What it is... and what it isn't

Jul 12, 2021 7:49 PM

springelmogizmo

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Please please please look up Charles Booker! He's an amazing guy, and has a great opportunity to take down Rand Paul!

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Ok, racism doesn't exist. What was the Civil War about again? There was sth about it in the Cornerstone Speech given by Alexander Stephens.

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So what are we to call this, if not racism?

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This is such a non-issue, right wing boutique bull shit, that to try and rally the party around it is utterly futile. GOP is floundering.

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Some Wack was on FB crying about how our kids are being brainwashed by being taught CRT. I countered that if you are against it, you either

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Don’t understand it, or are an ignorant racist douche canoe. FB banned me for ‘bullying’. FB sux donkey balls

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But this is this saying the obstacles are still in place. What are those obstacles that are still in place?

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Here are just two: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/P">4843483/">https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4843483/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6486724/

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heres some CRT

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Charles Booker is awesome. I hope he wins the primary here in KY.

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Same here. I think he would have won the last primary if it had been a month or two later. He should have anyway. Nobody really liked

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McGrath. She just wasn’t McConnell. That’s all she had going for her. That was enough to make me vote for her, but not enough to overcome

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the apathy of enough people.

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Crt is just the new boogey man. It changes every couple months. Dr suess. Caravans. Hunters laptop. Her emails. None of it real.

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The right is really struggling. To put it in terms their golden calf would utter, “they’re really low energy”

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You can't talk about systemic racial bias because some white kids might realize they aren't treated very differently, and they might start >

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>wondering what they have in common with the black kids. They might realize they're both poor, and start thinking about who keeps it thus. >

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>And then you can't convince that kid that all their ills are caused by the black kid, and then the both of them might start looking around.

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Maybe we need to make sure that our kids know the original, reading, writing, arithmetic lessons before we go nuts with what they know

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From what I have seen, the average conservative thinks that CRT is like a reverse racism manifesto.

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Ugh I hate this shit. I wish there was a way to just give them what they want in their own bubble and watch it burn and leave me alone.

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Oh, the Republicans care quite a bit about educating your children. They just don't like teaching history or science.

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Original tweets https://twitter.com/therecount/status/141389075851">2048">https://twitter.com/therecount/status/1413890758516482048 and https://twitter.com/Booker4KY/status/1412559642740264965

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Charles Booker for U. S. Senate!!

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I voted for him in the primary last time. I think he would have likely gotten it had his name gotten out there a little earlier. Hoping he

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can oust the embarrassment that is Rand Paul in ‘22.

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The GOP is fully Trump now, through and through. The old conservatives are just useful idiots, blaming Dems as their party passes them by.

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Had family tell me Biden is just undoing what trump did. When I asked "like what" I didn't get a response

5 years ago | Likes 14 Dislikes 1

Well that is the self described agenda of the party. There are many examples.

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Anyone remaining in the Republican Party now is a full on enabler. They don't get the excuse of fence sitting at this point.

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Charles Booker is running against Rand Paul in KY. He's awesome, pls help if you can.

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Just wish they focused a tad more of the some of the thousands of good white people that fought and died to free the slaves

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Please tell me you're not looking at a discussion of systemic racism and your first thought is, "but what about the white people?"

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Thats basically what every other course teaches, fuck off.

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See they won, it's not being taught in primary school. Just like we don't teach Real Analysis or Quantum Electrodynamics.

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"Appose" ? Oh good lord...

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Maybe they want to be physically positioned close to it

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Yeah, those are totally people with kids in elementary school. No astroturfing at all

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the people that supported racial segregation had children, who were also raised to be racist. who raise their kids to be racist.

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Integration creates racial hatred. Ha! You've got it backwards, Steve.

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Racial hatred creates integration? No, that doesn’t sound right either.

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They are trying to win back the Senate with this

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That’s the funniest/best part, it’s an utter joke. If this all they got, they are screwed.

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It's because they have no ideas, vision, or plan to improve the USA. Their 2020 platform was LITERALLY "Do whatever Donald Trump wants".

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Recent GQP poll - about half, better platform, other half, restrict and limit voting. They're not even pretending anymore.

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The GOPs only hope is to unite the racists

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I’m all for uniting the racists, like a couple hundred miles off shore, and down a ways too

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*steal

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Did the same with obamacare, nobody knew it was the affordable care act (which they loved), and hated obamacare (they were told to hate it)

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Bruh

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This guy gets it

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Guess what…. They will!

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Nah, they're gonna use gerrymandering to take most of the senate and then ram through voting restrictions so only the 'right' people vote.

