Hate the Met, School Aid Grows as Enrollment Falls, and Other Comments

Cultural Critic: The Met’s Embrace of Hate

“The Metropolitan Museum of Art has created an exhibition whose curatorial philosophy” could “signify the end of art,” vociferously declares Heather McDonald of the City Journal. The Emancipation Fiction exhibition is a “hate barometer”, an attempt to “repeal” the French sculptor Jean-Baptiste Carpeau for daring to portray the “inhumanity of slavery” by a white artist. (Although “the ban on black images only applies to white artists” and “black artists may even use stereotypes that would ruin any non-black artist.”) white-superiority” and “fabricated evidence to support this conclusion, evidence provided solely by the repetition of hackneyed panacea academic theory.” “This hatred is a betrayal of the civilizational duties of the Met.”

Doctor: US made addiction too easy

The idea that anyone with a gambling addiction should have only themselves to blame “allowed state legislators to ignore arguments that greater access to gambling might make it easier for people to lose control,” warns Dr. Matthew Loftus of The Atlantic. . Similarly, proponents of marijuana legalization “emphasize” the benefits of marijuana. However, millions of people “suffer because of their addictions” while companies use “behind the scenes tactics” to “make money from the suffering of addicts.” The fact is that greater “access to gambling” leads to more “gambling addicts,” and the legalization of weed “contributed to an increase in opioid-related deaths.” We must make it as difficult as possible to access things that prevent us from making the right decisions.” Gambling “should take place in casinos, not on smartphones”; marijuana should be used “only under medical supervision”.

NYC Looks: School Aid Grows as Enrollment Falls

“Due to the sharp decline in New York City, enrollment in New York City public schools continued to fall last year and dropped to its lowest level since the mid-1950s,” notes Ken Girardine of the Empire Center. The city “has seen a significant decline for three years in a row” – “more than 110,000 students, or almost 12 percent, in just four years.” And public charter schools “enroll the majority of New York students, with enrollment increasing from 91,927 (3.4 percent of all students) in 2013-2014 to 175,065 (7 percent) this school year.” Despite the drop in enrollment, “the state teacher union has urged legislators to increase public aid to local school districts,” even though that aid “has grown 15 percent in inflation-adjusted dollars over the past decade.”

Republican: This red wave is for real

“Unlike the ‘red wave’ predicted in the 2022 midterms,” ​​notes The Hill’s Joe Concha, “it’s in full swing as census data “highlights a grim reality for the largest blue states: More people are leaving blue states.” like California, New York. York and Illinois than to move in,” even though “other states, such as Florida and Texas, have experienced significant population growth.” The main reasons include crime and income tax (which is zero in Florida, Texas and Tennessee). It’s not just about people: “New York’s tax base, for example, decreased by $19.5 billion in 2020” and “Florida generated $23.7 billion in gross revenue.” However, Gov. Kathy Hochul is “proposing a $227 billion budget for fiscal year 2024,” compared to a $115 billion plan for Florida, which already has a larger population but “spends half as much money on government.”

From right to left: Overcoming the Crazy Quarter

Last week, the House of Representatives voted in favor of Mayor Muriel Bowser and struck down a law passed by the D.C. City Council “reducing sentences for auto theft, burglary and other felonies, even as auto theft and theft have become an epidemic in the city.” , notes The New York Times. Wall Street Journal editors: “31 Democrats have joined the Republican Party.” But throwing him out would require the Senate to act as well, and “we assume that Majority Leader Chuck Schumer will allow” Dems “to be re-elected” to vote with the House of Representatives, but not enough to get 60 votes and break the filibuster. ”

— Prepared by the editorial board of The Post.