If only there had been someone out there warning people for years that this was the plan
Ah well, no way anybody could have known
Democratic institutions, what do they even mean? ask mainstream journalists with furrowed brows, both-sidesing their own industry's destruction so they can get attaboys from shitty right-wingers
One of the worst things about being a seminar kid in the 1980s is that they told you that you were going to grow up to save the world, but not a single one of those gentle hippies thought to warn any of us that being a brainiac only gets you so far if you're a Woman With Thoughts
So, like, if you see something horrible coming and do your best to warn everyone about it, you just get accused of wanting to fuck techbros or some stupid bullshit, or your boss gropes you at his own wedding before firing you publicly and taking credit for all your work.
And here we are!
By the way, that's why I say sexism is a massive security failure. Imagine if all the women raising alarms over the last five to ten years hadn't been largely ignored or smeared or otherwise intimidated or drowned out by shitty, self-serving pundits and "researchers"
Imagine where we would be if we hadn't allowed reporters with a clear anti-woman bias to cover politicians and other public figures who aren't men. It badly affects their reporting and credibility, but since newsrooms are majority white and male, it's seen as "objectivity"

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No, it's part of an ASTROTURFED, INAUTHENTICALLY ORGANIZED national "movement" led by far right groups using people who say they are parents with children in the schools they are complaining about, and who in many cases are lying.
This is fucking exhausting, has no one learned anything at all?
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This was the goal of the inauthentic,astroturfed moral panic around critical race theory moral panic all along, just like I've warned you all year.

"Anti-anti-fascists," flying swastika flags, are both-sidesing the Holocaust. What more proof do you need of what they are?
Remember, too, that the antivaxxers and anti-maskers are also anti-CRT "activists" almost 100 percent of the time. Because to them, it's all the same issue, see? That should tell you something about who they really are, and what they really want -- if it isn't already clear.
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You all know where this is going right?
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Just imagine those getting gaslightingly rebranded as "water protectors" during the next megadrought, for example. Bad people will do it if they can, and water's been getting traded on the futures markets since last December
I'm southern Californian, so that's always where I go with this shit. "How might this be used in a drought?" bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
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From Telegram: Tom Horne is the AZ wingnut who banned a bunch of books from the Tucson school district and went after ethnic studies in the last bullshit inauthentic moral panic (2012) because he got scared by something he heard Dolores Huerta saying. It's always the same people. ImageImage
Details in this 2017 story. It was found unconstitutional, which is why I am so annoyed with people taking this critical race theory shit seriously. Are you fucking serious? It's the same exact shit. They try it all the time. How hard is it to figure out?
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Sorry, 2010. It just kept going for years (2012 story) cnn.com/2012/01/11/us/…
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