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Re:The case for expanding rather than eliminating gifted edu... by dang on Wednesday June 08, 2022 @03:13PM (#31672527)
That's just one two-word phrase, and putting torque on it that distorts the gist of the whole article is not a good direction for threads. That's why we have this guideline:

"Please don't pick the most provocative thing in an article or post to complain about in the thread. Find something interesting to respond to instead."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

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Re:The case for expanding rather than eliminating gifted edu... by derac on Wednesday June 08, 2022 @03:34PM (#31672825)
I appreciate the rule and that is fair. I do think putting extremely inflammatory racial language front and center is notable. Particularly when it is so casual and so many people feel like it is unobjectionable as can be seen in the replies.

I will refrain from this sort of comment in the future though. Sorry dang!

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Re:The case for expanding rather than eliminating gifted edu... by pvg on Wednesday June 08, 2022 @04:32PM (#31673619)
It's only 'extremely inflammatory racial language' if you pluck it out of its context and misquote it.

The current population of students we identify as academically gifted and talented is unacceptably whiter and wealthier than the actual student population of academically gifted and talented students should be.

This is pretty vanilla, nearly tautological stuff unless you believe academic talent is some sort of inherent property of wealth or whiteness.

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Re:The case for expanding rather than eliminating gifted edu... by derac on Wednesday June 08, 2022 @05:33PM (#31674582)
Yeah, that's fair. Maybe I was being overly sensitive.
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