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Prof Triggernometry
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The childish Republican temper tantrums over critical race theory is nothing more than a puerile attempt to rally the party’s overwhelmingly White base by denying documented history and uncomfortable truths.
This manufactured controversy has nothing to do with actual critical race theory, which, frankly, is the dry and arcane stuff of graduate school seminars. It is all about alarming White voters into believing that they are somehow threatened if our educational system makes any meaningful attempt to teach the facts of the nation’s long struggle with race.
The Republican state legislators screaming and whining and pounding the table as they demand the authority to decide how history can and cannot be taught in schools — and right-wing assholes such as Ted Cruz who warn that children are being taught “every White person is a racist” — know exactly what they’re doing. They're seeking to stir up a panic (like Nixon did with his Southern Strategy) in hopes of driving up GOP turnout in next year’s midterm elections.
It’s a cynical ploy. But a party willing to pretend — even now — that Donald Trump might somehow have won an election he lost by MILLIONS OF VOTES clearly embraces cynicism as its core identity.
You read for pleasure, but not comprehension. You live in a leftist bubble.