Even people of color in South Africa admit that life was better under apartheid. Winnie Mandela was a communist terrorist. Now they are deporting foreigners after recent riots. Before South Africa, Rhodesia fell to Mugabe and racialist socialism. Sam Power documented its fall in a piece called “How to Kill a Country” for The Atlantic - quite the combination of author, title, and publication to be admitting the failures of leftist policies they promote to this day: https://yuribezmenov.substack.com/p/how-to-kill-a-country-zimbabwe-mugabe-decolonize
Be comforted with the knowledge that where government has complete and total control of a large population, like prisons, they institutionalize racism, "for their safety" and the safety of guards. Whites, Blacks, Hispanics, Asians, etc are segregated, physically and culturally, with enforcers of each race given perks and privileges for keeping their races to themselves, and preventing massive violence. Race enforcers. Sanctioned by the state. In populations the government has 100% control over.
Now apply that to the open-air prison being built for us with 24/7 monitoring of all-of-society, AI Data Centers being built as information control centers. The reparations push and racialism Rufo describes is just one component of the segregated society being imposed on us all. By the same "anti-racists" who oversee prison populations. Take comfort, friends, in all that safety promised by segregationist public policy.
As a former California prison guard, let me tell you, you are totally wrong. Inmates are segregated based on race because that is what the inmates want. If you put a black inmate in a cell with a white inmate, they will kill each other. The inmates segregate themselves based on race and the gang that they belong to. So the California prison system recognizes the fact that convicts stay with their own kind. Trying to force integration would never work because these gang members are raised in an environment that encourages loyalty to their gang, not to some abstract liberal philosophy of integration.
"Trying to force integration would never work...not...some abstract liberal philosophy of integration."
THAT!
I'm not naive. I challenge notions that government authorities can make abstract liberal philosophies work *anywhere.* Not in prisons where population control is greatest. Not in general population where control is least.
Gang affiliations and other pre-incarceration conditioning just exposes the fallacies of such thinking in stark relief.
"Remember your race." Advice/counsel given from experienced prisoners to newbies who think they can intermingle as they did outside lockup. Without emotion. Period. No debate. It all gets left behind once the door locks behind them.
And this comes to fore in times of scarcity and hardship. Even outside prison walls. When shit hits the fan in civil society the tribalism that utopian liberal philosophies think they've reformed out of human nature disappears. Gang membership or not.
Civil society without racial division is only possible in societies of abundance. Societies of scarcity devolve back to tribal. No matter how much "nudging" and attempts to remake man, human nature the liberal utopians believe otherwise.
If they could they'd try to integrate prisons they control more than anywhere else.
I see Jeff Zekas - if that's his/the bot's real name - has blocked me. Apparently I'm not racist enough for him...all those years he spent enforcing segregation and all. Like Jack Nicholson said, "You can't handle the truth, Jeff!"
Yuri states that most “people of color in South Africa admit that life was better under Apartheid “ Blatantly false . South Africa is a poorly run country with a failed political leadership class. To correct Chris, the ANC took power after 46 years of Apartheid plus 45 years of strict racialist segregation after the enactment of the Native Lands Act Act 1913. Proposition 209 - which precluded the use of racial quotas in College Admissions- has been approved by the California voters-2x. End of Story. The Republicans under the recalcitrant Governor Pete Wilson lost the huge Latino vote for the Republicans - for decades. He turned a purple state to a blue state. Asian-Americans dominate the enrollments of the four elite UC campuses. While non-Hispanic White Californians are clearly a minority population, they are hardly oppressed by anyone. Proposition 209 also outlawed discrimination on the basis of race to include quotas. Those reparations proposals are not going to be implemented anytime soon sort of comparable to the nutty efforts of White Republicans to secede from California (the far northern California coast). I would be very surprised to see Steve Hilton win the governorship.
It has been instructive to listen to the people from South Africa who came to the FIFA World Cup in the US. They are amazed to see women walking the street with purses unafraid. One was looking down an alley between homes in DC and saying you couldn't walk down such an alley in South Africa because you would have your throat cut. Our Christian foundation has saved this country in so many ways, and that despite our flaws we are still the most blessed country of all the world.
The most interesting part about this is that it still won't make a difference. Even if all this is implemented the goal posts will be moved and there will be more grievances. It's a perpetual ax to grind.
