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The annals of crazy liberals

San Francisco School Board Member: Many Asians Use ‘White Supremacist Thinking’ To ‘Get Ahead’

“…You may remember the Vice President of the San Francisco school board, Alison Collins. In addition to being firmly committed to the board’s school renaming nonsense, Collins is the person who last October said, “When we talk about merit, meritocracy and especially meritocracy based on standardized testing. I’m just going to say it, in this day and age we cannot mince words. Those are racist systems.” Around the same time she also wrote on her blog, “Being a ‘model-minority’ is not something to covet or celebrate.”

The context here is important. The SF school board temporarily shut down competitive admissions at Lowell High School, which is widely admired as the city’s best high school. One result of competitive admission at Lowell has been an overrepresentation of Asian students. Asian students make up 29% of the school district but they were 51% of the student body at Lowell.

That clearly bothered Collins and other members of the school board. In February, the school board fast tracked a vote to permanently end competitive admissions at Lowell to address the lack of diversity at the school. That move created a backlash from some parents who felt they were having an outstanding school taken away from them because of the board’s woke ideology. Those parents started a campaign called Recall SF School Board seeking to remove three of the five board members who voted to get rid of competitive admissions at Lowell, including Collins.

Yesterday Recall SF School Board said it had discovered a bunch of old tweets (from 2016) by Collins which show anti-Asian bias. Here’s a sampling:

Doug Santo