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Meanwhile,studentsofcolorwereregularlychanneledintovocationalortradeschools andclasses,andcollegeop-tionswerelimited.
It's interesting and also sad that students of color were funneled into vocational paths. The limited options included CUNY in New York and its paths, which became more promoted after the Civil Rights movement, where minority enrollment is a majority. I'm surprised that New York City was so involved in segregation, and it explains a lot of the disparities in the NYC school system today better.
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The narcissistic exploration of self,sexuality, and identity became the leitmotif of bourgeois urbanculture.
If society becomes less and less communal does that mean neoliberal goals are inherently narcissistic. The wording here is interesting. Neoliberalism also begets gentrification, as selfishness is rewarded.
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The effect was to curb theaspirations of the city’s powerful municipal unions, to implementwage freezes and cutbacks in public employment and social provi-sion (education, public health, transport services), and to imposeuser fees (tuition was introduced into the CUNY university sys-tem for the first time).
To implement neoliberalist values, and because of individualism, CUNY becomes defunded and public education lowers in quality. Social justice decreases and inequality increases, and the issues of first introducing tuition continues to this day.
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What the US evidentlysought to impose by main force on Iraq was a state apparatuswhose fundamental mission was to facilitate conditions for profit-able capital accumulation on the part of both domestic and foreigncapital.
One could argue that the US uses this to institute economic imperialism and this motivation is itself a form of neoimperialism. To what extent do neoliberal states actually exhibit conventional standards of freedom?
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- Feb 2024
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The one that maximized a city ’s well-being called for tearing down poor people’s homes.
This reminds me about how a lot of urban development was fueled by the highway lobby and how a lot of poor communities were torn down for the interstate system. It is an issue that persists in government culture.
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Similarly, while New York City’s welfare levels are said to be “gen-erous,” in real terms they are lower than those of Chicago, Detroit, Phil-adelphia, and even Milwaukee.
Welfare in modern politics is used as a political weapon and as a talking point. It's interesting that New York had less welfare and less benefits yet people complained about welfare abuse. It's a result of classism in politics.
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