Right here’s the factor: white conservatives wish to cast off DEI, crucial race concept, and every thing else that will get their racial resentment flowing, however they don’t actually wish to get into the weeds of whether or not their anti-progress stances have advantage, or whether or not the folks answerable for 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, Training 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 Okay-12 public colleges. 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 instances, together with after she was requested if she even knew the bloodbath occurred — indicating that the white particular person answerable for 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 section of CNN’s “Information Evening with Abby Phillip,” Phillip famous appropriately 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 typically no actual level in any respect.
“The one factor I care about for the training secretary — the literal solely factor I care about — is what they’re doing to shut the Division of Training,” Jennings mentioned. “I don’t care what number of books she’s learn; I don’t care what solutions to ‘gotcha’ questions she had. I simply wish to know the way rapidly we are able to shut the division.”
See, that is what I name senseless Trumpetting.
Initially, Jennings is out right here gleefully admitting on stay air that he doesn’t care how educated the Secretary of Training is so long as she shuts down the division she’s answerable for, an agenda of President Donald Trump that’s transparently rooted in ideology, not advantage or practicality.
Secondly, every thing isn’t a “gotcha” query simply because a MAGA official who doesn’t know issues acquired “acquired.”
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, except 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 might have pressured her to current Trump’s anti-DEI mission in a manner that isn’t so imprecise and ambiguous.
And the Trump administration couldn’t have that as a result of folks may discover out the anti-diversity and significant race concept warfare is definitely only a bunch of racist nonsense.
That might be the final word “gotcha,” wouldn’t it?
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