things. and secondly, i was always preachin g to the choir.. it wasn t working. there s nothing pragmatic about a lot of these roles. it s just it s idealistic. idel we need to have a diversity person so that people don t calld us racist. period. perit was more about the project of diversity than actual having diversity in the workforce. it wasn t authentic. precisely. okay. and someone s getting paid a lot of money, right? eric? oh, yeah. i mean, think about it. if you re makingright, all thaty off of racism, the last thing you want is for racism to go away. or are you going to perpetuate it? you re going to see it wher it isn t. the mind, the major tenet of critical social justice justi pedagogy is don t ask if racism happened. ask how it manifests in this situation, which is to sayin there s racism everywhere. siright. and, you know the saying, if you re a hammer, the thena crit
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tka egs in this country, right, but if you re a tenured taoefrp and doing a lousy job, just try to fire her. do those perit merit situations apply to those situations and employees of the government, does it apply to them, to fannie mae and freddie mac, and if they blow it, are they going to be judged by this merit standard? absolutely. the president actually supports merit pay and that s why he s had issues with some of the teachers unions and i would say some, not all. the bigger issue is the republicans are trying to spin this as class warfare, the reality is they re offering a solution to problems we don t have. we don t have a rich enough problem in this country. our problem is a middle class is shrinking, and working poor people who are no longer working. if we don t address that in the long term, it doesn t matter if we cut spending. if we don t address that in the long term we re going backwards. the president wants to go forward. first of all it s not the government s