https://twitter.com/RobProvince/status/859105963843964932
Last summer, Slate published a piece on a school integration fight raging in New York City:
The Upper West Side is another place where the “rights” of rich parents are being pitted against the reality of the neighborhood’s demographics. The current battleground is the sought-after P.S. 452 on West 77th Street, a stone’s throw from the Museum of Natural History.
Like so many public schools in New York City, P.S. 452 has a lopsided enrollment, with a population that’s three-quarters white and Asian, with only 13 percent of kids qualifying for free lunch, in a district that’s 43 percent white and Asian and 48 percent low-income, according to a Chalkbeat story on the brewing controversy.
P.S. 452, which opened in 2010 to relieve overcrowding in other nearby sought-after schools, quickly became overcrowded itself. And so the city proposed moving the school, which currently shares a building with two other schools, 16 blocks south, to a site with more space that happens to be just adjacent to large housing projects. In one swoop, the city could solve the school’s capacity problem while improving its diversity.
Among the parents who were fighting integration? None other than Jason Jones, aka Mr. Samantha Bee.
https://twitter.com/ellencarmichael/status/858528283733970944
How do you like that?
https://twitter.com/RobProvince/status/859104912919203840
In an interview with Jake Tapper this weekend, Samantha Bee insisted that there just isn’t a “smug liberal problem.”
I wonder what @iamsambee has to say about this? Wonder how much all the libcaster comedians have to say about this?
— ThatMasshole (@DirtyWaterFan) May 1, 2017
https://twitter.com/RobProvince/status/859108115568103425
If he had, no doubt she would’ve also said there isn’t a racist liberal problem.
https://twitter.com/IPAzRGR8/status/858528669534433280
#ItsDifferentWhenDemocratsDoIt
— Maggi Cook (@MadisonProj) May 1, 2017
https://twitter.com/EF517_V2/status/859083882284691458
https://twitter.com/Joseph_Brand0/status/859048510699732993
https://twitter.com/RobProvince/status/859107572913242112
Democrats like minorities in theory only because they can use them to get elected
— ed stack (@stackartist) May 1, 2017
https://twitter.com/Sac_Flys/status/859107409196929025
https://twitter.com/Derigitable/status/859047440279851008
Starting to see why some of these people are so opposed to school choice. https://t.co/DtGe058YSB
— BT (@back_ttys) May 1, 2017
https://t.co/ymSVih1FUchttps://t.co/wKE2RGcJK3 pic.twitter.com/LfHiydTJMs
— BT (@back_ttys) May 1, 2017
https://twitter.com/ErezSemaria/status/859021355118972928
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