nxor2 (u/nxor2) - Readit News

nxor2 commented on Suburban school district uses license plate readers to verify student residency nbcchicago.com/consumer/s... · Posted by u/josephcsible

john_strinlai · 2 days ago

>What should they do? Not take note of people's residence?

in this article, the childs parents provided proof of residence.

nxor2 · 2 days ago

No. From the article: According to the school district, her daughter’s new student enrollment form was denied due to “license plate recognition software showing only Chicago addresses overnight” in July and August. In an email sent to Sánchez in August, the school district told her, “Although you are the owner on record of a house in our district boundaries, your license plate recognition shows that is not the place where you reside.” | Her response, according to the article? "No I'm not." Real trustworthy. People in the Chicago area lie all the time. There is more to the story and I do not have the information. My relative sees this all the time.

nxor2 commented on Suburban school district uses license plate readers to verify student residency nbcchicago.com/consumer/s... · Posted by u/josephcsible

underlipton · 2 days ago

"But I don't WANT to make this country an absolute paradise. I WANT to enforce a racist and classist social hierarchy and keep the labor class distracted and divided so that they can't organize and mount a legitimate campaign against capital interests."

nxor2 · 2 days ago

A relative of mine works for a school district in the Chicago area. What should they do? Not take note of people's residence? The whole reason they do is because they used to not. Then people took advantage of it. And the people that take advantage of it typically cause problems for the district. Everything is racist and classist. But wanting a diverse school district to thrive? No that's the real problem. I guarantee Alsip is more diverse than wherever you are writing from. The irony. [0] https://www.illinoisreportcard.com/district.aspx?districtid=...

nxor2 commented on Suburban school district uses license plate readers to verify student residency nbcchicago.com/consumer/s... · Posted by u/josephcsible

goodmythical · 2 days ago

Iowa has the second highest cancer rate in the country.

Their leading solution?

Increase tax on cigarettes.

Not 'increase tax on cigarettes to increase early detection initiatives' or increase tax on cigarettes to increase screening subsidies', just 'increase tax on cigarettes so that the state has more money and poor people have less money'.

nxor2 · 2 days ago

Iowa : Industrial Agriculture :: West Virginia : Coal

nxor2 commented on Online age-verification tools for child safety are surveilling adults cnbc.com/2026/03/08/socia... · Posted by u/bilsbie

thomastjeffery · 3 days ago

Engagement is not discourse.

This is the core strategy of the alt-right playbook. By replacing discourse with engagement, the logical structure of politics becomes meaningless, and victory becomes automatic.

The playbook worked. The alt-right is in power now. We won't get the power back by playing the very game they destroyed.

So yes, this started as a different situation, but in the end, power is power.

nxor2 · 3 days ago

> the very game they destroyed

I am a minority who disagrees with liberals. Is it conservatives fault I get attacked by liberals for attempting to question them? No. Enough of this distortion.

nxor2 commented on Elitism Fails American Universities yaledailynews.com/article... · Posted by u/nxor2

jfengel · 8 days ago

I enjoy the core irony of the piece:

* He's correct that liberals are not, in general, smarter than conservatives

* He's wrong about practically everything else

Starting with the title, which was originally "Liberal Elitism Fails American Universities". He starts with ideological buzzwords, illustrating what I think is the real problem: a culture war engaged in by conservatives, which they then blame on liberals.

Conservatives are not less capable, but they are less welcome when they insist on presenting themselves as an oppressed minority. Any time somebody disagrees, it is because their opponent is part of a concerted campaign to suppress their ideas. Not a single instant's thought is given to the idea that they could possibly be wrong.

I have not been in college for a while, and I didn't go to an elite school, so perhaps he is seeing something I am not. But out in the real world I see conservatives continually present themselves as an oppressed minority in a way which is simply out of touch with reality. I don't believe that's inherent to conservatism, but it is a current meme within conservative spheres, and it's self-reinforcing because any refutation is proof of their own oppression.

nxor2 · 8 days ago

As I said below, when you are a minority and conservative or even relatively conservative people refuse to even engage with you, and that to me is the point of the article. Ignoring ideas doesn't refute them. Because I want to criticize liberals, I have been branded conservative. Conservatives don't present themselves as a minority, but when you are a minority and don't agree with liberals, you just get treated the worst.

nxor2 commented on Elitism Fails American Universities yaledailynews.com/article... · Posted by u/nxor2

PaulHoule · 10 days ago

Personally I see conservatives have drunk the worst Kool-Aid of the "woke", that is they speak the same language of marginalization, discrimination, and it leads to the conclusion that they need some kind of "affirmative action" no matter how much they deny it.

nxor2 · 8 days ago

When you are a minority and conservative you get told you don't exist. People refuse to even engage with you.

nxor2 commented on Elitism Fails American Universities yaledailynews.com/article... · Posted by u/nxor2

tstrimple · 9 days ago

And I’m sure there is a reason you’re not mentioning those views here and are remaining vague.

https://www.reddit.com/r/onguardforthee/comments/lju0pm/oh_w...

nxor2 · 8 days ago

In particular, my views on crime, abuse of the term lgbt, and censorship.

nxor2 commented on Elitism Fails American Universities yaledailynews.com/article... · Posted by u/nxor2

nxor2 · 10 days ago

I thought I'd submit this as many here are highly educated, but this perspective seems to go uncovered. My own experience as a minority in college was unfortunately similar. Unable to express my views - unable to even discuss them. I understand some views are not worth discussing - chicken shouldn't be eaten raw, etc. I am not referring to views like that.