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'right', meaning only their people. They don't care what Americans want. They only want to remain in power. It's all this ever was

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you misspelled white

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Nah, other people can vote. They just have to be registered republicans and vote within party lines.

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CRT is being taught to young children go watch timcast 323. They show off course material being taught to young children and high schoolers.

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TF is “timcast?”

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Me not know what critical race theory is: "We talking about F1? I reckon Verstappen has it this year!"

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The right just wants to be the SJWs for a while

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October 15

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The only problem with Critical Race Theory is that it has a name and thus can be debated. It should simply be teaching history accurately.

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Please. It's just "political correctness" with a different name. You could call it "Jimbo" and there'd still be a moral panic about it.

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Bear with me, but it isn't teaching history accurately; it's teaching accurate history (and current society) from one lens. Critical race

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theory does a couple things that keep it from being an objective truth (as if such things exist on a human experiential level) -- one, it's

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very narrow in its focus (race), and allows anything to be racism. That's not *wrong*, but it is to say that its goal is to filter all its

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experience through racism. Which brings us to two, what CRT is actually meant to do. As the woman in the vid explains, it's meant to examine

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the effects of structural racism. So, when you have two things that can be interpreted as racist -- let's say college admissions discrim-

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History has a name and gets debated.

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I have family who will call that "revisionist history". The racists have names for every angle.

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those libtards are teaching history!? our children indoctrinated with mindless past things, history is dangerous! - confederate loving gop

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The other problem is that it's all moot. "Kids" (i.e. pre-college) *very* rarely learn any sociology, much less this specific theory.

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I've noticed that America has a habit of generating extra designations for new stuff. When I heard of proud boys I figured it was a gay /

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pride thing, and was taken aback how everyone seemed so against self-expression. Same with qanon and any other movement, they're all stuck /

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with meaningless labels that kinda distract from what they are. Genuinely baffled by this trend, seems specifically American.

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Yep. Once again, Democrats are terrible at messaging and marketing. Refund the police was such an idiotic slogan for a good thing.

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Well all the good names were gone already

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Where have all the good names gone and where are al the gods? Where's the street-wise dictionary to fight the rising odds?!

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like History

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I'm like 60% sure critical race theory isn't "just teaching history accurately" but there's more to it that's involved. Am I wrong?

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It's not. It's not even teaching history. It's sociology. Which isn't typically even taught at all before college.

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Correct. Critical Race Theory, IIRC, is detailed discussion on the intrinsic systemic racism of our infrastructure and how it all intersects

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It certainly involves teaching history accurately, but CRT carries weight into the contemporary and the future. But I could be mistaken.

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You're not. CRT is a "lens of analysis", a system of examining history and sociology to dissect out the role that tension between...

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... racial classes played in how events played out.

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It's the study of how law can and has been racist.

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She does say it’s a method to examine if systemic racism is found within law and public policy. It’s in the beginning

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Sorry @Iwannaseeit I can tell you get it. Misread your comment

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I guess that money the NEA set aside for their propaganda campaign has started flowing.

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So you think the people who teach, study, and administer CRT are all lying to you, and the politicians and tweeters are telling the truth.

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Sorry just want to make sure I understand your position. This is what you believe?

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I guess when you don’t understand something it’s easy to mistake education for propaganda. Sorry you’re so confused, but do try to keep up.

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Also AFT is a completely separate union than NEA, FYI.

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The issue here isn't what's taught.. it's disassociating your feelings from what's taught. I had a Sociology class, and the professor had 1/

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us watch a video of Muslims punishing someone for a crime. Can't remember what it was. He told us to write a paper, but to put our 2/

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personal feelings aside, and look at it as if we were an alien new to the planet just writing up an analysis of what we saw. Almost 3/

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everyone in the class got an F on the paper, b/c they were writing judgemental critiques of what they saw by comparing it to their own 4/

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beliefs. This was eye-opening to some folks, and they learned. Some folks never learned, and failed the class./

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That sounds like an excellent teaching tool, especially if you make the first paper worth an insignificant part of your grade.

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the issue:

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CRT, like most contemporary claims of racism, relies on pretending Asian & Jewish Americans don't exist.

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Is that so? Fascinating!

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Yes. Asian & Jewish Americans faced as much racism, xenophobia & obstacles as anyone. But now enjoy the highest quality of life & privilege.

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In order for CRT to be plausible, you have to ignore their history & success.

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It's not some thesis about racism. It's a lens of viewing events in history. There is plenty of Asian & Jewish CRT analysis.

