Chris Rufo has taken credit for creating the furor over “critical race theory,” leading about a dozen Republican-controlled states to pass laws banning it (whatever they think it is, mostly anything to do with racism). He is widely recognized for inventing the fear that public schools are teaching children to “hate” America or to be ashamed for being white. Despite lack of evidence that critical race theory is taught in K-12 schools, the issue has made many teachers fearful of teaching the history of racism.
Critical race theory originated among black law school professors, and it is in law school where students and faculty analyze the persistence of systemic racism in our laws and institutions.
To the extent that teachers talk about racism, it is because it has existed and does exist. It is literally impossible to teach American history without discussion of racism.
Chris Rufo loves attention, so he upped the stakes and increased his targets on Twitter, where he released this tweet. See @Realchrisrufo.
It’s time to clean house in America: remove the attorney general, lay siege to the universities, abolish the teachers unions, and overturn the school boards.
The comments below this tweet are worth reading.
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Note the story on the front page of today’s NYT about Putin’s attempt to cover up the history of the gulags. Class, please read the article above and the NYT story. Compare and contrast. Or are there any contrasts at all?
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yup
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and nope
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You get a D- for ambivalence, but I’m considering bringing it up to a D+/C- because of your implied snarkiness.
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Must I remind you, Mr. B, that my father is a city councilman?
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Greg, you pointed out, the other day, the penchant of fascists for superlatives. I am have the best things. You have no idea, OK? The best. People call me, they say, Sir, is there anything you do or say or have that isn’t the best? The best houses. The best women. The best company. I thought I would share with you something I wrote a couple years ago in response to the question, “Was Paco de Lucia the greatest guitar player who ever lived?”
What’s with this obsession that people have with who is the greatest, the fastest, the best? This is not a contest, and I am not a fan of these comparisons, of top ten lists, and other such amateur foolishness. Comparison of players usually seems to me a bit childish—the sort of thing that teenagers do when they lack emotional maturity. OMG, this is the best band ever!!! Well, no.
Paco de Lucia was a breathtakingly gifted musician with enormous heart and soul and wisdom and dedication and thoughtfulness about his art. What a transport it is to hear him play!!! I don’t think I’ll ever tire of listening to and learning from him. But we are living in the golden age of guitar players (partly because instruction is now so readily available and so good), and there are many now emerging who are brilliant and dedicated. Was de Lucia a greater player than, say, Joe Pass or Jim Hall or John McLaughlin or Pat Metheny? Than Sabicas or Paco Pena? Such comparisons are useless. Guitarists differ. It’s like asking, Which is better, a set of chopsticks or a paint brush? Both are wonderful for different reasons.
Mikhail Baryshnikov once said, “I don’t try to dance better than other people. I try to dance better than myself.” I feel like that’s the proper spirit. I don’t care whether anyone thinks I’m the greatest guitar player in my town or state or country. I care whether I get the opportunity, each day, to make music on this wonderful instrument and to learn from others who are doing so as well, and I care whether I have given this particular performance, this time, everything that I have—my full attention, physically, emotionally, and spiritually.
The fascinating thing about this instrument is its incredible depth. There is no end to what can be learned about it and done with it.
We could do with a lot less vain comparison and a lot more dedication to the art. Fortunately, there is a lot of such dedication today. It’s wonderful, for example, to see a lot of young women storming the previously mostly male citadel of flamenco guitar. I am grateful for all these young players and don’t want to see them discouraged by comparisons of the “You’ll never be as good as that” variety. This is not a contest. It’s supposed to be fun.
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“Which is better, a set of chopsticks or a paint brush? Both are wonderful for different reasons.”
Well, most artists don’t just have one paint brush.
And if they have two, they can use them either as paint brushes OR chopsticks (by turning them around). Although the rounded ends of the paintbrush handles might be less effective at picking up rice, that is more than counterbalanced by the utility of the paint brush end. It is very hard to paint with chopsticks. I have tried. And the result liked a lot like the leftovers of a meal at a Chinese restaurant.
So two paint brushes are clearly better than a set of chopsticks.
No doubt about it.
QED (kinda)
And RE guitar players
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To add to your point (and I could care less about your father unless he can fix my speeding ticket, if he can, let’s talk), one of my many pet peeves is the association of word win with Nobel Prize. I think American English may be the only language that does that, British English has adopted in recent years. In German–and it is my understanding the same is true in French, Italian, Spanish and the Nordic languages–one is recognized or honored with a Nobel Prize. The concept of winning is not part of the language.
