Conservatives programed to trigger at words "Black Lives Matter" by Russian trolls.

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Using troll farms in other nations to attack our Spanish speaking communities here in America has made a very effective propaganda campaign, especially when coupled with social media companies not having the ability to stop the different languages well enough to make much difference, leaving these vulnerable people in a very bad place.

One thing that I didn't know is how some of the programming labels that have been used lately has such a strong reaction on these communities based on what it is that they have seen in their own countries that is useful for the propagandists to use to scare them in our nation to vote for the insurrectionist RINO's (because Republicans should know better than to work with foreign nations to attack our democracy).

"Progressive" I was interested in finding out has a different meaning that I really don't understand yet, as does the 'Fist' that is being used to drudge up memories of socialism movements in these other nations.

This is a good segment that talks about it with Latino voters.

https://www2.palomar.edu/users/lpayn/115/fist.pdf

I found this thread was pushing it pretty hard too:
https://247sports.com/college/west-virginia/Board/103782/Contents/BLM-Adopts-the-Clenched-Fist-of-Communism-As-Its-Symbol--148367695/

 

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I think I see the long troll that the right wing propagandists have set with 'CRT'. It never really mattered what the racist snowflake terminology was. But it was always going to be their TeaParty2.0 platform (along with voting suppression/(f)raudits, and crashing the economy and blaming the Democrats of inflation and everything else that results from the insurrectionist shit handling of the economy), so picking the name to program the trigger word to be didn't matter.

So this insurrectionist RINO is saying that Garland's son-in-law is selling books to schools on the 'Critical Race Theory' or 'anti-racism material' so he has some kind of bullshit conflict of interest, and asked him to submit to an investigation because of it, when the 'CRT' trigger has nothing to do with the Feds investigating the threats on school board members/schools from the radicalized cult members.




Looking back when Fox started pushing this termonology 'CRT'

https://www.rollitup.org/t/conservatives-programed-to-trigger-at-words-black-lives-matter-by-russian-trolls.1034523/post-16569992

It is easy to see it wasn't until Biden named Garland as AG that they started pushing this troll. Which makes sense if they were playing the long game to use this now as some bullshit slander on him to paint him as 'against the school board' radicalization for their state voter amplification effort.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/06/15/scholar-strategy-how-critical-race-theory-alarms-could-convert-racial-anxiety-into-political-energy/


And he kept pushing 'if the people lose their faith in our insitutions' and that 'people are concerned', when it was pushed by their very networks to scaremonger with their race baiting propaganda. And since it came after, and if (big IF) Garland's kid has anything to do with CRT (in actuality and not just generalized anti racism books) like they claim, I call bullshit. And it is a long troll on the part of Fox, the propaganda trigger word trolls online and the insurrectionist RINO's to use as a attack on Biden's AG almost as soon as he was nominated.

https://ballotpedia.org/Confirmation_process_for_Merrick_Garland_for_U.S._attorney_general

 

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It looks like this troll has been sprung in the last week or so.

I decided to look at the Fox link to see what they had to sell their cultists on their bullshit scam.

Here is the memo that Fox news states is about the FBI investigating parents upset about 'CRT'. Which is bullshit. Because after reading it, the memo says nothing about CRT, or even the masks or vaccines that people are nutting out about, just the threats of violence.

https://www.justice.gov/ag/page/file/1438986/download



So the circle jerk of the insurrectionist RINO's is coming full circle.

I found this fact check (don't know anything about website, but did notice it finds a right wing blog that this conspiracy theory was first posted on (The Conservative Treehouse).

https://americanindependent.com/merrick-garland-xan-tanner-critical-race-theory-textbooks/

On Monday, Attorney General Merrick Garland sent a memo to the FBI ordering the agency to address the "disturbing spike" in harassment and threats of violence against teachers and other school officials.

The order came after just days after the National School Boards Association sent a letter to President Joe Biden asking for federal assistance in investigating the rise of violence and harassment directed at education leaders over masking policies and the "the false inclusion of critical race theory within classroom instruction and curricula."

This week, the right-wing blogosphere erupted with a new conspiracy theory suggesting an ulterior motive behind Garland's memo.

The unfounded claim hinges on Garland's own son-in-law, Xan Tanner. Tanner — who is married to Merrick Garland's daughter, Rebecca Garland — is the co-founder of Panorama Education, an educational services company that provides resource material for teachers and school districts.

The conspiracy theory seems to have first appeared on the right-wing blog The Conservative Treehouse.

