Posted on 05/05/2023 5:15:24 PM PDT by Libloather
As Republicans have become mired in MAGA radicalism, it has become standard operating procedure for them to parry criticism of their extremist tendencies by pointing across the partisan barricades and shouting, “They’re worse!” This often involves scanning the landscape for any lefty idea or proposal that sounds scary and attributing it to the entire Democratic Party. And lo and behold, it turns out if you say Democrats want to “defund the police” often enough, people will begin to believe it, even though (1) Democratic elected officials from Joe Biden down to the local dogcatcher have vociferously denied it and (2) the criminal-justice reformers who actually have talked about “defunding the police” were mostly proposing that functions remote from proper policing be shifted (along with the funding to pay for them) from police departments to social-services agencies.
Inspired by the effectiveness of such tactics, conservatives are always on the hunt for some phantom menace they can attribute to Democrats or (more vaguely) “the left.” They may hit the jackpot this weekend, as a state-appointed task force in California considers legislative recommendations for slavery reparations (which won’t be finalized until July 1).
The task-force report, spurred by the racial justice protests of 2020 and the product of several years of research, will be wide-ranging, documenting many decades of discrimination against descendants of slavery in California in areas ranging from housing, overincarceration, and denial of health benefits. Its recommendations will be for policy changes to prevent future discrimination, not simply reparations for individuals. The task force, moreover, is only calling for “down payments” on justified reparations, and it’s clear the legislature may reject cash awards altogether. But conservative media is already leaping to report scary-sounding figures based on estimates of actual economic damages to Black people, as in this Fox News piece:
(Excerpt) Read more at nymag.com ...
Let them do it. In fact if they don’t do it, then they should be condemned as hypocrites.
Where’s the barf alert?
Really? Who is this twit anyway?
I don't know what those clowns in CA did to arrive at their numbers, but there sure as hell is some flawed analysis there.
Nobody on the Right is going to freak out about it. We’re just going to shake our heads and laugh - kinda like we do at the hordes of drug addled bums living on the street, taking dumps on the sidewalk, leaving used needles everywhere and forcing businesses to close in places like San Francisco, LA, etc
This has nothing to do with reality. It is lining bup the soldiers.
I would love to see your findings on Twitter. Do you Tweet?
That is where conservative information takes off.
Maybe the Mexicans in California will get sick of it and do something.
I’m not on Twitter.
Pity.
That is an interesting piece of information and could move thru Twitter verse.
I have tried to link Twitter to fr posts without luck. Perhaps to a new thread?
California will build that high-speed railway and require all reparation recipients to ride that train to pick up the check, before the payout happens.
Nah, it’s a great idea. When another million flee Cali and the real estate market there collapses (the banking system funding it already has), they can blame racism again.
Why not just take what I said, copy it, and post to Twitter?
NY Mag is targeted toward readers on the low end of the IQ scale. They all use “Mommy’s basement” as a mailing address.
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