This past Tuesday, San Francisco voters recalled three hardcore progressive school board members.
One of them was Gabriela López. Only a few days earlier, López had announced her acceptance into Stanford’s Graduate School of Education for their PhD program in Race, Inequality, and Language in Education:
Working through tears of joy off of this news💞 – I have been accepted to the PhD program in Race, Inequality and Language in Education in the @Stanford Graduate School of Education!
— gabriela lópez is always for public schools 🇲🇽 (@lopez4schools) February 12, 2022
Poor Gabriela probably just assumed that made her an even more essential member of the school board. It didn’t work out that way, of course, and now, she’s working through her anger very publicly on Twitter:
So if you fight for racial justice, this is the consequence. Don’t be mistaken, white supremacists are enjoying this. And the support of the recall is aligned with this. pic.twitter.com/HsYtQjvVeh
— gabriela lópez is always for public schools 🇲🇽 (@lopez4schools) February 17, 2022
This headline says it all. If you are not outraged, you’re not paying attention.
— gabriela lópez is always for public schools 🇲🇽 (@lopez4schools) February 17, 2022
We went ahead and grabbed a screenshot of that first one, because you never know:
If we’re being honest, though, we don’t expect López to delete either of her tweets. She doesn’t seem like the shame-having type.
Probably because she’s not the shame-having type.
Tweet from one of the SF school board members who was recalled. The “yes” vote for recall was racially diverse, including hundreds of non-citizen immigrants who were eligible to participate—the “white supremacist” charge just didn’t convince anyone. pic.twitter.com/ckB8TRKGa5
— David Weigel (@daveweigel) February 17, 2022
Suggesting that Asians weren’t committed to racial justice was one of the gaffes that motivated the recall; Allison Collins never recovered, despite apologizing, from these tweets. https://t.co/9Zu2NrNzQf pic.twitter.com/aK3C8OQIPX
— David Weigel (@daveweigel) February 17, 2022
Sad!
https://twitter.com/_dmart_/status/1494366620403355654
Real mystery, that.
Itd be a shame if the school board focused on, oh idk, education?
— Hahooen (@hahooen) February 17, 2022
why wouldn’t we instead want to teach our kids important skills? Maybe financial literacy? How to purchase a home? How not to end up in debt? How to cook a meal?! I’m a POC and racial justice just isn’t a priority.
— J Sanchez (@GOPLatinoPDX) February 17, 2022
No, you’re a white supremacist. Gabriela said so.
Your tweet reflects a major lack of awareness. Over *70%* of the voters chose yes on the recall, in a city already extremely diverse. 70%. They can't have all been mass-duped. Isolating and labeling these people as bigots or enemies of racial justice won't help you out.
— Tom Morris (@tominbmore) February 17, 2022
Forget it; she’s rolling.
You're doing great. https://t.co/4MWuA1nzMv
— Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) February 17, 2022
The greatest.
https://twitter.com/WieleBC/status/1494345734438621186
lol
— Stop it. (@Satoshiisonfir1) February 17, 2022
"racial justice" lol
— jimtreacher.substack.com (@jtLOL) February 17, 2022
— Bree (@Bree000007) February 17, 2022
Evidently Gabriela López feels that the best way to fight back against the “white supremacists” is to lean even harder into the racebaiting. It’s certainly a bold strategy, we’ll give her that much.
https://twitter.com/MenAreWomenNow/status/1494351040388423684