Friedersdorf could use his platform to admonish these parents that it’s worth seeking out an accurate understanding of CRT rather than continue protesting in ignorance.
Tellingly, he instead uses it to admonish us to seek out a better understanding of their ignorant ideas.
It’s so weird how there’s never a burden on white conservatives to convince us of their sweaty-brained conspiracies, yet the burden on others to convince white conservatives to relinquish those conspiracies in favor of reality is enduring and everlasting and unquestioned.
Some believe that white conservatives are the main characters of America and that all others exist in context of them. This assumption comes out in a hundred different ways, including the unexamined assumption that all propositions are invalid without white conservative approval.
If one person thinks the earth is a sphere and another thinks it’s flat, one of them needs to take time to come to a better understanding of the matter, and it’s not the one who is objectively right.
The flat earther’s perspective isn’t valuable. His permission isn’t required.
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The simple truth offends white American conservatives in a way that Trump’s thousand lies a day never would, in a way the chants and slogans of white supremacist tiki torch nazis never did, in a way that daily report of police brutality and mass shooting never has.
Founder of notable white-supremacy-laundering publication is shocked shocked to discover the anti-racism-discourse activist she’s been supporting is now peddling unfiltered nazism.
I encountered the unique disingenuous toxicity of shambling racist grifter James Lindsay last year, and it was as unpleasant as it was educational about the tactics and intentions of anti-woke movement.
All Claire Lehmann wanted to do was (under the auspices of promoting free speech) to shut down discussions of racism embedded into legal and societal structures, and now one of her allies is sliding effortlessly into nazi talk? oh no however could she have seen that coming.
I feel as if the same people who in early 2020 were angrily scolding me that Biden was the only choice because only he could make deals with Republicans will angrily tell be Biden is blameless here because Republicans cannot be moved.
For example, among many others, Joe Biden told me that.
Look: I voted for Biden. I’m glad he’s president instead of fascist shit-for-brains. But his whole thing was that he’d bring Republicans around, that they’d come to their senses as soon as Trump left. Now he needs to deliver on that plan, or change plans to deliver another way.
A Dozen Very Normal People Who Do Not Follow Me With Accounts Entirely Dedicated To Unsolicited Defenses Of Woody Allen:
He’s made terrible movies and great ones and terrible ones people think are great. But he’s an abusive creep at best, and I think people dedicated to his defense in this manner have suspect motives.
When we learn unsavory things about artists, for some people the immediate mission becomes renewing their own license to enjoy a completely uncomplicated relationship with the artist’s work, and they will ANNOUNCE themselves to people with less selfish priorities.