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riversedge

(81,528 posts)
Mon Nov 1, 2021, 07:24 PM Nov 2021

guy says Critical Race Theory is the most important issue in the Virginia Election but has NO idea

what it is. I was sad listening to him. I'm thinking this is how Many would respond.



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This guy says Critical Race Theory is the most important issue in the Virginia Election. He also says he has no idea what Critical Race Theory is.


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msongs

(74,177 posts)
1. oh look the repubs strategy summed up in one emotional statement. good messaging
Mon Nov 1, 2021, 07:26 PM
Nov 2021

strategy regardless of the message content

 

vercetti2021

(10,481 posts)
2. Goes to show
Mon Nov 1, 2021, 07:28 PM
Nov 2021

Idiots only vote what they are told is bad via Tucker, Hannity, etc. Sadly this is why the GQP win on the culture war front. Anything different that isn't white, straight, repuke, Christian or male is a war on them

SMC22307

(8,090 posts)
3. I'm with StrongRob on this one. Where the hell are Dem leaders...
Mon Nov 1, 2021, 07:33 PM
Nov 2021

calling out the BS re CRT? Where the hell is the DNC, Jaime Harrison, etc.? Where is the unified message we can drill into voters' heads? We let Republicans define Obamacare and it fucking killed us in 2010. Why is the Democratic Party not serious about combatting the CRT lies? And "socialism," for that matter...

How a Conservative Activist Invented the Conflict Over Critical Race Theory
https://www.newyorker.com/news/annals-of-inquiry/how-a-conservative-activist-invented-the-conflict-over-critical-race-theory

underpants

(197,171 posts)
4. They have weaponized it. Now it's just CRT. I guess Defund the Police was too many syllables
Mon Nov 1, 2021, 07:34 PM
Nov 2021

Sad.

Baitball Blogger

(52,714 posts)
5. We're just terrible at branding. Critical Race Theory.
Mon Nov 1, 2021, 07:34 PM
Nov 2021

First, "Critical" is a negative word.

Second, "Race" is volatile word.

Third, it's not a Theory.

They should have called it, Comprehensive American History.

WhiskeyGrinder

(27,227 posts)
10. "We" didn't brand it. It's an academic term and, as a critical theory of race, is named accurately.
Mon Nov 1, 2021, 09:47 PM
Nov 2021

bottomofthehill

(9,422 posts)
7. And that is why we are fucked.
Mon Nov 1, 2021, 08:10 PM
Nov 2021

They come up with a moronic slogan and the lemmings follow. We try to explain it in a logical way and fail.

czarjak

(13,678 posts)
9. I've had relatives who are experts tell me...
Mon Nov 1, 2021, 09:46 PM
Nov 2021

“I’m not racist”, so therefore, it never happened or if it did, it doesn’t matter. “Why does race have to be brought up?” “Racism is dead” still says it all.

Liberal In Texas

(16,420 posts)
11. It just goes to show how good they are at propaganda.
Mon Nov 1, 2021, 09:53 PM
Nov 2021

Make someone go out and vote against something they don't even know what it is.

jcmaine72

(1,843 posts)
12. Please! I don't want to hear any more crap about how we need to repackage and rebrand our
Mon Nov 1, 2021, 09:57 PM
Nov 2021

message to reach average joe's on the other side. Tell me, what kind of repackaging could possibly reach this idiot?

Brainfodder

(7,781 posts)
14. They can't corrupt our beloved memories of Cathode Ray Tubes, NO WAY!
Mon Nov 1, 2021, 10:06 PM
Nov 2021

More made up buzzwords like THE BIDEN RULE, remember that bowel movement from Turtle McChitbrain?

They really are just a bunch of politically dumb horses with a carrot on a stick attached to their heads & changed out weekly with 1 TV station ON at all times and one radio station?

As long as TFG is locked up by XMAS, in fact how about ON Xmas this year!


I too am running out of optimism.



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