| ▲ | felixgallo 7 days ago |
| What in the holy hell are you talking about? Are you really saying But it’s the Democrats that reject science and reason? |
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| ▲ | tlogan 7 days ago | parent | next [-] |
| Yes, a portion of Democratic Party leadership has appeared to move away from science and reason in some cases. One example that frustrated me as a taxpayer and parent with kids in school: here in California, it was Democratic policymakers who removed Algebra from high school curricula, arguing that it would help address disparities among minority students. |
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| ▲ | UncleMeat 7 days ago | parent | next [-] | | This is a pedagogy and social policy decision, not a scientific one. You can disagree with it, but it isn't like we have scientific research that incontrovertibly provides education policy recommendations to address social disparities. Changing math curricula isn't denying math and reason itself. | | | |
| ▲ | kenjackson 7 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | Can you point me to the high school where Algebra was removed? I know they were doing work on when to introduce Algebra I, but I've never seen any mention of the class being fully removed from a high school. | |
| ▲ | blackguardx 7 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | I don’t think high school math is on the Democratic party platform in California. In any case, no one was advocating cutting out Algebra. The debate was about moving Algebra I from middle school to High School and removing Calculus from High School. I think delaying Algebra for all students is probably a bad idea. Removing Calculus from high school only makes sense if they replace it with something like Statistics. | |
| ▲ | jellicle 7 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | The California school curriculum includes and has always included algebra. | |
| ▲ | thrance 7 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | Don't worry, you won't have to worry about what they teach your children in school anymore - Republicans are going to destroy the department of education. | | |
| ▲ | exoverito 7 days ago | parent [-] | | Can you tell me what the Department of Education has measurably accomplished since its establishment in 1979? Inflation adjusted spending per student has increased by about 3X since then, and test scores have not improved, even falling in recent years. Financial aid for college has perversely led to vastly overinflated tuitions, while subsidizing many useless degrees. These problems are not a simple matter of funding. One need only at California's High Speed Rail project. Costs have soared from early estimates of $15B to now more than $130B+, despite almost no track being laid over the last 15 years. This is in a one party state with complete Democrat control, so you can't blame Republicans. Bureaucratic mismanagement and inefficiency are the overwhelming problems now. | | |
| ▲ | thrance 7 days ago | parent [-] | | I'm not even American, but if you think you can simply cut a budget to solve your problems, you're delusional. Americans are on average much more educated and skilled (in the labor market) than in 1979, obviously. In my country, most colleges are state owned and free, I had an engineering degree for €600 per year. Skyrocketing tuitions in America is purely a result of profiteering, largely enabled by the republicans and not kept in check by the weak democrats. But if you still think gutting your public services will improve anything, just look at what austerity did to the UK. |
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| ▲ | felixgallo 7 days ago | parent | prev [-] | | There is definitely a small Faction of left wingers with unusual ideas. Generalizing that To a broader conclusion about democrats is wild. |
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| ▲ | PathOfEclipse 7 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| https://freedompact.co.uk/podcast/128-dr-gad-saad-the-war-on... "Professor Saad’s latest book The Parasitic Mind: how infectious ideas are killing common sense takes a wonderful look at some of the ideas which are so prominent in society today. We discuss the granddaddy of ‘idea pathogens’ as Gad calls it Postmodernism, we discuss the fear of biology, ..., the war on science, truth and reason that we all have a stake in and much, much more." |
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| ▲ | smaudet 7 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Filter bubbles are real. If you spend your time watching (low quality) videos with a bent (anti-feminist/transgender, e.g.) you begin to believe that is the majority discourse. Its similar to homophobia - a small (tiny) portion of the population expresses "nominal" preference towards homosexuality, however, there is an outsized fear among those who feel threatened by the concept... |
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| ▲ | 331c8c71 7 days ago | parent [-] | | Well your argument holds all the same should you replace "anti-" with "pro-" etc. | | |
| ▲ | smaudet 6 days ago | parent [-] | | As it should. Those were examples, point was repeated exposure to something doesn't make it more true, just makes you more brainwashed. |
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| ▲ | dekhn 7 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| A subset of the progressive wing stretches science to meet its ideology. One of the opeds in SciAm is a good example of that. Centrists (both liberal and conservative) tend to be a bit more grounded in direct reality. |
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| ▲ | Philorandroid 7 days ago | parent | prev [-] |
| Unequivocally. Remember that the parties aren't diametric opposites, and are capable of evading reality simultaneously. |
