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(illustration: The Forum)
This week on CounterSpin: Listeners are aware of the no-less-destructive-for-being-baseless assault on critical race theory. Just like with affirmative action (where conservatives said, “steps toward racial equity really means unfair quotas”), media took this charge, “steps toward racial equity really means telling white children to hate themselves,” and made it into “something some folks are saying”—while, of course, out of fairness they’ll acknowledge, “others disagree.” (Media themselves, they suggest, occupy the intellectually and morally superior center.) A new website engages the attack more productively, by using critical race theory as a prism to explore the current range of threats to multi-racial democracy and our ability to fight for it. The site’s called The Forum; we’ll talk with editor-in-chief Chris Lehmann.
Transcript: ‘The Race Crisis and the Democracy Crisis Are Inseparable’
(photo: New Jersey Civic Information Consortium)
Also on the show: Between Rupert Murdoch and Elon Musk, who would you prefer preside over what information you can access? It’s kind of like being offered a choice between a poke in one eye or the other. If the problem is media outlets with priorities that poorly serve even our aspirations for democracy—and it is—the response is media with different priorities, which we know really only come from having a different bottom line. How can that work? We’ll talk about one model with Mike Rispoli of the group Free Press; he’s been working with the New Jersey Civic Information Consortium—a new way of thinking about and meeting local communities’ need for news.
Transcript: ‘What if We Use Public Money to Transform What Local Media Looks Like?’
Plus Janine Jackson takes a very quick look back at recent coverage of Roe v. Wade.
If people truly look at world history—all the different types of people and their sexual history existed from long ago. It is sad that many religions seem to be horrified at how people relate to each other. I have read of different religions, but am confounded with how many —said to be religious people —spend their time attacking others regarding their sexuality. HMMM jESUS NEVER GOT MARRIED, DID HE.
Please see the video at the following link: https://youtu.be/SxLsTLNwlmg How does this person’s understanding of Critical Race Theory differ from yours?
Ed,
When a “person” intentionally alters the definition of a term solely used to refer to an academic legal theory, and in that process, chooses to use false equivalence to conflate that term with governmental policies and/or social movements… then such a “person” (who may just happen to be a White Male) clearly provides us with adequate evidence of their basic lack of “understanding” in regards to terminology.
Everyone else,
PLEASE DON’T BOTHER TO WATCH THIS VIDEO. I ONLY WISH I COULD SOMEHOW REGAIN THE FIVE MINUTES OF MY LIFE I WASTED ON RYAN’S WHITEWASH.
Excellent video Ed; there is no material difference regarding the understanding of CRT.