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-Great Cultural Revolution
AFT's Weingarten smears Jews as 'ownership class' as Texas reopens
2021-04-07
[FreeBeacon] Union leader Randi Weingarten criticized Jews as "part of the ownership class" dedicated to denying opportunities to others in an interview released on Friday.

Weingarten—who is herself Jewish and draws a six-figure salary as head of the American Federation of Teachers (AFT)—took aim at American Jews in an interview with the Jerusalem Post. When asked about parents critical of the AFT's resistance to school reopening, Weingarten took aim squarely at Jewish critics.

"American Jews are now part of the ownership class," Weingarten said. "Jews were immigrants from somewhere else. And they needed the right to have public education. And they needed power to have enough income and wealth for their families that they could put their kids through college and their kids could do better than they have done."
Deflection. That has nothing to do with reopening schools, though it sounds like standard communist cant.
"What I hear when I hear that question is that those who are in the ownership class now want to take that ladder of opportunity away from those who do not have it," she said.
Wouldn’t reopening schools help the children of those who are not yet on that ladder most? Ownership class types can afford private schools and tutors, and know enough to take on the work themselves, if needed.
Weingarten's comments come after months of political conflict about whether to reopen school system as vaccinations ramp up and the coronavirus crisis recedes.

A major Jewish advocacy group ripped Weingarten for being "inaccurate and dangerous" in her generalizations about the Jewish community. StandWithUs, a pro-Israel advocacy organization, said the union boss was "out of touch" with the experience of Jewish students and came close to trafficking in anti-Semitism.
She repeated the most common anti-Semitic slander that is out there. The left is so damn racist it isn't even funny
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Posted by:DarthVader

#4  This is an open display of sedition. The people manifested in the government are above any union. What public employee unions have become is a separate power of equal or greater standing replacing government. You have the right of free assembly, association and petition. You do not have the right to dictate to the population. Work or find other employment.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2021-04-07 15:46  

#3  Complete incoherence now
So...

Public schools are good -- because equal opportunity, Republicans-are-evil etc

But the teachers union pressuring Democrat governors and mayors to close public schools while private schools open and homeschoolers continue to move forward and succeed? That's this too is good, because... er Trump, or white privileged, or something
Posted by: Thusoting Schwarzeneggar9907   2021-04-07 11:32  

#2  The world would be a better place if Jews would quit hating Jews.
Posted by: Xyz   2021-04-07 09:09  

#1  Every race has their self haters.
Posted by: Blackbeard Barnsmell6454   2021-04-07 09:09  

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