June 17, 2021 7:42 AM
Morning Reads – Thursday, June 17, 2021
Today is Global Garbage Man Day, so make sure to reach out to your elected officials and thank them for serving. It’s also the 136th anniversary of the Statue of Liberty arriving in New York City aboard the French ship Isere.
Peaches
- We’re still talking about “the emails” from the Trump White House re: the Georgia election
- …and how that impacted then-US Attorney BJ Pak
- But the story is “messy, not fraudulent.”
- Privatizing…toll roads?
- It’s sad we even have to ask
- HCA trauma centers lead Georgia in high ‘activation’ fees
- Columbia County judicial circuit on hold for now despite appointments by Kemp
- If this is true, she’s deranged.
Jimmy Carter
- Speed Cameras Churn Out Hundreds Of Thousands Of Tickets After Rule Change
- US drops lawsuit, grand jury probe over Bolton book
- US Space Force has fired its first shots of the drug war
- 8 million households face eviction in weeks
- Texas takes on wall building
- …and Florida is going to send back up
- DC inmate elected to public office
- Going home with nothing.
- Free engineering testimony can get you criminal charges
- EFF Testifies Against SFPD for Violating Transparency Policies
- Man acting as own attorney screams at jurors in opening of his death penalty case
Sweet Tea
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I’d be shocked if Loeffler ran again. She’s smart enough to know she was miscast as a politician and made a terrible candidate, and that was before she went all Trump all the time. She’ll stick to raising/donating millions.
Fourteen House gopers voted against making Juneteenth a public holiday. Andrew Clyde of Athens and the 9th CD was one of them, joining noted nutters such as Mo Brooks and Paul Gosar.
Clyde didn’t comment publicly after his vote but Montana’s Matt Rosendale did.
“Let’s call an ace an ace. This is an effort by the Left to create a day out of whole cloth to celebrate identity politics as part of its larger efforts to make Critical Race Theory the reigning ideology of our country. Since I believe in treating everyone equally, regardless of race, and that we should be focused on what unites us rather than our differences, I will vote no.”
In a nutshell, that’s the position many on the right share: the Left is the devil, CRT is their latest tool, I’m not the racist you’re the racist. Equal parts politics as usual, ignorance, and denial.
The gop clearly has settled on CRT as their new distortion of reality in the culture wars they’re obsessed with and largely invented. We’ve recently heard Kemp, Carr, the state BoE, and the goper convention register their disapproval. I predict that by this time next year, when we’re well into campaign season, we poor voters will be sick of hearing about the purported excesses of CRT.
I also predict we’ll hear ‘call an ace an ace’ again.
Here are links about CRT from the ABA and the goper no voters.
https://www.americanbar.org/groups/crsj/publications/human_rights_magazine_home/civil-rights-reimagining-policing/a-lesson-on-critical-race-theory/
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2021/06/16/who-14-republicans-who-voted-against-juneteenth-holiday/7722634002/
“Call an ace an ace”….
A sure loser of a phrase imo.
One one hand, you could be attempting to evolve a phrase that has racist usages in recent history:
https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2013/09/19/224183763/is-it-racist-to-call-a-spade-a-spade
On the other hand, you could be attempting to avoid racist implications; i.e. you’re trying to be woke.
The present right-wing paradigm won’t leave any room between being racist and woke.
But I think it surely a poorly veiled racist usage. If you wanted to be sensitive to the language, take the analogy away from cards entirely (notice how it happens, on the linked article, that the ace of spades is atop the deck? Why? Because easy association…)
Truly non-racist valid language options include: “Call it what it is”; “Call a .”
Rosendale’s choice sounds racist. Not woke, but whatever gets a more evolved candidate to win the seat in the next election.
Plus, holiday “out of whole cloth”? As if the holiday was never celebrated before?
Plus, creating holidays like Thanksgiving have been historically used to heal national wounds. E.g., Lincoln arguably enacted Thanksgiving holiday to heal Civil War wounds.
https://thefederalistpapers.org/history/true-origins-thanksgiving-holiday
(don’t know much about this site, but the article linked the original executive language,)
So…let’s pls stop equating arguments of “color blindness” as anything more than “willful blindness” to racial equality. We can all be race-conscious and have all sorts of holidays, dedicated months of history awareness, community centers, neighborhoods, etc., without being racist. Denial of race-consciousness is in fact a racist policy. And ignorant.
God help, I’m so sick of the ignorance and bigotry that climbs like ivy upon it.
I bet that these opponents have read close to zero words of any curricula incorporating CRT.
Ignorant. Bigots.
In above comment, what didn’t make it through correctly was the option to” “Call (anything without racist associations) a (same thing)”
I used the angled bracket which doesn’t translate into comments it seems.
More on gop’s embrace of crt as a wedge issue as demonstrated by Fox News in this article from Media Matters.
“Nearly a dozen of the Fox News guests the network has presented as concerned parents or educators who oppose the teaching of so-called “critical race theory” in schools also have day jobs as Republican strategists, conservative think-tankers, or right-wing media personalities . . .”
I’m sure there are valid criticisms of crt that can be made, probably fully laid out years ago in the academic circles where crt emerged, but I don’t think you’ll hear them from goper pols and their buds.
https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/foxs-anti-critical-race-theory-parents-are-also-gop-activists
Good news!
“The US Supreme Court has upheld the law which aims to provide affordable health insurance for all Americans, dismissing a legal challenge from Texas and 17 other Republican-governed states.
This is the third time since 2010 that the Affordable Care Act (ACA), the signature policy of former president Barack Obama, has survived a challenge.”
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-57516488
The law gave millions of low-income Americans access to medical insurance.
It bans insurers from denying coverage due to pre-existing conditions.
The justices ruled by a 7-2 majority that the challengers did not have the legal basis to sue, and as such did not address the question of whether a key provision in the law was unconstitutional.
The legal challenge was backed by former president Donald Trump, who promised to have the act repealed when he was elected in 2016.
Republicans tried and failed to overturn the law in Congress when they controlled both houses and in the courts on numerous occasions.
Earlier this month, the White House said a record 31 million Americans were now covered by healthcare under the ACA, which is popularly known as Obamacare.