DeSantis and Republican's unabashed anti-intellectualism

[Gunnar]

DeSantis vows to defund, if not destroy educational institutions not conservative enough, by his standards.

“An intellectually impotent ideology and party—when it cannot win, it will cheat,” says Tressie McMillan Cottom on the GOP making it harder to learn and harder to vote instead of trying to sway voters.

It is becoming ever more obvious that conservatives fear that they can remain in power only by deliberately appealing to the least educated, least well informed and most bigoted among the electorate, and discouraging higher education and critical thinking, especially about history and science. I can see them increasingly demanding that universities and other institutions of higher learning fire or refuse to hire in the first place professors who acknowledge the realities of global warming, biological evolution and the least laudatory aspects of our past history, including the shamefulness of the institution of slavery. If they succeed in their current, obsessive agenda, we are in serious danger of losing what world leadership and respect we still retain in science, technology, math, the world economy and even as a beacon of democracy and hope to the the millions (if not billions) still living and suffering under brutal, authoritarian regimes.

[Some Schmo]

What we're seeing in America is what the end of an empire looks like. Americans have become fat, stupid and complacent, the exact conditions for a fall. You're welcome, China.

The GOP is pandering to the ignorant and stupid (and encouraging ignorance and misinformation) only because they have nothing to appeal to the intelligent and educated.

The only hope is that today's youth generally seem to be aware that the GOP is comprised of assholes. It's the old damned farts we have to worry about.

[ajax18]

It's going to get more and more difficult for liberals to force conservatives to pay race grifters like Ibram X Kenadi to spew crtiical race theory nonsense, at least outside of New York and California. There's a staunch blowback to this nonsense coming in 2022 and it's well deserved.

Stacy Abrams and the Democrats are already walking back prior allegations that requiring voter ID is worse than Jim Crow after seeing that the polls are not on her side.

[Chap]

It's going to get more and more difficult for liberals to force conservatives to pay race grifters like Ibram X Kenadi to spew crtiical race theory nonsense, at least outside of New York and California.

But meanwhile, there are people around who actually think it is a good idea to know what this race stuff is about before they start shouting about it ... and fortunately at least one of them is at the top of the US military.


America’s top general defends study of critical race theory by military

The chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, Gen Mark Milley, defended the study of critical race theory in the military when pressed on the issue before the House armed services committee, saying he wanted to “understand white rage”.

Critical race theory is a longtime academic concept centered on the idea that institutions in the US inherently create economic, political and social inequities between white people and people of color.

What the moral panic about ‘critical race theory’ is about
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The methodology has been misinterpreted and used as a talking point by Republicans in more than 20 states to propose legislation that would limit discussions about race and systemic oppression in classrooms, arguing it is divisive.

Now the debate is seeping into the military. At a defense budget hearing, the four-star general responded to Republican lawmakers who implied the Pentagon was accepting of critical race theory, decrying the inclusion in West Point courses, and saying that embracing the concept would weaken the military’s mission.

“I personally find it offensive that we are accusing the United States military … of being ‘woke’ or something else because we’re studying some theories that are out there,” he said. Milley said service members should be open-minded and widely read because they “come from the American people”. Milley was joined by the defense secretary, Lloyd Austin.

Michael Waltz, a Republican representative from Florida and a former Green Beret, raised concerns of critical race theory being included on a syllabus at West Point.

“This came to me from cadets, from families, from soldiers with their alarm and their concern at how divisive this type of teaching is that is rooted in Marxism, that classifies people along class lines, an entire race of people as oppressor and oppressed,” said Waltz.

Milley defended the curriculum and said: “I’ve read Mao Zedong. I’ve read Karl Marx. I’ve read Lenin. That doesn’t make me a communist. So what is wrong with understanding, having some situational understanding about the country for which we are here to defend?”

He said reading about political theories, and fostering open discussion could lend to understanding the more recent violent events in the US, and creating an environment of anti-extremism in the military.

“I want to understand white rage – and I’m white,” Milley told the committee. He said he wanted to know and analyze what caused thousands of people to storm the US Capitol during the 6 January insurrection, and “try to overturn the constitution of the United States of America”.

Hmmm ... let's look back at that second paragraph:

"Critical race theory is a longtime academic concept centered on the idea that institutions in the US inherently create economic, political and social inequities between white people and people of color."

Wow! Institutions (and maybe not just institutions in the US) might create inequities between people? That's .... evil. We all know that it goes back to God cursing the bad Lamanites with a skin of blackness. That's where it all comes from.

[Some Schmo]

There's a staunch blowback to this nonsense coming in 2022 and it's well deserved.

I'd bet a million dollars you have no damned clue what critical race theory is, especially if it's been explained to you.

Idiots will be idiots.

[ajax18]

Wow! Institutions (and maybe not just institutions in the US) might create inequities between people? That's .... evil. We all know that it goes back to God cursing the bad Lamanites with a skin of blackness. That's where it all comes from.

Critical Race theory is just a tool used by the Marxists to tear down America's institutions under the cover of America's sacred cow a.k.a. racism.

I'd bet a million dollars you have no stupid clue what critical race theory is, especially if it's been explained to you.

Your side is the one that is so careful not to define any of these terms lest it limit the power these words give you.

[ajax18]

"Critical race theory is a longtime academic concept centered on the idea that institutions in the US inherently create economic, political and social inequities between white people and people of color."

And what does equity mean to those writing this garbage? Does it mean equality of opportunity? No it means that any inequality of result is evidence of systemic racism. Personal decision making cannot be a factor. In fact Ibram X Kenadi wants an appointed anti racism commission with the authority to strike down any US law that has an unequal outcome on the basis that this law must be racist. So if a certain number of black thieves, disproportionate to their percentage of the population are charged with theft, laws against theft will be struck down since they create an unequal and therefore racist outcome.

Then they want to teach white kindergarteners to feel shame and guilt for the level of pigmentation in their skin and what was done many generations ago, have them confess their genetic white defect in tears. That's what institutionalized racism really is. These idiotic coerced public confessions are not much different than the tactics by Mao in China.

[Doctor CamNC4Me]

Your side is the one that is so careful not to define any of these terms lest it limit the power these words give you.

"Critical race theory is a longtime academic concept centered on the idea that institutions in the US inherently create economic, political and social inequities between white people and people of color."

-_-

[Doctor CamNC4Me]

Speaking of Hitler …

https://www.salon.com/2021/06/23/desant ... ith-state/

DeSantis signs bill requiring Florida students, professors to register political views with state

I feel like the whole Nazi thing isn’t that far off now.

- Doc

[ajax18]

"Critical race theory is a longtime academic concept centered on the idea that institutions in the US inherently create economic, political and social inequities between white people and people of color."

The same US that elected a less than competent black man twice as president? The same US that currently has a less than qualified vice president for no other reason than she could check the proper female and race card and this by the unwitting admission of the senile President himself? Here comes a definition change.