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I should add that Critical Race Theory is racist toward all races, not just whites.
I mean, when you're characterizing things such as "punctuality" and "professionalism" as "inherently white" - that is the bigotry of low expectations toward anyone who isn't caucasian.
It's propaganda that actually divides us by race, and should have no place in American culture.
Of course, when it comes to Marxism, that has always been true.
So that's your roundabout way of saying you don't have the receipts to prove URI students are being forced to study anything against their will.
"Receipts". I like your terminology there.
And no, you misinterpret me as you are so wont to do.
I said quite the opposite a few posts back, conceding that - sadly - it is actually worse in other Blue States.
However, if we are complacent it can happen here as well - as it has in CA, OR, WA, NY, IL and other places.
I mean, when you have city halls waving the BLM flag - which is intrinsically a political act (might as well wave the Democratic Party flag), the Overton window has clearly been moved.
Fortunately BLM's reputation has been on a robust descent. All the public needs to do is be exposed to what is happening, and they quickly turn against this nonsense....regardless of race, color or creed.
Your link from the "city journal" quotes Tucker Carlson heavily. You are promoting right wing propaganda against left wing propaganda.
The reality of URI is that it's about 70% white which is about right for RI. And I really doubt that URI students are being forced into anything. They all have the right to engage professors in debate.
It is a popular meme of the extreme right to try to discredit higher education. Dumb and uninformed is good for the general populace- keeps them in check.
And no, you misinterpret me as you are so wont to do.
I said quite the opposite a few posts back, conceding that - sadly - it is actually worse in other Blue States.
However, if we are complacent it can happen here as well - as it has in CA, OR, WA, NY, IL and other places.
I mean, when you have city halls waving the BLM flag - which is intrinsically a political act (might as well wave the Democratic Party flag), the Overton window has clearly been moved.
Fortunately BLM's reputation has been on a robust descent. All the public needs to do is be exposed to what is happening, and they quickly turn against this nonsense....regardless of race, color or creed.
Well, this isn't a forum to discuss other states, its about RI. And you said URI students were being force fed an ideology but can't point to a course they're required to take which would back up your statement.
Then, as is typical, you deflected to partisan political broadsiding.
I pray you don't support those who think black lives don't matter but that's not really pertinent to the statement you made about URI.
Your link from the "city journal" quotes Tucker Carlson heavily. You are promoting right wing propaganda against left wing propaganda.
The reality of URI is that it's about 70% white which is about right for RI. And I really doubt that URI students are being forced into anything. They all have the right to engage professors in debate.
It is a popular meme of the extreme right to try to discredit higher education. Dumb and uninformed is good for the general populace- keeps them in check.
Mediabiasfactcheck is biased. See how easy that is?
Please. The City Journal article also quotes Brian Stelter and CNN, you conveniently left that out.
But more to the point: Who cares? When you pretend "right wing sources" just aren't believable, and tout the NY Times and Washington Post in their stead, half the country laughs. These "institutions" lost much of the respect they never deserved years ago, but they keep telling you they're so great - so you just trust them because when have they ever given you a reason not to? (Har!)
Anyway: When you have literally seen city halls put up "Black Lives Matter Signs" next to RI state flags on the tax payer's dime, writing this off makes no sense.
And other states do matter. BLM is a national movement, so seeing how far they will go when given an inch reveals quite a bit, and is instructive when assessing parameters in our own watery little sliver of a state. (I say that with love.)
But make no mistake: The only reason the rioting wasn't as sustained here as it was in places like Portland and Seattle is because our state govt. drew a line in the sand. When people were talking about trashing Garden City, the friggin' National Guard showed up. That sends a strong signal. These people will only get away with what we allow them to get away with.
People are waking up. My Democrat neighbor, who never owned a gun in his life, is now officially armed and voted for Trump.
But sure. If you want to continue to believe everything that four giant corporations who own most of the media you consume tell you - then by all means - it's a free country. I'm sure they have your best interests at heart, and wouldn't $ell you down the river to the globalists like giant corporations usually do. It's not like Amazon that owns the WaPo has made over a trillion off COVID while literally shutting down the competition. What possible motives could they have to give you bad information? Or MSNBC, or CNN, or any of these other behemoths.
But you need to try and understand that I used to be just like you in that respect. And I still look at most of the information you're getting - so lectures regarding source material are entirely useless.
So go ahead and stick with "mediabiasfactcheck" that will always tell you, against all mathematical probability, that anything you hear outside of your mediaverse is just lies. Anything that Comcast, or NBC-Universal, or Jeff Bezos peddles is always right - and you scoff at your moral inferiors for just not being sophisticated enough to really get it! Scoff I say~!
But stop playing silly games, if there was anything specific in the article you are able to debunk, Have-ats! People are getting tired of those on the left just trashing a source - it's not a real argument.
I'll continue to look at both "sides" and make up my own mind. And right now, it's no contest - the lies of the corporate media have become downright insidious, and anyone who believes even half that garbage is truly lost in our modern information war.
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It's not like Amazon that owns the WaPo has made over a trillion off COVID while literally shutting down the competition. What possible motives could they have to give you bad information?
Well looky here:
Amazon, the trillion dollar tech company, has hired lobbyist Jeff Ricchetti, whose brother will be the top White House counselor to Joe Biden.
[i]According to disclosure forms filed with Congress, Ricchetti will lobby for Amazon on “(i)ssues related to COVID-19, including implementation of the CARES Act.”
Ricchetti Inc. is poised to be a lobbying powerhouse in the Biden administration.
This article here is as good a place as any to start: https://www.city-journal.org/critica...can-classrooms
In fact, it's far more pervasive than just college classrooms. It's also being taught in lower grades, and being embedded into work places.
And, yes, when white teachers are told they must acknowledge their "privilege" or they cannot teach, "force feed" is an accurate description.
This has been going on for years, but really ramped up when BLM had their moment in the "sun" last summer.
Why would anyone object to the fundamental acknowledgement of Privilege? Better to deny it exists? Better that students be taught it doesn't exist or as it obviously does, it's not to be spoken of in school??
Why would anyone object to the fundamental acknowledgement of Privilege? Better to deny it exists? Better that students be taught it doesn't exist or as it obviously does, it's not to be spoken of in school??
HINT...if you want to be taken seriously, lose the capitalization of the word "privilege". The grammar police might be along soon...
HINT...if you want to be taken seriously, lose the capitalization of the word "privilege". The grammar police might be along soon...
Further hint: If you want to be taken seriously, don't put privilege in quotes like it's debatable. It isn't. The police allow capitalization for emphasis.
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