Endless Bad Faith.

Comparison:

You cite Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, then proceed to argue that offering targeted support to historically marginalized students is somehow discriminatory. That’s not just legally incoherent — it’s a philosophical Möbius strip of bad faith.

Let me see if I understand your logic:

If we acknowledge racial disparities, that’s racism.

Joe Becigneul posts a blistering missive written to U. S. Secretary of Education, Linda McMahon, by a school district superintendent. Therein the superintendent uses the lack of coherent logic behind the Secretary's recent demand letter. The post dismantles a bonkers inside-out reasoning used by the Sec. of Education to attempt intimidation of local schools. The invocation of a "philosophical Möbius strip of bad faith" allows a comparison to do the endless work of questioning and challenge. Later the writer notes that a ridiculously short 10-day response frame for the national directive landed with all “the subtlety of a ransom note,“ When's the last time you used a Möbius strip--philosophical or otherwise--to create a powerful metaphor?

Context:

You’ve asked me, as superintendent of a public school district, to sign a “certification“ declaring that we are not violating federal civil rights law — by, apparently, acknowledging that civil rights issues still exist. You cite Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, then proceed to argue that offering targeted support to historically marginalized students is somehow discriminatory.

That’s not just legally incoherent — it’s a philosophical Möbius strip of bad faith.

Let me see if I understand your logic:

If we acknowledge racial disparities, that’s racism.

Citation:

Becigneul, Joe. FB Post, 28 May 2025. Web.

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