[HOTAIR] the Socialist paradise of San Francisco
...where God struck dead Anton LaVey, home of the Sydney Ducks, ruled by Vigilance Committee from 1859 through 1867, reliably and volubly Democrat since 1964...
School Board member Alison Collins is under significant pressure to resign after tweets she posted about Asian Americans back in 2016 were brought to light by a parent group seeking to oust her. As I pointed out yesterday, one of Collins tweets said, "Many Asian Am. believe they benefit from the ’model minority’ BS...They use white supremacist thinking to assimilate and ’get ahead.'" Today the San Francisco Chronicle reports on the significant backlash to those statements.
School board member Jenny Lam called for Collins to resign from the board.
"I’m shocked, dismayed, personally hurt by the remarks about Asian American students, parents and teachers," Lam said, adding the board makes decisions that affect tens of thousands of people and it’s critical to have leaders representing all students.
Lam said she spoke to Collins on Friday.
"I asked, and I think it’s in the best interest of the school district and leadership for her to step down from the Board of Education," Lam said...
Mayor London Breed also strongly condemned the posts, but did not directly call for her resignation.
"All of our young people in our schools need to feel respected and supported, and you simply can’t use words like that," she said in a statement. "Asian people in this country have long faced very real racism, including here in San Francisco, and you can’t just broad brush their experience in a way that is so harmful and offensive.
Mayor Breed didn’t initially call for Collins’ resignation but she has since changed her mind. |