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Thom's blog
How the "Moral Panic" of Critical Race Theory Morphed Into a Book-Banning Frenzy
 And why a disparate group of billionaires, Republican politicians, televangelists, media outlets, and white supremacist militias have found common cause around a new and exciting moral panic The moral panic currently sweeping America about Critical Race Theory (CRT) has been covered ad nauseum by the press and commentators across the political spectrum. That's what typically happens with moral panics (more on that in a moment). What nobody is talking about, though, is the why of this particular issue at this particular time. As a result, we're mistaking the tool for the goal. Moral panics, when driven by politicians, are usually just tools. This CRT moral panic is a tool being used by a coalition of interests to achieve their own goals, none of which have anything to do with teaching or not-teaching the history of race in America. Read more at HartmannReport.com. -Thom |
Tuesday's Daily Stack 
Hour One: How the "Moral Panic" of Critical Race Theory Morphed Into a Book-Banning Frenzy
Right Wingers Are Twisting Black History Month
Trump Pulls a Stalin In Seizing the Voting Machines
What We Can Learn From How the 1918 Pandemic Ended- John M. Barry, Distinguished scholar - Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine / Writer of numerous articles & books including, The Great Influenza: the Story of the Deadliest Pandemic In History (originally published in 2004) / His work has appeared in scientific journals Nature, Journal of Infectious Disease as well as lay publications such as Sports Illustrated, Politico, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Fortune, Time, Newsweek, and Esquire 
Quote: " Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. When change is absolute there remains no being to improve and no direction is set for possible improvement: and when experience is not retained, as among savages, infancy is perpetual. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." - George Santayana.
Hour Two: Don't Look Up- Adam McKay, Writer/director/producer - his latest film is Don't Look Up (in collaboration w/David Sirota) starring Leo DiCaprio & Jennifer Lawrence / HBO series, Succession (Some of his other successful films are The Big Short, Vice, Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy, Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby, and more)
Proof GOP Billionaires Have Purchased Kyrsten Simema
What's Up With Boris the British Party Animal??- Victoria Jones, Executive Director - DC Radio Company LLC
Article: " 14th Amendment, July 9, 1868 (citizenship, representatives, public debt, Equal Protection Clause). |
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Could The End of the 1918 Flu Pandemic Answer COVID-19? (w/ John M. Barry)
Proof Kyrsten Sinema Is Owned by Right Wing Billionaires
Gun-Wielding Racists Chased Her For 50 Miles
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