As for something as subjective as guitar playing, can’t we just enjoy? Do we have to rank? But the exception to the rule, of course, is that the best writer of songs accompanied by guitar is Guy Clark. That’s just frigging obvious.
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Not only can my father fix your ticket, but he has will even hire Michael Cohen to fix it for you! And thanks for the nod to Mr. Clark. I shall set about remedying my ignorance of his music. And Happy Thanksgiving to you!
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The contrast is Putin carries the power of the Central State. Unless there is massive backlash to the backlash,the same will happen here .
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You pass!
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No fair!
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But seriously, Greg, your point is devastatingly made. The Repugnican Party of today has in this man a role model. They want to be just like him when they grow up.
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Refer to Linda on that Bob. Which faction of the party brought them to align with Eastern European autocrats
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lin-a2lTelg
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Not surprisingly, RT (Russian state controlled media) posted what I interpreted as PR for Rufo. (11-16-2021)
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It is time to rid the world of the Chris Rufo types!!
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So heartening to see all the positive contributions the ed reform “movement” makes to public schools.
An entire group of well compensated professional public school critics. Only public schools, too. For some mysterious reason the privatized and private schools they publicly fund and lobby for never encounter their withering criticism.
Not at ALL ideological. No sir.
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So heartwarming that the oligarchs stepped up to meet the needs of the poor ed deformers. And so richly! Such boundless charity! Kinda gives me goosebumps. Who says that they are cold and heartless?
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Black should be capitalized, Diane.
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“It’s time to clean house in America: remove the attorney general, lay siege to the universities, abolish the teachers unions, and overturn the school boards.”
AKA , “The Rittenhouse Solution”
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LOL
Rittenhouse
Whitewash
Repeat
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Speaking of that little assassin, KR, he met with his hero, Trump, at Mar-A-Lago. So now right wing vigilantes can expect to get the Trump seal of approval.
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Reminiscent of sycophants who made their way to Landsberg prison to pay homage to and get the blessings of Hitler.
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Had to go see Glorious Leader Who Shines More Orangely Than Does the Sun to kiss the ring and the
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hard to imagine these days that these guys could then make the nation even dumber, but that would be the ultimate outcome
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America is quickly becoming an ARitocracy
AR-15, that is.
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AR15TOCRACY
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Rufo felt that poverty was “social, familial, even psychological” dynamics, and his politics became more explicitly conservative. This is the typical “deficit” model of poverty. Rufo refuses to consider an external reasons that contribute to poverty such as race, class, geography, education, economics and even skin color. Should we blame the people of Appalachia for their poverty? There are many internal and external reasons why people are poor.
One of the reasons CRT became a political lightning rod for Trump and his allies was its criticism of capitalism. Anti-CRT became a tool through which conservatives could undermine the credibility of the Democratic party by associating it with Marxism. I have heard Biden explicitly state repeatedly that he is a capitalist in order to quell this association the GOP continuously tries to make. Anti-CRT policy is a political ploy by creating over generalized hysteria among many white Americans as a tool to attack Democrats and public institutions like public schools, teachers and university professors.
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The Ahmaud Arbery case verdict is in with all three defendants found guilty of felony murder.
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3 Down!!!!!
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Bob-
From the liberals’ perspective there must be something different about Black people. Liberals and Black people don’t and wouldn’t accept conservative Catholics and evangelicals who are opposed to CRT saying that what happened related to race was Christ’s will. Yet, the “Jesus’ will” argument has been used effectively against 50% of the population for 2,000 years… and accepted…and accepted…and accepted.
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Let’s not leave Russian goals out of the Rufo discussion.
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https://fordhaminstitute.org/ohio/commentary/ohios-third-grade-retention-policy-backed-good-research
Ed reform echo chamber renewing their lobbying for the retention of Jeb Bush’s Third Grade Reading Guarantee in Ohio.
They’re doing this WHILE lobbying for more and more public funding of private schools.
Will anyone in the echo chamber ever address the obvious hypocrisy and incoherence of ed reformers piling mandate after mandate on public schools while they exempt the entire publicly funded private school sector from all mandates?
Why should public schools accept echo chamber gimmicky mandates when publicly funded private schools are held harmless? Other than the ideological preference among ed reformers for private schools over public schools, I mean.
