So, you know my opinion on Stuy

[conuly]

Mainly, that those schools are overrated, that test needs a serious overhaul and critical review, and that everybody obsessed with that school (and the others) seriously needs to get a grip and reconsider the life choices that brought them to this place.

But nobody ever takes my excellent advice, and so they won't stop talking about those schools, and so I keep on reading. It's like a very boring trainwreck that I narrowly escaped but not really.

With that said, I have to admire the NY Times slipping in this snide commentary in this article here: “The bureaucrats who run these school districts have swallowed hook, line and sinker the idea of racial diversity” as an essential part of education in America, added Mr. Yoo, who is best known as the legal architect of Mr. Bush’s so-called torture memos.

Man, that's some serious, if factually-accurate, shade.

On the subject of affirmative action, way in the comments to that article somebody quoted Clarence Thomas opining that affirmative action just makes people doubt the merits of blacks. I will go on the record as saying that it is neither his race nor the specter of affirmative action that makes me doubt Clarence Thomas' credentials, capacity for critical thought, jurisprudence, or ethics. In fact, I have made it a long-standing policy to support what he doesn't, just on general principle, and that policy has yet to steer me wrong. So if Clarence Thomas is against affirmative action, that is certainly good enough for me.

(No, I do not intend to get into a discussion here and now about whether or not policies intended to increase representation of some or all racial minorities are good or bad, or if they're racist against other minorities and/or any or all whites, either in the abstract or with regard to specific situations. Not nearly enough spoons for that today.)

Comments

[peoriapeoriawhereart]

May I offer you a hug or fist-bump?

[conuly]

Yes!

[peoriapeoriawhereart]

Hug, flying fist-bump, and I'm raising with shaking tail feathers dos-e-doe.

[wpadmirer]

I am SO with you on Clarence Thomas.

[conuly]

I'm not 100% certain yet that I hate him more than Kavanaugh, but I think we can both agree that it's really shitty that this is the ranking we have to make.

[redbird]

Back in the Seventies, Hunter was good for me and roadnotes, who in later years sometimes referred to it as a place for the academically gifted and socially awkward.

However, I don't know how much that has changed, and "this school was good for me" does not imply anything about the merits or otherwise of that shape of publicly funded selective school.

[silveradept]

That is serious shade being thrown.

I agree with your position on Clarence Thomas as barometer for what is worth being for or against.

[conuly]

Seriously, if he came out against eating babies, I'd question whether or not we've really considered the matter carefully enough.

[silveradept]

Him and Kavanaugh both, as you pointed out above.

[zesty_pinto]

Personally, I don't know if I can judge the validity of someone who couldn't be trusted around Anita Hill and refuses to acknowledge it anyway, so I think I'll accept this impasse.

[conuly]

Indeed.