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| NBC News Laments 'Bitterly Divided' School Board Election After Woke Activists Lose in Landslide | |
| 2021-05-05 | |
The Comcast subsidiary's reporting on the election results is almost comically biased in its framing of the dispute. The election, which saw unusually high turnout compared with similar contests, is described as a showdown between candidates who "supported new diversity and inclusion training requirements" for students and teachers on one side, and "those backed by a political action committee that was formed last year to defeat the plan." The activist-backed proposal, unveiled in 2020, called for mandating cultural sensitivity training from "enrollment to graduation," establishing a "systemic process for consistently tracking and reporting microaggressions and incidents of discrimination," and creating a Director of Equity and Inclusion position with an annual salary of $125,000. The NBC News report described opponents as either "conservative" or "white," while its backers were merely "pro-diversity." The election took place on May 1. Opponents of the plan swept every race on the ballot: two city council seats, two school board seats, and the mayoral race. The smallest margin of victory was 36 percentage points. The decisive result comes at a time when the Democratic Party is facing a backlash for its efforts to promote racially charged policies at every level of politics, while casting its opponents as racists. The local Democratic Party, via its Twitter account, did precisely that a month prior to the election in Southlake, urging voters to reject the "racist candidates" who would go on to win. The tweet was ultimately deleted. | |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #3 Good. Now keep doing it. |
| Posted by: Shiva Protector of the Hohlraums 2021-05-05 13:09 |
| #2 Good - now start on ways to decertify teacher's unions. |
| Posted by: Raj 2021-05-05 09:47 |
| #1 "cultural competence" training in K-12 schools the 3 R's? |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2021-05-05 01:28 |