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Incremental Outrageousness Is Killing America
Real Clear Politics ^ | 30 Jun, 2021 | Bruce Abramson

Posted on 06/30/2021 6:30:40 PM PDT by MtnClimber

Critical race theory has exploded into public consciousness. Millions of American parents are just coming to realize that our schools have become woke indoctrination centers preaching divisiveness, bigotry, discrimination, and disdain for American history. Most of them are wondering how we got here.

The answer is simple: Slowly. Incrementally. One step after another, over the course of decades. It’s hardly just K-12 education. An incentive system of “incremental outrageousness” has taken every aspect of American culture dangerously far from reality into the orgy of radical leftist hatred known as progressivism.

How did it happen without anyone noticing?

Turns out, we’ve reached the endgame of a strategy the radical left put in play in the 1960s: the long march through the institutions. The onslaught began in higher education—an institution particularly well suited for a takeover because it functions without external market signals. Success in academia hinges entirely on peer approval. Faculty members make all decisions concerning the hiring, firing, and promotion of junior colleagues, curriculum design, publication in prestigious journals, the appropriate paths for research, and the availability of public and private research funding.

The surest way to succeed as an academic is thus to flatter the senior folks charged with making decisions about your career. The best way to do that (within the bounds of legality and propriety) is to “build upon” their work—that is, by taking it one step further in the recommended direction. Senior academics select the direction. Junior academics bolster the prestige of their seniors whenever they make a new “scientific discovery” along the designated path. In one fell swoop these junior academics show how important past work has been and tie their own egos, prestige, and careers to those of their seniors.

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TOPICS: Society
KEYWORDS: communism; criticalracetheory; crt; wboopi

1 posted on 06/30/2021 6:30:40 PM PDT by MtnClimber
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To: MtnClimber

Before they build the new marxist system they must first destroy the old system. But, there are many who know exactly what the marxists are doing.


2 posted on 06/30/2021 6:30:55 PM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: MtnClimber

Slowly, incrementally. Don’t worry we’ll get em’. Just wait till November-right?


3 posted on 06/30/2021 6:33:59 PM PDT by DIRTYSECRET (1)
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To: MtnClimber

There is a well-known story of the frog in the pot of water which is slowly heated. So slowly, that the stupid frog doesn’t even realize it. The frog could jump out of the pot but does not and slowly boils to death.

Scientists say that, in fact, frogs aren’t that stupid. They can tell the water is slowly getting hot and they would jump out well before they are boiled to death. The story isn’t realistic.

Frogs may not be that stupid, but maybe we are. People say they are boiling mad, but maybe they are just boiling.


4 posted on 06/30/2021 6:38:50 PM PDT by ClearCase_guy
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To: DIRTYSECRET

But the biden has beaten back covid, has championed the poor people without gps who accidentally come to our country for a better life.

His outstanding leadership, anti-nepotism, and basement bedrock campaign style are the stuff of legends, as was his Beatdown of Putin

there will be no red wave


5 posted on 06/30/2021 6:39:59 PM PDT by algore
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To: MtnClimber

<< Most of them are wondering how we got here. >>

Yuri Bezmenov explains how: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1EA2ohrt5Q


6 posted on 06/30/2021 6:40:53 PM PDT by Mr. Mojo
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To: MtnClimber

They want the entire world to be their safe space.

Its not how life works.

None of us have that. Not here. Not in our real lives off the internet.


7 posted on 06/30/2021 6:41:59 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: MtnClimber

How did we get to the point where Moms and Dads shrug and wink and smile at rainbows to honor men and boys who stuff their peckers into any hole that satisfies?


8 posted on 06/30/2021 6:45:33 PM PDT by Fester Chugabrew (No audit. No peace.)
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To: ClearCase_guy

“Frogs may not be that stupid, but maybe we are.”

Little by little, inch by inch...


9 posted on 06/30/2021 6:52:49 PM PDT by hoe_cake (A Descendant of the Signers of the Constitution. )
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To: MtnClimber

Nothing new under the sun....

But I think they are over playing their hand much like the progressive movement in the early 20th century....

The truth will out...


10 posted on 06/30/2021 7:31:33 PM PDT by Crim (Palin / West '16)
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To: DIRTYSECRET

Remember no new party. Stick with the GOP. /sarcasm


11 posted on 06/30/2021 7:35:25 PM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: MtnClimber

It’s the same with gun control - small steps, small steps. And suddenly, here we are.

Thankfully, from a Constitutional Carry standpoint, it is what we are doing.


12 posted on 06/30/2021 7:36:14 PM PDT by Oatka
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To: MtnClimber

Who says we have to follow them? It will come down to use of force. To What manner will they resort?


13 posted on 06/30/2021 7:47:09 PM PDT by griswold3
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To: MtnClimber

The ONLY thing that matters is unlimited third world immigration. The rest is noise.


14 posted on 06/30/2021 8:51:04 PM PDT by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes.)
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To: hoe_cake
"Little by little, inch by inch..."

More like yard by yard, first down by first down, and touchdown by touchdown.....

15 posted on 06/30/2021 10:20:49 PM PDT by matthew fuller (Biden's illegal presidency is a demonazi declaration of war on Americans and civilization.)
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