Background on Alison Collins: she’s an activist who historically railed against parental choice and charter schools, got elected to the SF education board due to her activist stripes, dismantled merit based admissions at the best SF public school (Lowell High School) earlier this year, then got in trouble for a series of tweets she made in 2016 that were racist (against Asians), then refused to really own up to the tweets and apologize fully (she claimed they were taken out of context), was removed from her position via a vote of no confidence, and is now suing the district and her colleagues for $87 million ($12 million in general damages from “each” defendant — the school district plus five board colleagues voting against her — plus $3 million in punitive damages from each of her five board member colleagues).
The interesting twist? She’s claiming that the vote against her was a violation of her first amendment right to free speech, as she was a private citizen when she made those tweets. This is a person that is typically against the idea of free speech and for censorship/deplatforming/cancel culture as a progressive activist, so there’s a bit of irony/hypocrisy here.
As for those problematic tweets she made in 2016:
1. She claimed that Asians “use White supremacist thinking to assimilate and get ahead”, which is clearly insulting and false.
2. She claimed that Asians benefited from "model minority" perceptions to the detriment of other groups, basically parroting the claim that model minorities are a “myth” because it is inconvenient for victim narratives on racial inequities.
3. She said “Talk to many Lowell parents and you will hear praise of tiger moms and disparagement of Black and brown 'culture'”, essentially discounting the culture of hard work and academic focus that results in disproportionate success for the Asian demographic.
> This is a person that is typically against the idea of free speech and for censorship/deplatforming/cancel culture as a progressive activist, so there’s a bit of irony/hypocrisy here.
It is only ironic if what you say here is actually true about this particular person. There is no need to stereotype.
But leaving all this evidence aside, it’s pretty clear that the progressive movement and its adherents are generally pro-censorship/deplatforming and anti-free speech. Just last week we saw progressive politicians summon tech CEOs to pressure them into increasing their censorship regime: https://greenwald.substack.com/p/congress-in-a-five-hour-hea...
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[ 3.1 ms ] story [ 8.3 ms ] threadThe interesting twist? She’s claiming that the vote against her was a violation of her first amendment right to free speech, as she was a private citizen when she made those tweets. This is a person that is typically against the idea of free speech and for censorship/deplatforming/cancel culture as a progressive activist, so there’s a bit of irony/hypocrisy here.
As for those problematic tweets she made in 2016:
1. She claimed that Asians “use White supremacist thinking to assimilate and get ahead”, which is clearly insulting and false.
2. She claimed that Asians benefited from "model minority" perceptions to the detriment of other groups, basically parroting the claim that model minorities are a “myth” because it is inconvenient for victim narratives on racial inequities.
3. She said “Talk to many Lowell parents and you will hear praise of tiger moms and disparagement of Black and brown 'culture'”, essentially discounting the culture of hard work and academic focus that results in disproportionate success for the Asian demographic.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alison_Collins https://meaww.com/alison-collins-top-officials-including-may...
It is only ironic if what you say here is actually true about this particular person. There is no need to stereotype.
Here’s a Michael Moore tweet cheering the lockdown of Trump’s Twitter account, which she retweeted: https://mobile.twitter.com/MMFlint/status/134698500682517299...
A couple weeks later she retweeted this complaint about someone she’s politically aligned with being banned: https://mobile.twitter.com/shanavwhite/status/13537020136164...
She retweeted a call to deplatform Fox News from ads networks: https://mobile.twitter.com/designationsix/status/13494883553...
She was also a key proponent of renaming 44 schools in SF, including removing the names of historical figures who she sought to cancel, such as Lincoln, Washington, and Jefferson: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/san-francisco-school-re...
But leaving all this evidence aside, it’s pretty clear that the progressive movement and its adherents are generally pro-censorship/deplatforming and anti-free speech. Just last week we saw progressive politicians summon tech CEOs to pressure them into increasing their censorship regime: https://greenwald.substack.com/p/congress-in-a-five-hour-hea...
https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1993-05-27-mn-40493-...