The implosion of the Democratic Party thread

For the record I'm not calling you a liar and saying you're lying about watching Fox. I'm sincerely saying that you do seem to hold the same positions that they do, even if you're getting your information from what you believe are completely unrelated sources.

And your trying to brand me in that way is your lazy way out of having to actually grapple with my uncomfortable points. But please carry on.

You do not have uncomfortable points, you have awkward indents.

"You're"

I thought so at first too, but "your" is correct if you read it out loud.

Do you move your lips when you can't read out loud?

How would I know? I'm too busy putting my finger under each word to focus on something like that.

Only when I'm reading Tweets. I read them out loud and email you the audio file.

Because the Republican Party is divided on economic issues and united around social ones. Dems are the opposite.

Each party tries to make the discussion on their strong ground and the others weak one.

The big difference is that the Rs have an entire media ecosystem that works as their PR team.

Take CRT. Who in the left was talking about it outside of graduate level college classes?

The ‘wacky left’ didn’t make it an issue, the right did. And their followers ate it up.

I love how the pundits are saying that white people are afraid of learning about history. I thought CRT wasn’t being taught in school?

Do you really believe you've scored some kind of point here?

That would only be relevant if those terrified white people actually knew what CRT was.

But you don't even admit to knowing what CRT is after being told countless times, so...

Why do you assume they don’t know what it is? Oh and don’t post that tweet of the guy who didn’t answer, I’ve seen it several times.

It's not an assumption, I know it as an undeniable fact.

Because if they really knew what CRT was they wouldn't be worried about the content of a university course for law students being taught to kindergarteners.

Uh huh. You just know it. No wonder you think @Rimjob Bob is a conservative, despite his posting history.

I found it, you lying sack of shit.

The post quoted in my response was the OP of a thread you started asking what CRT was, a thread that got merged with CRT tangents from other threads.

You lying sack of shit.

Then why does it say it was started by @Man Afraid of his Shoes ?

So teaching history is the same as teaching CRT?

CRT is a dog whistle now.
Like SJW, and Globalist.

As soon as someone commits a "critical race theory" to a textbook or syllabus that can be quoted but never disavowed, we can cease with the greasy weasel interchangeability that is allowing everyone room to dance around the actual, pertinent details. If it's "just history," why is your history textbook not adequate? If it's not "just history," then the bullshit argument of "so-and-so wants to ban the teaching of history" can finally die in the fire it so richly deserves, and we can move on to whether it is acceptable for a teacher to exploit a history class as an opportunity to browbeat a captive audience into submission to a particular, modern political persuasion.

You do realize @Fisherman's Worf is an actual bona-fide lawyer who along with Faceman is one of two people with first hand knowledge of what CRT actually is?

The right is dogwhistling and you are a chump who's falling for it.

What exactly have I fallen for? What are the details of this supposed "first hand knowledge?"

Specifics, or shut the fuck up. Pretend it's a serious subject and not some fucking vacuous reality TV engineered for maximum salacious drama for mouth-breathing idiots.

Honest but probably naive request: can someone here tell me in five sentences what critical race theory actually is*? I think I read a looong New Yorker article on the subject, but somehow find myself unable to remember anything from it.

*I mean apart from magical word to rile up right wing voters, obviously

It is an article of faith, by which you will prove your moral purity by accepting without challenging for logic or evidence.

The idea, according to proponents of CRT, is this: Imagine someone who hates disabled people decides to build a hotel. They don't bother to do anything to ensure that disabled people have an easy time using the hotel, so it sucks if you're a disabled person who needs to stay there. If someone, who has nothing against disabled people buys the hotel, they still have a lot of work to do in order to ensure that disabled people can use the hotel as easily as able people.

According to those opposed to CRT, it teaches that all white people are evil racists who should be ashamed of themselves, even if they never have engaged in any acts of racism.

Because that's how sloppy thread merges work.

Anyway, I can tolerate your ignorance, but not your outright lying. As a punishment I'm not going to give you any attention for a while.

Well for a start, let's look at at the definition of critical theory itself:

Critical race theory is basically that, but with a focus on race. Tuckerfans example above is a good example of critical theory that's not race specific.

You're describing the Trump candidacy in perfect detail.
Yet you never pitched a tantrum about him.
Isn't that weird?
It's almost like everything you think you are is a lie.