In addition- if the “movement” demands that public schools provide services to publicly funded private schools will there be any reciprocity? Can public schools demand access to publicly funded private schools services and facilities? If not, why not?
So all the public duty falls on public schools and private schools get all the public funding with none of the duty? How is this a good deal for public school students or the public?
There are hundreds of ed reform groups with thousands of full time employees. They’re frantically privatizing the K-12 system. Why isn’t there any real discussion of the repercussions of that? Because it’s an echo chamber. Rah rah “choice”! No dissent or real questions allowed.
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If the ed reform echo chamber at Fordham believe that the elaborate mandates the ed reform echo chamber imposes on public schools are necessary for public schools then why are they not neccesary for publicly funded private schools?
If public schools have a duty to offer services and facilities to publicly funded private schools then publicly funded private schools should also be required to offer services and facilities to public school students.
Unless the ed reform “movement” is more about ideology than education. Then we get the privatization schemes they promote that benefit private schools and private school students while offering no reciprocal benefit (and substantial downside- our kids have to comply with their gimmicky, fad-driven mandates) to public school students.
But there’s no discussion of this in the ed reform echo chamber. Only 100% cheerleading for “choice” is funded by their donors. They don’t hire any dissenters.
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The culture wars extend beyond CRT. These controversies make it difficult to teach history and civics. Rather that teach them schools have eliminated them. Testing of Language Arts and Math decimated the teaching is Science and Social Studies in the early grades, it eliminated the use of the arts to teach any subject, calling them a waste of time. Yet for very young children this is how they take notes and remember multiple lessons. So now they are expected to write a full paragraph with introductory and closing sentences. It really means that the teacher writes based on group ideas and students copy. It becomes a practice of handwriting. First graders and kindergarten students are still working on the decoding process. Drawing and the arts is the bridge to writing and remembering.
Thanksgiving is a perfect example. Rather than creating pictures of Pilgrims, Native Americans and the Mayflower, the students read (in text far above their reading development) and write about it. More time is spent looking at the Native American point of view. I am not adverse to this, but talking about how this is historically inaccurate is confusing to young children. They have no concept of time or history. Thanksgiving is a family and cultural celebration. 5 and 6 year olds are not academically or emotionally ready for these kinds of controversies. But In order to place them into context for later understanding, they need to be introduced the meaning of the holiday. This includes the SEL discussion of gratitude. Children need the art and songs to connect the holiday to their own experiences. When we remove this from our curriculum, we end up with adults who cannot connect their own lives to history.
Many controversies surrounding the cultural wars are concerning to all. Many simply disengage. Others fight against them. Our society is changing quickly. Many are fearful. The attacks on both sides to our civil rights are concerning. We prided ourselves on knowing truth from fiction. Today we are confused by all the rhetoric and political grandstanding. It is not surprising to see multiple points of view. Our ideas of rightness, justice and civility are being challenged. And it does effect the education of our children. What should we teach? When do we teach it and how should we approach it?
Private and charter schools give parents a sense that they can control the curriculum. They don’t control the curriculum in any type of school. School is a social construct with give and take private or public. Public school actually gives parents a larger say in their student’s learning. Even when you are a conservative voter.
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“To be honest, sometimes people want a shortcut. They want the one- to two-hour training that will solve the problem. And it will not solve the problem.”
I do not know what happens in our classrooms. However the above experience was pretty much my experience in industry. Somehow I suspect it is not much more in our class rooms.
As Crenshaw points out the backlash fits a historical pattern. In my experience the individuals who were upset and voiced protest about spending these few hours were the ones the program intended to reach. Their patterns of behavior did not change.
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“It’s time to clean house in America: remove the attorney general, lay siege to the universities, abolish the teachers unions, and overturn the school boards.”
Well, overturning school boards will surely make Obama’s pal, Reed Hastings, happy.
A reliable source reports that Hastings’ and John Arnold’s The City Fund is pouring money into the two runoff elections for Atlanta school board set for Tuesday, Nov. 30th.
This is my latest countermeasure, one of several, I am happy to say some folks are spreading around…
https://mailchi.mp/57d714addeb2/vote-wisely-in-runoff-for-atlanta-board-of-education-seat-7-at-large-q6-6243200
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This quote sounds like a libertarian manifesto.
