FOX News And Whiteness
As conservatives so rightly say, we live in a post-racial society. This means that national news anchors need to be up in arms about the skin pigment of a fictional character.
As conservatives so rightly say, we live in a post-racial society. This means that national news anchors need to be up in arms about the skin pigment of a fictional character.
You know the type. You’d like to call them complacent, but that would mean that they had actually achieved something on their own besides making the five-minute drive to class in their father’s Mercedes. As insufferable as Donald Trump, but lacking the professional experience that might begin to justify the inflated sense of self. The characteristically glib condemnations of the “lazy” poor while they have yet to clock any hours in the real world. The college conservative. They’re everywhere.
Pointed projection at its finest.
One would think that conservatives would take at least as much issue with Santa as they do Obamacare. After all, he annually encroaches upon individual liberty and private property by providing everyone with things they don’t ask for.
In case you were unaware, Diane Ravitch is an education policy big leaguer who worked to advance the cause of both charter schools and No Child Left Behind. She’s experienced a major turnaround as of late, saying that she “no longer [believes] that either approach will produce the quantum improvement in American education that we all hope for”, and that at the end of the day, it’s poverty–not teachers–that’s the biggest indicator of low academic performance. Kudos to Ravitch for having the strength of character to admit when she’s wrong; plenty of others in DC could benefit from her example.