US Politics June 2021 - "Where we're going, we don't NEED bipartisanship"

Updated: Sen. Manchin announces that he'll vote to begin debate on voting rights legislation.

— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) June 22, 2021

i.e. no change to filibuster. not even a one-off override. better than nothing but not by much.

lol @ "updated", like he thought his monstrous news cycle story-level original tweet was actually accurate

This means S1 will go down 50-50 on a procedural Senate vote today.

It needs 60 to advance.

— Sahil Kapur (@sahilkapur) June 22, 2021

good stuff

kyle griffin, noted accurate reporter

noted cute reporter though

noted trapezoidal hairstyle reporter though

eh I've hit on too many squares

Slate bringing the heat

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2021/06/stop-telling-breyer-to-retire.html

In fairness, Manchin might not vote to confirm anyone but his nephew.

no one should quote Noah Feldman on SCOTUS lately.

"Gov. Ron DeSantis on Tuesday signed legislation that will require public universities and colleges to survey students, faculty and staff about their beliefs and viewpoints." https://t.co/Cb4SURFt4a

— Dave Weigel (@daveweigel) June 23, 2021

By damn, we'll prove those universities are just hotbeds of commies. Then we can shut 'em down!

The scene tonight at a raucous Loudoun County school board hearing where many came to voice opposition to critical race theory. The meeting was stopped when the crowd wouldn’t quiet down and two were arrested. pic.twitter.com/WkiZCGJ6Jm

— Evelyn Hockstein (@evelynpix) June 23, 2021

coming soon to a school board meeting near you!

I think I figured out who's teaching that woman's kids critical racist theory

gabbneb has a lot to answer for

i typed a sarcastic message, i typed a doomer message, i typed an angry message

fuck

that 1-2 with DeSantis' Orwell legislation, holy shit. they're going to test students to see if their beliefs changed...WHILE IN COLLEGE?

and no one should talk about race, or what happened and is happening in this country. ok, check....check. cool, ready to watch the football game with my boys this weekend and forget about all of it!!!!!

As was detailed in the comments somewhere, apparently nothing about teaching race or anything even remotely close to it was on the agenda, these people just... showed up.

The thing is, it'll get challenged as a constitutional affront, as he expects. This legislation is yet another plank in DeSantis' 2024 platform.

putting the squeeze on public universities doesn't seem like a strategy that would help him in the long run, have to imagine plenty of his supporters have kids in public universities or planning to go in the future

I'm ignorant to what critical race theory is but I'm assuming that no fucking way is it taught in public high schools?

I heard an interview yesterday with a Southern Baptist scholar who said he thought the CRT panic was stitched up as a distraction from all the sexual abuse cases in the SBC in 2019. Which fits the bill, it's what the Religious Right has always done.

I'm ignorant to what critical race theory is but I'm assuming that no fucking way is it taught in public high schools?

Unless they are teaching law school level legal classes in that high school, I'm going to say no.

The thing is, it'll get challenged as a constitutional affront, as he expects.

right, as soon as i read the headline i thought "will it make it to the supreme court before it gets shot down?"

but am i wrong in being so pessimistic that it seems like IF it makes to the Supreme Court, it has a decent chance of being upheld?

i'm probably wrong about how i think about things like this, but these days i imagine that when "controversial" legislation like DeSantis' 1984+ bill enters the legal system, it's like Plinko. some of the pegs are Obama judges and the 1984+ bill bounces over toward the left. some of the pegs are Bush and Trump judges, and they bounce off back toward the right. a controversial case is appealed a million times, bouncing back and forth between people who care about the law and trump's appointees, and some of them eventually arrive in the Golden Boy's lap at the supreme court while he's fucking an old beer can from college, thinking about how he never changed his beliefs at college, ever

ums you should take a minute to get familiar with critical race theory and related stuff. not only is it something that is good and helpful for everyone to know about, but the nu-Tea Party idiots are distorting it and using it as a weapon against the left. you may have to confront an old white person yelling at you about CRT soon, it's best to know what it is before they do

As was detailed in the comments somewhere, apparently nothing about teaching race or anything even remotely close to it was on the agenda, these people just... showed up.

― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, June 23, 2021 12:21 PM (thirteen minutes ago)

I wish the history of the Tea Party's magical emergence on the scene the second a Dem was elected was better known and understood, this feels awfully familiar

addressing cis white people reading this who, like me, have been able to insulate ourselves somewhat from the kinds of visible, highly tangible ugly ignorant stuff going on -

i know i'm a little touchy with this because my dad just committed suicide via ignorance, but i am not exaggerating when i say "they are coming for you". this stuff is getting closer and closer. and personally, i am done with just smiling and moving on. it is coming for you. the idiots are coming for you, and when i say that, i mean they expect you to join them. and understanding that in their movement, they're not looking for you to say Yes to their beliefs. they're checking that you do not say No to them. so make sure you say a big fucking FUCK NO when they close in on you

and i highly recommend reading up a little about CRT so that when rather than just saying NO, you can also fucking annihilate them intellectually