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For exe, look at the Japanese interment in the 40's through CRT, you see how it was made politically palatable by laws like the...

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Chinese Exclusion Act. How it was the culmination of a trend and not some temporary insanity.

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Japanese interment, 75 years ago, Chinse Exclusion Act, close to 130 years ago.

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That is how history works, yes.

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As a teacher who sat thru a CRT training a few years ago, I ask you to actually look at the packets they give out,the speaker literally said

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If the panic was JUST about those seminars, then ok, let's axe them. But it's not. It's become a dogwhistle for all political correctness.

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but that statement is correct. if you are aware of history, there is plenty to be ashamed about. denying it doesn’t change that.

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I'm not ashamed of a single thing that any of my ancestors did. I did not even fucking exist. However, I am appalled. Not ashamed though.

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You referenced the packets and then made your point with what the speaker said. Which is it? A person can be flawed, and that doesn't >

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> reflect on the educational materials they are presenting that has been compiled by other people. You assume that "you should be ashamed" >

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You can't win against CRT. If you don't support it you get lumped in with the right wingers, racists, and those who deny systemic racism.

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Forget critical race theory, critical theory itself is the real problem.

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Yeah I'm done, they can have it their way and then cry when they inevitably fail.

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No. You did not “sit through CRT training” a few years ago because CRT was JUST dredged from the bowels of academia as rightwing fear bait.

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It wasn't called CRT back in 2018, but it was done at FWISD.

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Fwisd audit of the program in 2018: https://www.fwisd.org/cms/lib/TX01918778/Centricity/Domain/2312/EE%20Handbook%209.18.20.pdf look @ pg 10

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Wow surprised to see they were calling it CRT then. I’ll give you that one. But I’m not seeing any hysterical language attached to it here.

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It’s also not presented as CRT “training” which has a sinister indoctrination sounding component.

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'crt training' isn't a thing. critical theories are methods of analyzing history.

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FWISD sent 5 teachers from each school to a 3 day long, 4 hour each day professional training about CRT.

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...this is not crt. crt is a *method*. this packet describes a *conclusion*. a critical theory can never describe a conclusion.

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crt could just as easily conclude that racial disparities do not exist, or if they do, are not because of racial bias.

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BuT ThEy'Re BoTh EqUaLlY bAd

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For anyone wondering about the bias of the source of this graph: https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/politics-that-work/

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Label the axis, then let’s talk

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A so-called, self-identifying intellectual:

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Yet both sides support bombing countries halfway around the world. Hmmpf.

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Yep, despite what you might hear, the political spectrum of the united states is firmly to the right.

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Doesn't mean the two major parties are equally bad. One's a plate of undercooked boiled plain chicken, the other's a bowl of broken glass

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I wanted alot from the chicken but it's going along w the tide. Time for baked chicken and melted glass.

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I agree with what this is trying to say but you should never trust a graph with an unlabeled axis. Also how are these quantifiable at all?

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I agree with you, but the graph is easy to read because the axes are percentage based, thus 0% - 100%. That's easy.

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Well we dont actually know that the right end is 100% because its not labeled (and also i highly doubt any of these issues had 100% support)

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Assuming the right end is 100%, the highest is Democrats for education at 99% or 100%, hard to tell with the pixels, nothing else is there.

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Well you could go to the website it lists and look at the scale they use for everything else.

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Called in in 2008. Polarization will only lead to lack of common ground, and anything one side says is bad the other side will see as good.

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When both sides actually want to solve a problem in good faith, compromise is great. The issue is is that one side doesn't want to govern.

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Exactly right.

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“Meet me in the middle,” said the unjust man

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Never heard of that source, are they legit?

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I am more liberal than 75% of the people I know here in California and even I can see that this graph is simply bullshit.

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The graphs I looked at were reputably sourced. However, it's either liberally biased or the data really skews that way.

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Let’s say that graphic is legit. Needs a whole other category when people don’t vote at all

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Asking the right questions here, don't just look at a graph and automatically buy it.

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But...But, confirmation bias

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Looks pretty sketchy. No sources. Just a bunch of random graphs.

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There is a source though? Look at the top of the image.

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Mediabiasfactcheck.com says the site in the link is "Mostly Factual" and label them "Left-Center Bias."

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Ask what does "Big Business" mean? Pretty vague, clear sign of bias. Also "women's rights" is left side verbiage. Shouldn't trust it

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FYI, I'm left of center myself, but bias is bias

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On the website this graph doesnt include big business. But it does include something called hawkish foreign policy which i dont like.

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Why?

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The website is also out of date a bit.

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