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After renaming debacle, San Francisco Unified School District says acronyms are a sign of 'white supremacy culture'
SFGate ^ | Feb. 2, 2021 | Andrew Chamings

Posted on 02/03/2021 8:20:57 PM PST by Trump20162020

The San Francisco Unified School District's recent vote to rename schools over the reckoning of historical figures and their flawed legacies has been widely seen as an incompetent, embarrassing mess.

The near-unanimous vote on Monday to rename 44 schools by the San Francisco Board of Education came after years of debate. The canceled names include campuses named after former presidents George Washington, Thomas Jefferson and Abraham Lincoln and Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein.

And as if spending valuable time (and a lot of money) renaming a third of the schools in the district when every student is still stuck at home wasn't enough, some in the district have now taken the confounding stance that acronyms are a symptom of "white supremacy culture" and are working to remove them from buildings.

The district's arts department has decided to change its name, "VAPA" (visual and performing arts) to "SFUSD Arts Department" because they say "acronyms are a symptom of white supremacy culture," reports ABC7.

(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...


TOPICS: Education; Local News
KEYWORDS: acronyms; california; cancelculture; humiliation; linguisticgymnastics; sanfrancisco; sfusd; woke
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To: Republican Wildcat; realcleanguy

I’m really starting to like this rap song:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6FmwBPDT-w


21 posted on 02/03/2021 8:44:38 PM PST by 4Liberty (Honest GOP can’t use legal options cause Dems use illegal ones (threats). The Robert Creamer Party! )
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To: goodnesswins

Sure as heck does


22 posted on 02/03/2021 8:48:31 PM PST by kelly4c
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To: realcleanguy
The leadership in San Francisco has completely lost their minds.

They personify acronyms such as SNAFU and FUBAR. They're nothing but a bunch of REMFs.

23 posted on 02/03/2021 8:51:30 PM PST by Night Hides Not (Remember the Alamo! Remember Goliad! Remember Gonzales! Come and Take It!)
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To: Trump20162020

If written in cursive, well.........


24 posted on 02/03/2021 8:51:56 PM PST by Mark (Celebrities... is there anything they do not know? Homer Simpson)
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To: Trump20162020

Excessive acronyms are a product of the illiterate, rif et raf cellphone culture.


25 posted on 02/03/2021 8:55:40 PM PST by familyop
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To: Trump20162020

Forget San Francisco, they are gone.


26 posted on 02/03/2021 8:59:08 PM PST by wjcsux (“You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.” )
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To: Trump20162020

ANTIFA?

BLM?


27 posted on 02/03/2021 8:59:23 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Real Cynic No More

BLM is an initialism, a close cousin to the acronym, but still not quite the same. Apparently those can’t be racist.

Joe Pags was talking about this last night and he called them abbreviations, which I knew wasn’t correct, so I looked it up. An acronym is a pronounceable shortening, like NASA.

FBI is an example of an initialism.


28 posted on 02/03/2021 9:03:07 PM PST by jurroppi1 (The Left doesn't have ideas, it has cliches. H/T Flick Lives)
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I’m amazed they even know what an acronym is.


29 posted on 02/03/2021 9:03:12 PM PST by Jakarta ex-pat (.)
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To: Trump20162020

Acronyms be raciss’ an’ sh**.

CC


30 posted on 02/03/2021 9:04:07 PM PST by Celtic Conservative (My cats are more amusing than 200 channels worth of TV.)
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To: Trump20162020

These people are DAF or Dumb As F*ck.


31 posted on 02/03/2021 9:10:05 PM PST by Flick Lives (“Today we celebrate the first glorious anniversary of the Information Purification Directives.”)
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To: familyop
rif et raf cellphone culture

Did you type that on an autocorrecting phone?

Probably we can drop the word cell from phone as "home" and "work" landlines barely exist anymore.

32 posted on 02/03/2021 9:11:36 PM PST by Reeses (A journey of a thousand miles begins with a government pat down.)
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To: goodnesswins
Seems half the US has lost their minds.

That’s no longer just a figure of speech. Roughly half the country has literally gone insane. To me, the acid test is the “transgender” nonsense. If you believe that a man can become a woman, or vise versa, then you have lost touch with objective reality, which is the very definition of insanity. We are surrounded by the clinically insane, and they control most of the institutions. It is a dire situation, but the only way to fight it is to refuse to play along with their insane delusions.

33 posted on 02/03/2021 9:23:46 PM PST by noiseman (The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.`)
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To: noiseman

At my age...I do NOT “play along wither insane delusions.”...and I am trying to laugh at them...but it’s not easy.


34 posted on 02/03/2021 9:28:46 PM PST by goodnesswins (The issue is never the issue. The issue is always the revolution." -- Saul Alinksy)
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To: Paladin2

I do recall his show went on hiatus after that (recall, day time tv used to be live in the early 60s)


35 posted on 02/03/2021 9:44:48 PM PST by llevrok (I'm old enough to remember when the quarantine was to be 3 weeks)
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To: Trump20162020

Letting the inmates run the asylum was never a good idea.


36 posted on 02/03/2021 9:57:19 PM PST by aquila48 (Do not let them make you care! Guilting you is how they control you. )
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To: Trump20162020

“reports ABC7.”

ABC7 is a white supremacist.


37 posted on 02/03/2021 10:02:27 PM PST by aquila48 (Do not let them make you care! Guilting you is how they control you. )
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To: Trump20162020

How long until they finally get around to the main point, but education itself is racist and that they need to end it. Let everyone go to private schools if they wish.


38 posted on 02/03/2021 10:10:52 PM PST by Reno89519 (Buy American, Hire American! End All Worker Visa Programs. Replace Visa Workers w/ American Worker)
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To: Trump20162020

USA
POTUS
FBI
CIA
DNA
mRNA
IRS


39 posted on 02/03/2021 10:24:36 PM PST by Scrambler Bob (This is not /s. It is just as viable as any MSM 'information', maybe more so!)
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White Supremacists are those that believe black people are too stupid to do basic things like get an ID, or remember what acronyms stand for, or that any and all merit is unachievable and thus racist


40 posted on 02/03/2021 10:26:27 PM PST by dsrtsage (Complexity is merely simplicity lacking imagination)
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