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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]How Asian Americans Fueled the San Francisco Recall

"The landslide vote to remove three school board members cut across ethnicities and income levels. But Chinese American voters and volunteers were crucial to victory, organizers say."

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/17/us/san-francisco-school-board-parents.html
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Good for them. I’m not sure why the progressive position is that they should just accept racism from school board members, but it’s not right. [/quote]

The progressive mayor supported the recall effort. This was more a case of democrats and progressives ousting the lunatic fringe. [/quote]

Why can’t anyone just be honest about all this? These dei policies are generally poorly designed. When you’re ending merit based admission, which is done by race neutral entrance exams to rigorous schools, on the premise that it’s unfair because it’s too hard for some students to get in, you’re on the losing side of an argument. Lowering all boats is not good policy. Asian parents who value education and who showed up in droves clearly demonstrate that “woke” education is not going over well.

Also, the amount of millions wasted on diversity consultants, both in schools and the workplace, who really don’t do much other than lecture on in power point is a racket. It is. It’s a feel good waste of money for organizations and lines the pockets of people smart enough to understand that if they strike while the iron is hot, with a nationwide racial reckoning, they can get a chunk of change.

I’m a liberal who now hopes moderate Republicans win in November. I just want my kids to get the best education, rather than money be diverted for lesser priorities, that cost millions of dollars, but look good on Twitter, like remaining schools. I don’t want gifted and talented or ap classes to end. Even if my kid can’t get in. I want the kids who can pass the tests and get the actual non-inflated grades to be the engineers who build our rockets and schools.[/quote]

+1 million

Though I will no longer call myself a ‘liberal’.  The liberals have gone crazy.  And I want no part of that.  [/quote]

It’s crazy in the sense that even talking about or remotely questioning the prudence of certain dei efforts can result in scandal. As if it’s dangerous to question the prevailing narrative, which itself is based on a lot of post-modernist theory, which I guess the public has now accepted as fact.

I really think the pushback in November will be strong. I can’t tell if Republicans are just that much better in their messaging, and I’m naive and impressionable liberal-cum conservative, or if the last few years really have been just a flurry of endless grievance culture, complaints and whining, lowering of standards for testing and entrance to rigorous schools for the greater good, and a crime wave partially attributed to liberal “criminal justice policies” that aim to bridge the racial gap in incarceration rates, but seem to entail just letting violent criminals out of jail sooner (thanks youth rehab act) or allowing teens to car Jack with impunity and blaming it all on systemic racism. It’s kind of nuts. It’s now edgy to ask for more policing in your community. I’m over it.
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Republicans are far better at messaging, but democrats think they have a mandate to right perceived injustices. Republicans are going to clean sweep in 2022[/quote]

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