On Oct. 5, the blog's anonymous author — who goes by the handle "Sundance" — claimed that Garland "is instructing the FBI to investigate parents who might pose a financial threat to the business of his daughter's husband."

"Well, well, well… This is interesting," the blog post begins. "U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland recently instructed the FBI to begin investigating parents who confront school board administrators over critical race theory indoctrination material."

"Panorama Education is the 'social learning' resource material provider to school districts and teachers that teach critical race theory," the blog post continues. "Conflict of interest much?"

There is no evidence to suggest that Garland asked the FBI to investigate threats against school officials for personal gain.

"Critical race theory" is a pedagogical framework used to understand how racism has shaped America throughout history. The phrase burst into the mainstream this year when multiple state legislatures introduced bills seeking to ban its use in school curricula.

Counter to what conservatives critics have argued, critical race theory is not being widely taught in American public schools. According to a June survey conducted by the Association of American Educators, less than 5% of respondents reported that critical race theory (or CRT) was being taught in their schools.

It didn't take long for the Conservative Treehouse post to start circulating in far-right circles. Ron Watkins, the administrator of the extremist message board 8chan, quickly shared the post on Telegram, an encrypted messaging service popular with white supremacists. The post was also shared in an antisemitic Telegram channel associated with the Proud Boys, the right-wing extremist paramilitary group.

Fox News soon picked up the blog post. The news outlet interviewed Asra Nomani, a conservative education advocate, who claimed that Panorama has ties to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg.

"Merrick Garland has declared a war on parents," Nomani tweeted on Tuesday.

By Thursday afternoon, several Republican members of Congress had chimed in on Twitter, calling for an investigation into the alleged conflict of interest with the attorney general.

"The AG’s son-in-law's company makes millions selling CRT & other PC programs to our schools while the AG calls parents who question school boards, domestic terrorists. Conflict of interest, anyone? I'm joining several of my colleagues to investigate," Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-Col.) tweeted on Thursday.

Reps. Ken Buck (R-CO), Ronny Jackson (R-TX), and Jim Banks (R-IN) also called for Garland to be investigated.

Tanner founded Panorama Education in 2012. The company "partners with schools and districts to support student literacy and social-emotional learning," a Panorama spokesperson told the American Independent Foundation, "for the purpose of helping schools and districts better serve their students."

"Panorama is not affiliated with any particular academic philosophy, including critical race theory," the spokesperson said. "The only relationship between Panorama Education and Attorney General Merrick Garland is that Panorama's co-founder Xan Tanner is AG Garland’s son-in-law."

Here is the post on that blog for the bullshit conspiracy that made it all the way to the congressional hearing today (with the bump from Fox News of course).

Also noticed this on their homepage: Nice little dose of anti-vaccine Q level bullshit propaganda.

 

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This is huge and it's a bummer that it is not getting more airtime.

 

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It's like scientology; can't show ya all the crazy stuff on the first day!

 

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It's like scientology; can't show ya all the crazy stuff on the first day!

Yeah it is pretty funny, it is a lot like Facebook's method of radicalization. You start them with some Fox News, and a couple clicks later get them into some Joe Rogan, and before they know it is on to Qanon and a hop-skip to the real hateful shit.

 

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Yeah it is pretty funny, it is a lot like Facebook's method of radicalization. You start them with some Fox News, and a couple clicks later get them into some Joe Rogan, and before they know it is on to Qanon and a hop-skip to the real hateful shit.

The meth doesn't help either.

 

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it is NOT a teachers job to teach children to be good people, a teacher is supposed to give them important information about the world, and help them assimilate it so that they can have decent lives and help make the world a slightly better place...it is the job of PARENTS to teach their children to be good people, and they're obviously failing miserably...do not blame teachers for your own failures...

 

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https://www.rawstory.com/critical-race-theory-is-a-fairytale-but-america-s-monsters-are-real/

My grandmother was the wisest person I have ever known. She had a fifth-grade education. She lived under and survived the terror regime of Jim and Jane Crow in the South. She and my grandfather owned a small farm — they were not sharecroppers or tenant farmers. They raised many children related to them by blood or marriage: nieces and nephews, younger cousins and so on. They also took in the children of neighbors and other people who, for whatever reason, needed help. No one was turned away if they needed food or a place to stay. Many of the children my grandparents cared for went on to become doctors, bankers, teachers, lawyers and morticians.

