{"id":454497,"date":"2022-05-28T23:39:30","date_gmt":"2022-05-28T20:39:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/progressive-policy-experiments-hurt-the-people-they-claim-to-help\/"},"modified":"2022-05-28T23:39:30","modified_gmt":"2022-05-28T20:39:30","slug":"progressive-policy-experiments-hurt-the-people-they-claim-to-help","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/progressive-policy-experiments-hurt-the-people-they-claim-to-help\/","title":{"rendered":"#Progressive policy experiments hurt the people they claim to help"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a35c0c13032f\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a35c0c13032f\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/progressive-policy-experiments-hurt-the-people-they-claim-to-help\/#%E2%80%9CProgressive_policy_experiments_hurt_the_people_they_claim_to_help%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;Progressive policy experiments hurt the people they claim to help&#8221;<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CProgressive_policy_experiments_hurt_the_people_they_claim_to_help%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;Progressive policy experiments hurt the people they claim to help&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>It\u2019s astonishing how regularly progressive  \u201cinnovations,\u201d especially in the name of equity, end up doing serious damage to already vulnerable groups.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Take crime. In New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Philadelphia and elsewhere progressive DA\u2019s and other electeds made sweeping \u201creforms\u201d these past few years: ditching bail, decriminalizing quality-of-life offenses and hamstringing cops.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Crime, unsurprisingly, shot up.<strong> <\/strong>Here in New York major crimes are up 34.2% over the past year, reversing the trends of a quarter-century. Gun violence is nearly double pre-pandemic levels. In \u2018Frisco, murders are up almost 37% from pre-pandemic levels.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The poor and minorities suffer most. In 2020, 65% of New York murder victims were black, though just 24% of our population is. Blacks and Hispanics were 63% of San Francisco shooting victims, though they combine for only 18% of the population.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Equity? Bull. <\/p>\n<p>On education, liberal public-school districts across America have been lowering or jettisoning standards entirely because they allegedly shore up white supremacy.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Mayor Bill de Blasio did his level best to end NYC\u2019s Gifted &amp; Talented program because of black and Hispanic underrepresentation in it. In Virginia, California and elsewhere similar programs were cut entirely or had their entry requirements lowered.\u00a0Another \u201creform,\u201d in parts of the city and elsewhere, is to re-engineer admissions to selective middle and high schools to \u201cimprove\u201d the racial mix.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/05\/gifted-talented.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"Former Mayor Bill de Blasio's plan to end Gifted and Talented programs hurt the Asian-American community.\" class=\"wp-image-22452091\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/05\/gifted-talented.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/05\/gifted-talented.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/05\/gifted-talented.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Former Mayor Bill de Blasio\u2019s plan to end NYC\u2019s Gifted and Talented programs hurt the Asian American community.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Stephen Yang for the NY Post<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>These moves did nothing for the \u201cunderrepresented\u201d (unless you count being forced into a school where you\u2019re not prepared to compete). They did, however, severely dent the prospects of another minority group: Asians. <\/p>\n<p>How does <em>that<\/em> advance diversity and inclusion?\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Add to that disastrous COVID school closures \u2014 demanded by the same crowd that wants to kill calculus and Shakespeare. Data shows only 37% of black 1st graders nationwide are on track to hit literacy benchmarks this school year, a massive drop from 51% in 2019. For Hispanics it\u2019s 42%, down from 54%.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>And on literacy, progressives have long sacrificed kids to ideology. Witness their decades-long war on phonics, which ensured that generations of kids failed to learn how to read well (or at all). Guess who was most affected? <\/p>\n<p>Indeed, COVID itself was the perfect larger opportunity for progressives to test-run <em>more<\/em> new and terrible policies, like lockdowns and mask and vaccine mandates.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/05\/pandemic-lack-reading-skills-07.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"School closures during the COVID-19 pandemic set students back.\" class=\"wp-image-22452093\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/05\/pandemic-lack-reading-skills-07.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/05\/pandemic-lack-reading-skills-07.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/05\/pandemic-lack-reading-skills-07.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>School closures during the COVID-19 pandemic set students back.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Christopher Sadowski<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The results broke the exact same way. Poorer, less-white communities in cities around the country bore the brunt. National black unemployment skyrocketed from its historic low in 2019 and has not yet healed; the Hispanic\/white employment gap also hit historic levels.\u00a0 (These aggressive measures did <em>nothing<\/em> to improve our COVID outcomes, by the way.) <\/p>\n<p>For some of these innovations, time is running out. San Francisco DA Chesa Boudin faces a likely recall;<strong> <\/strong>LA\u2019s soft-on-crime George Gasc\u00f3n faces a second recall vote. Manhattan\u2019s own Alvin Bragg has walked back some of his worst policies, and the next governor may well remove him for refusing to do his job. Seattle\u2019s Ann Davison is trying to undo the harm her predecessor caused.<strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Woke school-board members got the boot in San Francisco. NYC mayor Eric Adams is refusing to give into COVID alarmism and rebuilding the G&amp;T program. Anti-phonics guru Lucy Calkins of Columbia Teachers College recently recanted her idiotic theories in the face of overwhelming evidence of how much damage they\u2019d done. <\/p>\n<p>And that\u2019s all to the good.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But why are the people who suffer the most in these experiments <em>always<\/em> the same groups the left claims it wants to <em>help<\/em>?<\/p>\n<p>Sure looks like woke policy is more about playing with lives of the powerless than making them better.\u00a0\n                        <\/p><\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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In New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Philadelphia and elsewhere progressive DA\u2019s and other electeds made sweeping \u201creforms\u201d these past few years:&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":454498,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/05\/alvin-bragg.jpg?quality=75&strip=all&w=1024","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[70897],"tags":[129702,123566,4998,43,73109,67817,67243,116860,5000,74212],"class_list":["post-454497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-5-28-22","tag-alvin-bragg","tag-crime","tag-editorial","tag-gavin-newsom","tag-liberals","tag-lockdown","tag-mask-mandates","tag-progressives","tag-public-schools"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454497","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=454497"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454497\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/454498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=454497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=454497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=454497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}