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After renaming debacle, San Francisco Unified School District says acronyms are a sign of 'white supremacy culture'
SFGate ^ | Feb. 2, 2021 | Andrew Chamings

Posted on 02/03/2021 8:20:57 PM PST by Trump20162020

The San Francisco Unified School District's recent vote to rename schools over the reckoning of historical figures and their flawed legacies has been widely seen as an incompetent, embarrassing mess.

The near-unanimous vote on Monday to rename 44 schools by the San Francisco Board of Education came after years of debate. The canceled names include campuses named after former presidents George Washington, Thomas Jefferson and Abraham Lincoln and Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein.

And as if spending valuable time (and a lot of money) renaming a third of the schools in the district when every student is still stuck at home wasn't enough, some in the district have now taken the confounding stance that acronyms are a symptom of "white supremacy culture" and are working to remove them from buildings.

The district's arts department has decided to change its name, "VAPA" (visual and performing arts) to "SFUSD Arts Department" because they say "acronyms are a symptom of white supremacy culture," reports ABC7.

(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...


TOPICS: Education; Local News
KEYWORDS: acronyms; california; cancelculture; humiliation; linguisticgymnastics; sanfrancisco; sfusd; woke
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1 posted on 02/03/2021 8:20:57 PM PST by Trump20162020
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To: Trump20162020

Like BLM?


2 posted on 02/03/2021 8:22:44 PM PST by Real Cynic No More (Make America Great. Prosecute Dems who break the law!)
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To: Trump20162020

I’ll tell the NAACP.


3 posted on 02/03/2021 8:24:35 PM PST by coloradan (They're not the mainstream media, they're the gaslight media. It's what they do. )
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To: Real Cynic No More

Bowel Loaded Movement....


4 posted on 02/03/2021 8:25:03 PM PST by Hambone 1934 (When will the dems turn the US into Venezuela????)
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To: Trump20162020

So is success. Why don’t they ban that too? Oh wait, they already did!


5 posted on 02/03/2021 8:25:08 PM PST by Fai Mao (Biden is a pedophile, Kamala is a #%¥π.)
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To: Trump20162020

What about MLK?


6 posted on 02/03/2021 8:25:31 PM PST by Widget Jr
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To: Trump20162020

Letters can be confusing. I recall Soupy Sales having a discussion with White Fang over the letter “F”.

White Fang kept caling it “K”. Finally Soupy said “I don’t get it. I see F and you see K!”


7 posted on 02/03/2021 8:26:51 PM PST by llevrok (I'm old enough to remember when the quarantine was to be 3 weeks)
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To: Trump20162020

This is what happens when you have truly SICK people spouting meaningless opinions as to what constitutes certain things, things which have NOTHING to do with their stated purpose of “educating” the kids of their district. I’d sooner leave any kid of mine in a field of charging bulls than with these lunatics—they’d be safer.


8 posted on 02/03/2021 8:28:22 PM PST by EinNYC
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To: Trump20162020

The leadership in San Francisco has completely lost their minds


9 posted on 02/03/2021 8:28:36 PM PST by realcleanguy
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To: Trump20162020

Absolute morons.

And they are in charge of “education.”


10 posted on 02/03/2021 8:29:44 PM PST by Republican Wildcat
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To: Trump20162020

Only a liberal would be stupid enough to 1) decide acronyms are racist and then 2) replace it with ANOTHER acronym. [facepalm]


11 posted on 02/03/2021 8:30:02 PM PST by Still Thinking (Freedom is NOT a loophole!)
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To: Trump20162020

Apparently, irony is racist as well.


12 posted on 02/03/2021 8:30:34 PM PST by taxcontrol (You are entitled to your opinion, no matter how wrong it is.)
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To: Trump20162020

The stupidity lives strongly within this school board.


13 posted on 02/03/2021 8:31:03 PM PST by Orosius
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To: realcleanguy

Seems half the US has lost their minds.


14 posted on 02/03/2021 8:31:32 PM PST by goodnesswins (The issue is never the issue. The issue is always the revolution." -- Saul Alinksy)
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To: Trump20162020

When the one party dominates these things happen;

When Obama was an Illinois Senator he and Bill (step on the American flag) Ayers had gained total control of the distribution of funds from the Annenberg foundation which they passed its millions on to lefty fronts offering courses to Illinois and Chicago schools pushing the what soon would be the BLM agenda. Author and investigative reporter Stanley Kurtz should be asked about this when interviewed about socialist plans for the suburbs. For at that time when Obama was doing this he tried to expose those radical left study programs over a program held by WGN radio but was threatened by protesters who prevented a cohearent presentation.

