Republican Hypocrisy category archive
“If You Don’t Talk about It, It Didn’t Happen” 0
LZ Granderson ponders on the reasons for opposing the discussion of critical race theory. A snippet:
Follow the link for the rest.
Afterthought:
I’m a Southern boy.
I had ancestors who held (as the expression goes) slaves.
I don’t feel guilty about it, because I wasn’t there. But I will be damned if I will participate in excusing or exculpating or whitewashing (you will pardon the expression) their sin.
All That Was Old Is New Again 0
Richard Nixon’s “Southern Strategy” has come full circle.
The Republican Party has become the party of racism.
The Cowardice of Their Convictions 0
The Des Moines Register’s Reka Basu calls out Republicans’ efforts to ban “critical race theory” and, along with that, honest discussion of American history. A snippet:
It’s too guilt-inducing, they say.
Aside:
Methinks it induces guilt because the guilt is deserved, and they can’t face that.
Or perhaps they feel no guilt and don’t want others to do so.
All the News that Fits 0
And that goes for the advertisements, too.
Ignorance /= Bliss 0
At the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Antonio French derides the duplicity of those (mostly Republican) politicians who have embarked on a crusade against “critical race theory.” Here’s an excerpt; follow the link for the rest.
But, of course, willful ignorance is never the answer.














