'SF Progressives' accuses Mother Jones editor Clara Jeffery of ~checks notes~ defending white supremacy over her article on the school board recall

Greg P. | 12:54 PM on February 17, 2022

And there it is. . .

Progressives in San Francisco are trying to blame the recall of three uber-woke school board members on white supremacy:

of course we knew it already, but white supremacy is alive & very well in San Francisco

— SF Progressives (@SFProgressives) February 16, 2022

We knew they’d eventually call the Asian American parents behind the recall white supremacists, we just didn’t know it would happen so fast:

Asian Americans proved to be a critical voting bloc this week as San Francisco overwhelmingly voted to remove three school board members through a recall effort largely driven by Asian American parents.https://t.co/2hXoym6MBQ

— Axios (@axios) February 16, 2022

They doubled down on the claim, too:

the recalls were pushed for & funded by white supremacists & the vast majority of San Franciscans didn't vote

-> BIPOC progressives on the SF school board removed from office because they pushed too hard for racial justice

that's white supremacy in action

— SF Progressives (@SFProgressives) February 16, 2022

But they also want you to believe that Mother Joens editor Clara Jeffery is defending white supremacy as well:

https://twitter.com/SFProgressives/status/1494330805878853637

Ousted school board member Gabriela López retweeted that take which shows you just how unserious these people are:

As for Jeffery’s article on what happened in her hometown, it’s actually a pretty good take. Thread ==>

1/Hey, I wrote about the San Francisco school board recall. tl;dr it's a lot more complicated, and more local, than a lot of the takes floating around would imply: https://t.co/UhhZgwhkkR

— Clara Jeffery (@ClaraJeffery) February 16, 2022

4/ So people keep DMing me, what does this mean for Chesa? I can't predict the future. Every politician left/right/center is going to face anti-incumbent anger. People are scared, exhausted, pissed and fair or not, that attaches to people in power. BUT

— Clara Jeffery (@ClaraJeffery) February 17, 2022

5/ A very unique constituency came together to oust BoE members. One that doesn't graft on to the effort to recall him.

More broadly, it sucks that newly elected progressive DAs are having their approach tested against the pandemic. Just on a data comparison front.

— Clara Jeffery (@ClaraJeffery) February 17, 2022

6/ But you know who else is up for election in the fall? Half of the @sfbos. The city is livid about housing and homelessness. People who didn't pay much attention to such issues before are *in it* now. https://t.co/UhhZgwhkkR pic.twitter.com/v8AIvY8S4V

— Clara Jeffery (@ClaraJeffery) February 17, 2022

7/ …And the @sfbos habit of letting perfect be the enemy of the good—like vote to require developments be 100% affordable, when they know damn well this means it won't get built—is pretending to be progressive, but really doing favors for rich NIMBYites.

— Clara Jeffery (@ClaraJeffery) February 17, 2022

8/ They've gotten away with this two-step for decades. But people are catching on to it. Will any of them be ousted? (Alas, some of the worst offenders not up for reelection this year.) Dunno, largely depends on who steps up to challenge. https://t.co/aJgdwVt0yf

— Clara Jeffery (@ClaraJeffery) February 17, 2022

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