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People once wanted slavery and explicit segregation, that doesn't mean it's evil to force them to stop. Gallop polls not withstanding there is evidence busing i

People once wanted slavery and explicit segregation, that doesn't mean it's evil to force them to stop. Gallop polls not withstanding there is evidence busing improved the lives of minorities. I've lived in the south where busing had been forced and the north where it wasn't. It does work. https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED571629 https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED571629 > When people call busing ill conceived or the worst means of ensuring integration, they conveniently obscure that busing was almost always a tool of last resort, mandated by courts only after lengthy battles with school boards and state officials, by black parents and civil rights groups, failed to produce even modest integration for black children.[1] People may have opposed busing for a variety of reasons. Yet the results suggest it was segregation. IME even desegregationist parents flinch once an 'other' comes home for dinner with their child's family. [1] https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/12/opinion/sunday/it-was-never-about-busing.html https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/12/opinion/sunday/it-was-nev...

xyzzyz 4y ago
> People once wanted slavery and explicit segregation, that doesn't mean it's evil to force them to stop. Sure, but if it was the slave themselves who preferred slavery to what your courts were forcing on them, one should really step back and ask oneself if he is doing the right thing. > Gallop polls not withstanding there is evidence busing improved the lives of minorities. And there is an ample evidence that it made their lives worse, that one could obtain by simply asking them how they feel about the policy. The fact is that you remain completely uninterested in what the people you claim to be helping actually want, and instead prefer to force your preferences on them because you believe it’s better for them and the society. You know who else claimed the same about their policy, and ignored the protests of people affected by it? The segregationists.

xyzzyz 4y ago

> People once wanted slavery and explicit segregation, that doesn't mean it's evil to force them to stop. Sure, but if it was the slave themselves who preferred slavery to what your courts were forcing on them, one should really step back and ask oneself if he is doing the right thing. > Gallop polls not withstanding there is evidence busing improved the lives of minorities. And there is an ample evidence that it made their lives worse, that one could obtain by simply asking them how they feel about the policy. The fact is that you remain completely uninterested in what the people you claim to be helping actually want, and instead prefer to force your preferences on them because you believe it’s better for them and the society. You know who else claimed the same about their policy, and ignored the protests of people affected by it? The segregationists.