Yesterday we had dinner with the ECHHS Quiz Bowl team and parents, a nice group of people for sure. Mostly academics, scientists and a couple of political scientists. There was much discussion of the excess of ineffective administrators at the universities as well in at the school system. It was not the first time I've had the discussion with liberal faculty.
It could have been lifted right from a set of conservative talking points about what's wrong with the schools. There was also indignant outrage about an instance of someone serving on a search committee and for a Principal and having heard someone say: "do we really want to end up with some white guy?"
The same thing happens quite often when people are discussing the crazed frequency with which we hear of someone's kid wishing to transition from one gender to another. Liberals are certainly less rooted in the idea that there are only two genders, but there's a great deal of skepticism about the medical establishment's feverish embrace of gender transition as a cash generator.
Of course, people would be very careful saying such things in conversation with Republicans, since it would signal weakness. But since Democrats so rarely speak with Republicans, in practice it's not too problematic.
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