The out of touch leftist media
Watching the hysteria on MSNBC and CNN as the election returns rolled in last night was almost as fun as election night 2016. The pundits in the corporate media like Nicole Wallace and Joy Reid suffer from several erroneous assumptions. First, no one is sharing their ratings with them. They pull almost as many eyeballs as a moderately successful YouTube commentator. Joe Rogan makes them look like amateurs.
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That is why the conversation on CNN and MSNBC last night was all about racist dog whistles and disinformation about critical race theory. It completely ignored the election of Lt. Governor Winsome Sears, a black female, and Attorney General Jason Miyares, the son of Cuban immigrants. Many people on social media were calling the corporate media shills out for the oversight as if these commentators would recognize diversity in the Republican Party under any circumstances.
They won’t, and they never will. Because the Democrat Party runs on identity politics, the corporate media must behave as if people fall neatly into specific ideologies based on the color of their skin. Sadly, many of them believe it. These commentators can’t feel what most Americans feel....
So while it feels like gaslighting, it is not clear that people like Wallace, Reid, Kirsten Powers, or Brianna Keilar understand what the education issues are. It seems the corporate media listens to their own cultural icons less than conservatives do. Bill Maher has told them exactly what parents are seeing based on the pedagogy of critical race theory, and they aren’t listening....
Once Maher understood what the phrase “critical race theory” meant to parents after his guest explained how educators applied the concepts, he responded, “If that’s what critical race theory means, if it means separating five-year-olds by race and telling some you’re oppressors and the others you’re the oppressed. And giving up on a colorblind society. And resegregation. And racism is the essence of America. Then I’m out.”
Give credit to Maher for trying to understand the issue that parents observed in the school curriculum during the pandemic. His reaction was exactly what parents across the country felt when they understood the activities, lessons, and ideas that the school curriculum exposed their children to. The issue of the K-12 curriculum is cultural, not political. The party that seeks to understand the cultural problem will win the political battle.
And what parents object to in the curriculum is adjacent to why they listened to Sears and Miyares and supported them. Their stories are emblematic of everything great about America. Sears came to America with her father from Jamaica and served as a Marine before becoming a citizen. Miyares escaped communism in Cuba and understands the public safety issues caused by progressive prosecutors.
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The left has defended the actuality of Critical Race Theory by engaging in a semantics game, calling such things as 'Equity, Diversity, and inclusion." It is a distinction without a difference. They still are pushing the same racist garbage and trying to mislead those who oppose it. Give Maher credit for seeing through the BS.
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