SCENE: Mitch BERG is eating a skewer of souvlaki at a local greek joint when Avery LIBRELLE walks in. BERG tries to hide behind a menu, but LIBRELLE sees him, walks over.
LIBRELLE: Merg!
BERG: Oh, hey, Avery…
LIBRELLE: You people are so paranoid!
BERG: OK, I”ll bite. How, this time?
LIBRELLE: They’re not teaching Critical Race Theory in schools.
BERG: Do tell.
LIBRELLE: Critical race theory is taught in law schools and sociology programs.
BERG: Y’know, this reminds me of the conversation I have with anti-gunners, condescendingly cooing “nobody’s coming for your guns.
LIBRELLE: More paranoia. Nobody’s coming for your guns
BERG: Right. So I point out that politicians say that that’s exactly what they’re going to do – Joe Biden said it himself on is campaign website…
LIBRELLE: That’s just talk, not policy…
BERG: Right. That’s the inevitable next line. So I point to gun control legislation jammed down in New York, Colorado and Virginia in the past few years, and they say…(motions toward LIBRELLE)
LIBRELLE: They’re not coming for your guns right this moment.
BERG: Right. According to you all, I can’t be concerned about gun control until there’s a BATFE agent beating down my door with a photocopied warrant.
But let’s get back on subject. CRT…
LIBRELLE: Isn’t being taught.
BERG: The VIrginia Department of Education says it is.
LIBRELLE: But you can’t prove that it’s being taught in classrooms!
BERG: Teachers are most definitely teaching students that America is inseparably and irredeemably rooted in racism, that “whiteness” and racism are inseparable, that the police were originally an extension of Slave Patrols, and that the Second Amendment was framed to defend slavery and nothing more. All of which are part and parcel of CRT.
LIBRELLE: Again, CRT is taught in law schools and post-secondary education.
BERG: So none of those things are taught in schools.
LIBRELLE: Of course they are.
BERG: And they are all inseparable from CRT.
LIBRELLE: No. Its not CRT.
BERG: What is it, then?
LIBRELLE: It’s a theory about race, that criticizes.
BERG: But not CRT?
LIBRELLE: Of course not.
BERG: (looks down at menu). Look at how the price of pita has gone up…
LIBRELLE: (Looks down) Huh?
But BERG has slipped away.
And SCENE
It’s so weird how creeping sharia law stopped being an existential threat to America once right wing funders lost interest in it.
Creeping Critical Race Theory though…
e, I think you should tell your political masters that very thing. And please, make sure you guys stay on message: suburban parents are white supremacists and terrorists; CRT is a racist dog whistle, and black republicans are their white masters puppets. Its a good message. It WILL work this time. You just have to double down. Call us racists LOUDER, that’s all you have to do.
I am already seeing an attempt to change “Critical Race Theory” into the term “social justice training” or “social justice educarion.”
Remember what they are teaching — that you, if you are white, have obligations to blaxk people. It doesn’t matter how rich or poor you are, it doesn’t matter what you have or have not done. The core of the relationship between white people and black people, individually as well as collectively, is this obligation.
Poor white people have obligations to rich black people. White crime victims have obligations to their black victimizers.
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They didn’t want people realizing how much of the Republican platform is just Sharia with Jesus scribbled in the margins.
Such a strange coincidence that the biggest threats always seem to line up with what right wing funders are into at the moment.
E is right. We should implement his analysis at once.
Kick out the CRT proponants AND the Muslims.
Thanks for the reminder, E.