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The real issue with affirmative action is that allowing a tiny fraction of disadvantaged minorities to leak into the upper classes does nothing to actually benefit the communities as a whole. Like their white counterparts, these people usually attribute all of their success to their own hard work rather than an environment that was favorable to them, and though they often make a show of "giving back" few of their initiatives have any tangible material benefits and mostly serve as PR stunts. Worse, because they tend to have a disproportionately large platforms to express their views compared to working class folks, this leads the public to believe such silly things as the biggest problem with racism being not enough black CEOs or whatever.
It's not like elite universities are keepers of secret knowledge that minorities are systematically excluded from accessing, they mostly are just a big dog and pony show to perpetuate the myth that the socioeconomic hierarchy has some basis in merit. Giving young black kids the hope that one day they too can be part of the oppressor class isn't a positive development in my book.
There are plenty of businesses who only instituted a college degree as a requirement for employment when women and people of color started applying for the jobs. Before then, a college education was just finishing school for rich kids until they could take over running Daddy's business or marry well. But then they decided to use a college education as a way of keeping out the riff-raff. But then the riff-raff started their own schools like Howard University or Grambling, so the powers that be had to find new excuses to keep out "undesirables." The bottom line is that it's always about racism and sexism.
Watching television is not an activity.
Because of course, it's the private schools funded by wealthy parents that are not going to be able to afford the technology to allow their children to engage in online learning at home. How will that poor child in Greenwich Village learn?
Betsy DeVos and her billioniare husband both went to private Christian schools as children, so while the funding should be strictly about practicality (Low income earners), they've turned it into ideology, by making sure private religious schools get there fair share of the funding, by making it part of the secular vs religious culture war you have going on down there.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics...ion-secretary/
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I'm not arguing the issue either way -- I'll let you do your own research from now on when you ask questions.
We'd never get around to all the new Republican scandals and incompetence if we spent all our time trying to clarify each one to you as it happens.
Twelve pages to get you to admit to Republican voter suppression targeting African-Americans is my point of reference.
That you still support the party in question only further underlines the futility of said effort.
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"DeVos sued for seizing student loan borrowers' wages during pandemic"
"Education Secretary Betsy DeVos is continuing to garnish the wages of federal student loan borrowers who fall behind on payments even though Congress suspended the practice in the economic rescue package, according to a new lawsuit.
An upstate New York woman who works as a home health aide for less than $13 an hour claimed in the lawsuit, filed late Thursday, that the federal government seized more than $70 from her paycheck as recently as last week — nearly a full month after President Donald Trump signed the CARES Act into law. She is suing on behalf of about 285,000 borrowers whose wages are being garnished, according to the lawsuit.
DeVos first announced in March that she would take administrative action to automatically stop the Education Department from seizing the wages —and tax refunds — of defaulted student loan borrowers for at least two months. Congress then included that policy in the CARES Act and extended it, prohibiting the Education Department from garnishing wages or tax refunds through Sept. 30.
But the proposed class action lawsuit claims that the Education Department hasn’t actually halted the practice and is continuing to garnish wages in violation of the CARES Act. It cites a Washington Post story that said the department had not sent formal letters to tell employers to stop withholding money from borrowers' paychecks on behalf of the government.
The lawsuit claims that the Education Department hasn’t actually halted the practice and is continuing to garnish wages in violation of the CARES Act."
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/0...andemic-228519
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You mean aside from it being illegal?
DeVos' efforts run "in contravention of both the plain reading of the statute and the intent of Congress."Are you seriously suggesting you don't see a problem with this?Most of the money set aside for schools in the CARES Act is meant to be distributed based on how many vulnerable, low-income students a district serves, the lawmakers said — the same way the federal government hands out Title I dollars. It's an old formula meant to send money where it's needed, including to some low-income private school students in the form of "equitable services" such as tutoring or transportation.
In the Education Department's interpretation of the CARES Act, though, the agency argues that private schools should receive these subsidized services based on how many students they serve overall, rather than just their share of low-income students. This could mean, in places with large private school populations, districts serving low-income students could be required to spend relief money on more affluent, private school neighbors.
It's fine to change the parameters of a discussion but the shift should be acknowledged.
Whatever the discussion is on the left/ right issues, there should be a consistency on process questions (IE- what counts as a change in goalposts, or an example of cherry-picking.)
We're coming at things from many different perspectives, and frames of reference. In addition, there are many different discussions going on at the same time (I probably don't make things easier to follow by quoting multiple posts all at once.) It's easy to think everything is a proxy for the big questions (Democrats VS Republicans, Neoliberal shills VS Bernie bros) but not everyone is going to see it that way. It's certainly frustrating when answering one question to be criticized on a different point.
As for the point on statistics that some of the posters here are African-Americans who dealt with the issues of academic equity, I don't think that contradicts anything I've said so far, but obviously anyone is welcome to discuss the impact of those policies if they want to.
I live in New York City.
There were serious mistakes by Governor Cuomo and Mayor DeBlasio, both Democrats, that have contributed to the ridiculously high fatality rate. Trump and Republican Governors are not the only ones who messed up.
Sincerely,
Thomas Mets
All this isn't messing up?
https://www.npr.org/2020/04/21/83734...he-coronavirus
Cuomo is far from perfect but he takes the pandemic seriously.
Well this sounds potentially awful and dangerous to those with food allergies.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is issuing a guidance document to provide additional temporary flexibility in food labeling requirements to manufacturers and vending machine operators. The goal is to provide regulatory flexibility, where appropriate, to help minimize the impact of supply chain disruptions on product availability associated with the current COVID-19 pandemic.
Entitled “Temporary Policy Regarding Certain Food Labeling Requirements During the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency: Minor Formulation Changes and Vending Machines,” this guidance is one of several the FDA has issued to provide temporary flexibility to the food industry to help support the food supply chain and meet consumer demand during the pandemic.
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My big article on Mariko Tamaki's Hulk & She-Hulk runs, discussing the good, bad, and its creation.
My second big article on She-Hulk, discussing Jason Aaron's focus on her in Avengers #20.