People complaining about this are ridiculous. It would rise to $17.25/hour next year. That's $35,880/year, IF you can get 40 hours per week all year long at a minimum wage job. In NYC, that already precludes you from living alone. That level income requires a roommate even in the shittiest parts of the city. And you're not going to be able to save shit - so good luck moving if you need to pay 1st month and a security deposit.

Don't worry, Starbuck's is already paying this much, so the increase won't be responsible for raising the price of your caramel macchiato. The price might go up anyway, but it won't be because of this.

This is like not understanding why someone that just ate dinner might still want dessert. Some people are just like that.

That’s a big if for the accuracy of the census numbers. Prior to 2020, I assume they used the same or similar methodology for estimating population flows. When the 2020 census was done, where someone actually is knocking on doors and every household is filling out paperwork they had clearly undercounted for years.

Are you really going to argue that Catholicism in the US hasn’t had its own issues with regard to mainstream acceptance?

First, this is talking about the U.S. as a whole, not NYC specifically. NYC is most certainly more a melting pot than the rest of the country. Second, nyc public school teachers are mostly white (54% I believe) teaching student body that is overwhelming people of color (80%). It makes sense to have a workshop where teachers can explore how “whiteness” as defined by the workshop, may inform how their responding to cultural differences amongst students.

If you’re white and I say you’re white - is that an attack on you?

I’m going directly by how the workshop description defines it:

>Whiteness and white racialized identity refer to the way that white people, their customs, culture, beliefs operate as the standard by which all other groups are compared. Whiteness is at the core of understanding race in America. Whiteness and the normalization of white racial identity throughout America’s history have created a culture where nonwhite persons are seen as inferior or abnormal.

Anyone that has ever made the argument that poor Irish and Italian immigrants weren’t considered white when they immigrated to this country en masse at the end of the 19th century logically believes how this woman defined “Whiteness.” This isn’t a racist definition.

But the workshop was talking about the U.S.. Not Japan, or South Korea, or Malaysia, or India - all countries that have issues and negative history with minorities to varying degrees. So it makes sense to use the term “White” given what they were addressing.

Further, discussing how what defines “American” culture in this country is often based in white Protestant terms is stating a fact. It’s not an attack on white people. But it’s something to be cognizant of if your goal is actually being accepting and progressive and identifying what binds us.

Bashing an entire race is wrong. The workshop doesn’t appear to do that. But the Post wants you to believe that anyway.

Talking about race isn’t itself racist. In fact, ignoring race in a country with our history generally works to the detriment of minorities. It is a fact that because white people are the dominant race in this country and because of the history we have, it’s the culture of white protestants that is held up as “American.”

This is not a racist claim or a knock against white people in general.

How is this an “attack on white people?” Read the actual description and not the Post’s interpretation of it.

Just know that the answers you get here will be colored by biases. That’s going to be the case whoever you go to, but Reddit is particularly awful in general when it comes to discussions that the general demographic can’t relate to.

This article approaches it a lot more even handedly than you’ll find in this sub.

https://www.oprahdaily.com/life/a28056593/latinx-meaning/

Self-flagellation? Oh, you think I’m white and that somehow talking about a fact that has existed in this country for centuries is somehow beating up white people? Let me guess, you’re the type of person that would support removing race from teaching the history of slavery and civil rights in the US.

Because we’re not in every country. We’re in the United States where the “dominant culture” is white evangelical. If you’re making comparisons across nations that would make sense, but this was speaking to the US specifically.

Or, the people offended don’t like to confront the results of the history of this country on people of color and would prefer to perpetuate it and return us to a state where we’re “less than” by pretending that people of color are “bitter” and racist and have nothing to complain about.

Reading the actual description of the workshop, I see nothing wrong with it. If people get offended by the FACT that "white people, their customs, culture, and beliefs operate as the standard by which all others groups are compared" in the United States, then you're just denying reality.

Shhh! They choose to believe alternative facts, like NY's crime is out of control and isn't as peaceful and ordered as safe cities without bail reform, like St. Louis, New Orleans, Baton Rouge, or Kansas City.

Yep, those high murder states of Missouri, Mississippi, Louisiana, Arkansas, what with all their progressive bail reform. . .

oh wait. . .

NY and NYC is one of the highest taxed places to live in the U.S.. Billionaires and Millionaires can choose to move right now if they wanted to and yet, NYC has the highest number of billionaires, not just in the country, but in the world. Something tells me we have some leeway to tax them more.

That's a dam shame, because he really is a good actor. Do you have a link where people are calling him out?

Good question.

There is evidence that charter schools, particularly Success Academy, may be over charging the city for rents. The agreement is for the city to pay rent per student and Success seems to be billing for the entire lease of buildings regardless of the number of students.

Because they negotiate real estate deals themselves, it's possible that this could be deliberate to enrich the developers they're working with.

Audits and investigations are needed.

If the charters are overcharging on rent (charging full lease instead of agreed upon per student rent) and using this money to pay for above market rates that they negotiated, then they're enriching someone on state/city tax funds, possibly illegally.

Eva Moskowitz gets paid nearly $1,000,000 each year for running Success Academy. That's pretty dam good for non-profit work.

The honest conversation you should be having is with those individuals that you saw being openly racist.