"Lay off the white folks first."
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Minneapolis teachers' union negotiates clause requiring WHITE educators to be laid off first regardless of seniority to make up for 'past discriminations'.
A new contract between public schools and the teachers' union in the city of Minneapolis is causing outrage because it may see white teachers laid off at the expense of teachers of color.
The stipulation is part of a new agreement starting in spring 2023 between the Minneapolis Federation of Teachers and Minneapolis Public Schools ending a two-week long teachers' strike.
Part of the agreement was an attempt to re-format how the school district hires and keeps teachers of color.
The new contract says that, while teachers subject to layoffs or relocations will typically be done based off seniority, they may go outside the order to avoid doing that to a teacher who is 'a member of a population underrepresented'.
This prioritizing may also apply to bring back teachers who were laid off should re-hires occur.
Teachers' unions typically support the Democratic Party, with Minnesota Federation of Teachers President Greta Callahan having posed for a photo with progressive Rep. Ilhan Omar, along with fellow squad members Rashida Tliab, Ayanna Pressley and Cori Bush while supporting Omar's nearly ill-fated primary bid last week.
@George-K said in "Lay off the white folks first.":
Minneapolis teachers' union negotiates clause requiring WHITE educators to be laid off first regardless of seniority to make up for 'past discriminations'.
A new contract between public schools and the teachers' union in the city of Minneapolis is causing outrage because it may see white teachers laid off at the expense of teachers of color.
The stipulation is part of a new agreement starting in spring 2023 between the Minneapolis Federation of Teachers and Minneapolis Public Schools ending a two-week long teachers' strike.
Part of the agreement was an attempt to re-format how the school district hires and keeps teachers of color.
The new contract says that, while teachers subject to layoffs or relocations will typically be done based off seniority, they may go outside the order to avoid doing that to a teacher who is 'a member of a population underrepresented'.
This prioritizing may also apply to bring back teachers who were laid off should re-hires occur.
Teachers' unions typically support the Democratic Party, with Minnesota Federation of Teachers President Greta Callahan having posed for a photo with progressive Rep. Ilhan Omar, along with fellow squad members Rashida Tliab, Ayanna Pressley and Cori Bush while supporting Omar's nearly ill-fated primary bid last week.
Isn't that basically illegal?
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@George-K said in "Lay off the white folks first.":
Minneapolis teachers' union negotiates clause requiring WHITE educators to be laid off first regardless of seniority to make up for 'past discriminations'.
A new contract between public schools and the teachers' union in the city of Minneapolis is causing outrage because it may see white teachers laid off at the expense of teachers of color.
The stipulation is part of a new agreement starting in spring 2023 between the Minneapolis Federation of Teachers and Minneapolis Public Schools ending a two-week long teachers' strike.
Part of the agreement was an attempt to re-format how the school district hires and keeps teachers of color.
The new contract says that, while teachers subject to layoffs or relocations will typically be done based off seniority, they may go outside the order to avoid doing that to a teacher who is 'a member of a population underrepresented'.
This prioritizing may also apply to bring back teachers who were laid off should re-hires occur.
Teachers' unions typically support the Democratic Party, with Minnesota Federation of Teachers President Greta Callahan having posed for a photo with progressive Rep. Ilhan Omar, along with fellow squad members Rashida Tliab, Ayanna Pressley and Cori Bush while supporting Omar's nearly ill-fated primary bid last week.
Isn't that basically illegal?
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"The new contract also calls for the development of 'anti-bias anti-racist' staff advisory councils.
They are supposed to focus, according to the contract, on: 'reducing inequitable practices and behaviors in our learning places and spaces as well as supporting educators, specifically educators of color, in navigating and disrupting our district as a predominantly white institution'."
Navigating and disrupting.
And:
"Some conservative activists were outrage, including public school reform activist Christopher Rufo.
"He tweeted: 'This is the inevitable endpoint of 'equity''.
"Terrell, a civil rights attorney who is black, said: 'It's racist. It's discriminatory, it's illegal. It should be invalidated immediately. I read what the union says. They said they want students to have teachers that look like them. Wrong. The students need teachers who will educate them. Educate. Not what they look like!'"
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I fail to see a significant difference between this and Affirmative Action in hiring or admissions policies…
Both are wrong, of course…
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Yeah this is a pretty big topic lately on the Minneapolis subreddit. It seems many black teachers are equally outraged by this, as it undercuts their own merit.
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Yeah this is a pretty big topic lately on the Minneapolis subreddit. It seems many black teachers are equally outraged by this, as it undercuts their own merit.
@89th said in "Lay off the white folks first.":
It seems many black teachers are equally outraged by this, as it undercuts their own merit.
Very good to hear. Also much more in keeping with the expectedness and commonsense of human nature.
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Yeah this is a pretty big topic lately on the Minneapolis subreddit. It seems many black teachers are equally outraged by this, as it undercuts their own merit.
@89th said in "Lay off the white folks first.":
It seems many black teachers are equally outraged by this, as it undercuts their own merit.
Obviously they can't make it on their own merit.
Isn't that the message?
There is no free lunch, if you want points for your skin color, you have to take the lack of merit recognition.
