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DemoralizerOfPanicans
2022 Jul 1, 10:40pm
DemoralizerOfPanicans
2022 Jul 1, 10:40pm
FuckTheMainstreamMedia says
https://im1776.com/2022/07/01/christopher-rufo-interview/
And just like that, complete fucking crickets. Not Jack shot about CRT in the news. I mean, this shit switched on a fucking dime.
I guess the DNC found out it’s not a good topic for the elections.
Rufo: ... The GOP then adopted a smart frame — “parental rights,” “the parents’ party” — that created a set of policies and connotations that is very appealing to families. In the most recent generic ballot polling, parents with children in the home support Republicans by a 28-point margin. This is a political sea change. It drove the success of Glenn Youngkin and school choice initiatives across the country. The impact is undeniable.
Daniel Miller: One of the persistent issues faced by opposition activists is the problem of defining the contemporary regime. You’ve successfully popularized the term Critical Race Theory to characterize the current regime ideology, but how do you see the relationship between this ideology and the big corporate and political forces promoting it? Do you view them as motivated by sincere ideological commitments?
Christopher Rufo: There are the true believers, but for most people, it is a rationalization. The executives at Xerox and Walmart are not sincerely committed to CRT, but the entire incentive structure that surrounds them creates an enormous pressure to adopt these beliefs, at least as status markers or reputational insurance policies. It is much easier to bend the knee for George Floyd and write a $10 million check to BLM than to say “no.”
For conservatives, we have to realize that the game is not to debate the epiphenomenon of ideology, but to relentlessly unearth, attack and dislodge the broader structural phenomenon that underpins it. This means attacking it on moral, aesthetic, financial, legal, and bureaucratic grounds, in addition to the more straightforward style of intellectual debate. Governor DeSantis understands this better than anyone. He demonstrated in his fight against Disney that conservatives have leverage against corporate power, as long as they are willing to use it. The trick is to replicate that strategy across multiple domains and to shift incentives by changing the law.
https://im1776.com/2022/07/01/christopher-rufo-interview/
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richwicks
2022 Jul 2, 7:30am
richwicks
2022 Jul 2, 7:30am
Booger says
No he isn't. Obama and Biden just have the same puppet masters.. George W. Bush did as well. The power above the presidency are the intelligence agencies. Above them, I expect it just the Federal Reserve, but there could be plenty more middlemen of management.
As soon as we gave the ability for the intelligence agencies to spy on ALL digital communications, that's ultimate power. They can blackmail anybody that is worthwhile to blackmail. Even if they find a saint somewhere, is their wife a saint? Their kid? Their brother? Their boss? They don't have to be doing anything illegal, just something that would tarnish them.
Obama is controlling Biden.
No he isn't. Obama and Biden just have the same puppet masters.. George W. Bush did as well. The power above the presidency are the intelligence agencies. Above them, I expect it just the Federal Reserve, but there could be plenty more middlemen of management.
As soon as we gave the ability for the intelligence agencies to spy on ALL digital communications, that's ultimate power. They can blackmail anybody that is worthwhile to blackmail. Even if they find a saint somewhere, is their wife a saint? Their kid? Their brother? Their boss? They don't have to be doing anything illegal, just something that would tarnish them.
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DemoralizerOfPanicans
2022 Jul 2, 9:42am
DemoralizerOfPanicans
2022 Jul 2, 9:42am
The Bushes are ancient family, one of the reprobate ones stretching back centuries.
Obamas are connected to the Ayers, same thing. Father is on the Board of Sears and ConEd while his son is making bombs in a Manhattan townhouse Daddy is renting for him? Then they're the #1 grantwriters in Chicago but never meet Community Activist Obama?
Gates' father is on the Board of Planned Parenthood in the PNW?
It's all class interest. The upper crust in the US has always been jealous of the deference shown to the European Ruling Class and wants it here. One of the reasons they want to destroy the middle class. Our upper crust has been talking about eating 'low diets' and Kellogg's type shit for over a century, no different today: "Eat Ze Bugs".
Constant messaging that "American Dream is unsustainable, immoral to the Earth/Everything is made out of Cotton, and frankly, UNDESERVED by those who want it" is no accident.
