@oneunderscore__@BrandyZadrozny continue to do amazing work and this article is an important read on the right wing grievous merchants and their role in creating and spreading the CRT boogieman
I decided to look at the website for No Left Turn, one of the grievous merchants they cite in the article and it had a link to a survey for parents to fill out if they are upset about what their kids are learning form.jotform.com/203353751215044
Imagine being upset that your kids are taught
"Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion" or "American exceptionalism is dismissed"
In their mind CRT is a catch all for ANY teaching that goes against a Disneyfied version of American history
If you are in a situation where you encounter Anti-CRT forces I think the best tactic is to figure out which groups guides they are using, just Google the language they are using and check the links on their sites. Breakout points like this and ask them example by example...
...if they oppose the teaching of certain topics.
"Do you think history classes should teach about the Japanese interment during WWII? Is that critical of America?"
"Slavery was cited by CSA states as a reason for secession, would you fight students reading the actual docs?"
"Does showing video of police breaking up marches in Selma count as vilification of law enforcement?"
"What are examples of lessons you THINK go against American exceptionalism"
Don't just let them attack, make them defend their position, make them define the terms
I've noticed the "Anti-Critical Race Theory" forces, which all seem to have a common core of linkage to right wing think tanks, love to quote MLK and say their goal is to make sure everyone is under the same rules.
However CRT, the real CRT, is looking at not rules but...
..their application. It looks at how laws have been used to enforce the status quo and compares and contrasts the application of legal decisions based on the class, race, and position of those involved.
Think about the issues with laws around crack having much stronger...
..laws than cocaine, which disproportionately affected the poorer communities where cocaine was cut to make it cheaper and each kilo go further.
Now if we apply that same framework to say laws around land use and find out that the law was not applied fairly and was used...
FAIR For All an organization detected to ensuring that only colorblind lessons get taught in schools didn't like that I noted the large number of circumstantial links between them and the Prep School AstroTurf group
I can't prove a clean link between them and Prep School but they seem to have a limited number of people hyper involved in both, however I can prove a link between them and conservative provocateur and questionable video editor Andy Ngo and other IDW orgs
I've explained Google Analytics and reverse searching them before, if two sites share the same ID they are most likely linked by at least using the same web designer
This 🧵is going to be about why you should check the Cook PVI before donating to candidates, specially in 2022
The Cook Partisan Voting Index is a index that looks at how districts and states voted compared to national elections and ranks them en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cook_Part…
If in the last two elections the national share of the vote for Ds and Rs was somehow 50/50 and in a certain district the R got 60/40, that district would be R+10 since the Republican outperformed by 10 points
Cook releases these indexes after every election cycle
Generally a seat is considered a swing seat if it between D+5 and R+5, anything higher is generally a safe seat, meaning whoever wins that party's primary is most likely going to win that seat
You do have swing years, like 2018 or 2010, when a party beats the spread
I've seen tweets re:my OSINT thread asking why reporters aren't doing the same thing. I've seen some amazing OSINT work by reporters from small outlets to large, but there is a limited number of reporters with a finite amount of resources and an inverse number of deadlines
I don't blame reporters.
The cost of the entry to create inauthentic behavior/disinformation/misinformation is low, the opportunity cost to getting caught is low, there is little reason not to if you are a bad actor. It is everything from product reviews, to YouTube stars buying views, to nation states
On Saturday the 5th the New York Post put up an exclusive article about a few parents groups that planned to pay for a billboard truck to protest Critical Race Theory being taught in NYC prep schools
@soft_fox_lad noticed some suspicious information about the largest of the groups, Prep School Accountability, and shared it with me