Posted on 07/05/2021 6:27:24 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
As I’ve written recently, Republicans have made serious gains in the battle to stop Critical Race Theory from becoming engrained in public schools. Parents have spoken out at school board meetings, elections have been won on the local level, and state-level bills to ban the propagation of CRT have passed. Some of the stand-outs in taking this issue seriously have been Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and Texas Gov. Greg Abbott.
The responses from the left provide evidence that they are on their heels. From claims that CRT isn’t being introduced into schools at all to the NEA pushing a plan to get it into thousands of districts, the incoherence of their rebuttals shows that Republican preemptive attacks have caught them off guard.
Of course, for one segment of the right, actually winning a major culture war is way too icky and uncalled for. Thus, you get David French colluding with CRT proponents to write a rebuke in The New York Times of those that have dared to fight back.
I was honored to work with @kmele, @thomaschattwill, and @jasonintrator to write in the NYT against broad, vague laws designed to suppress CRT. They’re speech codes and thus “antithetical to educating students in the culture of American free expression.” https://t.co/y8kJKvAMBt
— David French (@DavidAFrench) July 5, 2021
The general arguments presented by these people are ludicrous on their face, assuming that public schools exist as a “marketplace of ideas” when they clearly have always been heavily regulated. Curriculums are chosen based on their ability to educate students. They are not fleshed out via teaching wild, racist theories like CRT without any boundaries. There are hundreds of different schools of thought that are not taught in K-12 education. You can’t teach Holocaust denial, for example, nor would any student be educated by such tripe. The same is true for CRT, which exists as racial essentialism pushing the notion that certain races of people are inherently oppressive. It’s pseudo-science garbage.
But my point in writing this is not to take the Times article apart or to do another breakdown of why CRT is bad. Rather, it’s to point out that French (he’s one of the multiple authors of the piece) represents a type of Republican that is always looking to surrender. The idea that there is any danger to freedom of speech or ideas because CRT isn’t allowed in school curriculums is obviously ridiculous. Yet, French makes that argument because he needs some way to counter the fact that Republicans are actually making headway regarding a major culture war issue.
There’s no better evidence of that than to note where French is choosing to share his opinions. The New York Times is a far-left, dumpster fire of a publication. The only reason French was invited to participate in its pages is that he held a view counter to the majority of Republicans. In other words, for some right-wing grifters, the losing is the point. It opens doors that are not open to any other conservatives. If you make common cause with CRT proponents, you get to write in the Times and go on MSNBC. You get left-wing billionaires wanting to give your publication money.
Back on the topic of CRT, French’s common retort is to claim that civil rights laws need to be leaned on in order to stop any overreach in regards to CRT. Yet, the head of the DOJ’s Civil Rights Division is a CRT proponent and radical racial essentialist. Further, once something becomes ingrained in public education, it’s basically impossible to excise it. In other words, French is stumping to lose without admitting that he’s stumping to lose. Joe Biden’s DOJ is not going to protect children who are discriminated against based on CRT, and if you don’t use state-level power to stop it now, there will be no stopping it.
Again, the losing is the point because if Republicans win this battle, it’s another mark against an establishment wing that has gotten way too comfortable profiting off of failure. Luckily, few on the right are listening to the likes of French anymore.
How appropriate... the name of that quisling is “french.”
The republican lovable losers are selling out America to the highest bidder.
Like a pop up fireworks display. I’ll take some F35s, couple of suitcase nukes and sparklers for the kids.
The whole idea is to marry into that scam straight, gay or lesbian.
Grandpa and Grandma are on the menu.
snap!
David Frum, David French, and David Brooks. They all say the same thing, surrender.
This article, correct as it is, made me sad. I respected French once, before he went insane over President Trump.
That's the biggest takeaway in all of this, and that's why you have this irrational, I mean borderline psychotic anger at Trump. I mean the Left poked fun at Bush but it's like that old cartoon with the sheep dog and coyote punching in and out and being cordial to each other only to be opposites throughout the day. With Trump, they knew Trump was bringing down all this crap and showing Americans what a farce the two-party system is.
It is a no-brainer that any so-called “republican” that chooses the NY Slimes, Politico, The Compost, CNN, etc...to air their grievances is a stone-cold RINO or, as some put it, an Assistant Democrat, or Democrat Lite.
Would they also support the right to teach CRT from a KKK perspective? I did not think so.
Don't be absurd.
Any gains have been made by outraged and activated parents, none of whom have a serious Republican identity, and they are getting zero help from the Party.
Their only principle is to hve no principles.
Their only strategy is preemptive surrender.
Their only plan for victory is to alienate their base as much as possible.
They did such a good job of replacing the Whigs that they have become the Whigs.
They can get you just aas much socialism for less.
No, they are regulations to prevent children from being maleducated, Mr. French. Has nothing to do with "speech." Do you truly not know the difference? Under this logic Holocaust Deniers should be able to contribute to curriculum since prohibiting their nonsense would be "speech codes."
And whether they do or do not - no one should abdicate their responsibility on something like this to politicians. These are our children and our education system we are talking about.
OK, CRT is in the “marketplace of ideas”. They make it SOUND like capitalism, the American Flag, mom, baseball, and all that.
The problem is that it is a garbage product that you are forced to buy at very high prices upon pain of losing your wealth (home) or freedom (jail). And the other, better products have suddenly become unavailable for purchase.
Give us a warning before posting stuff like that. Gee whiz.
“Again, the losing is the point because if Republicans win this battle, it’s another mark against an establishment wing that has gotten way too comfortable profiting off of failure. Luckily, few on the right are listening to the likes of French anymore.”
Failure is a good business for the grand OLD party. It’s so much easier and just about as profitable to complain meekly than it is to lead. I seem to recall, after who knows how many House votes shutting down Obamacare, that they suddenly had both houses and the Presidency and did squat. Trump was waiting for a plan. I’ll bet that not a single page of that plan was written.
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