Saturday, May 29, 2021

Speaking of 'cancel culture': GOP state legislatures attempt to whitewash American history

 

Retiring Guy suspects that Tom Tiffany and his GOP pals in Congress are cheering on this effort.


As Republican lawmakers across the country advance state bills that would limit how public school teachers can discuss race in their classrooms, educators say the efforts are already having a chilling effect on their lessons. 
In recent weeks, Republican legislatures in roughly half a dozen states have either adopted or advanced bills purporting to take aim at the teaching of critical race theory, an academic approach that examines how race and racism function in law and society. Conservatives have made the teaching of critical race theory a rallying cry in the culture wars, calling it divisive and unpatriotic for forcing students to consider the influence of racism in situations where they might not see it otherwise.


Original 3/5/2021 post starts here

Headline from Forbes, 3/5/2021
As for Rove and ratings, Trump can’t be suggesting the network’s Election Night coverage slumped, since the high-drama night pushed Fox News to a record audience of 13.7 million viewers, the highest-rated Election Night coverage in cable news history. 
Trump nonetheless blames Rove for the GOP’s double loss in Georgia, where Senators Kelly Loeffler and David Perdue both failed to beat Democrats in the state’s dramatic double run-off in January. Trump says Rove is a “pompous fool with bad advice” who “did a rotten job with bad ads and concepts.”

 

Retiring Guy dislikes Karl Rove as much as the next person, but being a 'pompous fool' is no reason to dispatch someone to purgatory. 

Somebody's got tender sensibilities.


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