Right here’s the factor: white conservatives need to cast off DEI, crucial race idea, and every part else that will get their racial resentment flowing, however they don’t actually need to get into the weeds of whether or not their anti-progress stances have advantage, or whether or not the individuals in command of deciding what constitutes DEI and CRT are geared up to make such assessments. All white conservatives do is make claims with little to nothing to substantiate them and dismiss any challenges to these claims as “woke,” “leftist,” or, within the case of CNN host Scott Jennings and his ilk, fraught with “gotcha” questions.
Final week, Schooling Secretary Linda McMahon was grilled throughout a congressional listening to concerning the Trump administration’s efforts to ban what it considers to be “unlawful DEI practices” at Ok-12 public faculties. She was requested for examples of what historic teachings may fall below that class, particularly, whether or not educating college students concerning the Tulsa Race Bloodbath of 1921 would violate federal coverage.
“I’d need to get again to you on that,” McMahon responded a number of occasions, together with after she was requested if she even knew the bloodbath occurred — indicating that the white particular person in command of the workplace that’s deciding how a lot Black historical past is an excessive amount of Black historical past wasn’t conscious of arguably essentially the most well-known race riot in American historical past.
The significance of why somebody in McMahon’s place needs to be higher versed in Black historical past — particularly if she’s concerned in deciding what ought to and shouldn’t be taught — eluded Jennings, apparently.
Throughout a Wednesday phase of CNN’s “Information Evening with Abby Phillip,” Phillip famous accurately that McMahon has proven herself to be a woefully underqualified Cupboard member within the administration of President Donald Trump, regardless of the administration presenting its anti-DEI agenda as a marketing campaign for meritocracy. Jennings responded by deflecting to his perceived failing of the Biden administration (as a result of MAGA supporters don’t have anything in the event that they don’t have, “However…however…however Sleepy Joe”) earlier than segueing to his precise level, which was usually no actual level in any respect.
“The one factor I care about for the schooling secretary — the literal solely factor I care about — is what they’re doing to shut the Division of Schooling,” Jennings stated. “I don’t care what number of books she’s learn; I don’t care what solutions to ‘gotcha’ questions she had. I simply need to know the way rapidly we are able to shut the division.”
See, that is what I name senseless Trumpetting.
To start with, Jennings is out right here gleefully admitting on reside air that he doesn’t care how educated the Secretary of Schooling is so long as she shuts down the division she’s in command of, an agenda of President Donald Trump that’s transparently rooted in ideology, not advantage or practicality.
Secondly, every part isn’t a “gotcha” query simply because a MAGA official who doesn’t know issues obtained “obtained.”
McMahon was requested about Tulsa and Ruby Bridges in a dialogue about what her workplace considers “unlawful DEI” curriculum. (She wasn’t even requested the extra related query: What does faculty curriculum need to do with range, fairness and inclusion initiatives within the first place, until we’re merely otherizing any teachings that don’t heart white America?) McMahon wasn’t requested any troublesome questions, however she was requested questions that may have pressured her to current Trump’s anti-DEI mission in a means that isn’t so imprecise and ambiguous.
And the Trump administration couldn’t have that as a result of individuals may discover out the anti-diversity and significant race idea conflict is definitely only a bunch of racist nonsense.
That might be the last word “gotcha,” wouldn’t it?
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