An important question! I’ve been documenting The Left’s revolution for a quarter-century. Here is my most recent note (similar to my other status reports). Note the last few paragraphs!
California is tying its own noose with the equity rope — and the legs are already starting to twitch.
This City Journal piece by Rufo and Thorpe lays it out plainly: the Golden State is deliberately importing the post-apartheid South African model of racial redistribution and identity-based governance. What began as “addressing disparities” has metastasized into a whole-of-government racialist project — from Newsom’s Executive Order on equity, to the Ethnic Studies curriculum pushing Marxist “decolonization” and Aztec chants in classrooms, to the massive reparations task force demanding hundreds of billions in race-based payouts.
They’re not even pretending anymore. California Democrats are openly arguing that equal treatment under the law is insufficient. They want different rules, different resources, and different outcomes based explicitly on race. Sound familiar? It’s the same logic that turned South Africa from a functional (if flawed) nation into one plagued by rolling blackouts, rampant corruption, farm seizures, and violent crime.
California was once the land of opportunity that drew people from all over the world with the promise of merit, hard work, and color-blind law. Now the ruling class is systematically replacing that with racial score-settling and grievance. The results are already visible: businesses and productive citizens fleeing in record numbers, failing schools prioritizing ideology over reading and math, skyrocketing costs, and a permanent bureaucracy whose sole mission is to manage racial outcomes rather than deliver results for all citizens.
This isn’t compassion. It’s the same poisonous ideology that wrecked South Africa — just dressed up in California progressive language. Once you make race the central organizing principle of government, you don’t get utopia. You get decline, division, and eventual collapse.
California chose this path. Now they’re hanging on the equity rope they tied themselves. The kicking hasn’t stopped yet, but gravity is doing its work.
As you stated destroying the sometime prosperity of California and implementing all the anti white racist equity laws possible, handing out reparations to every person possible will not change outcomes or afford those minorities any better life. It has zero to do with money or equity.
It's still the land of opportunity, just not for white people. And the people seizing power are more than happy to watch the degradation of their institutions if it means lining their pockets and amassing power.
I think you may have misunderstood what I was saying. I didn’t say anything about white people. My point was that California has become a bad place for everyone — regardless of race.
The policies coming out of Sacramento (skyrocketing taxes, crushing regulations, sanctuary policies that protect criminals over citizens, failing schools, and the deliberate degradation of basic institutions) are hurting working families, small businesses, and law-abiding people across the board. Black, White, Hispanic, Asian — it doesn’t matter. When you destroy the rule of law, gut the middle class with taxes and cost of living, and let crime and homelessness run wild in major cities, everyone pays the price.
The people currently in power seem far more interested in maintaining control and expanding their own influence than in actually governing well. They’ll let institutions rot and communities suffer as long as it serves their political and financial interests. That’s not opportunity. That’s managed decline dressed up as compassion.
California used to be the land of opportunity because it rewarded hard work, protected property rights, and maintained functional institutions. Those days are long gone for most people trying to raise a family or build something here. And it’s not because of any one racial group — it’s because of terrible governance.
How do you square the fact that under this terrible governance, the people being governed still overwhelmingly support the leaders responsible for the decline?
I think the mistake some people on the right make is assuming that the leaders and citizens of these failed states share the same set of standards they do. They don't. The leaders think what they are doing is a resounding success.
That’s actually a fair question, and it gets to the heart of how these systems sustain themselves.
A large portion of the people still voting for the current leadership in California are doing so for very practical reasons:
Many have become dependent on government programs, subsidies, and services that the current regime provides. When your livelihood or benefits are tied to the system, you tend to vote to keep it going.
Decades of demographic change through mass immigration have shifted the voter base. A significant number of new arrivals (and their children) have been brought into the welfare and political system in ways that reward one party’s policies.
The education system and media have done a very effective job shaping how people view these issues. When you control the narrative from a young age, a lot of people never develop the tools to critically examine what’s actually happening to the state.
At the same time, the people who are most harmed by the decline — productive middle-class families, small business owners, and those who still believe in self-reliance — are leaving California in large numbers. That exodus is real. What’s left behind is often a population more dependent on the system or more aligned with the ideology driving the decline.
This isn’t just “bad governance” in the old sense. It’s a form of long-term political and cultural engineering. The people in power have figured out how to maintain control even as the state deteriorates around them. They don’t need everyone to thrive — they just need enough people to remain dependent or ideologically captured to keep winning elections.
