If anything, I think @sandylocks is being too generous here. It’s hard to see how what we’re witnessing now would have been possible without too many people on the center not just trying to duck away, but actively helping to legitimize the white reactionary counter-mobilization.
https://twitter.com/sandylocks/status/1494745160995033093
A concrete example for what @sandylocks rightfully calls media complicity in this short thread below - absolutely no journalistic justification for the WaPo to publish such bad-faith / illiterate nonsense.
In other words: The center very much didn’t hold.
In other words: The center very much didn’t hold.
https://twitter.com/tzimmer_history/status/1460257331514687494
“I defended the crusade against CRT, but I want nothing to do with these authoritarian education bills” is really not a credible position. It was never difficult to discern the white reactionary political project behind the anti-“CRT” moral panic, and what its end goal would be.
“Who could have seen this coming?” is really not much of an excuse when the rightwing activist chiefly responsible for starting this reactionary crusade has been loudly and proudly telling the world for months why and how he got the CRT panic going and what the end goal was.
https://twitter.com/johnshuntington/status/1455216424415375363
Those who are engaged in this reactionary crusade never made much effort to conceal their motives or the worldview that animated them. They adopted the language of “concern,” but it was directed almost solely against Black authors and a bizarre bogeyman version of “the Left.”
Those who wanted to see were always able to situate the anti-“CRT” crusade in a long tradition of reactionary moral panics - the latest iteration of a struggle to stave off and discredit political, social, and cultural changes that conservatives perceive as threatening.
Those who wanted to see were always able to tie the anti-“CRT” panic into the larger struggle over power, status, and respect (who deserves it, and who doesn’t), over whether or not the perspectives of traditionally marginalized groups deserve to be part of the American story.
Those who wanted to see always emphasized how this was part of the larger political project of white Christian nationalism, of an attempt by white Christians to preserve their privilege to define American identity and delineate the boundaries of what is acceptable in America.
Those who used their public platforms to legitimize the anti-“CRT” crusade should reflect on their complicity now that the reactionary political project which they helped along succeeds as planned and produces the intended results in the form of these rightwing education bills.
Addendum: As he so often does, @lionel_trolling puts it perfectly.
https://twitter.com/lionel_trolling/status/1494736139638427657
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