The Pentagon on Thursday pushed back at Republican lawmakers who claimed that Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin issued misleading remarks when denying that the department does not have an agenda to teach critical race theory — an academic and legal concept that conservatives have appropriated and hijacked as one of its many faux culture wars.
The more I hear from Secretary Austin, the more I like him. I guess those who don’t like him don’t like the Army or our country. If the RWNJ faction doesn’t like it here in the US, they can get the heck out! The way Gen. Austin handles this topic can be instructive to the education sector.
Shorter Kirby: Talk to the hand. Talk to my left hand cuz you ain’t right.
Teachers have been clapping back about this too.
I love it.
Republicans pound their chests as über patriots – while praising Putin as “a REAL leader!”
They claim “Blue lives matter!” – while cheering on cop-killing insurrectionists.
They condemn a lack of respect for those in uniform – while calling our top soldier “a pig” and “stupid”.
The Party of Deceit stands for nothing. Every septic word that plops from their oral sphincters is a lie.
You know it’s not like Lynne Chandler Garcia is teaching CRT, Critical Religion Theory. And how dare a mere woman teach anything to our brave men in uniform?
Sen. Tom Cotton is just pulling a modern day Joe McCarthy. Singling out a professor at one of the military academies for teaching a well-rounded American history curriculum is his “I have here in my hands a list of the names of communists in the state department!”
O/T On a lighter note just watched the local news here in StL. Pfizer is seeking authorize to offer a third shot of it’s vaccine, masks are recommended, can’t be mandated because no one but the state legislature can do that, and the Chief of Emergency Operations=EMT tweeted “We’re full up, over run, and you’re on your own”, or words to that effect.
And SW MO is the Trump Bible Belt. I certainly hope that when their love ones are transferred up here then family isn’t allowed to travel up here. There numbers now are higher than what we saw during the height of the pandemic late last year.
I agree lastroth. One of the most level-headed and responsible politicians in Missouri is St. Louis County Executive Dr. Sam Page. He jumped into action on COVID-19 early in March 2020 and as a result, St. Louis and St. Louis County have enjoyed the lowest mortality and highest vaccination rates in Missouri and the entire Midwest.
Dr. Page does not get enough credit, but has taken an enormous amount of flak from the Trumpie jackasses who are now spreading the Delta variant statewide. Dr. Page has literally saved hundreds of lives in the face of an ignorant and irresponsible Gov. Parsons who has thousands of dead Missourians on his ledger. A real case of opposites in leadership.
Do we want to start in on Senator Dr. Bob Onder? He’s not my senator, but my Republican state senator doesn’t even send out the obligatory mailer on what he went along with during the current session. He doesn’t have an email news letter, and last I checked no social media presence.
As far as I am concerned, those people who are able to take the vaccine and refuse it are assuming the risk of getting the vaccine. It’s as simple as that. I would argue that one of the risks of assuming the risks should be paying out of pocket for any medical expenses (as opposed to having insurance cover most of it).
My older sister refuses to get the vaccine and has swallowed the RW smears against it. I see getting the vaccine as doing my part to live in society. This afternoon, my sister forwarded me an article about the vaccine, which she said was informative. As soon as I saw that the source of the article was the Epoch Times, I told my sister to not forward any more garbage articles to me.
The GOP have already captured the racist vote. The only reason they would worry about CRT in their zero sum context is that they want to be free to train more racists.
RWNJ’s like Tom Cotton do not like Defense Secretary Austin for the same reason they hated President Obama:
Republican Sen. Tom Cotton of Arkansas repeatedly interrupted Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin on Thursday as the retired four-star general attempted to provide context about the racial issues in the armed forces…Austin, the first Black secretary of defense, was appointed to run the Pentagon by President Joe Biden in December.
Is Tom Cotton really that stupid? To declare that a Political Science Professor at an institution of higher learning has no business teaching the Constitution or political science to Air Force cadets is a penultimate example of ignorance and stupidity!
And this joker graduated from Harvard Law? And he spent eight years as an officer in the U.S. Army? And he is now a member of the United State Senate?
No wonder this country was headed into hell in a hand-basket for the last four years.
Economic anxiety?
No, differences of complexion.
I always get those two things mixed up
Lol
“We expect our professors to challenge the minds of future leaders…"
Republicans don’t.
None of that theory stuff. No “evolution” either. And we’ll tell you when life begins.
The problem of teaching our racist past is how obvious it makes the racists of the present.
Republicans need to fight that from happening…
It is simple as that