So yes, many people are still supporting the leaders responsible for the decline. That’s not proof the governance is working. It’s proof the system has been structured to protect itself, even at the expense of the state’s long-term health.
Has anyone else ever wondered if the Africans the others picked to sell into slavery were the worst people of their societies, and this was a way to get rid of them?
So explain how a truly dysfunctional incompetent like Newsome is a serious candidate for President, or any Democrat for that matter?
Even harder to explain is why the horrific gatekeepers of CNN and the NYT do not devote any of journalistic capacity to exposing this , and other examples, of Democratic dysfunction.
Trump may be venal , chaotic , morally challenged and economically erratic but relative to any Democratic alternative he still is preferable to any rational citizen.
The furtherance of these policies is FULLY supported by the Democrats at the NYTimes. Much like the NPR President who maintained that the Executives weren’t highly skewed in favor of the Democratic Party (which was COMPLETELY ridiculed by Uri Berliner), being a Republican at the NYTimes is as rare as being a Conservative at ANY of the most prestigious universities up East. Being a Republican at ANY of these institutions is an actual re-creation of the Token mentality.
Okay, there are racial disparities. But libs think the cause must be racism. How about single-parent households, bad culture, etc? So, instead of lifting everyone up, they lower everyone down. Including those they claim to help. Just a bunch of stupid, hateful grifters - blaming whitey in their ongoing inability to get redemption, if you ask me. 🤷♂️
They know that. They don't care. They want to destroy the economy and all trust in institutions. So they can have their communist revolution. They are very public about this.
It simply boggles the mind that grown-up Americans in positions of responsibility can push such policies! This will not stop until the insidious criterion of "disparate impact" for violation of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 is rejected, abolished, and consigned to the dustbin of history where it belongs for the offense to reason, morality, and common sense it embodies. Thomas Sowell has never tired of pointing to the myriad reasons that issue in differences between one group and another, among which legion of factors discrimination, intentional or unintentional, is but one. "Disparate impact", on the other hand, replaces that reality with the presumption that any measure on which a so called protected group falls short constitutes a discriminatory violation of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, and is therefore actionable under the law, even when no intent to discriminate exists (hence "systemic racism", etc.). The lie of "disparate impact" is poisoning America, and unless we reject it outright, it may do us in.
I am one of the Californians who is giving up on this once Golden State. I'll be relocating to Tennessee as soon as my house sells. It seems that almost every day I read about another bill, regulation, insane plan, etc., that makes me want to leave. Even if Hilton is elected in November, we still have all the Marxists in the state houses and they can veto anything he does.
We left in 2005 over the utterly dismal scores of our local schools. Our San Jose neighborhood was great. Full of working Latinos, Vietnamese and Japanese people. I miss it. But I am very glad to be out of California!
I applaud you for leaving to benefit your children.
In April,1975 my husband was transferred to Texas. Our daughter was in kindergarden in CA, had learned to read, etc. At that time CA schools were near the top. The class in Texas was like preschool, so a year behind CA. We worked with her at home and when we came back to CA, she was at or above grade level. In the intervening years, it has completely reversed. CA schools are #48 I think!! Besides the low scores, I would not have a child in any CA school due to the indoctrination into LGBTQ and other nonsense. Many kids "graduate" not being proficient in English, math, science, or anything else, including reading above a 4th grade level, but they are confused about their sexuality and they hate their country.
The unavoidable problem was that the majority of the kids in the school didn't speak English at home. I'm totally not saying this is wrong or anything but our English speaking kid would not have been taught anywhere near his language level because all the resources were going to remedial ESL. And I don't blame them at all. I think it's great they are helping the students learn. It just wasn't going to work for our kid.
There was no ESL at all when my husband started school speaking only Low German. He was immersed and learned the language. No one coddled him, or others like him. There are way too many resources spent these days on non-English speaking students, to the detriment of others.
It would have been a fight of one family against the San Jose school district. The issues were systemic in that the neighborhood was mostly non-English speaking and the local school was basically taught in Spanish with ESL classes. Our English speaking kid wouldn't have fared well. I'm not disrespecting the school as they were doing as well as they could given the demographics of their students.
