That's fine, plenty more want to live here than leave here.

Bye Felicia.

That's the problem. The ones that want to live here don't make as much as the ones that leave, so it's just a steady decline.

Yep.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I really don't think anyone I know would care if asians left and took white people with them. What would the net effect be? Fewer bad drivers and less traffic? Ok. Where's the downside?

So everyone you know would be happy if Montgomery county were populated exclusively by blacks and Latinos? Everyone you know would be happy if there were no whites or Asians living in the county? Huh. That sounds more than a little racist.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Actually losing the asian americans rather than whites from Montgomery County will tank them. MCPS is hostile to asian americans even though as a whole they deliver the highest test scores in the county. The recent racial modeling changes to the magnets that changed entrance from being the top performers to using geography letting MCPS drop asian participation by 8% is not sitting well with many asian american communities. If it look closely at the PARCC scores over the past several years, asian americans have stayed high, whites have dropped and minorities have really dropped. The curriculum that has been in place for the last seven years has really damaged the school system and the kids who have been in it since the beginning will be entering high school next year. Scores will continue dropping and if asian americans leave at a higher rate than has been happening it will tank.

Wealthy whites are attracted by high test scores so if the asian americans leave, the wealthy whites will follow. Add in bussing and letting the DCC cannibalize the W schools and its game over.

Asians are attracted to high test scores. Wealthy whites are attracted to other wealthy people (especially white).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

People don't move out of Scandinavian countries with FAR higher rates of tax contribution. And they won't move away from here, either. Not with all the amenities that our county could provide if our budget were increased in funding by six-fold. People would be clamming to move here, not moving out.

If you can't see the difference between uprooting yourself and leaving behind your job, family, friends to move to a totally different country vs moving across the river from Potomac to McLean or across the highway from MoCo Takoma Park to PG Takoma Park without having to give up any of those, then I can't help you.

There is no “PG Takoma Park” hasn’t been for many years.

That's great, but do you plan to respond to PP's substantive point, with which I agree.

No I would not move countries which would necessitate a new job, customs, language, visa, friends, etc. But I could move from Bethesda to VA (about a 10 minute drive) without changing any of that. My kids aren't even school age so we wouldn't even have to change that.

There is simply no comparison between the barriers to the two different types of moves.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Actually losing the asian americans rather than whites from Montgomery County will tank them. MCPS is hostile to asian americans even though as a whole they deliver the highest test scores in the county. The recent racial modeling changes to the magnets that changed entrance from being the top performers to using geography letting MCPS drop asian participation by 8% is not sitting well with many asian american communities. If it look closely at the PARCC scores over the past several years, asian americans have stayed high, whites have dropped and minorities have really dropped. The curriculum that has been in place for the last seven years has really damaged the school system and the kids who have been in it since the beginning will be entering high school next year. Scores will continue dropping and if asian americans leave at a higher rate than has been happening it will tank.

Wealthy whites are attracted by high test scores so if the asian americans leave, the wealthy whites will follow. Add in bussing and letting the DCC cannibalize the W schools and its game over.

Once more - there are more Asian Americans living OUTSIDE Potomac and Bethesda (the areas most impacted by the cohort criteria) than there are Asian Americans living in those places. Unless you think wealthy Asians are the only Asians that test well or care about school?