Meanwhile, in Wisconsin...
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Praise the Lord!
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The magic word appeared in this story 100 years ago and that term was never used again
And that is enough to cause pain and force it's removal
We are all doomed
This story was first published in the Wisconsin State Journal on Oct. 9, 1925
The big boulder on Observatory hill, which is the largest of its kind in the immediate vicinity of Madison, is now out where folks can look at it.
For centuries the huge granite “niggerhead,” partly visible, has been lying there on the hill, just alongside the cinder drive. For three days a crew of men, with horses, steel cables and capstan of 75-tons pulling capacity have been working to bring it to the surface.
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@loki said in Meanwhile, in Wisconsin...:
administration was not brave but tossed the potentially hot potato.
Yep this is how the stupid proliferates. Nobody wants to get canceled, so they do asinine things. It's why all the dumbest ideas in American culture are to do with race and racism. Because everybody has a gun to their head. Don't pretend to have a coherent thought about this, or else.
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@horace said in Meanwhile, in Wisconsin...:
@loki said in Meanwhile, in Wisconsin...:
administration was not brave but tossed the potentially hot potato.
Yep this is how the stupid proliferates. Nobody wants to get canceled, so they do asinine things. It's why all the dumbest ideas in American culture are to do with race and racism. Because everybody has a gun to their head. Don't pretend to have a coherent thought about this, or else.
No argument from me. I often do hear that CRT is not really a thing and it is a made up convention by the right wing. To that point I share the CRT poster that was put out around the Smithonsian for a couple of days before retracted. Those people I have talked to about CRT hadn’t seen it and are a bit stumped.
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@loki said in Meanwhile, in Wisconsin...:
@horace said in Meanwhile, in Wisconsin...:
@loki said in Meanwhile, in Wisconsin...:
administration was not brave but tossed the potentially hot potato.
Yep this is how the stupid proliferates. Nobody wants to get canceled, so they do asinine things. It's why all the dumbest ideas in American culture are to do with race and racism. Because everybody has a gun to their head. Don't pretend to have a coherent thought about this, or else.
No argument from me. I often do hear that CRT is not really a thing and it is a made up convention by the right wing. To that point I share the CRT poster that was put out around the Smithonsian for a couple of days before retracted. Those people I have talked to about CRT hadn’t seen it and are a bit stumped.
The left wants to disavow CRT and marginalize anybody with an issue with it as an ignorant conspiracy theorist. Meanwhile they are very intentionally smuggling in very bad ideas about race and identity politics into the schools and the culture.
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I honestly don't know what CRT is. I haven't seen anybody explain it adequately, other than to say it's an acceptance that there is systemic racism, which isn't particularly shocking.
I tried looking it up on Wikipedia but totally lost interest about 2 lines in. To be fair, that happens a lot.
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@doctor-phibes I don't know what it is, either. I don't care what it is. It appears to have Horace's observation that "all the dumbest ideas in American culture are to do with race and racism" all over it. It's pointless water cooler palaver IMO.
Life's too short.
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Meanwhile, a fan at a Colorado Rockies game yelled the mascot's name, Dinger, to get attention and maybe some jumbotron screen time. Someone misheard him, thought he said the Naughty word, and it made national news. Welcome to America!!
https://www.cnn.com/2021/08/09/sport/colorado-rockies-baseball-racial-slur/index.html
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@doctor-phibes said in Meanwhile, in Wisconsin...:
I honestly don't know what CRT is. I haven't seen anybody explain it adequately, other than to say it's an acceptance that there is systemic racism, which isn't particularly shocking.
I tried looking it up on Wikipedia but totally lost interest about 2 lines in. To be fair, that happens a lot.
White people are bad
Especially you
That is the basics
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@doctor-phibes said in Meanwhile, in Wisconsin...:
I honestly don't know what CRT is. I haven't seen anybody explain it adequately, other than to say it's an acceptance that there is systemic racism, which isn't particularly shocking.
I tried looking it up on Wikipedia but totally lost interest about 2 lines in. To be fair, that happens a lot.
State of the art leftist messaging would have you be exactly this confused about what CRT is. It would also have you roll your eyes at anybody who questions whether it should be taught in schools. Meanwhile, pre-teen kids are being taught the paranoid identitarianism of Ibram X Kendi, for instance, as we speak.
Specific discussions about CRT aren't yet within the Overton window of adults, so the left wants to avoid the discussions for now. Thus the blatant marginalization of anybody who tries. Someday they'll feel safer shedding some light on the "ideas" (term used loosely), as the indoctrinated kids become the adults.
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Thanks for all that.
I still don't know what it is.
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@doctor-phibes said in Meanwhile, in Wisconsin...:
I still don't know what it is.
Watch Ben Shapiro explain it on Maher's show.
"Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08
The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.
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@george-k said in Meanwhile, in Wisconsin...:
@doctor-phibes said in Meanwhile, in Wisconsin...:
I still don't know what it is.
Watch Ben Shapiro explain it on Maher's show.
Well, he kind of says 'it's all very complicated, but in a nutshell...' so it's a bit like the idiots guide to quantum mechanics, except of course it's not actually as complicated as quantum mechanics
I actually made it through the explanation, even though I found all three of them to extremely annoying.
I remain totally unconvinced that is what my kids have been learning in school.
I'm no expert, but...
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@doctor-phibes said in Meanwhile, in Wisconsin...:
I remain totally unconvinced that is what my kids have been learning in school.
Perhaps you should ask your kids, or (gasp) the school?
"Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08
The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.
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@george-k said in Meanwhile, in Wisconsin...:
@doctor-phibes said in Meanwhile, in Wisconsin...:
I remain totally unconvinced that is what my kids have been learning in school.
Perhaps you should ask your kids, or (gasp) the school?
I do speak to my kids - my daughter just got her AP US history - she scored a 5!. I didn't hear much that sounded particularly sinister.