100% of these policies fail. Even more importantly, they ignore the modern roots of the problem: poor public schools, teachers who don’t teach the basics, and parents who don’t demand that their children be taught and that their own children learn. If we had done all that back in the sixties, we wouldn’t have these disparities. Just look at what those groups who are successful do (despite often massive discrimination) and copy their playbook. It works. It’s never too late to start.
“California’s racialist revolutionaries seem incapable of grasping a simple truth: all these heavy-handed policies will not work. No matter how much wealth is seized, no matter how much government spending is redirected to favored racial groups, outcomes in the real world will never look the same as a Census table.”
The correct “simple truth” is that spending money and redistributing wealth are the twin purposes. They are not the means of actually achieving “equity.” Indeed, the worst outcome would be actually achieving equity, for that would undermine the alleged justifications for these policies.
Well, first people voted by LEAVING the State and taking THEIR MONEY with them. Then the State pivoted and upped the ante by making Taxation retroactive to these exits. And now the State is CONSTRUCTING a mechanism to PREVENT the wealthy from leaving OR moving their wealth elsewhere. The INEVITABLE result will be highly increased tension between the millionaire/billionaire Class and the State. And, eventually, this will be litigated and defeated in the Supreme Court. California’s rapacious Legislature will be corralled and Red States will continue to be the beneficiaries of capital flight.
Even people of color in South Africa admit that life was better under apartheid. Winnie Mandela was a communist terrorist. Now they are deporting foreigners after recent riots. Before South Africa, Rhodesia fell to Mugabe and racialist socialism. Sam Power documented its fall in a piece called “How to Kill a Country” for The Atlantic - quite the combination of author, title, and publication to be admitting the failures of leftist policies they promote to this day: https://yuribezmenov.substack.com/p/how-to-kill-a-country-zimbabwe-mugabe-decolonize
California is lost.
Be comforted with the knowledge that where government has complete and total control of a large population, like prisons, they institutionalize racism, "for their safety" and the safety of guards. Whites, Blacks, Hispanics, Asians, etc are segregated, physically and culturally, with enforcers of each race given perks and privileges for keeping their races to themselves, and preventing massive violence. Race enforcers. Sanctioned by the state. In populations the government has 100% control over.
Now apply that to the open-air prison being built for us with 24/7 monitoring of all-of-society, AI Data Centers being built as information control centers. The reparations push and racialism Rufo describes is just one component of the segregated society being imposed on us all. By the same "anti-racists" who oversee prison populations. Take comfort, friends, in all that safety promised by segregationist public policy.
As a former California prison guard, let me tell you, you are totally wrong. Inmates are segregated based on race because that is what the inmates want. If you put a black inmate in a cell with a white inmate, they will kill each other. The inmates segregate themselves based on race and the gang that they belong to. So the California prison system recognizes the fact that convicts stay with their own kind. Trying to force integration would never work because these gang members are raised in an environment that encourages loyalty to their gang, not to some abstract liberal philosophy of integration.
"Trying to force integration would never work...not...some abstract liberal philosophy of integration."
THAT!
I'm not naive. I challenge notions that government authorities can make abstract liberal philosophies work *anywhere.* Not in prisons where population control is greatest. Not in general population where control is least.
Gang affiliations and other pre-incarceration conditioning just exposes the fallacies of such thinking in stark relief.
"Remember your race." Advice/counsel given from experienced prisoners to newbies who think they can intermingle as they did outside lockup. Without emotion. Period. No debate. It all gets left behind once the door locks behind them.
And this comes to fore in times of scarcity and hardship. Even outside prison walls. When shit hits the fan in civil society the tribalism that utopian liberal philosophies think they've reformed out of human nature disappears. Gang membership or not.
Civil society without racial division is only possible in societies of abundance. Societies of scarcity devolve back to tribal. No matter how much "nudging" and attempts to remake man, human nature the liberal utopians believe otherwise.
If they could they'd try to integrate prisons they control more than anywhere else.
I see Jeff Zekas - if that's his/the bot's real name - has blocked me. Apparently I'm not racist enough for him...all those years he spent enforcing segregation and all. Like Jack Nicholson said, "You can't handle the truth, Jeff!"
Also When the Crocodile eats the Sun by Godwin. Zimbabwe.
