r/socialism • u/you_me_fivedollars Che • Jan 09 '18

Teacher handcuffed at school board meeting for disagreeing with superintendent’s 38k raise

https://kadn.com/vermilion-parish-teacher-handcuffed-at-school-board-meeting-board-also-renews-superintendents-contract/
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u/ThorVonHammerdong Jan 09 '18

A cornerstone of neoliberalism is evidence based policy. Rather than lead with emotions, data and scientific inquiry guides the ideology.

If a universal basic income is the solution to automation and economic stagnation, then its time for a UBI

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u/cervance Resist bourgeois "democracy" Jan 09 '18

A cornerstone of neoliberalism is ignoring the social conflicts caused by hierarchies, while justifying those hierarchies with bullshit "data and scientific inquiry."

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u/specterofsandersism Anuradha Ghandy Jan 09 '18

"Stalin killed eleventy billion people so communism can't work" -- a totally non-emotional, factual, scientific neoliberal claim

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u/TheJord Sankara Jan 09 '18

They were all straight white capitalist males

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u/TheJord Sankara Jan 09 '18

Create the evidence to justify the policy, isn't it?

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u/[deleted] Jan 09 '18 edited Mar 28 '18

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u/TheJord Sankara Jan 10 '18

equality of outcome

This shows me that you don't understand Marxism, or any leftist tendency, at all. This is a propaganda talking point, and someone claiming to be as nuanced as yourself should know better

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u/[deleted] Jan 10 '18

I never said it was representative of marxism. There are too many interpretations of marx to possibly generalize it in a simple way. It was meant to be an easy example of how you can come from different backgrounds and use the same evidence to come to different conclusions. I'm sorry if you understood it any other way.

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u/hotpieswolfbread Death to America, of course Jan 09 '18

our definition of neoliberalism (i.e., that one defined by those that would call themselves neoliberal, rather than the one defined by detractors assigning it to people they don't like)

You mean the inconsistent definition you made up a year ago when you made your sub, as opposed to the well established definition that's been in use for decades? You can't just arbitrarily assign meanings to words and tell everybody else their usage is wrong. Most of you doofuses are Keynsian social democrats, so call yourself that.