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A comment on San Francisco school board halts appointment based on race. Parent comment

Re:San Francisco school board halts appointment based on race by pjkundert on Friday February 12, 2021 @01:32PM (#26116843)
It's terribly insulting. Especially to the target "protected" groups.

I would have thought that we would have realized that racist (and any other "group"-ist) selection policies are ridiculous and would have rejected them by now. At least by people who have a basic understanding of how group statistics apply to individuals...

But no. The "woke" madness is doubling down, and dialling the madness up to 11.

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Re:San Francisco school board halts appointment based on race by yegle on Friday February 12, 2021 @01:40PM (#26116931)
For non-English speaker it looks like the last sentence refers to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Up_to_eleven?wprov=sfla1
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Re:San Francisco school board halts appointment based on race by bendbro on Friday February 12, 2021 @02:20PM (#26117445)
That's exactly right. The commenter is saying that by doubling down (gambling reference: betting more on your possibly untrue theory) on woke ideas, they are increasing the madness in society to a maximum level (the commenter is also potentially implying it can't be increased further, because society may break).
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