Rep. Mo Brooks (R-AL) told the Daily Dot that Critical Race Theory is “different things to different people but the bottom line is that it is a distorted view of racism…. [one that is] trying to turn it into a positive…”
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Sen. Rick Scott (R-FL):
“there’s a lot of people that have a lot of different definitions.”
Refused to answer, period:
Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN)
Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY)
Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR)
Refused to answer, trying to be cute:
Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX):
“you give me a definition and I’ll tell you if I agree with it.”
Rep. Paul Gosar (R-AZ)
“you find me one.”
The American Bar Association on Critical Race Theory (#CRT):
“a practice of interrogating the role of race and racism in society that emerged in the legal academy and spread to other fields of scholarship.”
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Hell, the erroneously labeled image you just shared, @infamous_dinero, was debunked in SEPTEMBER 2016. @TwitterSupport WHY DO YOU ALLOW CRAP LIKE THIS TO PROLIFERATE?
Excellent essay on motherhood in America. Interesting that last week’s dire WSJ story was written by a White man, where he relegates “economic forces” to the last graph. (Well it is the WSJ) @washingtonpost@MonicaHesse
In the @FiveThirtyEight story referenced by @MonicaHesse, the reporter quotes four men, one woman. The @WSJ story quotes one man, one woman. BOTH quote Lyman Stone, from the conservative at the American Enterprise Institute.
NEITHER TALKED TO A WOMAN ABOUT DECISION ISSUES.
In addition, NEITHER story mentions the US maternal mortality rate: 2018 data were not anomalous > we ranked last overall among industrialized countries. WOC are at greater risk than White women.
What does the bill that @PringleforAL01 pre-filed (by 8 months) say?
“It’s pretty simple,” Pringle said. “All it says is you can’t teach critical race theory in K-12 or higher education in the state of Alabama.”
Note: CRT is Not taught in K-12 public schools in Alabama.
You see, @PringleforAL01 got bogged down while reading to @WarOnDumb from a link (FOX?) that criticized workshops creating awareness of white male culture.
<< It’s hard to quarrel with that ancient justification of the free press: “America’s right to know.” It seems almost cruel to ask, ingenuously, “America’s right to know what, please? Science? Mathematics? Economics? Foreign languages?”
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None of those things, of course . In fact, one might well suppose that the popular feeling is that Americans are a lot better off without any of that tripe.
There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there always has been. The strain of anti-intellectualism…
To capture the financial reality of the richest Americans, ProPublica compared how the 25 richest Americans paid in taxes each year to how much Forbes estimated their wealth grew in that same time period. Groundbreaking analysis.
ProPublica asked every person whose tax information is described to comment; “all said they had paid the taxes they owed.” Which is true by the letter of the law but not by any concept of fairness or morals.
As the @nytimes notes: the US tax system is rigged in its emphasis on taxing labor differently (more harshly) than it does income from wealth. We need a wealth tax for expediency + increase in corporate rates (I’d take Reagan’s) but we truly need overhaul.
SO WHY were rank-and-file unprepared?
Capitol Police had seen comments on a pro-Trump website about the Capitol's tunnel system and that encouraged demonstrators to bring weapons to subdue members of Congress and police and to reverse the presidential election's results.