On 2/19/2022 1:28 PM, Mikhail Kimmelman wrote:
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Even voters in one of the most liberal cities in the country have had it
with symbolic racial politics.
At a minimum, the recall demonstrates that “woke” racial politics have
their limits, even in one of the wokest cities in the country.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/02/meaning-san-franciscos-school-board-recall/622854/
...one more factor in the recall was the board’s decision to change the
formerly merit-based admissions policy at the city’s most prestigious
and academically rigorous high school, Lowell, to ensure that more Black
and Latino students were accepted. Like many merit-based high schools in
New York and elsewhere, Lowell has been majority Asian and white for
decades. Chinese American parents, many of them working-class, have long
seen Lowell as a launching pad for their children, and they were enraged
by the board’s move to a lottery admissions system.
They were even more outraged when the board’s then–vice president,
Alison Collins, who is Black, was found to have sent out a series of
tweets in 2016 saying, among other things, “Many [Asian Americans]
believe they benefit from the ‘model minority’ BS. In fact, many Asian
American [teachers, students, and parents] actively promote these myths.
They use white supremacist thinking to assimilate and ‘get ahead’
...
Notably, although Collins’s tweets were intemperate, the ideology they
expressed, and the board’s justification for ending merit-based
admissions, are not all that different from so-called anti-racist
notions in wide circulation here—such as those promoted by the
activist-writer Ibram X. Kendi. (Kendi, an Atlantic contributor, has
argued that any policy that produces racially unequal outcomes is itself
racist.)
Collins and the board may have believed that any accusations of racism
they made, no matter how inflammatory, would be protected under the
rubric of the sacrosanct “reckoning.” Not this time.
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