Alabama Rep: 'Critical Race Theory' A Durr A Durr A Durr!

[Nevilledog]

Link to tweet

https://www.wonkette.com/alabama-republican-rep-why-define-critical-race-theory-when-i-can-just-ban-it

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Whitmire notes that he suspected that "Pringle didn't know as much about critical race theory as I had hoped," so he asked the legislator for an example of how the theory is being used in the real world. Spoiler warning: This is our favorite part of the piece!

"These people, when they were doing the training programs — and the government — if you didn't buy into what they taught you a hundred percent, they sent you away to a reeducation camp," Pringle said.

Dang! Re-education camps! Maybe America is turning into North Korea after all! Whitmire, perhaps smelling a scoop if he could get access to one of these camps, pressed Pringle for more, on who "these people" were, and how these camps work. Pringle couldn't find those details in his pickup truck, but he sure did try:

"Here's an — it doesn't say who it was, it just says a government that held these — these training sessions …" [...]

"The white male executives are sent to a three-day re-education camp, where they were told that their white male culture wasn't their —" he trailed off again.

Also too, Whitmire notes that during their phone interview, Pringle "[bragged] to me how he had BS-ed his way through his college political science classes by parroting the liberal bilge his professors wanted to hear," so you can certainly see why he doesn't want any other Alabama student to face such totalitarian Marxist oppression.

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[maxsolomon]

1. Illustrative.

They couldn't explain CRT if you put a metaphorical gun to their heads.

It's a hobgoblin to scare their racist voters.

[Moostache]

2. Typical vapid BS replies from a GQP critter...

They suffer from a really frustrating condition - not so much Dunning-Kruger effect exactly, but definitely in that same vein - as they all exhibit an horrendous over-estimation of their own DEPTH of knowledge and ability to explain it outside of their delusion bubble.

Inside the bubble, nothing is explicit...it is implied or hinted at, and acknowledged with silent nods of assent. Honestly, the closest thing I can think of that explains this in a clear but wildly over-the-top manner is the Monty Python "Nudge, Nudge" skit with the overtly implied questions:

This, IMO, is WHY Trump is so popular with them...NOTHING he says is ever stand alone, thought out or explicit...he is the living embodiment of a combination Monty Python caricature and a wannabe mob boss, so nothing is overt or starkly stated. It is all very obvious and not very clever code and body language. This is what Michael Cohen was trying to make clear last year in interviews about the Trump language and how its understood what is wanted without stating it.

I have seen this in Republican/Conservative circles for a long time. EVERYTHING they talk about is rife with heavy innuendo and reference to repeated talking points.

EXAMPLE - "we only want to ensure that legitimate voters and votes are counted"
CONTEXT - for 16 hours a day on TV and Radio, the conservative delusion bubble talks incessantly about illegitimate registrations (never concrete examples or cases, just implied improprieties and MORE implied guilt) or voting fraud (exactly the same thing...indefinite adjectives and phrasing - "so many bad things", "they KNOW its out there, so that's why the left won't investigate "X"...", etc. etc. etc.) or any number of other boogeyman tales of fear.
RESULT - A fox viewer is pre-primed like a Pavlovian dog. They do not need to see the steak AND hear the bell to start slobbering...the stimulus-response is driven by the conditioning. All they need is the trigger and the rest is an autonomic response now. "legitimate" = white, Evangelical Christians "illegitimate" = Democrats, Immigrants, non-white.

THAT is the level of brain washing and conditioning that we face in the electorate. And they GQP is hard at work conditioning the public to their next big project - eliminating voting entirely. Step by step, it is happening before our eyes.

[underpants]

6. 👆THIS! That is an excellent description

[The Magistrate]

3. The Odd Thing About This, Ma'am

Is that presenting racism as systematic is personally exonerating. No individual bears the responsibility for what is baked into the normal operations of a culture or polity. It is not a question of 'are you a bigot?' Rather it is a question of 'can you understand that what exists now has roots in structures of long standing that operate to disadvantage one group relative to another?' I know that is a lot of syllables, and many words, but it really is not that difficult a concept to grasp.

[czarjak]

4. Would've been perfect for Celebrity Apprentice, Believe me.

[underpants]

5. In case my one needs to know...

If you know anyone ho might be sent to one of the many re-education camps tell them hen they get there to mention my name to the supply people - it should get them extra clean sheets every month.