https://www.amren.com/features/2020/05/after-twenty-years-wo...
I'm a bit surprised that the Bay Area, one of the wealthiest places in the world, has problems with public schools too. "Public schooling is child abuse" gains more steam every day.
> The publication promotes pseudoscientific notions "that attempt to demonstrate the intellectual and cultural superiority of whites and publishes articles on the supposed decline of American society because of integrationist social policies."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Renaissance_(magazine...
The question one might ask is, "did the author write this because they're racist, or are they just sharing their experience and no one else would dare publish it?"
Given there are multiple ways of verifying the details, I'd go with "just sharing their experience".
Let's say that there are two races, orange and blue. Alice is orange and goes to a majority-blue church and gets mistreated because of her race. Bob is blue and goes to a majority-orange church and gets mistreated because of his race.
Alice and Bob are both upset about their experiences. They submit articles to "The American Truth," an orange-supremacist newspaper whose stated mission is to convince orange people that they'll never be happy in a society where blue people are treated as equals. Naturally, they publish Alice's article and not Bob's.
Carol is orange and goes to a different majority-blue church and things are totally fine; Dan is blue and goes to a different majority-orange church and things are also totally fine. Eve, who is orange, and Mallory, who is blue, both go to the same church which has a good mix of folks from the two races, and they love it. "The American Truth" is of course totally uninterested in hearing any of these stories.
If you read "The American Truth," you'll think that there's a problem with blue people being intolerant, and you won't be aware of problems with orange people being intolerant, nor will you be aware that, quite possibly, these are both exceptional cases and most orange people and blue people alike are quite tolerant and welcoming and they tend to get along with each other.
And you'll be fine as long as you recognize the biases on both sides and verify claims.
The problem with p-hacking is you need to honestly report the negative results too, not that you need to also find "statistically significant" results reporting the opposite effect.
But yes, if you consciously make an effort to find extremist sources from all possible points of view (and in the real world, that's rarely the same as "both points of view"), and if you make a point of reading them all critically and skeptically, then that is likely to get you a more balanced perspective about things on the margins. Can you find a story about life as a black teacher in a majority-white school published by a black supremacist/separatist organization?
No information about author, and published on a site like that because such topics are forbidden, so I wouldn't say that's a good tool for judging the truthfulness/quality.
Have to look at the details and see if they align with what is verifiable.
Some of the claims can be verified by video footage that is widely available online. Many people will still dispute those claims.
> But doing nothing means whites must condemn their own flesh and blood to the nightmare I’ve described — and we have a duty to protect the future for our children.
I'm not familiar with the idea that it's bad for white people to want a good future for their children? Seems quite racist to me.
Letting schools continue to suck with the excuse that they just need more funding is the sickening anti-education policy.
Yes, an organization that is shitty due to bad policies won't improve, and might become worse, when given more funding.
The easiest way to live in the area as a schoolteacher is to marry an engineer or someone else with a home, too.
(I went to a tiny rural elementary school located between a tractor supply store and a goat pen. Three teachers taught six grades, two grades per classroom. Compared to the SF schools, it was incredibly under-resourced -- and yet it was a Good School, academically much higher-performing. I think about this sometimes when people point at money as obviously the reason why Johnny can't read.)