I started to type a bunch of stuff. I just can’t anymore. This is all too depressing.
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Coming to late-night TV…
Did someone do something you don’t like? Call 1-555-SUE-THEM. Was it legal? So what!? You didn’t like it and now you need to get paid. Call now!
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That’s the advantage - once it’s divorced from its actual meaning, it can be whatever they want it to be. Teaching kids about systemic racism? That’s “CRT”! Teaching kids about the history of slavery? CRT! Letting kids read Martin Luther King? CRT! Stopping kids from engaging in racist bullying? CRT! Anything but the white supremacist version of history is “CRT.”
Other states have been releasing documents with proposed teaching guidelines/laws that make this pretty explicit. (E.g. teaching that slavery had a negative impact on one particular race isn’t allowed…)
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Don’t worry DeSantis, they aren’t trying to horn in on your “How-To” schtick. They are trying to teach against systemic racism.
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Dismiss me all you want, you fucking know it’s true.
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I’m not dismissing you. I am agreeing the situation is fucked. If you like I can remove that gif.
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No, it’s fine. I’m just a little edgy today. I mistook your meaning. Carry on.
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Summing it up as “anti-Enlightenment” is, at least, succinct.
Sayeth Orwell:
Many political words are similarly abused. The word Fascism has now no meaning except in so far as it signifies “something not desirable.”
Of course, in spite of the guy taking a bullet through his throat for literally being anti-fascist, more than once I’ve heard “if Orwell were alive today he’d be a Republican.”
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I’m waiting for a blue state to pass a similar law so the Supreme Court finally invalidate these bounty hunter laws.
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Why am I having a flashback to the years when (too) many legislators started focusing on (and fear-mongering about) Sharia law?
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Hmm… Wonder if this could be used against a school/school district rather than an individual teacher if any “systemic racism” is taught. You know like NA’s “helped” the pilgrims by choice (first thanksgiving stories), teaching any history that doesn’t involve details of racist abuse (my 4th grade CA gold rush history segment would have gone a little differently if we’d been taught a Chinese perspective) etc…
If they can’t define CRT, then maybe their bill may just bite them in the ass.
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A craptastic Dem candidate lost to this kind of bullshit in Va. so this will not be the last gQp politician to implement this strategy.
It works.
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Whether the lawsuit is filed against the teacher or the district it’s most likely the district that will be paying the legal bills against all the frivolous lawsuits, because if they don’t back the teachers against frivolous lawsuits then the districts will get blowback from the teachers’ unions.
At the end of the day this garbage is probably going to cost the taxpayers millions. Not that the “fiscal conservatives” actually care about that kind of thing.
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Newsom has proposed doing something like this in California applied to gun control. Here’s the problem with that. The current SCOTUS majority does not care one whit about consistency in its rulings. They will find a way to justify declaring that one unconstitutional (probably because of the 2nd Amendment) while upholding similar Texas and Florida statutes on abortion and the teaching of CRT. Do not count of SCOTUS being the last line of defense anymore. It will not matter if their rulings are inconsistent or don’t make sense to the rest of us, or to the most esteemed Constitutional scholars in the country. If they say these are ok, but those are not, that’s how it will be. To paraphrase former Justice Jackson, SCOTUS doesn’t have the final say because they are infallible. They are infallible because they have the final say.
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SCOTUS is fallible because they are political.
Corrupt…
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new york and ca are heading down that road now too
maybe it’ll wake the supreme court up enough for them to realize the “united” in the united states of america is supposed to have some meaning
or maybe they’ll unwind the whole federal system and put themselves out of a job. i could see either at this point.
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SCOTUS isn’t corrupt in the same way that other public figures such as elected politicians are corrupt. They don’t run for reelection, they aren’t dependent on donors and they get to keep their jobs even when their decisions are unpopular. They don’t even have to make rulings consistent with the assurances they gave at the time they were appointed, so they are pretty much bound only by their own consciences.
The problem with the current SCOTUS is that the Federalist Society has perfected a decades-long process to ensure that only the worst of the zealots get a shot at the job in the first place. Conservative activists don’t need to buy them off because they’re already committed to the cause.
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