The SFUSD school board has, at this point, become essentially a caricature of what conservatives think liberals are like. They're like if you took a strawman argument and willed it into reality.
It's really a shame, I hope they can be recalled somehow.
> There is an old finding in political science that Americans are “symbolically conservative” but “operationally liberal.” Americans talk like conservatives but want to be governed like liberals. In California, the same split political personality exists, but in reverse: We’re often symbolically liberal, but operationally conservative. Renaming closed schools is an almost novelistically on-point example, but it is not the most consequential.
Edit: I vouched for this post because this is a new take to me. I wish HN would ask for reasons from flaggers.
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[ 2.7 ms ] story [ 26.0 ms ] threadIt's really a shame, I hope they can be recalled somehow.
> There is an old finding in political science that Americans are “symbolically conservative” but “operationally liberal.” Americans talk like conservatives but want to be governed like liberals. In California, the same split political personality exists, but in reverse: We’re often symbolically liberal, but operationally conservative. Renaming closed schools is an almost novelistically on-point example, but it is not the most consequential.
Edit: I vouched for this post because this is a new take to me. I wish HN would ask for reasons from flaggers.
It feels like the opposite.