Things that made you laugh today (Political Version)

[Gelston]

I didn't even know CNN+ was a thing.

I'm considering Fox Nation because it has COPS, but that would be the only thing I'd watch on it.

[ClydeR]

Aw Damn.

Hookworms giving the souf a bad name.

"stereotypes about "stupid, lazy Southerners" in the US were caused by centuries of hookworm infection which causes lethargy, anemia and iron deficiency. These, in turn, negatively affect growth and intellectual development in children."

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/articl...th-a-bad-name/

There was a good Stuff You Should Know podcast about hookworms.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yOVCsEsAsDo

If you live in the South today, you can thank an obsessive cow doctor, whose theory was initially maligned as crazy, and John D. Rockefeller, who needed a charitable project to improve his public image. I loved the part about people getting married in Rockefeller's hookworm tents. Very fun podcast.

[ClydeR]

BTW, common core is about as ridiculous method for teaching math as has ever been developed and is a complete and utter failure. If you cared about kids, you would want to see it gone too but you don't because people that can do math end up not voting for Socialists.

Did you know that Common Core was initially a Republican cause? Obama went along with it when he was sworn into office in 2009. Then Republicans switched sides and accused Obama of trying to take over the schools.

[Seran]

Did you know that Common Core was initially a Republican cause? Obama went along with it when he was sworn into office in 2009. Then Republicans switched sides and accused Obama of trying to take over the schools.

I'm not entirely sure why a base ten arithmetic standard or reading/language standards are so terrifying to Conservative Republicans. Their screaming about pedophile swamp lizard takeover of the world through common core gets donations going, so maybe that's the only legitimate reason as they see it.

[Tgo01]

I forget which thread Seran was losing his mind in (since it’s all of them now), but he said somewhere that the courts haven’t stuck down any of Biden’s mandates unlike Trump, which proved Trump was violating the constitution.

Well the courts just struck down Biden’s mask mandate on airplanes. So yeah, going by Seran’s own logic Biden is violating the constitution and isn’t fit for office. Be sure to do the right thing for the first time in your life, Seran, and don’t vote for Biden or any Democrat.

[Seran]

I forget which thread Seran was losing his mind in (since it’s all of them now), but he said somewhere that the courts haven’t stuck down any of Biden’s mandates unlike Trump, which proved Trump was violating the constitution.

Well the courts just struck down Biden’s mask mandate on airplanes. So yeah, going by Seran’s own logic Biden is violating the constitution and isn’t fit for office. Be sure to do the right thing for the first time in your life, Seran, and don’t vote for Biden or any Democrat.

Well, the Florida Federal District Court ruled that the CDCs mandate exceeded the authority granted under Administrative Procedure Act and Public Health Services Act, though I can see how you can read that sentence and see "Biden violated the constitution" , because all of those letters, except B can be reordered to mean what you interpret.

Maybe that's just it though, Conservatives like Dreaven aren't as partisan, paranoid and xenophobic as we think. They just suffer from such a severe case of dyslexia or cognitive dissonance that what they read or hear means = Biden sux

[Jeril]

You pull up a definition of a theory, one that only a small segment of sociologists actually believe mind you, and cry coup that it proves white people should hate themselves. Except nowhere in that definition did it call for the self recrimination of white people. Bhaalizmo pointed out time and again you inserted the concept of hate into CRT and that is no less true now than the first time you pretended not to realize it.

And you can't provide a better definition, because?

[Seran]

And you can't provide a better definition, because?

Because your definition wasn't really wrong, you just added an extra incorrect part about it teaching white hate. Kind of like Trump drawing on that NOAA map with a magic marker.

[Shaps]

CRT:

https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED506735.pdf

"Firstly, racism is ordinary: the overall ethos of majority culture promotes and promulgates a notion of “color-blindness” and “meritocracy.” These two notions are mutually intertwined and serve to marginalize certain enclaves of people—predominately people of color. Color-blindness and meritocratic rhetoric serve two primary functions: Critical Race Theory 7 first, they allow whites to feel consciously irresponsible for the hardships people of color
face and encounter daily and, secondly, they also maintain whites’ power and strongholds within society."

Get that? CRT teaches that seeing people as people, regardless of color, is actually racist.
Get that? CRT teaches that achieving something based on merit, is actually racist.
What the author is saying - is that POCs should only been seen for their color, and their achievements and merits do not count. It's sickening.


