The conservative movement found it easy to rage in unison against Obama’s agenda because Obama was Black.
The conservative movement is fired up about ‘critical race theory’ and wokeness today because the people those are (irrationally) perceived to advantage are Black.
We’ve seen right-wing racial backlashes at the outset of the last three Dem presidencies: with Clinton, the storm around the nomination of Lani Guinier to a post at DOJ; with Obama, the Tea Party and birtherism; now, ‘critical race theory.’
It’s a pretty clear pattern.
(Before anyone pipes up in objection to my characterization of the Tea Party:)
Love to see news tonight of a Senate Republican filibuster for a bill to which no one expected objections — blocking a scheduled debate on the compromise 1/6 commission bill, which Republicans will filibuster.
No one can predict the future — but the potential of an overturned election warrants consideration and response _now_, rather than a decision to cross this bridge once we find it.
Why? First: because come 1/2025, *if* the U.S. arrives at a spot where leaders in authority, in states and the Congress, reject popular-vote results, there may be few options left for rectifying that.
I’m feeling very, very tired this afternoon of the “why are these people still wearing masks” discourse — and wondering whatever happened to “you know what, this is none of my business.”
The wearing of masks amounts to a _very_ low-effort measure to signal to others that I have their welfare in mind — irrespective of my confidence that the risk of spread outdoors is low. I don’t know what others fear or have gone through.
The fuss over the New York Post piece on school openings puzzles me. The scoop: a union advised for inclusion of language permitting closures if aggressive variants spread, and a WFH dispensation for teachers at high risk of severe illness.
Who feels outrage over that? Anyone?
The eruption of the B.1.1.7 variant in the UK led to a lockdown that reversed school openings there. Macron followed suit with closings when B.1.1.7 hammered France.
Is the Post’s position that throttling the spread of a deadlier variant is _bad_, actually?
If people want to perform resentment of teachers, along with the unions they form to protect their bodily safety, I wish they would just get at _that_ — and skip the incessant prowl for weak pretexts to yell ‘gotcha!’
“A manufacturing facility of one of the country's major suppliers of chlorine tablets … burned down last Aug., right after Hurricane Laura.”
This comes after the Texas blackout shuttered some chip fabricators for over a month—worsening the chip shortage. cnbc.com/2021/04/30/a-m…
Disrupted chlorine supplies, a chip shortage with no end in sight: why, it’s almost as if America’s climate disasters keep wreaking havoc on supply chains in multiple industries.
In the case of Texas, it’s also almost as if lawmakers — who propose retribution for the outage against renewable energy suppliers that had little to do with causing it — are dead set on making the situation worse. texastribune.org/2021/04/28/tex…