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I’m not sure libertarian is far enough to the extreme to describe “time to clean house” and “lay siege”. It sounds more like fascist or communist language. And that’s not hyperbole.
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To add, Reed Hastings wanting to do away with elected school boards is a corporatist thing, and corporatism is fascism’s overly familiar cousin.
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Agreed. It is a step beyond the “small government” trope.
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The assumption that the Libertarian movement is about small government probably was never true. As Koch industries and others receive hundreds of billions in subsidies.
Wake me when they refuse to take their government granted monopolies that actually hinder innovation.
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Corporate welfare is rarely a discussion from the beneficiaries that receive it. Conservatives don’t mind bashing individuals that receive government assistance. Texas and Florida ended the federal Covid assistance early to individuals that was supposed to send people back to work right away. It didn’t quite work that way.
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fascism’s overly familiar cousin
Oh, Lord, LCT, that is hilarious!
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There is a term for this–now what is it again? Oh, yes: moral squalor!
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Since Kyle Rittenhouse was shoehorned into this discussion, here is the best analysis of his trial available anywhere. Note the credentials and the photo of the author. The ad hominem attacks that comprise 99% of this blog’s comments can’t be used against him. From the essay:
“The anger with the Rittenhouse verdict is understandable. The result feels antagonistic to our moral sensibilities. It is also true that this case has become more metaphor than cause of action. It is being used to demonstrate the continuing existence of the troubling color line that Dubois described over a century ago. The problem is that there is good evidence that the explanation for the Rittenhouse verdict is far more prosaic. It likely only shows that the jury simply followed its charge. I dare say that, were I the defense attorney in the case, I would have won it 10 out of 10 times.”
https://quillette.com/2021/11/23/the-rittenhouse-trial-a-legal-scholar-responds/
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You are correct If it had been a Black Youth with an AR 15 there would not have been a trial. Whether he fired it or not.
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This is the clearest, most to the point commentary I’ve yet seen. And the term “mayonnaise militia” is my nominee for description of the year.
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Love that Liberal Redneck.
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Mayonnaise ( hell man’s) militia-
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Thanks for the video link, Greg.
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Amanda-
You should have led with the quote from the article, “If Rittenhouse had been Black, he most assuredly would have been convicted.”
People at this blog get that when a jury wants to set a White guy free, the law can be a convenience. Wisconsin wants active shooters to prevail (as long as they are White) and their targets are protestors or assembled Black men.
Did the judge’s conduct rankle some people because it was blatantly unfair, yes. Do some people trained as prosecutors find the prosecutor’s skills or commitment to a win, lacking, yes. Do some people know that Wisconsin is the site of one of the 4 most racist cities in the U.S., yes. Do they believe those people were on the jury, yes.
I have complete confidence that when Rittenhouse wins a Congressional set in either Illinois or D.C. that there will be people like you defending his policy positions when they are right wing.
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Actually read the entire essay. It supports what I’ve written here about the Rittenhouse verdict. Take breaks if necessary; from your shallow comments it’s obvious that you’re not accustomed to ingesting information longer than a Tweet or an MSNBC rant.
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Amanda,
Is your comment an attempt at gaslighting?
It was I who thought you hadn’t read the article. Why else would you omit the part about how the author thought that given the same circumstances, a Black man would have been convicted?
If you’d tell readers about the fairness of the S.C. trial…..redemption’s
always possible.
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Amanda,
Just a friendly tip for the future. It’s too late for this blog because readers have already formed an opinion about your intelligence. The tip is right wingers do themselves no favor by taking a criticism that is leveled at them and then hoping for good results if they just sling it back at the left. There are just too many Carlson ditto heads and, it’s been called out too many times. It’s a meme attached to the right wing.
Those on the right who can think up new talking points, something that has greater sophistication than “snowflake” could get some play. There’s an unfilled niche for a person on the right who sounds analytical, unlike Jean Pirro, Ann Coulter and Laura Ingraham. An example is the right wing equivalent to Rachel Maddow who doesn’t utter easily remembered dog whistles.
Megan McCain failed on The View because her talking points were regurgitations. If you could mold yourself into a person with original ideas, there’s real market for that on the right.
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If Rittenhouse had tried that stunt in NJ, he’d be behind bars. Of his own volition, Rittenhouse inserted himself into a very chaotic, explosive situation, further heightened by the fact that he was openly carrying an assault style rifle. He was looking for trouble, for a confrontation though he denies it. Why was he there in the first place armed and ready to shoot at whomever. We’ve heard his excuses but I’m not buying it. Other people were armed at the demonstration but did not use their weapons. Now this shooter is a hero in the right wing universe with the blessing of Pope Trump.