"One does not have to peer too far Critical Race Theory 9 back in U.S. history to ascertain that race has been socially constructed 2. Instances of
socially constructing race may include: (1) the infamous Dred Scott v. Sandford case whereby the U.S. Supreme Court declared that "Negroes," whether free or enslaved, were not citizens; or (2) the infamous “one drop rule,” a relic from the Jim Crow era where one drop of black blood made an individual “black.”; or (3) how in 1935 minorities were denied Social Security and excluded from unions."

All of the shit above? Democrats. Racist pieces of shit. Dred Scott? "The seven justices who supported the decision were indeed Democrats. But of the two dissenters — Benjamin Robbins Curtis and John McLean — only McLean was a Republican during his tenure as a Supreme Court justice."


And CRT is a backdoor Jim Crow 2020 style. Fuckin evil sick bastards.


This is an example of what teachers of CRT think... POCs are only good for "sports"...

"I am expected to tell the kids that if they study hard and stay out of trouble, they can become a law professor like me. That, however, is a very big lie: a whopper. When I started teaching law sixteen years ago, there were about thirty-five Hispanic law professors, approximately twenty-five of which were Chicano. Today, the numbers are only slightly improved. In the interim, however, a nearly complete turnover has occurred. The faces are new, but the numbers have remained the same from year to year. Gonzalez leaves teaching; Velasquez is hired somewhere else. Despite this, I am expected to tell forty kids in a crowded inner city classroom that if they work hard, they can each be among the chosen twenty-five. Fortunately, most kids are smart enough to figure out that the system does not work this way. If I were honest, I would advise them to become major league baseball players, or to practice their hook shots. As Michael Olivas points out, the odds, pay, and working conditions are much better in these other lines of work."


This shit is insidious propaganda designed to keep POCs thinking they are less than, can not achieve, and only their color matters. It's disgusting. It's the historical meanness of humanity wrapped up in pretty words. It's fucking sick is what it is.

I could keep quoting shit, but racists are going to keep being racists no matter how much I point out their racism.

[time4fun]

Yay, the racist Leftist come out in force to disparage parents right to control what is being taught.

And yes, CRT principles, the idea that everything in history should be viewed through the lens of racism and the idea that we should teach children to be racist and hate themselves is and has been taught for a good while now and it's destructive. Of course you all don't want to really end racism and sexism because then you wouldn't have the specter of racism and victimhood to control the populations you depend on for votes and money.

BTW, common core is about as ridiculous method for teaching math as has ever been developed and is a complete and utter failure. If you cared about kids, you would want to see it gone too but you don't because people that can do math end up not voting for Socialists.

What you described has absolutely nothing to do with Critical Race Theory you idiot.

Critical Race Theory is just an offshoot of Critical Legal Theory- which looks at the system of power and inequality as a social structure, and law as both a contributor to, and reflection of, that social structure. i.e. The law is part of how inequality is perpetuated, and legal reform is how we can remedy problems of social inequality. Not a single person here disagrees with that statement, I guarantee. And everyone here has, at some point in their life, said something along the lines of: "The law is there to protect rich people and screw over poor people". Congrats, you are a believer in the fundamental tenants of Critical Legal Theory.

Critical Race Theory is just applying Critical Legal Theory to racism and racial power. It does NOT- in any way, shape, or form- state that everything in history should be seen through the lens of racial inequality. It's a legal theory about the legal system and the way it has been used to enforce racism, and it's only interested in looking at legal remedies to the issue. NOT through the behaviors of individual actors.

Literally no one here believes that it hasn't. The "One Drop Rule", Segregation, racial limits on property ownership, laws that made black people actual property, etc. are all examples of the law enforcing racial inequality. If you can see that, then congratulations: you are a believe in the fundamental tenants of Critical Race Theory.

Again I cannot stress this enough: Critical Race Theory doesn't look at racism as an aggregation of individual actions taken by individual actors. It looks at racism as a social structure that exists independently of most of those actors and looks for remedies through legal change, not individual behavior change.

It is not interested in how children behave. It's not interested in how you behave. It does not give a shit about anyone who doesn't either create or actively enforce laws that are either intentionally written to codify racial inequality or that have the unintentional effect of codifying racial inequality.

What's actually going on here is a bunch of people want to get schools to stop talking about the existence of, and history of, racism in this country. And they just put together a whole list of things they think shouldn't happen- most of which isn't- and gave it a name that would scare people: Critical Race Theory.

Because they know virtually no one outside of niche academic and community activist circles has any idea what it means, and that they won't bother to look it up from an independent source.