Anti-racism attacks my American Dream

Unherd ^ | 14 Nov 2022 | Asra Normani

[Rummyfan]

Why do Democrats condemn hardworking immigrants?

What was I — a lifelong Democrat — doing at an election watch party in rural Virginia, surrounded by Republicans? As Ron DeSantis, 800 miles away, filled a huge TV screen with a post-landslide victory speech, he provided part of the answer: “We chose education over indoctrination!” He got a raucous round of applause from the crowd at the Marriott Ranch, in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains. Even I joined

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“[T]he Democratic Party, which once valued fairness and justice, has, alas, been torching the American Dream. Democratic politicians, school boards, governors and even US Supreme Court justices are pushing “equity” over equality, “anti-racist” bigotry over colour-blindness, and mediocrity over merit. Literacy and maths scores are plummeting nationwide, while black and Hispanic kids are falling further and further behind — and yet progressive Democrats are far more interested in bringing crackpot racialist theories into our classrooms. In other words: they choose indoctrination over education.”

[Rummyfan]

The ability of an immigrant family to come to this country (legally), work hard, become educated and succeed in their chosen profession is a reality that race-baiters and professional victims will do anything to destroy, because it strips them of the power they obtain in the “cult of victimhood.”

[VTenigma]

In other words: they choose indoctrination over education.”

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Umm yeah, they’ve been doing that for more than 100 years and you’re just noticing? Can you say Thomas Dewey, I knew you could.

[princeofdarkness]

Governor Thomas Dewey? He was a moderate Republican. I think you mean John Dewey.

[VTenigma]

Absolutely right, and I’m an idiot.

[jmacusa]

You nailed it.

[the OlLine Rebel]

I never get this while thing about how Dems USED TO BE this and that. “Working man”, “oppressed minorities”, etc. that they used to love America….and the Constitution and principles of true freedom it’s supposed to imply.

In my memory and then some, Dems were NEVER truly this.

FDR definitely put the kibosh on any of this, if not prior.

By the ‘60s Dems we’re basically self-flagellating all of us with the notion that the US is bad and unfair to everyone.