This country is in big trouble because of the out of control right wingers.
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Joe, the answers to your objections are in the Quillette article linked above, and written by a Black Harvard law professor. Specifically, when you say—-
“If Rittenhouse had tried that stunt in NJ, he’d be behind bars.” //BUT HE WAS IN WISCONSIN, WHERE OPEN CARRY IS LEGAL.//
“Of his own volition, Rittenhouse inserted himself into a very chaotic, explosive situation, further heightened by the fact that he was openly carrying an assault style rifle.” //BUT HE HAD A LEGAL RIGHT TO ATTEND THE EVENT [EVEN IF IT WAS UNWISE TO DO SO.]//
“He was looking for trouble, for a confrontation though he denies it. Why was he there in the first place armed and ready to shoot at whomever.” //ACCORDING TO THE PROFESSOR, IT WAS ESTABLISHED IN COURT THAT KR DID NOT CONFRONT ANYONE, AND USED THE RIFLE ONLY WHEN HE WAS CONFRONTED.//
“We’ve heard his excuses but I’m not buying it.” //BUT THE JURY BOUGHT IT, FOR REASONS POINTED OUT BY THE PROFESSOR.//
“Other people were armed at the demonstration but did not use their weapons.” //THE OTHERS WHO WERE ARMED WERE NOT THE SUBJECT OF THIS TRIAL.//
“Now this shooter is a hero in the right wing universe with the blessing of Pope Trump.” //YES, MOST UNFORTUNATE. AND EVEN MORE SO IS THE FACT THAT THE RIGHT WING ALSO HAS NO CONCERN ABOUT THE PRINCIPALS AND FINE POINTS OF LAW EXPLAINED BY THE PROFESSOR, OTHER THAN HOW THEY CAN TREASONOUSLY SUBVERT THE LAW.//
“This country is in big trouble because of the out of control right wingers.” //IN MY OPINION, WE ARE ALSO IN BIG TROUBLE BECAUSE MANY LEFT WINGERS HAVE FORGOTTEN THE PRINCIPLES AND POWER OF THE NON-VIOLENT DEMONSTRATIONS OF 60 YEARS AGO, AND LACK THE DISCIPLINE NECESSARY FOR SUCCESS.//
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PRINCIPLES, not PRINCIPALS.
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Mark-
“Non-violent demonstrators”, unfortunately your argument is somewhat undercut by the conservatives who have said that the left’s civility should be used against them.
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Thanks for posting this analysis, Amanda. It addresses directly the exact things I’ve been mulling over. All along my sense has been that the gun laws in WI set up the situation to start with. I’ve said our justice system cannot deal appropriately with the consequences. Sullivan’s depth & context show that’s not precisely the way to frame it– even tho he comes down hard on the state laws for creating the situation, and dispels the rw notion that anyone has the constitutional right to bear arms anytime anywhere.
It’s more about, how do our reasonable trial laws result in an outcome that feels morally wrong, i.e. (1)a kid can walk around with an AR-15 and vigilante intentions yet get off scot-free, and (2)a black kid would most certainly have been convicted. Sullivan explains how the law worked here, yet recognizes the moral dissonance as a legitimate problem and points us toward solutions.
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p.s. I hope you realize that you get a lot of heat here because you invariably open and close and pepper your comments with insults to the other commenters… You could become that analytical conservative commenter Linda describes if you’d knock that off.
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Bob Shepherd, you are making me laugh through my tears!
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I would blush, Ms. Watter, if Socialists had any shame.
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Expelliarmus, Rufo!
–Bob Shepherd, Master of the Dark Arts at The Flor-uh-duh Academy for Little Scholars of Socialist Demonology and Critical Race Theory
Now, if you will excuse me, I need to go do the dishes. Critical Race Theory left a mess in the kitchen.
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In other news from the carnival, the Pentagon has formed a new department, to study UFOs, with the catchy name Airborne Object Identification and Management Synchronization Group (AOIMSG).
