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The week's question
In March 2025, in the thread "Re: OT, out", Umm asked the members: "Do you think it is because America is made up of magical soil that makes businesses based in America magically profitable?" This week it is put to everyone again. The button below opens the small thread re-asking it - read what others have said so far, then give your own answer as an ordinary reply.
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Author: Dope1 ⎊  😊 😞
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Subject: Re: Nikole Hannah-Jones is a rotten parent
Date: 09/26/26 2:05 PM
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and claiming it is representative of millions.

If it's a cat and it's got spots, it might be a leopard. So it goes with liberalism and da cray-cray.

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Hannah-Jones decided her daughter should suffer more as Hannah-Jones and her husband settled on using their daughter as a guinea pig in their efforts to “desegregate” public schools because, in Hannah-Jones’ calculation, they could send their resources, donations, and time alongside their daughter into these schools and fight systemic racism.

But there was one glaring problem with this calculus. The school Hannah-Jones sent her daughter to wasn’t actually underfunded or lacking in resources.

As The Manhattan Institute pointed out, PS 307 — the school Najya was sent to — pays teachers on average upward of $100,000 per year. Roughly $50,000 is spent on each student per year — more than the city-wide average. The student-to-teacher ratio 9:1.

By all metrics, this school was actually well funded and resourced. Yet Najya, like many other students, was not getting a return on the investment.

Hannah-Jones chalked that up to systemic racism and segregation.


And again: if she's willing to piledrive her own daughter's education from the top rope, what would she do to everyone else's?
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