Yuri states that most “people of color in South Africa admit that life was better under Apartheid “ Blatantly false . South Africa is a poorly run country with a failed political leadership class. To correct Chris, the ANC took power after 46 years of Apartheid plus 45 years of strict racialist segregation after the enactment of the Native Lands Act Act 1913. Proposition 209 - which precluded the use of racial quotas in College Admissions- has been approved by the California voters-2x. End of Story. The Republicans under the recalcitrant Governor Pete Wilson lost the huge Latino vote for the Republicans - for decades. He turned a purple state to a blue state. Asian-Americans dominate the enrollments of the four elite UC campuses. While non-Hispanic White Californians are clearly a minority population, they are hardly oppressed by anyone. Proposition 209 also outlawed discrimination on the basis of race to include quotas. Those reparations proposals are not going to be implemented anytime soon sort of comparable to the nutty efforts of White Republicans to secede from California (the far northern California coast). I would be very surprised to see Steve Hilton win the governorship.
Pete Wilson did not turn California into a blue state, rather, giving amnesty to millions of illegal aliens is what flipped California.
You either never lived in California or you worked in a California Correctional Facility and you didn’t get outside of your institution much.
White Supremacy and the DSA Walk Hand in Hand. --- https://torrancestephensphd.substack.com/p/white-supremacy-and-the-dsa-walk
It has been instructive to listen to the people from South Africa who came to the FIFA World Cup in the US. They are amazed to see women walking the street with purses unafraid. One was looking down an alley between homes in DC and saying you couldn't walk down such an alley in South Africa because you would have your throat cut. Our Christian foundation has saved this country in so many ways, and that despite our flaws we are still the most blessed country of all the world.
We need to give all the persecuted people of South Africa asylum. They know how to be productive residents, unlike many.
The most interesting part about this is that it still won't make a difference. Even if all this is implemented the goal posts will be moved and there will be more grievances. It's a perpetual ax to grind.
It's perpetual because it is a money printer.
1/ How odd that belief “it cannot happen here” is no defense.
2/ These policies are spreading across America.
3/ Even as we see these policies inevitable destructive effects, the Left faces little organized opposition.
Heading to Civil War 2.0?
An important question! I’ve been documenting The Left’s revolution for a quarter-century. Here is my most recent note (similar to my other status reports). Note the last few paragraphs!
https://editorfmwebsite.substack.com/p/is-minneapolis-the-start-of-a-civil
California is tying its own noose with the equity rope — and the legs are already starting to twitch.
This City Journal piece by Rufo and Thorpe lays it out plainly: the Golden State is deliberately importing the post-apartheid South African model of racial redistribution and identity-based governance. What began as “addressing disparities” has metastasized into a whole-of-government racialist project — from Newsom’s Executive Order on equity, to the Ethnic Studies curriculum pushing Marxist “decolonization” and Aztec chants in classrooms, to the massive reparations task force demanding hundreds of billions in race-based payouts.
They’re not even pretending anymore. California Democrats are openly arguing that equal treatment under the law is insufficient. They want different rules, different resources, and different outcomes based explicitly on race. Sound familiar? It’s the same logic that turned South Africa from a functional (if flawed) nation into one plagued by rolling blackouts, rampant corruption, farm seizures, and violent crime.
California was once the land of opportunity that drew people from all over the world with the promise of merit, hard work, and color-blind law. Now the ruling class is systematically replacing that with racial score-settling and grievance. The results are already visible: businesses and productive citizens fleeing in record numbers, failing schools prioritizing ideology over reading and math, skyrocketing costs, and a permanent bureaucracy whose sole mission is to manage racial outcomes rather than deliver results for all citizens.
This isn’t compassion. It’s the same poisonous ideology that wrecked South Africa — just dressed up in California progressive language. Once you make race the central organizing principle of government, you don’t get utopia. You get decline, division, and eventual collapse.
California chose this path. Now they’re hanging on the equity rope they tied themselves. The kicking hasn’t stopped yet, but gravity is doing its work.
Semper Fi
As you stated destroying the sometime prosperity of California and implementing all the anti white racist equity laws possible, handing out reparations to every person possible will not change outcomes or afford those minorities any better life. It has zero to do with money or equity.
Semper Fi, exactly Ma'am!!!
It's still the land of opportunity, just not for white people. And the people seizing power are more than happy to watch the degradation of their institutions if it means lining their pockets and amassing power.
Brad,
I think you may have misunderstood what I was saying. I didn’t say anything about white people. My point was that California has become a bad place for everyone — regardless of race.
