Thread by @ThePlumLineGS

Instead of cowering defensively and screaming for purges of "wokeness," Dems should make Republicans pay a political price for their ugly anti-CRT tactics, the deeper aims they embody, and the degradations they’ve inflicted on our national life. My latest:
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Important:

DCCC chair Sean Maloney tells me emphatically that in 2022, Dems will avoid the pitfall of non-engagement that cost them in VA.

“Children need to learn their history — all of it — without censorship or politics limiting what they can learn."

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There's a lot of new reporting today on Dems worrying about the lack of an answer on CRT.

But their deliberations seem limited to *only* options for course correction that placate White voter concerns through defensive maneuvering.

There's another way:

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This idea that the "equity" debate is a slippery slope to Stalinism is nonsense.

In some of these discussions, equity is about ensuring real equality of opportunity, an ideal that's perfectly consistent with egalitarian liberalism.

w/@lionel_trolling

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@lionel_trolling Laws banning CRT seem designed to get teachers to fear assigning the "wrong" readings could provoke feelings in students that must not be provoked.

As @DavidAFrench shows, this very provision is already being used to challenge educators:

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