Dark does not mean deep.
I think you are misrepresenting what I said.
My viewpoint is that education is more important. I was addressing his view that a diabetic may disagree. However, I also explicitly said that we should be able to solve both problems.
For a moment, I thought that you were replying to a different post, and didn't read my other comment, but that's not what happened. You edited out the part of the post in which I addressed the point you said I didn't.
While twisting what I said, you wrote "Spoken like a conservative."
Are you actions representative of critics of conservatism?
Sincerely,
Thomas Mets
Twitter LinkRick Santorum: “We have a bunch of people running around, particularly progressives, who all they want to talk about is let the people’s will be done.”
“No! No, no no, we don’t want the people’s will to be done immediately”
This might get some airtime tonight
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The Biggest Threat to Democracy Is the GOP Stealing the Next Election
The greatest threat to American democracy today is not a repeat of January 6, but the possibility of a stolen presidential election. Contemporary democracies that die meet their end at the ballot box, through measures that are nominally constitutional. The looming danger is not that the mob will return; it’s that mainstream Republicans will “legally” overturn an election.
In 2018, when we wrote How Democracies Die, we knew that Donald Trump was an authoritarian figure, and we held the Republican Party responsible for abdicating its role as democratic gatekeeper. But we did not consider the GOP to be an antidemocratic party. Four years later, however, the bulk of the Republican Party is behaving in an antidemocratic manner. Solving this problem requires that we address both the acute crisis and the underlying long-term conditions that give rise to it.
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There are many issues of legitimate importance, but we should be able to prioritize and to consider tradeoffs. We can't spend unlimited amounts of money on everything anyone cares about.
Some parents might not care for this in a book aimed at babies.
I think the term critical race theory means several things, so let's look at the different usages.
If you think CRT exclusively refers to a school of legal theory, I do not think that American high school students are taught material from law school textbooks. I would also say that's a misleading way of looking at it, as understandings from legal academia have moved to other fields, and research in CRT is often credited in work for education, while CRT texts have also called for activism in education.
Critical Race theory, as a method of considering the law, started out with some useful observations about systemic racism. It has come to inform policy discussions in other fields, including education. This informs both what teachers are taught and what students are taught, and it also influences work made for a popular audience. In this context, critical race theory is taught in American high schools, but it's a good thing. It's valid to consider the effects of redlining, or post-World War II financial support for white veterans.
In a discussion about Critical Race Theory for the New York Times Argument podcast, linguist John McWhorter said that at some point Critical Race Theory had changed.
This thing that he believes to be different than Critical Race Theory, which is what right-wing and moderate critics of CRT in Education are referring to, is also taught in some high schools, and informs the training that teachers receive. That said, I can completely understand calling it something else.I usually don’t refer to all of this as critical race theory or CRT. I think that what’s happened today has evolved so far beyond those basic and interesting ideas that after a while, you have to start calling it something else, after a while what once was Latin has become French. The idea is that a movement now takes a page, maybe two pages from CRT, and instead has become a kind of punitive mob-like mentality that acquires disproportionate influence because most people are deeply afraid of being called a racist on social media.
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It should. The GQP are literally admitting they're doing things counteractive to what the people need and want.
Like... why would you identify as a Republican? Is "owning the libs" so important to you that you'll let these people die for policies that amount to "we don't want to bruise Trump's ego"?
It's a death cult. You don't need to sacrifice yourselves, for f***'s sake start voting blue before you're in your graves.
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Look, I'm a Librarian. There are millions of books out there. Once a book is published, it's out there and there is no turning back. Banning books is a bad idea. A decision as to what a child should or should not read should be up to the parents. Parents can form their own children's book clubs to preview children's books and discuss if the book should be read by their children, but they can't tell other parents what their children should or should not read.
I'm not prejudging the book based on one page, and I won't say if I would give it to my child if I had any children, which I don't.
I will say that for every book published taking this position, you will find other books taking a different position, most of which were written before either of our Parents were born.
You will find a lot more children's books about diversity, racism, and similar topics now because they were never addressed in the past. Racism was a common trope in many children's books in the past. How do you think the parents of young black children felt about the only children's books available were the ones that portrayed Blacks as slaves, as inferior, or in some other way negatively?
So are you saying that we should stop there, refuse to teach children about the dangers of racism simply because it hurts white people's fragile feelings?
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Maybe Mets should learn more about the book. I am sure whatever right-wing site he got that from did not tell thermal story.
https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/sto...-adults-learn/
Why shouldn't parents read that to their children? Is this a bad lesson?
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There came a time when the Old Gods died! The Brave died with the Cunning! The Noble perished locked in battle with unleashed Evil! It was the last day for them! An ancient era was passing in fiery holocaust!
CPAC attendee sent me this pic of a card they were handed about a “7-pt. plan to restore Donald J. Trump in days, not years,” which involves installing Trump as speaker and ousting Biden & Harris.
Whomever wrote this must have been high on something illegal.
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