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@89th said in "Lay off the white folks first.":
It seems many black teachers are equally outraged by this, as it undercuts their own merit.
Obviously they can't make it on their own merit.
Isn't that the message?
There is no free lunch, if you want points for your skin color, you have to take the lack of merit recognition.
@Copper said in "Lay off the white folks first.":
Obviously they can't make it on their own merit.
Isn't that the message?Since this is one of those times when I can't tell if you're being serious or sarky, Ima treat it as serious.
What you say is a complaint of many blacks, that in fact the 'help' liberals seek to offer is anything but.
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@Copper said in "Lay off the white folks first.":
Obviously they can't make it on their own merit.
Isn't that the message?Since this is one of those times when I can't tell if you're being serious or sarky, Ima treat it as serious.
What you say is a complaint of many blacks, that in fact the 'help' liberals seek to offer is anything but.
@Catseye3 said in "Lay off the white folks first.":
@Copper said in "Lay off the white folks first.":
Obviously they can't make it on their own merit.
Isn't that the message?Since this is one of those times when I can't tell if you're being serious or sarky, Ima treat it as serious.
What you say is a complaint of many blacks, that in fact the 'help' liberals seek to offer is anything but.
Wokeness is very popular amongst high status whites. Which makes sense, since they are the creators of the ideology.
Less popular amongst minorities, but anecdotally it is difficult to hear them, as they are squelched by media controlled by those very same high status white people.
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Ever notice, the high-status whites are never the ones who lose their jobs over this shit?
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@Jolly said in "Lay off the white folks first.":
Ever notice, the high-status whites are never the ones who lose their jobs over this shit?
And they're probably the ones participating in the college admissions scandals, when their tennis coach knows a guy who knows a guy who can get the mediocrity of their loins into Harvard.
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I actually welcome cases like this so that Scotus can remind everyone that the amendment that forbids racial discrimination means what it says.
@jon-nyc said in "Lay off the white folks first.":
I actually welcome cases like this so that Scotus can remind everyone that the amendment that forbids racial discrimination means what it says.
How do you suppose the leftward members of the current court would decide, in a case like this?
Education is extremely important.
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@jon-nyc said in "Lay off the white folks first.":
It’s a mysterie
Yeah. But I suppose the value of conservative politics is so ubiquitous that it can be taken for granted, as it’s shat upon for the ugly ways in which it sometimes has to be manifested.
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@jon-nyc said in "Lay off the white folks first.":
I actually welcome cases like this so that Scotus can remind everyone that the amendment that forbids racial discrimination means what it says.
How do you suppose the leftward members of the current court would decide, in a case like this?
@Horace said in "Lay off the white folks first.":
@jon-nyc said in "Lay off the white folks first.":
I actually welcome cases like this so that Scotus can remind everyone that the amendment that forbids racial discrimination means what it says.
How do you suppose the leftward members of the current court would decide, in a case like this?
I don't see that they have a choice. How could you possibly defend this on any constitutional baasis?
“I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.” ~Winston S. Churchill
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@Horace said in "Lay off the white folks first.":
@jon-nyc said in "Lay off the white folks first.":
I actually welcome cases like this so that Scotus can remind everyone that the amendment that forbids racial discrimination means what it says.
How do you suppose the leftward members of the current court would decide, in a case like this?
I don't see that they have a choice. How could you possibly defend this on any constitutional baasis?
@Mik said in "Lay off the white folks first.":
@Horace said in "Lay off the white folks first.":
@jon-nyc said in "Lay off the white folks first.":
I actually welcome cases like this so that Scotus can remind everyone that the amendment that forbids racial discrimination means what it says.
How do you suppose the leftward members of the current court would decide, in a case like this?
I don't see that they have a choice. How could you possibly defend this on any constitutional baasis?
If an issue is blatantly and transparently unconstitutional, how does it get to the supreme court? Any discussion of how the supreme court might decide, includes the assumption that the issue is sufficiently ambiguous to get there. Ask jon why he thinks this issue could ever make it to the supreme court. I suspect the answer will be that it has enough cultural valence. And that same valence will color the decisions of the justices. They are, after all, chosen for their cultural reliability. Adherence to the constitution is a nice thing to talk about having, but the left expects that to be negotiable in the privacy of chambers.
Education is extremely important.
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@Mik said in "Lay off the white folks first.":
@Horace said in "Lay off the white folks first.":
@jon-nyc said in "Lay off the white folks first.":
I actually welcome cases like this so that Scotus can remind everyone that the amendment that forbids racial discrimination means what it says.
How do you suppose the leftward members of the current court would decide, in a case like this?
I don't see that they have a choice. How could you possibly defend this on any constitutional baasis?
If an issue is blatantly and transparently unconstitutional, how does it get to the supreme court? Any discussion of how the supreme court might decide, includes the assumption that the issue is sufficiently ambiguous to get there. Ask jon why he thinks this issue could ever make it to the supreme court. I suspect the answer will be that it has enough cultural valence. And that same valence will color the decisions of the justices. They are, after all, chosen for their cultural reliability. Adherence to the constitution is a nice thing to talk about having, but the left expects that to be negotiable in the privacy of chambers.
