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The Memo: Democrats go to war over 'wokeness'
The Hill ^ | 11/6/2021 | Niall Stanage

Posted on 11/06/2021 3:37:58 AM PDT by markomalley

Internal Democratic tensions over cultural change, equity and “wokeness” are boiling over after the party’s dismal showing in this week’s elections.

Progressives and centrists are in a pitched battle over how best to grapple with huge debates that have been roiling the nation in recent years. Those debates touch on some of the rawest topics in American life: race, gender and sexuality, as well as policing, criminal justice and education.

To the centrists, progressives are pushing and prodding the party out of the mainstream of American opinion, risking further electoral calamity. The left, they argue, is too glib, and too prone to confuse self-righteous social media chatter with the more nuanced realities of public opinion.

To the left, the centrists are cravenly abandoning the party’s core supporters and its core purpose. If the Democratic Party isn’t committed to making America fairer, they ask, what is it even there for? Many progressives also see the centrist approach as a strategic error, arguing that caution and timidity depress enthusiasm among key voting groups.

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I hope this little family spat will continue for about 3 more years....at least.
1 posted on 11/06/2021 3:37:58 AM PDT by markomalley
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I think that they Dems should accept wokeness. Embrace and enforce it. Those opposed must be punished. End the terrorism against wokeness. I wonder, was MLK secretly a slave owner? Was he really just the black face of white supremacy? Let’s get to tearing down some statues.


2 posted on 11/06/2021 3:45:48 AM PDT by FlipWilson
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There’s no difference between the two. They’re both craven commies.


3 posted on 11/06/2021 3:48:00 AM PDT by HighSierra5 (The only way you know a commie is lying is when they open their pieholes.)
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Yeah, it’s just a family fight. Let them


4 posted on 11/06/2021 3:58:17 AM PDT by Maskot (Put every dem/lib in prison........like yesterday!!! )
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Formal critical race theory — an advanced academic discourse — is not taught in Virginia public schools.


This is not totally true. Elements of Critical Race Theory (CRT) are taught to future teachers in Virginia public universities; which are then incorporated into lesson plans when these students become teachers in Virginia public schools.


5 posted on 11/06/2021 4:34:04 AM PDT by rwa265
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The Democratic strategist who spoke to this column still held out hope the party could find an electoral sweet spot.

“You can stand for racial progress in education, and for significant and substantial police reform, and still do very well” at the polls, the strategist said. “But you can’t say, ‘I want to defund the police and get parents out of education’ and do very well.”

The crux of what the Democrats are saying is: It is not the substance of the message that is the problem, it is the messaging. We just need to adjust the messaging to fool the voters better.

6 posted on 11/06/2021 5:06:34 AM PDT by marktwain (President Trump and his supporters are the Resistance. His opponents are the Reactionaries. )
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I love a good RAT FIGHT!


7 posted on 11/06/2021 5:11:12 AM PDT by Redleg Duke (“I’m not the olny one!”)
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I love a good RAT FIGHT!


8 posted on 11/06/2021 5:11:19 AM PDT by Redleg Duke (“I’m not the olny one!”)
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The woke folk just need to cancel, ban and censor the rest of the Democrats.

Game.

Set.

Match.

Forward, comrades!


9 posted on 11/06/2021 5:24:46 AM PDT by cgbg (A kleptocracy--if they can keep it. Think of it as the Cantillon Effect in action.)
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To: rwa265
I noticed that phrase also, and have a slightly different interpretation of it.

It's true that "Formal critical race theory" which is taught as "an advanced academic discourse" subject at the university level, is NOT taught in K-12 schools. At least not as expressed in those exact words. However, the concepts, themes, and some words (example, "white supremacy") are sprinkled throughout all K-12 curriculum and daily lesson plans and activities. The students will hear - and learn - those concepts during their entire public school education. Then when they go to college and enroll in the "Formal critical race theory" academic discourse classes, they will have been pre-programmed (ie. indoctrinated), agree and accept everything that those CRT professors spit out.

At least that's how I interpreted those phrases. That's how long-term planning and propaganda work.

10 posted on 11/06/2021 6:36:54 AM PDT by Prov3456
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....Long live AOC and her SQUAD and Carville and all radicals in the Marxist Party aka “the Democrat Party”. I hope their self destruction of the Marxist Party continues the next 100 years!

It started with Obama where the Marxist’s lost 1,000 elected offices and continues with Brandon!


11 posted on 11/06/2021 6:39:31 AM PDT by Cen-Tejas
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