My grandmother also offered prophecies and interpreted dreams. What she foretold and interpreted almost always came to pass. I wish I had listened to her more than I did. Sometimes prophecies and predictions must be forced into being; outcomes are never preordained. That is the riddle and paradox of such things.

My grandmother was also a master storyteller. She would make strange faces and change her voice to become the monsters, shape-shifters and other strange entities she told me about that haunted the woods, roads and swamps of North Carolina when she was a child.

One of my favorites was about the Goat Man who prowled the backwoods and dirt roads in little towns all across the South.

In fact, my friend, the author Joe Lansdale, knows of the Goat Man too. He recently wrote a story for Halloween about him: "The Tall Tale of the Sabine River Goat Man and the Haunted Cemetery."

My grandmother told me that the Goat Man would scream and howl while galloping through the town where she grew up, clomping on his flaming, hoofed feet during the twilight hours between day and night. His awful noises were a warning for all to keep away, an announcement that the Goat Man was here and there was not a damn thing you or anyone else could do about it. If he wanted to get you, he would.

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The Goat Man grabbed little Black boys and Black girls and put them in a sack and stole them away into the night. Maybe he ate them or tortured them to death for his own amusement. Maybe it was even more horrible than that.

My grandmother would always scare me with that part of the story, but she'd tell me the really good part was coming up, so I'd best pay close attention.

One day the tough and proud Black men in the town decided to kill the Goat Man — assuming that such a thing was even humanly possible. They told some of the teenage boys to walk on the road at dusk, when the Goat Man was sure to come after them. Then they were supposed to run up to the barn where the posse was waiting. The plan was going perfectly, she explained. The Goat Man, so bold, took the bait and ran after the boys to that barn before realizing it was a trap. Then he stood there, so damn arrogant, telling them all to come out or he was gonna gobble every single Negro up, including the adult men, and maybe, if his belly got too full, save the other Negroes for a snack.

My grandmother started to laugh at that point. She told me that the Black men finally had enough of his mess and jumped on the Goat Man. They kicked and pummeled him. They shot him with their hunting rifles and shotguns. They beat him with chains and axe handles and anything else they thought would brain him. But that Goat Man was tough and strong with evil. He tore one man's arm off. He took one of the teenage boys and kicked him so hard that "his privates," as my grandmother put it, came out of his mouth and nose. He grabbed one member of the posse, ripped his head clean off his shoulders and threw it out into a field. Apparently, that man was a loudmouth, a troublemaker and a bully, and no one was terribly sorry when the Goat Man killed him.

Finally the Goat Man ran away with that posse of Black folks chasing after him. The Goat Man never came down that dirt road again. People claimed they could still hear him, in the woods or deep in the swamp. But people stopped randomly disappearing. Parents used the story of the Goat Man, naturally enough, to scare children into behaving. When I asked my grandmother what really happened to that Goat Man, she leaned in, lowered her voice, and said sternly and clearly that he was still out there, just waiting for the right time to come back. "Monsters like that never really go away," she said.

Years later, while reading Lawrence Levine's book "Black Culture and Black Consciousness," I felt that I finally understood the wisdom and truth of my grandmother's Goat Man stories. Those terrifying tales were (and still are) a way for adults to teach Black children how to survive Jim and Jane Crow white supremacy and the other injustices they would suffer throughout life because of the color of their skin.

The Goat Man's howling was the sound of curfews and sundown towns and police sirens. His fiery, strange appearance was like that of the Klan members and other white mobs with their torches and lynching ropes and other forms of racist terror. At their core, the Goat Man and other such monsters were a reminder that real evil takes the form of flesh-and-blood human beings, not ghosts or demons or spectral fiends.

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The Age of Trump has empowered human monsters. As much as many people wish these were phantasmagoric bogeymen, they are real monsters, with a plan to remake America in their own evil vision.

Their goal is to reclaim uncontested white power and white privilege over every significant aspect of American society. Their evil fairytales about "critical race theory" or "parental control" are but a means to that end. The real meaning of those words does not matter; the emotions and the behavior they encourage is what is important. Indeed, for fascists and other authoritarians, reality and truth are mere functions of power, arbitrary constructs that can be changed to meet the needs of the leader and the movement.

The right-wing propaganda machine's version of "critical race theory" is a lie, an empty floating signifier that can be made to mean almost anything the propagandists and their audience want it to. Once objective truth and reality are destroyed or abandoned, democracy and human freedom become impossible.

