So, in sum, a school district made material available and Counterweight helped get it removed and replaced. "Extreme" is vague rhetorical garnish.
I don't see how this is more than an ideological pressure group -- which is fine, but has nothing to do with protecting free speech.
I don't see how this is more than an ideological pressure group -- which is fine, but has nothing to do with protecting free speech.
I mean, the whole point is explicitly to make things they don't agree with harder for people to access. The comments congratulate them on rolling back CRT "implementation", but that's a red herring -- by their own account, the only "implementation" was making material available.
Again -- if you want to be an ideological pressure group that agitates for school boards to replace things you don't like for ideological reasons with things you do, OK. That's your right. But to pretend this is about promoting free speech or debate is silly. It's clearly not.
It is revealing that Counterweight is posting this themselves as a proud victory, since it is counter to the values they pretend to espouse.
It is not surprising to anyone who's been paying attention, but it indicates how cynical (or just uncritical) they know their fans are.
It is not surprising to anyone who's been paying attention, but it indicates how cynical (or just uncritical) they know their fans are.
Anyway, this is Helen Pluckrose's brand of "liberalism": prescribed readings from one ideological perspective, and the removal of alternatives from public view.
Once a fraud, always a fraud.
Once a fraud, always a fraud.
Counterweight is just "cancel culture" for centrists.
Counterweight's ancestry here is less John Stuart Mill, more Mary Whitehouse.
but the replies, oh the replies
https://twitter.com/mccormick_ted/status/1364648145171406851?s=20
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