such baloney, Petey.Peter Brown wrote: ↑Mon Sep 07, 2020 9:54 amMDlaxfan76 wrote: ↑Mon Sep 07, 2020 9:31 amfalse connection and if anything the reverse. The hard-right wingers who say they support charter schools (and vouchers) do so based out of a racial bias that says that most black and brown families, unlike white families, don't care about education, so who cares about them, let's divert those resources to educating the few...Peter Brown wrote: ↑Mon Sep 07, 2020 9:02 am
When Trump wins in November, does the left bury the racism card at that stage?
I support charter schools; do you? Your answer tells normal Americans all they need to know as to ‘are you a racist?’
There's a perfectly reasonable argument in favor of charter schools and voucher programs that doesn't involve such prejudices, but that's not where the bigots are coming from.
I'd wager that most of us moderates and progressives are actually fine with charter schools (or specialized magnets) within the public system IF there's a very substantial increase in funding to the other schools rather than further degrading. The hard-right wingers resist the latter half of that equation, revealing their real agenda.
What does that even mean? For starters, most charter school financial supporters are the furthest thing from 'hard right winger' you can find; I'd categorize them as (at best) 'center' and often center-left. Secondly, your statement makes absolutely zero sense (not that that in itself is unusual); you're saying 'right-wingers' prefer charter schools because 'black families as a group don't care about education only individual black families'? What?!?!? That is super-racist right there.
Most black families prioritize their kids' educations; I have a feeling you know very few poor or middle class blacks, MD. These parents are involved in their kids' lives, and most hate their allocated public school. If you ever spend a day at a charter school, you will never take the position you have. Feel free to visit Sarasota School for the Arts and Sciences any day and you will know what I mean.
This is all silly anyway. if you don't support charter schools (at least in theory), you are a racist. Full stop. Teachers' unions are the greatest impediment to racial harmony and racial meritocracy in America. When you side with the unions over kids, that tells us all we ever need to know.
Your last paragraph is the hedge clause I hear far too often from closet racists ('we support charters IF...'). I'd be careful saying that.
There is a tiptop comparison if I ever saw one: Nelson Mandela and Kyle Rittenhouse.
You've already shown your segregationist colors numerous times, so you don't get to speak for non hard-right wingers.
I made clear that there's a valid argument for charters, magnets, vouchers, all sorts of ways to improve opportunity. But that's not actually the motivation of hard-right wingers including those who pretend they aren't, like you.
Your "closet racists" are those I describe, those who think there's a difference in how black and brown families feel about their kids and cover themselves by moving resources from the most challenging neighborhood schools to those for the better established family situations. We'll give 'opportunity' to a few, screw the rest.
Again, IF these same folks were committed to improving the situations dramatically at all the schools, then many of us would find common ground. But that's not the point, right, Petey, this is all about division from guys like you...all insult all the time.
