2. "Here is a simple narrative that makes great intuitive sense: 'If you get vaccinated you have a small chance of catching COVID and virtually a nil chance of being hospitalized and dying, meaning life can go back to normal and you can stop wearing masks.'
3. "Here is a description of the message actually coming out of the CDC: “Everyone should get vaccinated because that will stop you from getting a serious case of the disease, and some vaccinated people who live in some areas can stop wearing masks... "
3. "but other vaccinated people who live in other areas will have to keep wearing masks because we don’t want people who aren’t vaccinated, and seem hesitant to get vaccinated no matter what, to get bad cases of COVID and die.”
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"These are more than scattered anecdotes, and *do seem to indicate a trend* — at least in a certain strata of schools."
But then I asked a question (which Andrew has not answered):
"But how widespread is this sort of thing in less elite, posh, rarefied precincts?"
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I agreed that "No school kid in this country should be coerced into confessing mortal sin because of their skin color."
But then asked: How often is this happening around the country?
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…
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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