The policies coming out of Sacramento (skyrocketing taxes, crushing regulations, sanctuary policies that protect criminals over citizens, failing schools, and the deliberate degradation of basic institutions) are hurting working families, small businesses, and law-abiding people across the board. Black, White, Hispanic, Asian — it doesn’t matter. When you destroy the rule of law, gut the middle class with taxes and cost of living, and let crime and homelessness run wild in major cities, everyone pays the price.
The people currently in power seem far more interested in maintaining control and expanding their own influence than in actually governing well. They’ll let institutions rot and communities suffer as long as it serves their political and financial interests. That’s not opportunity. That’s managed decline dressed up as compassion.
California used to be the land of opportunity because it rewarded hard work, protected property rights, and maintained functional institutions. Those days are long gone for most people trying to raise a family or build something here. And it’s not because of any one racial group — it’s because of terrible governance.
Semper Fi
How do you square the fact that under this terrible governance, the people being governed still overwhelmingly support the leaders responsible for the decline?
I think the mistake some people on the right make is assuming that the leaders and citizens of these failed states share the same set of standards they do. They don't. The leaders think what they are doing is a resounding success.
Brad,
That’s actually a fair question, and it gets to the heart of how these systems sustain themselves.
A large portion of the people still voting for the current leadership in California are doing so for very practical reasons:
Many have become dependent on government programs, subsidies, and services that the current regime provides. When your livelihood or benefits are tied to the system, you tend to vote to keep it going.
Decades of demographic change through mass immigration have shifted the voter base. A significant number of new arrivals (and their children) have been brought into the welfare and political system in ways that reward one party’s policies.
The education system and media have done a very effective job shaping how people view these issues. When you control the narrative from a young age, a lot of people never develop the tools to critically examine what’s actually happening to the state.
At the same time, the people who are most harmed by the decline — productive middle-class families, small business owners, and those who still believe in self-reliance — are leaving California in large numbers. That exodus is real. What’s left behind is often a population more dependent on the system or more aligned with the ideology driving the decline.
This isn’t just “bad governance” in the old sense. It’s a form of long-term political and cultural engineering. The people in power have figured out how to maintain control even as the state deteriorates around them. They don’t need everyone to thrive — they just need enough people to remain dependent or ideologically captured to keep winning elections.
So yes, many people are still supporting the leaders responsible for the decline. That’s not proof the governance is working. It’s proof the system has been structured to protect itself, even at the expense of the state’s long-term health.
Semper Fi
I totally agree. Let's just hope the exodus is extreme enough that they lose electoral power.
If we got the "mass deportations" that we were promised, this problem would take care of itself overnight.
Amen Brother
Can you give Steve Hilton the tools to hammer this message home during his gubernatorial campaign? People need to be aware of this.
Go Steve!
I felt sick reading this
If any reparations are due they should be paid by the African people that sold other Africans to the slave traders.
Has anyone else ever wondered if the Africans the others picked to sell into slavery were the worst people of their societies, and this was a way to get rid of them?
So explain how a truly dysfunctional incompetent like Newsome is a serious candidate for President, or any Democrat for that matter?
Even harder to explain is why the horrific gatekeepers of CNN and the NYT do not devote any of journalistic capacity to exposing this , and other examples, of Democratic dysfunction.
Trump may be venal , chaotic , morally challenged and economically erratic but relative to any Democratic alternative he still is preferable to any rational citizen.
The furtherance of these policies is FULLY supported by the Democrats at the NYTimes. Much like the NPR President who maintained that the Executives weren’t highly skewed in favor of the Democratic Party (which was COMPLETELY ridiculed by Uri Berliner), being a Republican at the NYTimes is as rare as being a Conservative at ANY of the most prestigious universities up East. Being a Republican at ANY of these institutions is an actual re-creation of the Token mentality.
Look up Repressive Tolerance, an essay by Herbert Marcuse, if you want to understand why.
California is a stinking mess and Newsom is a greaseball, dishonest egomaniac. When will Cali voters wise up?
“Not a journalist.”
But see, if you were a Hamas terrorist working for Al Jizzbaga, they would have responded
Okay, there are racial disparities. But libs think the cause must be racism. How about single-parent households, bad culture, etc? So, instead of lifting everyone up, they lower everyone down. Including those they claim to help. Just a bunch of stupid, hateful grifters - blaming whitey in their ongoing inability to get redemption, if you ask me. 🤷♂️
They know that. They don't care. They want to destroy the economy and all trust in institutions. So they can have their communist revolution. They are very public about this.
