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The post Xitter web has spawned soo many āesotericā right wing freaks, but thereās no appropriate sneer-space for them. Iām talking redscare-ish, reality challenged āculture criticsā who write about everything but understand nothing. Iām talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. Theyāre inescapable at this point, yet I donāt see them mocked (as much as they should be)
Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldnāt be surgeons because they didnāt believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I canāt escape them, I would love to sneer at them.
As sympathetic as I am to the parents and children for whom public school is a necessity rather than a choice, I donāt think sheās actually wrong here? Putting her kids in public school wonāt magically immediately increase funding, reduce student/teacher ratios, improve facilities, get reactionary Texas nonsense away from history curriculums, or otherwise fix whatever problems those schools have. Rather it will mean that more people in that school have the resources to Karen their way into getting the people who can fix those immediate problems to make them a priority, and thereās a time lag in how quickly that can be done (assuming parents still care enough to agitate as their kids get older and graduate). And while there are a lot of very good reasons to assume that growing up in a family with those resources has a more immediate impact than which school your kids go to (i.e. her kids are still going to have access and interest in private tutoring, PTA involvement, and a home environment free from the stress of economic precarity and that will benefit them regardless of what school they go to), we still talk as though giving your kid a good education at a good school is the most important single thing you can do to help them be successful. If weāre going to talk like going to a bad school is like playing Russian Roulette with your kids, Iām not comfortable with the logic that everyone has a moral duty to play because it reduces each individualās odds of losing, yāknow?
Of course, given her proximity to the Ratsphere Iām probably being incredibly charitable and sheās actually worried about having her kids spend time too close to genetically inferior races with mathematically-described low IQs or something.
I donāt know about āmagically immediatelyā (?), but the benefits of racial and economic integration in American schools is actually incredibly well studied and documented; you donāt have to argue from first principles unless you just want to ignore those benefits and do the thing you wanted to do all along.
Donāt get me wrong, I think ending the de facto segregation weāve ended up with needs to be a primary policy goal and that dealing with people not like themselves is going to do good for any kid all on its own. And the numbers parents use to figure out which schools are ābetterā are cooked to all hell, making trying to accurately judge school quality incredibly difficult. But that doesnāt change the fact that some schools do have better outcomes or more problems than others, and while the broader systemic factors that create those problems need to be solved, expecting parents not to try and take care of their own kids first isnāt a viable way to make that happen.
itās 110% white suburban totally-not-eugenics