Short thread. This three-byline NBC News piece (by @tylerkingkade, @BrandyZadrozny, & Ben Collins) is the latest MSM attack on critics of woke K-12 education. It covers no new ground but the way it’s framed – identical to other MSM pieces – is telling. 1/ nbcnews.com/news/us-news/c…
You’d think a long story about growing opposition to CRT, “social justice” activism, etc in schools would include a few grafs detailing what people are upset about. What new ideas, exactly, are being taught? How are schools changing curricula? Etc. 2/
You keep waiting for the reporters to describe what people are upset about. But they never do, and obviously it is no oversight. The desire is not just to make the woke revolution seem like nothing, but to make its critics sound like cranks and hysterics. 3/
Thus a parent is caricatured as “disgruntled” and CRT is described merely as “the academic study of racism’s pervasive impact.” The piece refers to “teaching about racism or LGBTQ-inclusive policies.” This isn’t journalism, it’s PR. PR is the opposite of journalism. 4/
This piece, like every MSM piece to date, shows a complete unwillingness to deal with the substance of the issue or why so many parents who have never gotten involved in school boards have suddenly become activists. What are people like @tylerkingkade afraid of? 5/
This kind of coverage is good news for the anti-woke side. It indicates that woke activists have little confidence in their product. If they did, they'd want people to know about it. But this is all a big operation in distraction and concealment. 6/
Wokeism thrives in secrecy, which is why parent activism and getting involved in school boards is so important -- and why it is enraging to NBC News, now on a mission to paint engaged parents as weirdos. Sunshine is the best disinfectant. We know it and they know it. /end
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