Normally, Senator Brian Schatz is pretty chill on Twitter

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But not this morning:

Link to tweet

Brian Schatz
@brianschatz

If you cannot identify this as a manufactured controversy designed to give voice to racists and to intimidate people from describing racism accurately, quit the fact checking business. Anodyne language doesn’t make you more objective, it makes you a vector for bullshit.

replying to:

PolitiFact
@PolitiFact

Critical race theory is the new front in the Republican culture wars. It includes the idea of systemic racism, but is hard to define precisely, and it's unclear how much it shows up in the classroom. (+ link to bad politifact)

[Wounded Bear]

1. K & R...for the RW Outrage Generator Culture...

[ismnotwasm]

2. K&R

[Cha]

3. Rt TY Love my Senators!

[Hekate]

11. With good reason!

[Cha]

13. Oh Yeah.. Aloha Hekate!

Love your sig line!💙

Would you mind if I put it in my sig line?

If you would.. no worries!

[Hekate]

14. You may have any or all bits of my sig line. After all, they were all swiped from other DUers ...

…in the first place!

Cheers.

[Cha]

16. Mahalo! lol.. I just saw the "United"

beauty because I have the Zoom up so large to be able to see.. only one showed up on your sig line.

Cheers to you!

P.S. I like your Nancy one, too..

[Mickju]

15. Brian Schatz was my neighbor in the early 2000s.

We lived on the same floor on Dominis St. in Honolulu. They were nice people and had their first child while they were living there. I've enjoyed watching his career develop.

[Cha]

18. That is so Cool! I really liked it

when Gov Abercrombie appointed Lt Gov Brian Schatz to fill in for the late Senator Inouye.

And, I continue to be grateful!

[Warpy]

4. Best thing I've read in days

Yes, he's usually pretty chill, but when he lets fly, he lets fly.

[Bev54]

5. Thank You!!!

[ladym55]

6. Damn!

Senator Schatz is on fire!!

[Try Harder]

7. Hear hear! And a new word for my vocabulary.

As dog is my witness, I will endeavor never to use anodyne language again. (Not that I ever did as the string of shitty exes, shitty people and shitty jobs behind me attest.) Please join me in the pledge. Speak truth and challenge lies loudly.

[3catwoman3]

9. Thank goodness for Dictionary.com, eh?

I love expanding my vocabulary.

[bringthePaine]

8. spot on sir!

[soldierant]

10. ...

[Hekate]

12. Well-spotted, Senator

[czarjak]

17. Bullshit Vectorer

[Red Mountain]

19. Force them to define exactly what they object to

[Ferrets are Cool]

20. Someone has no more "shatz" to give.

I will let myself out now.

[BobTheSubgenius]

21. The first sentence in the PF tweet could use more precise language.

Overall, it is mealy-mouthed and coming dangerously close to the line of both "whataboutism" and "both sides do it" horses_, if not completely over it.

[Aviation Pro]

22. A vector for bullshit

Stealing this.