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7 Nov, 4 tweets, 2 min read
Turns out that the woke mob coming to cancel Aaron Rodgers is *checks notes* Terry Bradshaw
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If your tweet goes even semi-viral, some folks will go to the trouble of skipping the reply function, finding your email, and then explaining in depth that they did not understand the joke
More of the woke mob attacking Rodgers, this time in the form of, uh, Howard Stern: next time Rodgers gets injured "they should bring in Joe Rogan to fix the bones."

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8 Nov
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8 Nov
With David Brooks new column, the NY Times has featured five pieces, plus multiple reader's letters about Dorian Abbot being disinvited from giving a talk.
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5 Nov
Youngkin spokesperson: Just "a 17-year old kid who honestly misunderstood Virginia election law and simply asked polling officials if he was eligible to vote; when informed he was not, he went to school."

Twice? In the same day?
The election fraud was coming from inside the house
If the kid made a honest mistake about voting rules...twice...while his Dad was running for Governor, that's fine. But our tolerance for such errors often doesn't extend to former felons or immigrants unsure about their voting status. aclu.org/issues/voting-…
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4 Nov
More than anything, this is an example of how culture wars has broken people's perspective. In other countries like NZ, Aus and Canada (I think) acknowledgment of native peoples is routine. And people seem to be fine with it. But here its viewed as some new cradical wokeism.
Folks from other countries can chime in here, but when I visited Aus and NZ, acknowledging native peoples seemed routine. Pretty sure they figured this out themselves rather than learn from the US (or whatever McWhorter's thesis is)
Its perfectly reasonable to view this as cringe, as empty theater. But by making the acknowledgement, the parties involved create some normative expectation where they either do something more than empty words or being accused of hypocrites. Thats not nothing.
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4 Nov
These are the human cost of the CRT moral panic: a school principal was accused of CRT. No evidence was offered but he was fired. Students say his real crime was trying to create an inclusive environment for those who were traditionally excluded. washingtonpost.com/education/inte…
Much of the emphasis of the anti-CRT movement is centered on the importance of not making students feel uncomfortable. But which students? The comfort of the majority seems to depend on ignoring the discomfort of the minority.
The best way to make sure students don't believe in the false allure of CRT is to *check notes* punish previously apolitical students for protesting when the community's first Black school principal is fired for dubious reasons.
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4 Nov
It’s incredibly telling that these pieces don’t point to specific CRT policies, or specific Dem candidates pushing CRT. They acknowledge actual CRT is not being taught, but suggest that it’s disingenuous not to take the issue seriously.
Anyway, it’s cool the NYT hired a linguist who acknowledges that language is misleading but never mind, it’s more important that we launch a national campaign against progressive vibes
How desperate is the effort to make Kendi, rather than Biden, the face of Democrats? Douthat's case is that he was included on a reading list shared by a school superintendent. Uh, ok.
By contrast, Douthat touts a guy who promoted a book banner of a Black novelist for President.
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