You keep repeating that bullshit: I assume you know people who believe it, which means you must be associating with people who are as much in denial of reality as you.

“…of the woke left. ”

Nothing identifies people who don’t have a bit of support for their position faster than using terms like “cancel culture” (as though there is such a thing) and “woke” (implying that opposing threats coming from the right and supporting the rights of people who have historically been marginalized are bad things).

The question afoot is not whether the right has stupidly taken issue or been activist about things reasonable people would support. The question is about cancel culture and who is behind most of it.

When we are talking about who is deplatforming speakers, removing titles, removing statues; demanding the expulsion, firing, demotion of teachers, writers, speakers on a hair-trigger judgment – it is mostly by the woke authoritarian left.

And Dr. Laden is an example on the topic- he JUST said if you are against the teaching of CRT in schools, you ARE a white supremacist. This is militarized binary thinking and it is emblematic of the woke left. This should be recognized not only as shallow reasoning, but this narrative is how Republicans are going to win elections they have no right winning.

“It’s just too convenient to claim that it’s only from the left,”

And who, pray tell, did that ?

“What is capturing most media attention is the opposition coming from the Tea Party and others on the right,” says Schwartz. Now that Obamacare has become more successful than critics predicted, “Obamacore” is their next target, he says, “fueled by right-wing talk show hosts feeding listeners a steady stream of misinformation.” It’s putting enormous pressure on governors and legislatures in Red states to retreat from their support of the Core, including Jindal, and “there will probably be others before this is over,” he adds.

https://www.gse.harvard.edu/news/ed/14/09/what-happened-common-core

Writing in September 2015, David Whitman points out that, like “Obamacare” (aka the ACA), Common Core had its roots in conservative think-tanks.

https://www.brookings.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Surprising-Conservative-Roots-of-the-Common-Core_FINAL.pdf

I watched the acceptance speech the new governor in VA. After running a campaign based on “watch out the criminal blacks are gonna get you” his acceptance was worse. I’m sure it sounded awesome in the original German.

When I read the emphasis that Coyne is placing on the “wokeness” of the left by taking his cues from the right side columnists like Sullivan and McWhorter, I have to roll my eyes. Wokeness is a huge bogeyman on the right, and like “political correctness” it is used to deflect blame from many faults of the right; including when Aaron Rodgers claims that criticism of his lying about being vaccinated is coming from the wokies on the left. METOO was called a wokey thing, too, when men were trynig to brush off their harassment charges.

It’s just too convenient to claim that it’s only from the left, and supposed liberals like Coyne who relay all of the cancellations from the left are playing into the propaganda hands of the right. Ask Jerry how he would react to teaching evolution based on the polling, because evolution and science are also seen as propaganda from the right. Do we teach what the polls say we should teach about climate?

If it would help elect more Democrats do you want our schools to each creationsim?

Jerry Coyne, Andrew Sullivan, and multiple others would disagree with you. From WEIT, November 6 – worth a read: [https://whyevolutionistrue.com/2021/11/06/andrew-sullivan-on-the-election-and-crt/]:

“And when the Democrats and the mainstream media insist that CRT is not being taught in high schools, they’re being way too cute. Of course K-12 kids in Virginia’s public schools are not explicitly reading the collected works of Derrick Bell or Richard Delgado — no more than Catholic school kids in third grade are studying critiques of Aquinas. But they are being taught in a school system now thoroughly committed to the ideology and worldview of CRT, by teachers who have been marinated in it, and whose unions have championed it.

And in Virginia, this is very much the case. The state’s Department of Education embraced CRT in 2015, arguing for the need to “re-engineer attitudes and belief systems” in education. In 2019, the department sent out a memo that explicitly endorsed critical race and queer theory as essential tools for teaching high school. Check out the VA DOE’s “Road Map to Equity,” where it argues that “courageous conversation” on “social justice, systemic inequity, disparate student outcomes and racism in our school communities is our responsibility and professional obligation. Now is the time to double down on equity strategies.”

Road map to Equity: https://www.doe.virginia.gov/edequityva/navigating-equity-book.pdf

Virginia school memo: https://christopherrufo.com/mcaullifes-crt-lie/

This is already having consequences in our elections – just look at the recent Virginia gubernatorial race. The Coyne article quotes some polling data:

“A new Harris poll asked, “Do you think the schools should promote the idea that people are victims and oppressors based on their race or should they teach children to ignore race in all decisions to judge people by their character?” Americans favored the latter 63-37.”

He also quotes the right-wing polling group the Manhattan Institute, whose poll is opaque but – who knows? – might be instructive:

“A big survey from the Manhattan Institute of the 20 biggest metropolitan areas found that the public, 54-29, wants to remove CRT concepts such as “white privilege” or “systemic racism” from K-12 education. That includes black parents by a margin of 54-38. And that’s in big cities.”

And DOE under Biden has officially but forth a formal proposal to teach CRT in elementary and secondary schools, actually quoting Kendi in the proposal:

https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2021-04-19/pdf/2021-08068.pdf

So, we have a roadmap here of how to elect more Republicans. Just deny that CRT and cancel culture is from the left ( as several commenters here have already done), deny that it is moving its way into K-12 education, deny it is going to have electoral repercussions, deny that it appears to be incredibly unpopular even among Democrats. And accuse anyone who disagrees with you as being a white supremacist.

Not smart.

Got it Michael 🙂

There is one article that caught my eye in regards to the Virginia Governor’s Race just concluded. Youngkin’s claim that he will end CRT in VA schools. It was rated as “mostly false:”

https://www.newswise.com/factcheck/critical-race-theory-crt-is-not-being-taught-in-k-12-schools-but-that-didn-t-stop-virginia-governor-elect-glenn-youngkin-from-vowing-to-ban-it/?article_id=760245&sc=sphn

These look like pretty good standards, Greg. Do you know anyone who is on the committee that sets them? Are standards still revisited every five years or so? I think we first met around the time that Minnesota was rewriting science and history standards, and for some odd reasons the public meetings combined the subjects. I went to one of the public meetings at St. Paul Central and the public comments were a mix of creationism and from history buffs who wanted to “return to the basics.” You know, white history. Not snow, in this case, Doug. I mean the history written by the victors.