What about the everyday white folks, regular people who are not of the political class and not deeply knowledgeable about public policy — for example those who voted for Republican Glenn Youngkin in Virginia last week because of claims about "critical race theory" or "the woke socialist Democrats" or whatever else?

Those people are doing the work of racism and white supremacy. Of course, a great many of them, perhaps most, would take great umbrage at such a description. But on these matters, intention is irrelevant.

Supporting Republican fascists who tell evil fairytales about "critical race theory" — or, more directly, about the teaching of America's real history — is by definition an act of white supremacy and racism.

 

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https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/10/opinion/wokeness-racism-politics.html

Language is extremely powerful.

The stories it tells become our greatest religions, the credos of great nations and the mantras of our greatest wars.

The ways in which we define people and things can be liberating or trammeling; they can advance the cause of liberty and equality or cause societies to regress.

It is for that reason that we battle over language, over who gets to control and define it, over whose stories get told and how. It is for that reason that words that gather power are set upon by those who wish to defang them.

Perhaps no other word of the moment is so under attack as “woke,” a word born as a simple yet powerful way of saying, be aware of and alert to how racism is systemic and pervasive and suffuses American life. Wake up from the slumber of ignorance and passive acceptance.

But because of its petit power, this small word was a prime candidate for co-option, for being turned against the people who used it. The opponents of wokeness — whether they be conservatives who believe it injures the ideal of America as inherently good, or moderate Democrats worried that it handicaps their electoral prospects — want to kill it.

Republicans want to recast “wokeness” as progressive politics run amok, and many establishment Democrats shrink from the term because they either believe that Republicans have succeeded at the task, or, of even more concern, they agree with those Republicans.

Being awake to and aware of how our systems of power operate creates enemies across the political spectrum because the wokeness indicts both Republicans and Democrats alike. Wokeness indicts the status quo.

And so, wokeness has been referred to in the most hyperbolic language imaginable, from ideology to religion to cult. It has been so derided and adulterated that young people who are what one would have called woke five years ago no longer even use the term.

Perhaps nothing helps to illustrate the chasm between moderates and progressives as well as a skirmish last week between the Democratic strategist James Carville and the Democratic Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.

On “PBS NewsHour,” Carville was asked what went wrong with the Democratic Party to enable Glenn Youngkin to win “53 percent of suburban voters in Virginia,” when only last year Donald Trump won just 45 percent.

“Well, what went wrong is this stupid wokeness,” Carville responded. Broadening his response to races in cities across the country, he blamed the “defund the police lunacy” and said “some of these people need to go to a woke detox center or something.”

But then he brought it back to language. “They’re expressing language that people just don’t use. And there’s a backlash and a frustration at that,” Carville said, adding: “We have got to change this and not be about changing dictionaries and change laws. And these faculty lounge people that sit around mulling about I don’t know what are — they’re not working.”

Ocasio-Cortez had a different view: In an Instagram story, she said she thought the results showed “the limits of trying to run a fully, 100 percent, super moderated campaign that does not excite, speak to or energize a progressive base.”

She never invoked wokeness, but that didn’t stop local news outlets from running an article from the Sinclair Broadcast Group about her comments under the headline, “AOC Says McAuliffe Lost Because He Wasn’t ‘Woke’ Enough, Carville Says the Opposite.” (The headline was later changed to “AOC Says McAuliffe Lost Because He Didn’t Energize a ‘Progressive Base.’”)

To be clear: Democrats didn’t lose Virginia because progressives were too “woke.” They lost because Youngkin lied about critical race theory to activate white racial anxiety. Don’t blame wokeness for the reactions of whiteness.

Ocasio-Cortez objected on Twitter to the way her comments were originally characterized and tweeted that she had “Said nothing abt ‘wokeness’ which is a term almost exclusively used by older people these days btw.”

She followed up with another tweet: “Like the average audience for people seriously using the word ‘woke’ in a 2021 political discussion are James Carville and Fox News pundits so that should tell you all you need to know.”

This exchange does tell us something informative: “Woke” is now almost exclusively used by those who seek to deride it, those who chafe at the activism from which it sprang.

No wonder young people are abandoning the word. Opponents to the idea are seeking to render it toxic. They use it to stand in for change itself, for evolution, for an accurate assessment of history and society that makes them uncomfortable and deflates their hagiographic view of American history.

The opponents of wokeness are fighting over an abandoned word, like an army bombarding a fort that has been vacated: They don’t appear fierce, but foolish.