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It's San Francisco, and big city school boards have always been utterly terrible. Hyper-liberal cities and universities have been doing ridiculous loopy stuff s
by suzzer99 6y ago
It's San Francisco, and big city school boards have always been utterly terrible. Hyper-liberal cities and universities have been doing ridiculous loopy stuff since basically forever. My uncle used to always complain about some ridiculous thing universities or San Francisco was doing, in the pre-internet 80s, when you had to read about it in American Spectator or someone's newsletter.
I don't get how people think stuff like this is some existential threat - when we have much bigger very real problems in this country, like 30% of the population thinks the election was rigged, and armed militias are flexing their muscle taking over statehouses.
It's a very weird form of focusing on the molehill and ignoring the mountain imo. Like walk me through how this kind of nonsense is this ever going to spread to Johnson County, KS - as opposed to being contained in hyper-liberal enclaves. I can walk you through a lot of scenarios as to how the stuff I mentioned above is a real existential threat to our democracy.
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- ghiculescu 6y agoThe problem is that the people in SF are doing things that many people find divisive and dumb. But the same people are seen as in control of media, universities, tech etc - things that impact everyone. If you’re in Johnson City, KS, this happening in your country feels like it impacts you even if it’s in a hyper liberal enclave.
- suzzer99 6y agoHow does the SF school board have anything to do with the media? This seems like really digging hard for something to be mad about.
- ghiculescu 6y agoIt doesn’t, directly. But if you’re far away from SF and all you see is this headline, it reads as “the ruling class did some dumb woke stuff again”. How can you respect them? How can you be confident the wokeness won’t spread?
- lolpython 6y ago> Please don't comment about the voting on comments. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- suzzer99 6y agoIt has a legitimate point here. The anti-cancel culture crowd is downvoting my perfectly reasonable reply without even giving an argument back. Soon you won't even be able to see my original reply. Kinda ironic, no? I removed my original mention of downvoting. I shouldn't have had that in.
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- throwaway894345 6y agoThis happened in SF, but there are analogous events happening in all sorts of institutions (typically less egregious but trending in that direction) all over the country. Because this is a symptom of an ideology that isn't limited to SF even if it's particularly potent in SF. With respect to "but whatabout right-wing groups?!": we don't have to worry about one or the other because woke progressivism and other far-left ideologies fuel right-wing groups; combatting left-wing extremism and restoring moderate views will marginalize right-wing groups as well.