Republican Hypocrisy category archive
Ipso Facto 0
The Arizona Republic’s E. J. Montini comments on a law progresssing through the Arizona legislature to ban teaching critical race theory in schools, where it is not taught. A snippet:
Misdirection Play, Hey! Rubio! Dept. 0
At the Orlando Sentinel, Pam Vety explains the con.
Racism Supreme 0
Thom discusses today’s Republican Party’s embrace of racism as it relates to the recent vacancy on the Supreme Court.
Still Rising Again . . . . 0
At the San Francisco Chronicle, Andrew Straus suggests that the United States could learn from how Germany deals with the legacy of Nazism and the Holocaust.
In the course of the discussion, he gets to the nub of the current fuss in the United States over critical race theory and “divisive concepts” (emphasis added):
I commend the entire piece to your attention.
Governor Trumpkin, Reprise 0
At The Roanoke Times, Martin A. Davis, Jr., points out that Virginia’s new governor’s recent “Executive Order 1” contradicts itself. A snippet; follow the link for more.
It’s hard to understand how children can be taught to think for themselves when the state wants to aggressively ban anything that even hints of controversy.
Afterthought:
In Republican World, truth is to pursued–and vanquished.
Vaccine Nation 0
The writer of a letter to the Kansas City Star points out that Santayana was right.
“Whitewashing History” 0
The Richmond Times-Dispatch’s Michael Paul Williams explains, in the context of a column about Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin, whose first official act was to ban critical race theory in schools, where, again, it is not taught. A nugget (emphasis added):
This all-consuming concern over “inherently divisive concepts” and the Constitution is rich coming from a member of a political party in thrall to a former president so divisive that he inspired an insurrection that the vast majority of GOP lawmakers are loath to acknowledge or investigate.
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