It's obvious that America's depressingly large populations of racist parents, mostly centered in the South but also scattered across the rural areas in many other states, don't understand what "Critical Race Theory" even is, where it's taught, or why. And it's telling that they don't care. They don't care about intellectual arguments, mo…
It's obvious that America's depressingly large populations of racist parents, mostly centered in the South but also scattered across the rural areas in many other states, don't understand what "Critical Race Theory" even is, where it's taught, or why. And it's telling that they don't care. They don't care about intellectual arguments, moral imperatives, factual history, epic hypocrisy, or public shame. All they care about is maintaining white privilege from generation to generation.
And they care about power. CRT is just their latest battle cry of faux-outrage to whip the troops into a frenzy and drive them to the polls.
It works. Last time, 74 million fearful, hateful, small-minded bigots purposely and knowingly voted for the most openly racist asshole on the ballot -- even after witnessing four years of radical, in-your-face racist policies here at home and spanning the globe. These people are Trump's "good people on both sides" masqueraders who are only posing as good parents and patriots. Their attitudes and actions argue the opposite.
At all costs, the children of racist parents must never learn the whole truth of racism in America ...or in their own families, more importantly. The parent's lamest deflection of guilt is to blame their own children (shamelessness knows no bounds): "It might hurt their feelings." (Spit coffee out.)
Yeah right. Do they care about the little whelps' tender feelings when they drill fear and hatred of "others" into their malleable brains in their formative years? Do they care about all the little brown and black kids' feelings who've suffered persecution in all its disgusting forms for the entire history of this country at the hands of arrogant white pissants who think they are God's chosen race?
The real issue is the white feelings of racist parents. That's one of the biggest problems with public education in America, right up there with a lack of funding, which is also a direct result of institutionalized racism (CRT if you will; although, it's not just theory).
Racist parents won't be cheering on the elected members at school board meetings until Brown v. Board of Education is reversed and the members are replaced by the herd, chanting, "Segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever!" Sing along, kids -- follow the white bouncing ball.
Although abortion and guns can be effective wedge issues for rich sociopaths to manipulate our poorly educated, the greatest wedge of them all is still racism (if only because it’s such a versatile, (albeit specious) construct to exploit). The behavior of racists is much like that of any addicts-they have acquired the need to get a regular dose of hate to satisfy their fear and anger for whoever they were taught is the “other,” and the oligarchs pay their propagandists to supply that measure of rage and spice it up with a little hubris, lust, greed, envy and tribalism to reinforce the brainwashing. Just like addicts, racists’ decisions cause negative externalities to their family, friends and society, (and they pass along their racist/tribal beliefs to their children-a vicious cycle of reckless child endangerment). And just like addicts, they are not going to change their beliefs until they hit bottom. People who have learned to become racists are poorly educated citizens if only because what they were taught made them racists (and Trump and the other morbidly wealthy flimflammers love them because they are so easily controlled). Since Trump’s cult members still obey him, he will continue to use the threat of his monolithic voting base to make Congressional Republicans do his bidding and make them participate in his big grift.
The way they hit bottom is to lose election after election.
It really is a matter of reaching out to as many people as possible in this next year to vote Democratic. As partisan as as that sounds (it is), what other game in town is there that can beat the autocratic juggernaut? Like it or not, casting a vote is the best weapon the common folk can wield.
The Democratic Party can be fixed, the Trump Republican Party can't; it has to be reinvented almost from scratch. Good luck with that.
Meanwhile, the country and the world don't have the time or energy to waste on sheer idiocy.
It's obvious that America's depressingly large populations of racist parents, mostly centered in the South but also scattered across the rural areas in many other states, don't understand what "Critical Race Theory" even is, where it's taught, or why. And it's telling that they don't care. They don't care about intellectual arguments, moral imperatives, factual history, epic hypocrisy, or public shame. All they care about is maintaining white privilege from generation to generation.
And they care about power. CRT is just their latest battle cry of faux-outrage to whip the troops into a frenzy and drive them to the polls.
It works. Last time, 74 million fearful, hateful, small-minded bigots purposely and knowingly voted for the most openly racist asshole on the ballot -- even after witnessing four years of radical, in-your-face racist policies here at home and spanning the globe. These people are Trump's "good people on both sides" masqueraders who are only posing as good parents and patriots. Their attitudes and actions argue the opposite.
At all costs, the children of racist parents must never learn the whole truth of racism in America ...or in their own families, more importantly. The parent's lamest deflection of guilt is to blame their own children (shamelessness knows no bounds): "It might hurt their feelings." (Spit coffee out.)
Yeah right. Do they care about the little whelps' tender feelings when they drill fear and hatred of "others" into their malleable brains in their formative years? Do they care about all the little brown and black kids' feelings who've suffered persecution in all its disgusting forms for the entire history of this country at the hands of arrogant white pissants who think they are God's chosen race?
The real issue is the white feelings of racist parents. That's one of the biggest problems with public education in America, right up there with a lack of funding, which is also a direct result of institutionalized racism (CRT if you will; although, it's not just theory).
Racist parents won't be cheering on the elected members at school board meetings until Brown v. Board of Education is reversed and the members are replaced by the herd, chanting, "Segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever!" Sing along, kids -- follow the white bouncing ball.
Although abortion and guns can be effective wedge issues for rich sociopaths to manipulate our poorly educated, the greatest wedge of them all is still racism (if only because it’s such a versatile, (albeit specious) construct to exploit). The behavior of racists is much like that of any addicts-they have acquired the need to get a regular dose of hate to satisfy their fear and anger for whoever they were taught is the “other,” and the oligarchs pay their propagandists to supply that measure of rage and spice it up with a little hubris, lust, greed, envy and tribalism to reinforce the brainwashing. Just like addicts, racists’ decisions cause negative externalities to their family, friends and society, (and they pass along their racist/tribal beliefs to their children-a vicious cycle of reckless child endangerment). And just like addicts, they are not going to change their beliefs until they hit bottom. People who have learned to become racists are poorly educated citizens if only because what they were taught made them racists (and Trump and the other morbidly wealthy flimflammers love them because they are so easily controlled). Since Trump’s cult members still obey him, he will continue to use the threat of his monolithic voting base to make Congressional Republicans do his bidding and make them participate in his big grift.
The way they hit bottom is to lose election after election.
It really is a matter of reaching out to as many people as possible in this next year to vote Democratic. As partisan as as that sounds (it is), what other game in town is there that can beat the autocratic juggernaut? Like it or not, casting a vote is the best weapon the common folk can wield.
The Democratic Party can be fixed, the Trump Republican Party can't; it has to be reinvented almost from scratch. Good luck with that.
Meanwhile, the country and the world don't have the time or energy to waste on sheer idiocy.