Yes, that is the playbook of their "educated" leadership. I guess I was referring to their useful-idiots.
It simply boggles the mind that grown-up Americans in positions of responsibility can push such policies! This will not stop until the insidious criterion of "disparate impact" for violation of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 is rejected, abolished, and consigned to the dustbin of history where it belongs for the offense to reason, morality, and common sense it embodies. Thomas Sowell has never tired of pointing to the myriad reasons that issue in differences between one group and another, among which legion of factors discrimination, intentional or unintentional, is but one. "Disparate impact", on the other hand, replaces that reality with the presumption that any measure on which a so called protected group falls short constitutes a discriminatory violation of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, and is therefore actionable under the law, even when no intent to discriminate exists (hence "systemic racism", etc.). The lie of "disparate impact" is poisoning America, and unless we reject it outright, it may do us in.
I am one of the Californians who is giving up on this once Golden State. I'll be relocating to Tennessee as soon as my house sells. It seems that almost every day I read about another bill, regulation, insane plan, etc., that makes me want to leave. Even if Hilton is elected in November, we still have all the Marxists in the state houses and they can veto anything he does.
We left in 2005 over the utterly dismal scores of our local schools. Our San Jose neighborhood was great. Full of working Latinos, Vietnamese and Japanese people. I miss it. But I am very glad to be out of California!
I applaud you for leaving to benefit your children.
In April,1975 my husband was transferred to Texas. Our daughter was in kindergarden in CA, had learned to read, etc. At that time CA schools were near the top. The class in Texas was like preschool, so a year behind CA. We worked with her at home and when we came back to CA, she was at or above grade level. In the intervening years, it has completely reversed. CA schools are #48 I think!! Besides the low scores, I would not have a child in any CA school due to the indoctrination into LGBTQ and other nonsense. Many kids "graduate" not being proficient in English, math, science, or anything else, including reading above a 4th grade level, but they are confused about their sexuality and they hate their country.
The unavoidable problem was that the majority of the kids in the school didn't speak English at home. I'm totally not saying this is wrong or anything but our English speaking kid would not have been taught anywhere near his language level because all the resources were going to remedial ESL. And I don't blame them at all. I think it's great they are helping the students learn. It just wasn't going to work for our kid.
There was no ESL at all when my husband started school speaking only Low German. He was immersed and learned the language. No one coddled him, or others like him. There are way too many resources spent these days on non-English speaking students, to the detriment of others.
Stay and fight.
I've tried that for several years and things have only gotten worse!
It would have been a fight of one family against the San Jose school district. The issues were systemic in that the neighborhood was mostly non-English speaking and the local school was basically taught in Spanish with ESL classes. Our English speaking kid wouldn't have fared well. I'm not disrespecting the school as they were doing as well as they could given the demographics of their students.
100% of these policies fail. Even more importantly, they ignore the modern roots of the problem: poor public schools, teachers who don’t teach the basics, and parents who don’t demand that their children be taught and that their own children learn. If we had done all that back in the sixties, we wouldn’t have these disparities. Just look at what those groups who are successful do (despite often massive discrimination) and copy their playbook. It works. It’s never too late to start.
Your conclusion is readily falsifiable:
“California’s racialist revolutionaries seem incapable of grasping a simple truth: all these heavy-handed policies will not work. No matter how much wealth is seized, no matter how much government spending is redirected to favored racial groups, outcomes in the real world will never look the same as a Census table.”
The correct “simple truth” is that spending money and redistributing wealth are the twin purposes. They are not the means of actually achieving “equity.” Indeed, the worst outcome would be actually achieving equity, for that would undermine the alleged justifications for these policies.
Achieving equity would also derail the free taxpayer money train.
Well, first people voted by LEAVING the State and taking THEIR MONEY with them. Then the State pivoted and upped the ante by making Taxation retroactive to these exits. And now the State is CONSTRUCTING a mechanism to PREVENT the wealthy from leaving OR moving their wealth elsewhere. The INEVITABLE result will be highly increased tension between the millionaire/billionaire Class and the State. And, eventually, this will be litigated and defeated in the Supreme Court. California’s rapacious Legislature will be corralled and Red States will continue to be the beneficiaries of capital flight.