OPINION: The Examiner's Gil Duran writes that Hsu's 'offensive words angered many San Franciscans. They also provided an opportunity for some people to exact a bit of revenge' on her. Read more ⤵️
It’s hard to feel much sympathy for Ann Hsu, the San Francisco Board of Education commissioner currently facing calls to resign from an office she’s held for less than five months.
Unsurprisingly, her words sparked passionate outcry from a wide swath of the San Francisco community. Parent groups, the teachers’ union, the NAACP and several members of the Board of Supervisors demanded her resignation. Hsu even drew strong criticism from Mayor London Breed, who appointed her to the post in March.Hsu quickly issued a public apology.
Forgiveness seems especially unlikely in San Francisco’s highly polarized political atmosphere, and no one should understand this better than Hsu. She was a key organizer of the recall campaign that successfully stripped three school board members — Alison Collins, Gabriela López and Faauuga Moliga — of their posts in February.
“[S]he saw in the board’s decisions a deep sense that the aspirations of Asian American residents were being ignored,” wrote the Times. “Saw this and immediately thought how incredibly ignorant she sounds. Anyone reading this and accepting it as normal behavior by a school board member should be ashamed,” wrote López, one of the commissioners Hsu helped to oust, on Twitter.
But the angry, zero-sum political culture of this recall-crazed era doesn't encourage dialogue, patience or understanding. Instead, we have a situation in which every disagreement or mistake becomes fodder for a public cancellation campaign. What is a recall, anyway, besides an organized effort to cancel a public official?
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