Contra Cruz: I'm not defending CRT; I've been writing about critical theory for more than 30 years. (Read the piece).
The problem is using the blunt force of legislation to deal with a "theory."
FYI: Flashback. Me in 1990 -->
"A Republican congressman from Wisconsin introduced legislation this week that would ban D.C. schools from teaching critical race theory — the academic framework that examines the way policies and laws perpetuate systemic racism." washingtonpost.com/local/educatio…
"At least five Republican-led state legislatures have passed bans on critical race theory or related topics in recent months, and conservatives in roughly nine other states are pressing for similar measures." washingtonpost.com/education/2021…
"Many of these efforts have attempted to ban critical race theory, the academic framework that examines how policies and the law perpetuate systemic racism. In other states, lawmakers have tried to restrict specific kinds of antiracism training..." chalkbeat.org/22525983/map-c…
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If we are banning this sort of thing, why stop there? If CRT derives from Marxism, why not ban Marxism too? (Or would that smack too obviously of censorship, cancel culture, and the attack on free speech?)
2. If critical race theory is beyond the pale, where are the bills banning or restricting all of the other criticals, like critical social theory, critical legal theory, (or anything developed by the Frankfurt School.)
3. If conservatives really want to take on political correctness in education, why not also ban post-modernism, deconstructionism, moral relativism, and anything written by Jacques Derrida?
Although the GOP continues to hail him as a champion of the right, Trump is and has always been a man of no fixed principles who succeeded in draining the GOP of much of its political policy priorities.
No one really ever knew where he would come down on any particular issue: Socialism for farmers? Check. Unilateral tax increases for consumer goods? Check. Massive increases in the deficit? No problem.
Trump presided over the ballooning of the national debt from $19.9 trillion to around $28 trillion — a staggering increase of over 35 percent
Wait til they hear about driver’s licenses, photo IDs to vote, Social Security cards, TSA screening, birth certificates, proofs of residence, real passports, and the certificates of vaccination we ALREADY require.
On Monday, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis declared: “It’s completely unacceptable for either the government or the private sector to impose upon you the requirement that you show proof of vaccine to just simply be able to participate in normal society.”
Some of us are old enough to remember when Claremont was a respected, even prestigious, conservative intellectual redoubt. But in recent years it has lurched from the mainstream to MAGA — and now appears to be staggering toward something even darker. morningshots.thebulwark.com/p/springtime-f…
Because we have seen this sort of pusillanimity so often, it’s easy to miss how the GOP’s post-presidency capitulation is different than ones that came before.
Trump is no longer president: there are no judges; no tax cuts to be signed; no regulations to be slashed. Mexico is never going to pay for the f*cking wall.
There aren’t even tweets.
For the last four years, we were assured that coddling Trump was the necessary price to advance a “conservative” agenda.
Charlottesville was awful. Kids in cages appalling. His ignorance and feckless botch of the pandemic alarming.