And, as usual, the sword of a subject / theory that liberals put forward is being taken from their hands and turned against them. "Critical race theory" is going alongside Dr Seuss, BLM, Defund the Police, and good ole Willie Horton as another Republican cudgel.
And Chuck Todd will run segment after segment on Meet The Press where he'll ask "But how much did "Critical Race Theory" hurt the Democrats??" Just like with Defund the Police, the right wing propaganda can both convince their base that the left is doing or saying something that they are not, AND the idiots at the main stream media will take the bait, and run with the narrative themselves because they somehow need politics to be a bothsides game of both sides sucking equally. Tonight Tucker Carlson could proclaim on his program that there's something called "Liberalize the Water" where Tucker claims that Liberals are demanding that city Water be infused with mind altering chemicals, and you'd have 40% of America protesting in the streets, and you'd have Chuck Todd saying "Should Democrats stop trying to Liberalize the Water????" Like what do you do as a logical, rational liberal in this country??? How do you actually break through this level of ignorant insanity??
These are the gajillion-dollar questions. And I won't say we lack stupid voters on the left, but given your average conservative's propensity for paranoia and lack of compassion, not to mention the power of the evangelical voter who is easily duped into open hostility against science because knowledge is so liberal and if science existed it would have been birthed from Eve's hoo-hoo.....well, excuse me while I go drink some baby blood and order some DC pizza.
Just read up on him. He went to Princeton, Columbia and MIT. He's pretty accomplished academically and and in the military.
I haven't a clue what CRT was until now. Probably most of you haven't heard of it until Fox News decided to make a cultural issue out of it. It's a theory originated in the 60/70s by legal minds. They argue that racial inequality is baked into law and institution (which of course was true in the 60s/70s and probably still is in some form today - anyone remembers 'legalize' cheating voting laws recently?). It's been largely a theory of legal scholars and not known by the public. IOW, this was mostly in the realm of legal scholars until Fox News makes it a public cultural issue by focusing on it heavily over the last few months and they so far seem to have successfully define what it is for their audience, get American to focus on it as the new cultural issue to hate. critical race theory | Definition, Principles, & Facts | Britannica
I'm in the camp that thinks this doesn't seem like it was a big deal until specific media circles and specific politicians decided to make it a big deal. It's the political equivalent of having a messy desk just to remain under the guise of doing actual work when there is real work to be done to help repair this nation. CRT isn't the boogeyman it's made out to be. It's not the solution either but I don't think CRT ever proposed it was. What's sad is certain media and politicians have manufactured enough of a fuss over this singular topic for it to be a sleight of hand to all the actual work yet to be done that could truly benefit Americans. I don't understand why people let themselves be dictated by a narrative crafted from a minority party and specific media circles that wish to keep that minority party's policies circulating in everyday watercooler conversation. None of ya'll would be giving a **** about this if it wasn't for them telling to you. To each their own though. Back to more Onion posts.
Florida republicans aren't even disguising their intention for pushing the so-called CRT theory debate...
I'm pretty educated and up on current events. I've never heard of Critical Race Theory. Honestly, I still don't know what it is. The ONLY people I hear talking about it are right-wing politicians and editorialists. Clearly CRT is yet another attempt to apply wedge politics.
b****ing about critical race theory is now the national signal to inform the public that you are a moron. It's replacing b****ing about masks.
Yea, all us liberals had to run to wikipedia to figure out what was antifa and why were we being accused of something. Even BLM was accused of being an organized monolithic entity with a socialist agenda. Most of the "organizing" was a bunch of street vendors selling tshirts and flags.
That's fun. How many meaningless stereotypes can we fit into a cartoon. 1. Teacher = old bitter white lady 2. child = brainless + blond hair 3. Education = brainwash 4. Public Education = primary vehicle to indoctrinate the public 5. communism = leftwing end-game 6. neo-racism = segregation 7. white people = white shaming 8 critical race theory = part of grade school curriculum fear fear fear
While I agree that CRT is being used as a wedge issue and not a lot of people even know what it is but to ignore what it means to a lot of the electorate on both sides is playing with fire. There is a real subset of people who fan the flames of white guilt as reparations and yes it's a small subset but that subset is pushing stuff like the 1619 project and stuff like we have not made any progress to combat racism. Liberals have there own flamethrowers who have a profit motive and they have an aggrieved audience so lets not poo poo what fox is doing and just ignore it.
But everything you just said isn't "Critical Race Theory", which is something way more specific. It's like saying you refuse to teach about geology and the history of the earth by quoting E=MC2. The two things are loosely related but that's about it. You simply described two political agendas. That isn't a "theory." The political right appropriated the term "Critical Race Theory" and now applies it generally to anything that even mentions race.
Yes I know it isn't CRT but that what does that matter when its being used as a wedge issue? Middle america and low information voters don't care that CRT is being misrepresented and just waving the wedge issue away because thats not what CRT is can be dangerous. Defund the police was also misrepresented but it still did damage, my point is that liberals need to create there own narrative about these things instead of just saying that's not what CRT is:
