Well, it works really well on this board now doesn't it? We explain the same shit to the same people for decades. It gets old. You can engage and explain, and NEVER does one of them reply, "Oh. Thank you for enlightening me. I have been thinking about things the wrong way." Nope. They go back to their narrative that gets reinforced by lie after lie after lie. Again...not reality.
Also complicating the “Lee Atwater” narrative is the role of Asian and South Asian parents in yesterday’s results. “A lot of immigrant families came here specifically for the school system,” is how one Indian-American parent put it to me yesterday. “When you start messing with that, and say, we don't have a say, that’s when people who’ve always voted Democratic will flip on them.” Reporting about Asian and South Asian families upset about new initiatives to deemphasize admissions criteria like test scores has often been dismissive or caricatured, and that certainly seems to have been the case in Loudoun County, where a significant portion of the people seriously being cast today as dupes answering a dogwhistle are immigrant, minority residents who’ve given Democrats their votes for decades.
Less. Far far less. There is no national nor state curriculum teaching kids that being white is bad. That is completely made up. At best, we have an occasional rougue teacher doing this, but they are rogue and not doing their jobs. To manufacture an entire party around this made up nonsense is wrong. It's wrong and it's sad.
Rs aren't using this attack point, though. They are specifically using CRT, which means that they cannot absolve themselves of this specific conspiracy theory simply because it gets correctly labeled as a conspiracy theory.
This is the point I’m at as well honestly. Biden is better than Trump, no doubt, and I think he’s a good human. But this moment needs more….
People ask them this all the time. The thing is, like Nole Lou above - the things they assign to CRT have nothing to do with the actual lesson plans associated with it. It's all fear mongering to make white people, or "legacy Amercians" as Tucker is calling them this week, afraid. And it's clearly working.
The largest new company in america is promoting a show that is talking about "legacy Americans" being oppressed. You want to guess who that is code for? It's not native Americans. But you're upset about some lady tweeting something.
I’m still waiting for someone to be charged with “insurrection”.
Prime example of what I’m talking about, it’s clear laws are not being enforced….in fact why wouldn’t Trump run again? If anything it should be clear to him he can push this farther
Yep. I dont disagree. I think there are problems with America involving race don’t get me wrong….but as a Democrat, literally the entire house is in flames and they’re trying to put out the fire on the swing set. It’s not a winning strategy, last night has made that clear.
No, no one is advocating for those things in any meaningful capacity. I am sure some teacher, somewhere, is teaching it to students. Just like I am sure some teacher, somewhere, is teaching students that 9/11 was an inside job or some other inane nonsense.
And I'm not even opposed to kids being exposed to the concept of looking at our society through a "race lens." One of the problems with the proponents of these theories and ideologies is that they promote them as THE WAY to view the world. Not just A WAY.
Yeah otherwise you'll have to hold your nose and vote for him because, you know, Democrats.
a country where a person like Trump is elected twice is a country I want nothing to do with. I already find the majority of people in this country to be insufferable fools and morons, not to mention too many gun loving racist lunatics, but a 2nd Trump term would be the final straw. Democracy and decency would be dead if there was a 2nd Trump term, look at the damage just one term did.
is she wrong? the uncomfortable truth is there are a LOT of racist people in this country and the courts, police, banking system, housing market, etc were built with racism in mind. It doesn't just go away. Its sad when white people are offended that people of color are fed up with racism.
Yeah. And my views on all of this aside….I don’t believe this is the hill we (Democrats) should be dying on right now. The republicans are just going to beat democrats over the head with this, why would they hand them that
Your solution is to play into their propaganda?
This is correct.
You completely missed the point of my post. None of the shit you posted above is happening. There is no organized effort to teach any of that stuff to kids.
Actually, you kind of have to engage because the GOP has primed itself to be in control of the majority (30) of state legislative branches. So they can pass a lot of bullshit laws banning the teaching of CRT in public schools--even though it's not being taught in public schools. But Joe "No Education" Smith and Karen "I'm on Twitter" Smith read about the law passing and believe that it's a real thing -- because the government wouldn't pass a law for a made up problem.
Yes, this midterm election cycle the GOP candidates will be running far away from issues.
