What are Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's Flaws?

I was going to say upthread, and then edited my post down: The extent to which charter schools have poured into communities of color, esp in historically Black NYC, which is the only landscape I'm personally familiar with, it is in part the city's and the DOE's own fault for under-serving Black communities for EVER. I don't blame parents (NB I do blame white parents who move into the area and then don't send their kids to public schools though!). I definitely blame elected officials who take money from charter networks. Even if you want parents to have adequate options, you don't have to profit from shadowy corporate interest actors.

If you're interested in this subject, the podcast Nice White Parents is very good.

in orbit otm.

Public schools are one of America’s two good ideas, along with birthright citizenship, and I hate to see them undermined in any way.

Public schools are one of America’s two good ideas, along with birthright citizenship, and I hate to see them undermined in any way.

You forgot <insert a typical Ken Burns subject matter>.

I’m not giving TR the credit tbh

Dumb question: isn’t trying new things with education not possible with the already established public school system?

― Van Horn Street, Thursday, November 12, 2020 7:14 PM (four minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

The problem, in loose terms, with many of the things the charters schools want to "try" is that they're things like, "Only hire un-unionized teachers so they can't demand any labor standards and over-work them until they burn out!" and "Force insufficiently obedient children out through punitive discipline because you aren't obliged to accommodate all the students who enroll in you!" and "Make demands on parents that many families in crisis can't meet, and then force them out when they 'fail.'"

xxp Nice White Parents was BRILLIANT. In the first two episodes I was like HAVE YOU BEEN SPYING ON MY SCHOOL??!

The idea of free, non-public schools for innovation and as a possible testing ground for successful tactics you hope to scale up later, is not inherently bad! But it opened the door to anti-public education actors who have just jammed that wedge in with a vengeance.

The prose is High Academic, but Margaret Hagerman’s White Kids: Growing Up with Privilege in a Racially Divided America is an excellent recent study.

On an unrelated topic:

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— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) November 12, 2020

I would like to defund Joe's butt

also AOC's death-stare is and has always been lethal

crunch bird, my ass

-Jackson Browne

holy shit, that AOC glare

there's a non-zero chance that she's won multiple fights

she's too good for these chumps

i know it's not about celebs but it's nice to have a really gifted person on the left for once.

if looks could defund butts

defund is not enough, abolish joe's butt

"By defund Joe's butt, we don't mean take all of it away, we just mean parts of it would be better used for other things!"

i'm a very good judge of butts and i say it's all gotta go

New York Times covering the abolitionist movement in 1859: "They are as rancorous and abusive as if they were on the point of utter annihilation. Their speeches sound more like the ravings of Bedlamites than the utterances of men seeking the accomplishment of a practical object." pic.twitter.com/V0RHFA140O

— Waleed Shahid (@_waleedshahid) November 12, 2020

Must have been the bad slogans.

Movements can succeed with bad slogans or fail with bad ones

https://media2.giphy.com/media/3ohzdDE5XOUmI6qnkY/source.gif

tell me more about these Bedlamites, and how i can join

Rancor and abuse IIRC

https://i.imgur.com/VOgiyTM.png

jules rules

streaming Among US again, with jagmeet Singh this time, starting in a few minutes

https://www.twitch.tv/aoc

Contrapoints too.

When is Bernie going to play Among Us?

canadian special

her flaws? doesn't respond when I ask how things are going in twitch chat... the nerve!

She's currently explaining League of Legends to Jagmeet Singh.

A Confederacy of Dunces https://t.co/zv1bJmKrZD

— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) December 12, 2020

Allen Fuckin' West

When I want an expert opinion on constitutional law I always seek out the chair of the Texas Republican Party, because who could be better informed? Certainly not all nine justices of the US Supreme Court!

somehow I got a campaign text message from “Lt. Col Allen West” during the run up to the election (srsly, how??) and if my response didn’t put me on a watchlist then the FBI is slippin

“I do think that we need new leadership in the Democratic Party … the internal dynamics of the House has made it such that there's very little option for succession,” said Ocasio-Cortez, who is 31. “It's easy for someone to say, ‘Oh well, you know, why don't you run?’ but the House is extraordinarily complex, and I'm not ready. It can't be me. I know that I couldn't do that job."

“Even conservative members of the party who think Nancy Pelosi is far too liberal for them don't necessarily have any viable alternatives, which is why whenever there's a challenge, it kind of collapses,” she continued. “And that is, I think, the result of just many years of power being concentrated in leadership with lack of … real grooming of a next generation of leadership

Asked directly if Pelosi and Schumer “need to go,” Ocasio-Cortez replied: “I mean, I think so.”

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*I* think so
OR
I *think* so

Maybe it’s “i think, so...” and the author didnt continue with the quote

https://theintercept.com/2020/12/16/aoc-nancy-pelosi-needs-to-go-but-theres-nobody-to-replace-her-yet/

podcast in here

I do not know to what degree, if any, Pelosi made a conscious choice not to put other House Democrats in a strong position to challenge or replace her, but it is one of the tactics that naturally emerges among leadership groups. AOC is right that the position of Speaker is enormously complex and difficult and some period of apprenticeship is required to approach something like adequacy in that job. No one is likely to replace Pelosi that she hasn't already vetted and brought into a leadership role.

https://prospect.org/api/amp/politics/establishment-strikes-back-aoc-versus-centrist-democrats/

But at least evil Trump is gone

Progressives' loyalty to Biden will ensure them a "seat at the table" IIRC.

Disappointing.

If Biden has sense, he'll recall the old political wisdom that it's better to have the progressives "inside the tent pissing out, than outside the tent pissing in". Based on the distribution of opinion on ilx, I'm pretty sure there are some who will prefer to remain outside pissing in, regardless.

you know Biden, he hates old political wisdom