3) As a skeptic of standardized tests and their racial valence, what is their value now those tests caught her daughter’s lack of ability and mid-wifed an intervention? They seem to have been more objective and useful than any random culturally similar teacher.
the last thing i’ll say on this — i don’t think nikole hannah-jones wrote the piece from a newfound well of grace and humility.
I think she wrote it so people like this would say things like this.
Don't let the self-pitying fool you. NHJ was a bad parent, not because she sent her kids to underperforming schools.
NHJ was a bad parent because her kid didn't know how to write and do math, and NJH didn't know that her kid didn't know how to do math because NJH never sat down and watched her kid write and do math, like a good parent would.
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One reason I have shifted away from classical liberalism to a more right authoritarian position is that I do not believe liberal systems are proving resilient against these kinds of people.
I have no faith in rights or rule of law to protect me from them. I think they will exploit those things when they are weak and they will dismantle them when they were strong.
The Palestinians had elections, once. That is their model for liberal democracy.
While normal Americans cry, commie Mamdani and AOC laugh it up at the 9/11 memorial in New York.
They hate you. They hate your country. They enjoy your misery. We cannot allow these people to have power.
Mamdani and AOC are spotted laughing with each other as people cry while the names of those who died are read during the 9/11 Memorial in New York City.
Yes, this is the real opposition. These people pretend to care about budgets when in fact they merely denigrate the time a mother spends with her child. Much better to pay minimum wage daycare workers the same tax money to do the same job than an infant’s own mother.
In an actual functional society, you just expect things to work. One guy turns up to fix something as soon as it breaks. Having 5 dudes and the mayor turn up for a photo op is how the 3rd world operates.
Seeing a lot of “doesn’t she know egg-freezing doesn’t work?” posts. But I don’t think the egg-freezing industry actually sells the prospect of pregnancy; it sells a way to avoid confronting the fact that, deep down, you’ve already chosen not to have children.
The fate of the western world will be determined within the next 10 years, and it’s all hinging on the willpower of a select few autistic white men with extraordinary gifts.