Darn it. For years, our ruse of disguising our ships as weather balloons and pie plates thrown into the air worked. Now this! –Alpha Draconabob
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Chris Rufo succeeds because he takes this very upper level legal academic topic, and then applies all the insane stuff that happens in schools to it, that schools do not want to talk about, making CRT a Scarlet Letter if you will. He didn’t just make this up. There’s a lot of CRT-lite, as I call it, pedagogy, constantly in the literature we have to read. Many of it is useful in understanding the lives of students and the cultures they come from, and some of it is garbage, like that list of “white” characteristics such as being on time and using reason and logic (Baloney! in my opinion).
But he’s also successful, because the messaging from schools and unions is either to deny it exists or to say something extremely dishonest such as “You just don’t want to learn about the TRUTH in history.” Which I always find kind of odd, as a History teacher. There is History we teach, that happened, and then there are interpretations of it. We certainly haven’t taught everything, since we logistically can not teach everything. Most of us teach what our State curriculums require us to teach.
Both arguments are dumb. I don’t know if it comes from this assumption that parents just don’t know anything about education or what. This may have worked in the 80s or 90s, but Google exists now. If a parent is concerned about something, they are going to search for an answer, and that answer is likely going to come from someone who has less than idealistic intentions. Rufo is obviously pro school choice and hates unions, I know this, which is why I keep myself aware of what he is doing.
Question is, what are school boards and unions going to do about it? I’d suggest accepting that there may be some element of it in schools, but highlighting the benefits, brings people together, helps us understand each other more, etc. Isn’t that why we have this literature anyways? Though I imagine they will just keep denying it exists and accuse parents of being white supremacists or something.
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Agree with you 100%!
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Oh I’m glad I didn’t see this yesterday. The only thing that is accurate in it is the spelling of baloney (but even that depends upon where you are from). I really don’t have the time to go into everything, but let’s just examine the first sentence and see if we’re onto something.
“Chris Rufo succeeds because he takes this very upper level legal academic topic,” He we have problem number one. I think we can agree, if not necessarily on the wording, that CRT could be argued as being “this very upper level legal academic topic.” But is that what Rufo does. Let’s take the politics and race out of it for an example. What if middle school or high school science students were being taught organic chemistry? Should we be concerned and, if verified, outraged to demand a change in schools that better reflects the educational development of children? Of course. See what happens when we stay on topic about an academic question? Now. Does Rufo argue the pros and cons of “this very upper level legal academic topic”? No, he does not. He mischaracterizes. He lies. He distorts. And every one of the things that tap into the parents you say are being accused “of being white supremacists or something”–which, by the way, we don’t say–who fall for this can be distilled to either a desire to mischaracterize a history of racism or want to believe it despite evidence to the contrary. That is a very different issue than “he takes this”. What I consider “this” is much more complex, worthy of debate, and nuanced than you seem willing to acknowledge. Why is that?
“and then applies all the insane stuff that happens in schools to it,” Explain the “insane stuff”. Examples that can be extrapolated into trends because of their prevalence or anecdotal “I heard” or “people say” kind of stuff? And what about “applies”? If one applies a proven distortion to an unproved anecdotal example, has one applied anything of value that is worthy of public discussion?
“that schools do not want to talk about,” I have no idea what this means. That schools don’t want to talk about a subject that is in no way any part of any curriculum in any school in the nation? Why with that worthy to “talk about”? Why would I waste my time debating at a flat earth society meeting? Again, be specific and tie it to a larger trend. But please don’t use the copout, “Most of us teach what our State curriculums require us to teach.” That just refutes every word you wrote before that.
“making CRT a Scarlet Letter if you will.” Yes, “if you will.” How glib. So if I understand this sentence correctly, CRT is not a thing, but shame on schools for not discussing it. But apparently schools are doing backdoor CRT-lite lessons and keeping that agenda from us. And we must fight a public policy political fight based on distortions because one side is accepting them. Yet, you know want to get into WHY they are accepting them. What is the source of their vehement passion. Is it the teaching of history in our schools?
Well, that was just an analysis of the first sentence. I don’t have time for the rest of this cynical sophistry.
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“Yet, you NEVER want to get into WHY they are accepting them…”
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Through his radio rants, Limbaugh inflicted the “anecdote as true of the whole” argumentation device on the mainstream. People who accept the framing do so, because it confirms their bias.
If Clovis and those who share his opinion acknowledged the funder for anti-CRT is Charles Koch and if they disparaged him publicly for that and the other things he’s done to destroy decency in the U.S., Clovis et al would be doing a great service for their nation.
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