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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Glad to see hateful Austin trailing.[/quote]

Hateful seems to have lost any meaning in the way you use it.  Disagree with Austin, fine.  Think he would be bad for MCPS, fine.  But to say that he is a purveyor of hate because he disagrees with current progressive policy devalues the meaning of the word and lessens the impact when it is used against truly hateful people.[/quote]

His “disagreement with current progressive policy” as you antiseptically refer to it was to stir up fear of white wealthy kids being bussed to schools with lots of black and brown children and vice versa and prey upon economic and social divides in this county. “But our property values!” just a proxy for brown / black kids make our schools less desirable.

This is what Austin peddles and traffics in. The root of that is hatefulness and an us vs them mentality that maintains the growing gap between schools in wealthy areas and schools in more economically and racially diverse areas. Whats the point of putting lipstick on the pig? Own it. And it’s not “new thinking” or “refreshing” as Austin defenders like to put it. It’s one thing to bring new ideas and insights; it’s another to prey upon divide. 
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Sorry, it is not hateful for someone to oppose bussing students and using racial demographics as a significant factor in drawing school boundaries. There are plenty of reasons one can disagree with his policies, but [b]attempting to simply declare them out of bounds from reasonable discussion[/b] is intellectually dishonest.[/quote]

Good thing the PP didn't do that, then.

The man said what he said, and did what he did. He should take responsibility for his words and actions.[/quote]

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