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Topic	Politics Containment Topic 380: Manchin Ease Theater
xp1337 11/03/21 2:33:26 PM #148:	I mean this is the stated goal of one of the first strategists behind making CRT a thing. They straight up stated that the intention was to brand as "CRT" a whole host of things to make it completely toxic and an easy way to consolidate a bunch of social/cultural issues under one buzzword. So GOP strategists and a handful of politicians know that the furor they've kicked up about CRT has absolutely nothing to do with what critical race theory actually is. But this is something they did knowingly and absolutely the base believes that "CRT" is taught in schools. They just have no idea that what CRT actually is is basically a graduate school legal circles theory on why inequality persisted even after the passage of civil rights, etc. But the base has been maliciously and intentionally led to believe CRT is something else entirely full of vague concepts like "teaching that all white people are racist" and because they're so insulated in a right wing media bubble and feedback loop any attempts to try and explain what it actually is will be ignored and accused of being fake news. I don't think this was your intention but it came off to me as a repackaging of "They take him seriously, not literally" which was some of the highest weapons grade bullshit spewed in 2016. At every single turn, up to and including a literal insurrection on the Capitol, the GOP base has shown they very much take things seriously and literally. So yeah, maybe people in the base don't mean actual, factual critical race theory when they mention CRT but that's kind of beside the point. The whole, "But CRT isn't taught to kids, oh my god!" is the natural, exasperated reaction to it and I agree it isn't effective because there's just no reaching most of these kind of people any more but I don't begrudge it too much because like, I understand it being the natural reaction and it really should be stated once or twice for the record for the sake of the truth if nothing else. --- xp1337: Don't you wish there was a spell-checker that told you when you a word out? <cite>xp1337 posted [p:959657381] in Politics C... [t:79732628]...</cite> <quote>I mean this is the stated goal of one of the first strategists behind making CRT a thing. They straight up stated that the intention was to brand as "CRT" a whole host of things to make it completely toxic and an easy way to consolidate a bunch of social/cultural issues under one buzzword. So GOP strategists and a handful of politicians know that the furor they've kicked up about CRT has absolutely nothing to do with what critical race theory actually is. But this is something they did knowingly and absolutely the base believes that "CRT" is taught in schools. They just have no idea that what CRT actually is is basically a graduate school legal circles theory on why inequality persisted even after the passage of civil rights, etc. But the base has been maliciously and intentionally led to believe CRT is something else entirely full of vague concepts like "teaching that all white people are racist" and because they're so insulated in a right wing media bubble and feedback loop any attempts to try and explain what it actually is will be ignored and accused of being fake news. I don't think this was your intention but it came off to me as a repackaging of "They take him seriously, not literally" which was some of the highest weapons grade bullshit spewed in 2016. At every single turn, up to and including a literal insurrection on the Capitol, the GOP base has shown they very much take things seriously and literally. So yeah, maybe people in the base don't mean actual, factual critical race theory when they mention CRT but that's kind of beside the point. The whole, "But CRT isn't taught to kids, oh my god!" is the natural, exasperated reaction to it and I agree it isn't effective because there's just no reaching most of these kind of people any more but I don't begrudge it too much because like, I understand it being the natural reaction and it really should be stated once or twice for the record for the sake of the truth if nothing else. --- xp1337: Don't you wish there was a spell-checker that told you when you a word out?</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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