Joe Biden Presidency thread *Please read OP - Threadbanned Users Added 4/5/21*

That is what you say it is.^^^^

This is what it actually is.

"Sept 21 (Reuters) - "Critical race theory," a once-obscure academic concept, has become a fixture in the fierce U.S. debate over how to teach children about the country's history and race relations.

Conservatives have invoked the term in schools and statehouses nationwide to denounce curricula and policies they consider too liberal. However, the term is widely misunderstood and misused.

WHAT IS CRITICAL RACE THEORY?

Critical race theory (CRT) is an approach to studying U.S. policies and institutions that is most often taught in law schools. Its foundations date back to the 1970s, when law professors including Harvard Law School’s Derrick Bell began exploring how race and racism have shaped American law and society.

The theory rests on the premise that racial bias - intentional or not - is baked into U.S. laws and institutions. Black Americans, for example, are incarcerated at much higher rates than any other racial group, and the theory invites scrutiny of the criminal justice system's role in that."

So you see, conservatives don't like it because it brings awareness of racists and/or racism, which they like to say doesn't exist anymore.

It's the same reason they cannot relate to BLM. They don't get why black people just don't get a job, while never hiring them because they think they crime all day.

I think America stayed in Afghanistan too long but that 20 year period was the best years that country ever had, infrastructure development, women's education, ending of famine, incredible leaps in health care etc etc.

The Taliban enjoy too much support there.

Much of middle and upper class Kabul was cosmopolitan. Kabul outside of that was not. Afghanistan outside of Kabul was deep in the Middle Ages and a dark brutal middle ages at that.

The Taliban were a return to norm for much off the country.

The deobandi rebellion of 1928 which deposed King Aman Khan was in response to his educational reform.

The Taliban might be overthrown, though their little force enjoys no real challenge but those that replace them will still be as retrograde.

i dont really know if this belongs here or not, but sher anyway:

yesterday and today RTE have on their homepage about trumps accountants ditching him:

there aint nowt about john durham confirming that he was unlawfully spied upon during his presidency.

and even google 'john durham' news and you will be presented with not much.

the 1st one is

the headline: Court Filing Started a Furor in Right-Wing Outlets, but Their Narrative Is Off Track

i mean, there is no narrative. there is fact and not fact.

Remember when they called us zealots?

Love how all Biden is giving Trump fans to talk about is poll numbers from conservative outlets.

Quite a relief after the sh*tshow of 2016-2020 when there was a new active fiasco on a daily basis. Plenty things to discuss what Biden could be doing better or the challenges he is facing and this is all we get from opponents for the last several days. Says a lot.

He gave a speech on the situation in Ukraine earlier and Conservative commentators are silent or talking about how he should have boycott the Olympics, which he actually did do. That in itself is telling although give it a couple hours and Russia's US Correspondent Tucker Carlson will probably be complaining how NATO should be disbanded and Ukraine just given to Russia.

All so they can say biden gets nothing done.

Same bs when they voted against these infrastructure bill and then claimed the credit.

Lying bunch of bästards and yet people gobble it up

The lack of critical thinking has really been highlighted again over the last few days with this Durham rubbish. It's actually frightening how many people don't even care about actual facts and evidence, merely parroting whatever headlines that they're fed by Fox et al. I suppose it's human nature that some people are more gullible than others but it seems to be getting worse all the time.