Yeah, They Did this to the TEA Party Movement. Been there, done that (reformatted, emphasis mine):
Related: New Narrative: CRT is a Right-Wing Conspiracy Made Up By Republicans.
As Rebellion Against Critical Race Theory Grows, Left Turns to Denial, Dismissal
Americans are waking up to the threat posed by critical race theory, which is often presented behind a cloak of secrecy and the banner of social justice, and across the country, they are now fighting back. The Biden administration may have reversed former President Donald Trump’s ban on critical race theory and so-called anti-racist training in government agencies, but Americans from a diverse set of backgrounds are now making this a national fight, which is dramatically playing out on the local and state level.
What has been the response from the left to this popular rebellion against critical race theory?
Denial and dismissal.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Old tactic – didn’t work then and it isn’t working now. Remember, the MSM are merely Democrats with bylines. And political operatives are just …hacks. I guess, once again, they believe we knuckle-dragging white middle-class dudes can’t search to find out that this started back with Bell at Harvard Law – at about the same time Obama was there.
When asked about debates over critical race theory taking place at school board meetings in Northern Virginia, former Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe, a Democrat, earlier this month called it a “right-wing conspiracy” made up by Republicans. On Sunday, NBC’s “Meet the Press” host Chuck Todd said that resistance to critical race theory was “manufactured,” and one of his guests, Cornell Belcher, a Democratic Party strategist, said it was nothing more than a “tool … in the racial tribal bogeyman’s toolbox,” concocted for electoral purposes. Others on the left have said that critical race theory has been too broadly defined by opponents and legislatures that want to remove it from public institutions. It’s just an insignificant school issue, they insist: Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain.
Critical race theory is bad, you say? We’ve never heard of it, but stop trying to stop it, fascist!
These dismissive rebukes miss the point that many Americans reject the broad range of woke racial ideology that is broadly being promoted by activists, media, corporations, bureaucrats, and even the military to destructive effect. Has the Left bothered to narrowly define “white supremacy”—or for that matter, racism, which has been attributed to apple pie, bird names, and the air, among other things? Of course not.
Back when the TEA Party movement was started by Obama’s insistence that we should be paying the mortgages of those that were in trouble (didn’t matter that quite a few had refinanced their homes multiple times as home prices were soaring – until they plummeted and the cash was gone).
Many took umbrage at that notion and the Taxed Enough Already rallies started with vigor. Then, people realized that while rallies were fun in the beginning (as Glen Beck famously said “You are not alone”) and there was a social aspect to it, the rallies started to peter out in the middle as people realized “Fun? Yes. Is it getting anything done? No – get to work.”
And work, we did.
All that time, Democrats were piling heaping ridicule upon us and calling us the various names they still do now (e.g., selfish, extremists, right-wing nutjobs; they haven’t freshened up their vocabulary since then) in derision. They expect us, common folks, to knuckle under like most of the elected Republicans at the time.
Nope, didn’t happen. We just engineered huge wins for Republicans (as they seemed more aligned with TEA Party Principles than the Dems, sorta). Then did it again.
The Dems continued to be dismissive and denied what was going on and why we were doing it. They knew, however, that we were THEIR existential threat of the time, wanting Government to live within our means, live within its Constitutional restrictions, and having a Free Market (which hasn’t existed for a long, LONG time). There were more but those were the Big Three.
The Dems lost and lost again. Baghdad Bobs, all.
Steve and I headed North yesterday morning for a meeting and given how little time we’ve spent in person with each other this last year and a half, we had a lot to talk about. And this was one of those things, that they’re trying this technique again. Good, let them. Just ignore them. We lived through it then and we’ll get through this, too. Just hoping we have a few more notches on our rhetorical gun handles when we’re done.
Just smile when they try hard to Cancel you – lovely word and idea; they didn’t have that back then, so, OK, they freshened up their vocab – for working against something they keep saying that doesn’t exist, you now know it does and they are frustrated that yet another technique has gone by the wayside.
…It’s clear that critical race theory is not just diversity or sensitivity training, but an attempt to remake American society entirely defined by race, with its end result being a kind of neo-segregation, where opaquely defined “systemic” racism, “white supremacy,” and inequity are “combated” with more racism…Pollak noted that the spin from the left and the media is a good sign for those who oppose critical race theory.
The rebellion against critical race theory is real, and the movement is growing. It has become a serious threat to the agenda of woke social justice crusaders, who apparently thought the revolution was complete.
