Once more, with feeling

There is no "sweeping social movement". People just want progress. The people who want police reform are one group. The people who want education reform are one group. The people who want to raise the minimum wage are one group.

But this guy prefers the current status quo. So he seems to constantly get into fights about these things with people. He assumes because they are all against him they must be working with each other. If the political system removed first past the post, these groups would all be at each others throats. But since the system crushes political opinion into a binary, they have to choose to be for progress or against it.

For example, he talks about teaching CRT, a branch of critical theory. This is advanced philosophy. No one is going to try to teach it to a kindergartener. But he deliberately confuses it with a proposed math reform to help struggling kids dealing with an overburdened public school system. And his source is another right wing weirdo on twitter pulling a citiation as though it is proof that the left wants to make your kids into commies. (The citied article is about how university scholarships are award to affluent students. It has nothing to do with the proposed education reform. )

So if he says "the left are trying to teach your kindergarteners CRT", it's perfectly logical for people to explain to him he's not using that word correctly. He knows that though. He's deliberately using the blurring the definition of the word so that it codifies to things he doesn't like. Just like this post deliberately tried to use "woke" incorrectly. Then he has the audacity to complain that noone

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