a decent flip

So basically, people are mad they had to actually parent, and couldn't pawn their kids off on someone else for 10 hours a day?

2022 will be crt all the time baby

I thought the "CRT" bugbear/schelling point conservatives focused on to demonstrate opposition to the teaching of dogmatic hardline antiracist doctrine in schools was too inaccurate to be ineffective, but it seems like it was probably more effective than the "CRT is not real" counterpoint, which is in its own way a reductive description of reality

The CRT misnomer wouldn't have worked if Terry McAuliffe didn't say... "I don't think parents should be telling schools what they should teach." That is what literally ended his campaign. His numbers dropped soon after those attacks came. He was coasting towards a victory simply by goodwill by the dems having reasonable favorability here.

You're right, but vis-a-vis the two rhetorical strategies, I don't think more people were convinced by the semantic debunking of "CRT" than were ultimately drawn in by the fact that it gave a name to pedagogical sentiments and experiments that were objectionable to them (and in turn led McAuliffe to make his gaffe in defense of them, although obviously proximate causation between that and anti-CRT rhetoric is too weak to give them credit per se)

I guess what i'm saying is that if some parent is informed of the existence of something in the curriculum they think is racist against white people, learning that it is not actually directly sourced from the work of kimberle crenshaw and derrick bell generally doesn't make them dislike it less

he could have phrased it in a not so literal way. Did he think that was a winning message?

If anything, this election cycle proves that the democrats need to revamp their strategy.

Lets be honest, moderate America is by far the largest voting bloc in the country. They can go either republican or Democrat every election

Democrats attempting to appeal to small sects of voters with trendy topics doesn’t do them any good, it doesn’t win elections. The only reason they had so much success recently was because trump was a basket case and they were able to run off “trump boogeyman” rhetoric which isn’t going to work going forward

Critical Race Theory is NOT White Fragility!

Imagine yelling “Make America Great Again” for over 4 years and don’t even know when it was great and why.

Do you think he's even involved in his children's education, lol? Dude probably lets the private schooling do all the work.

Of course. Engaging in a fruitful discussion about race in the mainstream political sphere is an automatic L, especially from demographic that suffers from white fragility. This CRT strategy is no different than "The dems are taxing you and giving your hard earned money to undeserving minorities." It's all rooted in an attack on "whiteness."

It's a losing battle on any side to try to engage in ultimately philosophical battles within an electoral political landscape. Politicians do best when they stick to abstracts, only being specific if they need to respond to a policy from their opposition.
If the entire argument from the Ds were "we need to teach our children about the history of this nation, and that includes its ups and its unfortunate history of downs" and then appended it with something like "and that also including highlighting great american intellectuals of all races" or something, I guarantee they would not receive virtually any complaints except for the usual crowd who'd complain not matter what they did since it's a D instead of an R on the ticket. (for clarity not saying this is my view per-se, just saying what would go over well electorally)
This really hasn't been the case and D and D-adjacent messaging on this issue has really been so bad that it's hard to detach it from republican scaremongering, because when there isn't a willingness to even really call out grifters, it makes you seem complacent. It doesn't really help that the vast majority of CRT in current discourse has nothing to do with critical theory and instead is basically a corporate grift from a very small group of people, and much of what's in schooling is just run-off from this because of where the teachers themselves were being college educated (the density of this stuff in college is ridiculous, and it all leads back into the corruption of our universities more than it does any actual theory itself). The fact that even with this win from Rs the immediate DNC strategy is calling everyone racists and saying whiteness is the problem shows they haven't learned anything and don't want to.

Exactly. S*** feels just like 2016 when Trump won and now white women are the problem again.

A small COVID outbreak happened at my job in the midst of them suing the government for the vax laws

still won’t change their minds

all caps man at it again

cringe

Dem stances on education are tailor made to lose votes

nytimes.com/2021/11/02/us/politics/salt-cap-tax-deduction.html

“My guess is the majority of Americans with a net worth of $50 to $300 million would get a tax cut under the Build Back Better plan with a full repeal of SALT,” Jason Furman, an economist at Harvard who was the chairman of the White House Council of Economic Advisers under President Barack Obama, said on Twitter on Tuesday. “The bill would do more for the super-rich than it does for climate change, childcare or preschool. That’s obscene.”

"The Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget described the repeal of the SALT cap as a “regressive” tax cut, estimating that it would cost $90 billion a year in lost government revenue. The wealthiest would make out the best, with a SALT cap repeal distributing more than $300,000 per household in the top 0.1 percent of earners and only $40 for a middle-income family over the first two years."

lol

Is political leadership corrupt or is society corrupt? If society is corrupt, are you corrupt?

Amazing brother

Political Science book soon

not commenting on the situation of the tweet cus i aint followin the political news like that but the style in which this tweet is written reminds me of trump's writing style

i wonder how much he influenced the way ppl actually in politics communicate bout politics