“If We Don’t Talk about It, It Didn’t Happen” 0
Leonard Pitts, Jr., gets to the core of the sudden wave of opposition to critical race theory. Here’s the gist; follow the link for the rest.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Once again (it’s a sad and boring refrain, is it not?), politeness is child’s play.
Maybe things like this wouldn’t happen were not so many guns lying around Whoops! That’s a forbidden thought in NRA Paradise.
Devolution 0
David speaks with Noam Chomsky about the devolution of today’s Republican Party and its use of cultural issues as a misdirection play.
Strike None! 0
At Above the Law, Elizabeth Dye argues that courts will bawk at Trumpettes’ attempt to sue Major League Baseball for moving the All-Star Game out of Georgia in response to the Georgia legislature’s voting suppression efforts.
Dis Coarse Discourse 0
John Feffer argues that we need some truth in labeling in political reporting and commentary.
Misdirection Play(s), Florida Man Dept. 0
The Orlando Sentinel’s Scott Maxwell takes a look at Florida Governor Ron DeSantis’s practice of building windmills just so he can tilt at them, with a focus on DeSantis’s latest shibboleth, Critical Race Theory. Here’s a bit; much more at the ink.
The declaration scored the governor the headlines he craved. (Washington Times: “Ron DeSantis vows action on critical race theory that teaches children to ‘hate their country’“)
Except for two key points:
1) That’s not what Critical Race Theory actually does.
2) No local school districts actually teach this theory as part of their curriculums.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
One more time, “accidental” and “negligent” are not synonyms.
The Lies of the Land 0
At the San Francisco Chronicle, David Morrell argues that Donald Trump’s big lie is not the first to bedevil (at least some of) the American people. Here’s a bit:
From my experience, the lies surrounding the Jan. 6 insurrection are no less blatant, no less absurd and no less grotesque than those that fueled the Vietnam War more than a half-century ago.
He was there in the command structure, not in combat, and he saw the lies being crafted first hand.
I was eligible for the draft back then. I knew that the Vietnamese War was, at best, a mistake and that my friends and I were subject to being drafted and sent to die for, at best, a mistake.
But, even then, I did not realize how big the lie was.