Andrew Hastie (@andrewhastie): "The biggest failure of America, and particularly the left, is that they categorically refuse to invest in anyone productive. The entire mindset of the left is that resources should be shifted away from people who have used resources successfully toward people who failed to take …"

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The biggest failure of America, and particularly the left, is that they categorically refuse to invest in anyone productive. The entire mindset of the left is that resources should be shifted away from people who have used resources successfully toward people who failed to take advantage of their opportunities. At it's extreme it is a call to give resources exclusively based on how wasteful the recipient is

A working-class kid at IQ 140 in the American public school system has no pathway. The gifted programs that would have identified him have been eliminated. The psychometric gate that was the one race-blind component of the identification pipeline has been removed. He sits in a regular classroom, gets used as a peer tutor, gets diagnosed with ADHD when his boredom presents as inattention, and either shuts down or drops out. His parents don’t know the system failed him because the system wrapped the failure in therapeutic language about inclusion and equity.

Mark Atwood

Feb 27

9:20 PM

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