Our Education System Fosters American Self-Loathing
Spectator ^ | 11-12-19 | Ziva Dahl Posted on Tuesday, November 12, 2019 5:36:27 PM by DeweyCA
The American Federation of Teachers, in its most recent journal, illustrates how postmodern ideology also dominates K-12 education. The issue paints America as under siege by the white supremacist power structure and urges its 1.6 million members to counter the pervasive “hostility and discrimination of people because of their race, ethnicity, sexual orientation/identity, immigrant … or disability status” by being activists in the classroom. Teachers should defy our “racist country” by promoting victimized racial and ethnic groups and focus on the social inequities pervasive in America http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3793469/posts

Hinsdale dist 86 rules girl is a boy
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3771555/posts

IL Gov OK’s queer equity teaching;
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3786484/posts

and if you belong to it it but oppose such stuff this is what happens to you ;

IN THE RACE FOR HOUSE SEATS EVERYONE RUNNING UNDER THE DEMON-O-CRAT LABEL VOTED FOR THESE TWO ISSUES
ABORTION FUNDING SUPPORT AND THIS

FORCE Schools To Let Male Athletes Compete In Girls’ Sports...Any Dem congressman who didn’t support this got kicked out by holding their primary in remapped districts.This effort by those in control of the demo party shpould have been used to demonstrate where that party is coming from. Why weren’t those votes an issue in this 2020 campaign by the Republicans ? Not just where this occurred but nationally?

.. Democratic candidate for America’s Vice President California and likely presidential replacement Sen. Kamala Harris sponsored a Senate bill that would that would force funding public schools to allow biologically male athletes who identify as transgender on girls’ sports teams.

In March 2019, Harris cosponsored the Equality Act, which would amend the Civil Rights Act of 1964 . Among other things, the bill would force public schools to expand female athletic teams to include biological males who identify as transgender girls
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3873820/posts
.Also did this http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3877896/posts and this http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3880192/posts

.. HERE’S HOW THEY TREATED CONSERVATIVE CONGRESSIONAL DEMOCRATS WHO DONT SUPPORT FUNDING STUFF LIKE THIS

.. And why there is no such thing as a Conservative Dem in Congress An example is Illinois 3rd district.

THIS SHOULD HAVE BEEN USED IN THE 2020 AS AN ISSUE BUT WASN’T
..
Todays Democrats weren’t happy with this father then son votes against abortion and the son’s being the only congressional democrat to vote NO on allowing men to to call themselves a women and compete with women in college sports. To stop this the demoncrats decided to remap the areas which supported them for their 2020 primary.

The ward (the 23rd) and the congressional district formerly the 5th which they changed into being the 3rd Illinois congressional by taking ward areas which had areas dominated by hispanic fore names and placed them into the Louis Gutierez district.

In the reshaped 3rd Congressional district primary Daniel Lipinski lost because of this redistricting. Of a district which had previously included adjacent Chicago city wards to his 23rd. which was “re-mapped in 2012 after former alderman and ward committeeman now congressman William O Lipinski annouced his retirement and wanted his son for his congressional replacement .

The remap was replacing ward boundaries of the 14th known as the stockyards which had experienced extensive demographic changes. They chopped up and placed sections of streets and blocks that were not only in the 23rd but the of adjacent 12th and 15th wards and made them the 14th ward

Now because Chicago alderman oversee routing of such things as garbage collections and getting city services . Some have complained of seeing rodents since as well as complained of poor road maintenance on their block. Because with this remap if your residence was in one ward your neighbor across the street or a block down is might be in another ward

.. The 5th was a district in the 1950’s which was a part of the third largest school district in the country run by the Catholic Archdiocese of Chicago. Those city wards were primarily composed of dozens of traditional value family oriented Catholic/Christian communities centered around their churches and their schools. Hence opposed to funding such things as abortion and LGBT activities rather for issues that dealt exclusively with city issues such as a subway L service and the Stevenson Expressway.

These Wards once were reliable supporters of Dan’s father, William O Lipinski. But after the 2012 redistricting the number of precincts in the 23rd were cut back to 39 and even their ward headquarters location was stuck in another ward.

And where many wards had areas with Hispanic last names those areas were redistricted and assigned to the Louis Gutieriez’s district. In areas where buildings were abandoned affected by the no money down home mortgages or had changed because of this. The ward such as the 14th known as Back of The Yards because of the former stock yards which has since relocated was remapped to include portions of other wards mainly the 23rd which Those results actually tear up the concept of a neighborhood and pit people against each other by using division.

In some of those wards areas of city blocks which were zoned exclusively for single family dwellings residents suddenly found their neighborhood having houses torn down and being replaced with multiple apartments with the units not required to furnish parking facilities and many renters were illegals. Much of which fit the plans for the suburbs
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3881650/posts
http://www.theusmat.com/mdwbea.htm


15 posted on 02/03/2021 8:34:43 PM PST by mosesdapoet (mosesdapoet aka L.J.Keslin posting here for the record hoping somebody might read and pass around)
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To: Trump20162020

At least VAPA is easily-pronounced, as opposed to sfoosdad. Maybe that’s word in some African language.


16 posted on 02/03/2021 8:35:28 PM PST by Southside_Chicago_Republican (The more I learn about people, the more I like my dog. )
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To: Trump20162020

When idiots are in charge of educating the ignorant...


17 posted on 02/03/2021 8:35:57 PM PST by monkeyshine (live and let live is dead)
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To: llevrok

Was the FCC amused?


18 posted on 02/03/2021 8:37:21 PM PST by Paladin2
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To: Widget Jr

And BHO?


19 posted on 02/03/2021 8:38:37 PM PST by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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To: Trump20162020

San Francisco needs to teach their students how to avoid human poop on walk to school..

What a creepy little hellhole...


20 posted on 02/03/2021 8:39:12 PM PST by GOPJ (If I self-identify as a child can I play on a little league team?)
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