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[quote=Anonymous][quote=jsteele][quote=Anonymous][quote=jsteele]This is their conclusion:

[quote]The conversations on DC Urban Moms illustrate what other research has also shown: When privileged parents choose, they tend to choose segregation[/quote]

This is an extremely unfair characterization that completely misses the nuanced and complex reality. It is extremely disappointing to see such drivel presented as serious research.
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Unfortunately, the Post increasingly publishes simplistic (and divisive) click-bait articles about complex cultural issues.

If this were my site, I'd push back hard on this slander. I'm glad you are doing so.[/quote]

It's not the Post that is the problem. The Post article gave a fair presentation of my views. The issue is the Brookings report which is utter garbage.
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I’m sorry they did you like this, Mr. Steele, but I can’t say I’m surprised. The discussions on this site are entirely too open for the tastes of the social justice crowd, so they want to silence it.  Your responses are entirely rational and entirely correct, but sadly that is entirely irrelevant.  You’ve been tagged with running a site that facilitates segregation and “resource hoarding” by white families.  Intent does not matter, and it you allow it to continue you are complicit (in their view).  Candidly I am surprised it has taken this long for the Eye of Sauron to fall upon you.  That said, you are a much-beloved figure on this site, and I suspect you will be able to weather the storm, for now.  Now that you have published your own (very good IMO) statement, best to ignore it and it will probably go away — who reads Brookings reports anyway?  Further engagement will not benefit you, the authors of this study are not acting in good faith, and you can’t respond as if they are. [/quote]

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