The last several posts otm

they won't understand or care that their arguments have just been annihilated, but it makes a difference. if you annihilate an idiotic white supremacist mom's argument in a forest, and no one hears it, did it really happen? yes, it did. flawless victory, fuck them, move on

sorry, i'm done. this stuff really gets to me. it sucks to see it getting closer, again and again

a decent summary: https://www.edweek.org/leadership/what-is-critical-race-theory-and-why-is-it-under-attack/2021/05

Chyron of the day pic.twitter.com/gO4lbLvBTn

— Sahil Kapur (@sahilkapur) June 23, 2021

Yeah, I learned a lot more this weekend from a friend who actually was taught some CRT in college. It's insane to see how quickly this quickly fabricated nothingburger has warped so many minds already. While we've seen nothing like the Loudon County meeting, another friend of mine that is on our local school board said they've already fielded some truly unhinged emails about CRT - and it's not even the high school board, they only represent elementary and middle schools.

Also, KM, I'm really sorry and I totally understand your outrage.

I wish the history of the Tea Party's magical emergence on the scene the second a Dem was elected was better known and understood, this feels awfully familiar

did you mean "a Black Dem"?

i wonder if they just took the old 2009 tea party strategy binder off the shelf and just updated the year and added a new executive summary at the top or something. no one will be surprised when it turns out a bunch of nearly untraceable dark money groups funded the whole anti-CRT effort

xp jon thank you

getting caught up in debating the correct definition of CRT is a trap that too many people are falling into when the definition that all these lunatics are using is simply any accurate discussion of race, slavery, the civil war whatsoever. Trying to own them by saying "ahah you didn't define CRT correctly" is essentially conceding the point that there might be some issue with discussing race in the first place.

DeSantis has really accelerated into becoming Trump. now passing blatantly unconstitutional bills or things that while not unconstitutional, are free-speech chilling while pretending to protect free speech.

no wonder so many educators here are fucking throwing in the towel.

Trump without Twitter but no charisma either. When he's at a podium he reminds me of Scott Walker.

yeah his speaking style reminds me of a guy from the YMCA who is explaining what flag football season would look like this fall

lol omigod

see, here's what an Ivy League education will result in if you're already a cretinous vomitbag.

moodles otm. there is no point in debating anything with the people with the signs and the VERY concerned and righteous and racist grandma; they're too far gone. when i suggest learning about CRT and making sure you can annihilate their ignorance if needed, the intended audience is the people around you that you care about, especially the ones who are stilling nodding along or "yes, whatever you think" to the nu-tea party supremacists. they're the ones at risk. the ones who don't really "follow politics"

i wonder if they just took the old 2009 tea party strategy binder off the shelf and just updated the year and added a new executive summary at the top or something. no one will be surprised when it turns out a bunch of nearly untraceable dark money groups funded the whole anti-CRT effort

here's a good one: what did "the left" learn from the 2009/10 tea party experience?

here's a good one: what did "the left" learn from the 2009/10 tea party experience?

i remember a lot of "shit, i can't believe these old white people are THIS racist!", but i don't know if that was exactly learning. and right now, it's just like "holy shit, i can't believe that the people who were 60 years old and racist during the tea party days are now 70 years old and even more racist today!"

I wish the history of the Tea Party's magical emergence on the scene the second a Dem was elected was better known and understood, this feels awfully familiar

did you mean "a Black Dem"?

― an eco-conscious Music Box (DJP), Wednesday, June 23, 2021 12:48 PM (twenty-seven minutes ago)

You are absolutely right and the context of last summer's BLM protests is crucial. To a degree, "CRT" is a macguffin or more like a fetish, in the anthropological sense, though I do think history education is extremely important (as others have noted, actual CRT has very little to do with historiography/pedagogy)

You will no doubt be surprised to learn that some douche from a think tank has admitted that the goal is to shut down all talk about race in America.

Yeah, assuming you're talking about Christopher Rufo, he's been remarkably candid about how he turned CRT into a bogeyman:

"‘Critical race theory’ is the perfect villain,” Rufo wrote. He thought that the phrase was a better description of what conservatives were opposing, but it also seemed like a promising political weapon. “Its connotations are all negative to most middle-class Americans, including racial minorities, who see the world as ‘creative’ rather than ‘critical,’ ‘individual’ rather than ‘racial,’ ‘practical’ rather than ‘theoretical.’ Strung together, the phrase ‘critical race theory’ connotes hostile, academic, divisive, race-obsessed, poisonous, elitist, anti-American.” Most perfect of all, Rufo continued, critical race theory is not “an externally applied pejorative.” Instead, “it’s the label the critical race theorists chose themselves.”

https://www.newyorker.com/news/annals-of-inquiry/how-a-conservative-activist-invented-the-conflict-over-critical-race-theory

We have successfully frozen their brand—"critical race theory"—into the public conversation and are steadily driving up negative perceptions. We will eventually turn it toxic, as we put all of the various cultural insanities under that brand category.

— Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisrufo) March 15, 2021

Chris Rufo, the Koch "think" tank ghoul, on actual academic Critical Race Theory discussion "I don't give a shit about this stuff"

also admits he's "ignorant" of CRT and won't debate because he doesn't know or care pic.twitter.com/qe6DtaxXeR

— zedster (@z3dster) June 22, 2021