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> In 2019, inequality is propagated through differences in access to effective educational environments. This is not accurate, and has been covered in excrucia

by moosey 8y ago

> In 2019, inequality is propagated through differences in access to effective educational environments. This is not accurate, and has been covered in excruciating detail in books like "The New Jim Crow" and "The Color of Law", so I don't feel like I need to argue the case at extreme length. > Who benefits from disadvantaged neighborhoods? People who want cheap workers. People who want to make sure that they don't have a voice. People who don't want to pay taxes. > Who benefits from encouraging large populations to refuse to assimilate into their host society? People who want to make sure racists vote.

stcredzero 8y ago
People who want cheap workers. Employers want good workers, at any price. Employers want socialized and dependable workers, and many schools don't manage to support this. People who want to make sure that they don't have a voice. I have no idea who that might be, unless it's people who de-platform, namecall, and denigrate people for "wrongthink," even if it's not anything bad and just asking questions and thinking differently. If people are to have a voice, they need to be free to "fire" their representatives. It doesn't seem like the media and the political machines of the cities actually want that. People who don't want to pay taxes. People who are concerned that government is too big would rather such neighborhoods didn't exist. The incentive structure of aid would seem to propagate the very conditions it's supposed to help. > Who benefits from encouraging large populations to refuse to assimilate into their host society? People who want to make sure racists vote. The people who talk in terms of race and identity for votes are the unsavory part of politics, on both the left and the right of US politics.
- moosey 8y ago
  This is a nation based on race and identity, almost it's entire history. We only started calling it identity politics when people who aren't in power try to achieve justice. Here is why we shouldn't do the private school voucher thing, unless we take away the right of private schools to select their students: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/education/wp/2016/03/29/the-overwhelming-whiteness-of-u-s-private-schools-in-six-maps-and-charts/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.ef02d08ca98b https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/education/wp/2016/03/29/...

by moosey 8y ago

stcredzero 8y ago

People who want cheap workers. Employers want good workers, at any price. Employers want socialized and dependable workers, and many schools don't manage to support this. People who want to make sure that they don't have a voice. I have no idea who that might be, unless it's people who de-platform, namecall, and denigrate people for "wrongthink," even if it's not anything bad and just asking questions and thinking differently. If people are to have a voice, they need to be free to "fire" their representatives. It doesn't seem like the media and the political machines of the cities actually want that. People who don't want to pay taxes. People who are concerned that government is too big would rather such neighborhoods didn't exist. The incentive structure of aid would seem to propagate the very conditions it's supposed to help. > Who benefits from encouraging large populations to refuse to assimilate into their host society? People who want to make sure racists vote. The people who talk in terms of race and identity for votes are the unsavory part of politics, on both the left and the right of US politics.

moosey 8y ago
This is a nation based on race and identity, almost it's entire history. We only started calling it identity politics when people who aren't in power try to achieve justice. Here is why we shouldn't do the private school voucher thing, unless we take away the right of private schools to select their students: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/education/wp/2016/03/29/the-overwhelming-whiteness-of-u-s-private-schools-in-six-maps-and-charts/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.ef02d08ca98b https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/education/wp/2016/03/29/...