I mean, yes, the US is a white supremacist settler colonial nation. But it seems like just in the last year that all over the country at school board meetings white folks are getting whipped up into a frenzy over the idea that maybe the US isn't quite so perfect, and that white people just might happen to have had some historic advantages that POC were never given. These meetings are something else. White folks getting into fights and making threats over it.

So what has changed? Is it just a reaction to BLM? I don't think material conditions for white folks have degraded all that significantly in the last year to where there's a materialist answer (though I'm open to hearing it). Is it manufactured outrage from conservative media? I genuinely don't know. But this social phenomenon fascinates me - meaning how white people are reacting to relatively minor attacks on white supremacy and the fact that demographics are shifting and will create a more diverse country in the future.

    • NaturalsNotInIt [any]
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      3 years ago

      Nope, charter schools are a :LIB: obsession. That's why you mostly see them in poor urban areas. It's a classic "market based" solution that those freaks love.

      Conservatives want public schools that they pick the curriculum, or public money to subsidize Christian schools' tuition. Charter schools are fine for poor minorities or whatever, but their own kids will get either a GODLY education, a common sense conservative one, or both.

        • NaturalsNotInIt [any]
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          3 years ago

          They're not. A charter school gets public money, but it's not run by the government. What I'm talking about are vouchers that would allow parents to use the tax dollars that would fund their kid at a public school, but they can use it to pay tuition at private religious schools.