Obamas are connected to the Ayers, same thing. Father is on the Board of Sears and ConEd while his son is making bombs in a Manhattan townhouse Daddy is renting for him? Then they're the #1 grantwriters in Chicago but never meet Community Activist Obama?
Gates' father is on the Board of Planned Parenthood in the PNW?
It's all class interest. The upper crust in the US has always been jealous of the deference shown to the European Ruling Class and wants it here. One of the reasons they want to destroy the middle class. Our upper crust has been talking about eating 'low diets' and Kellogg's type shit for over a century, no different today: "Eat Ze Bugs".
Constant messaging that "American Dream is unsustainable, immoral to the Earth/Everything is made out of Cotton, and frankly, UNDESERVED by those who want it" is no accident.
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NDrLoR
2022 Jul 2, 10:01am
NDrLoR
2022 Jul 2, 10:01am
FortwayeAsFuckJoeBiden says
That's what my mother, who taught from 1924 to 1970, warned administration about immediately after World War II when title money began being showered down on school districts--they'll give you money then tell you what to teach. In 1966, the first year of The Great Society programs, all the schools rushed to provide "free" school lunches, except my mother kept it out of her school until she retired.
Money to schools with strings attached
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FuckTheMainstreamMedia
2022 Dec 10, 9:23am
FuckTheMainstreamMedia
2022 Dec 10, 9:23am
It’s now changed to “what do Republicans mean when they say woke?” These fuckers are incorrigible.
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richwicks
2022 Dec 10, 11:47am
richwicks
2022 Dec 10, 11:47am
FuckTheMainstreamMedia says
There's always two definitions that are contradictory. This prevents the "two groups" (left and right) from being able to talk rationally with one another.
The right considers "woke" to mean to be entirely controlled by the propaganda du jour and engrossed in it. The left considered "woke" to mean what it should mean, completely aware of the situation. Go see what the Urban Dictionary says:
https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Woke
The first two definitions are entirely contradictory, they are opposites:
It’s now changed to “what do Republicans mean when they say woke?” These fuckers are incorrigible.
There's always two definitions that are contradictory. This prevents the "two groups" (left and right) from being able to talk rationally with one another.
The right considers "woke" to mean to be entirely controlled by the propaganda du jour and engrossed in it. The left considered "woke" to mean what it should mean, completely aware of the situation. Go see what the Urban Dictionary says:
https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Woke
The first two definitions are entirely contradictory, they are opposites:
Thus far only one out of about 30 has been reasonable and even he is using the more advanced but standard leftist tactic of mischaracterizing what I say by rewording and throwing a question back at me.
Among the claims(all false).
1.) No one teaches CRT except Harvard graduate school.
This one is preposterously false. https://kirwaninstitute.osu.edu/
The Kirwan institute has developed “implicit bias” training for business as well as grade school. I had to take it at work. Essentially the core presumption is that everyone has built in biases they are unaware of and specific actions should be taken to ensure those biases don’t result in action.
Furthermore, there would be no protests at school board meetings if CRT wasn’t being considered. But there’s protests all over the country over this. Clearly CRT instruction is at minimum being considered.
2.) “you don’t know what CRT is”
Again laughable when a internet search gives you an answer within seconds. And why would Wikipedia have had to scrub and change their definition if there weren’t people actively reviewing it and citing it as a source to be critiqued?
3.) CRT isn’t being federally funded.
Again laughable. Fed money goes into universities directly and also indirectly via college loan funding.
4.) CRT is necessary because of the US history of racism that is ignored.
Now we get to Bill Mahers comments about millenials thinking past history doesn’t matter. History of racism in the US has been taught in grade school via history and social studies ciriculum since I was in school in the early 1980’s. This included through the civil rights movement in history classes, and the economic and social disparities through the 70’s in social studies classes. This is the part I find miserably appalling…that millenials think somehow racial history in the US is a new thing. Apparently no one is touting my statement that Gen X is the best friend black Americans have ever had. My silent generation parents were very young adults during the civil rights movement and taught me the words of Martin Luther King at a young age…to judge others by who they are, not what they are.
So who is giving these guys these talking points? And why can’t they think critically for just a moment and realize how crummy these talking points are? Especially being from the “party of science” and presumably logic and reason?