People whose parents didn't throw rocks at Ruby Bridges are upset their children are being taught by people who think like a racist twitter imbecile who claims their parents threw rocks at Ruby Bridges because their parents are the same color as some third party who threw rocks at Ruby Bridges.
Color isn't the issue. If you feel "guilty" (and defensively angry) whenever you hear about this country's oppression of Blacks, it's not just because you sunburn easily.
^This is the tip of the iceberg. I have already told Bomb#20 he was gaslighting fellow members
You told me that because you don't give a damn whether the claims you make about your political opponents are true as long as you think you're scoring a rhetorical point.
and I referred to specific, concrete, documented evidence. I linked the spreadsheet directly from Moms for Liberty, the so-called grassroots parents organization that is alleged to spearhead the effort, but that is actually being misinformed by conservative "think tanks" sending them propaganda.
Let's
review...
The Moms for Liberty complaint about the Ruby Bridges book reads, <snip>
By all means, yes, let's review. Here's what you wrote that you're alleging supports your trumped-up accusation against me:
This is not a post to Bomb#20, just because it follows his post. It's to everyone else. ... The reader may note that the state is Tennessee, not Oklahoma, even though Bomb#20 is talking about Oklahoma.
How do you figure a wall of text you wrote complaining about a bunch of twits I didn't endorse trying to do something in a state I wasn't talking about is evidence that
I'm gaslighting anyone? What the hell is wrong with you? Go look in a bloody mirror.
Next part of the complaint reads, it "causes shame for young, impressionable white children." Again, this is something I warned about in the new legislation...the subjectivity of trying to legislate against facts allegedly making white children feel bad. It's also not CRT, but history.
Did the
Oklahoma law "legislate against facts"? By all means, please point out what fact it has stopped someone from teaching.
If you can't point out any such fact and are merely concerned that it's vague enough it might do so in the future, why are you laying that at my door? Nobody here's claiming that law wasn't badly written; I already told you I could have done a better job myself even though I'm not even a lawyer; my defense of the Oklahoma law was limited to refuting the specific charge that it infringed free speech rights, which it doesn't.
If the
Tennessee law stopped somebody from teaching a fact, why are you laying that at my door? By all means, please point out where I defended the Tennessee law. Not having read it, I have no opinion about the Tennessee law.
If some gang of religious nitwits are trying to use the new laws to weaponize the public schools to promote their religion, well, the state shouldn't go along with that -- just as the state shouldn't have been going along with another gang of religious nitwits who have been using the old laws to weaponize the public schools to promote
your religion. A plague on both your houses.
Bomb#20 is clearly gaslighting again. When someone criticizes supporters of the law because their grandparents were throwing rocks at Ruby, it's not literal. It means their recent ancestors participated in racism.
You're making a painfully specious argument. Chris Evans' evidence that their recent ancestors participated in racism is exactly the same as his evidence that their grandparents were throwing rocks at Ruby: it's the fact that their recent ancestors were white. So literal or metaphorical is an irrelevant red herring: either way what he wrote is indefensible and the guy is a racist imbecile. It is perfectly sensible for parents not to want their children taught by teachers who think like Mr. Evans and not to want their children taught a curriculum taken from people who think like Mr. Evans.
And if this thread is any indication, people who like the way the left teaches children about race and who think the parents objecting to the curricula getting lumped as "CRT" don't have a legitimate beef tend to be the same sort of people who approve of Mr. Evans' tweet.
Lastly, these groups are trying to "tone it down" by saying kids aren't ready for these things. They are too fragile, but the new draconian laws apply to college as well and were purported to be about CRT, not history.
Which new draconian laws would those be? The Oklahoma law doesn't restrict what a college can teach, full stop.
