re: #46 Targetpractice

Much like “cancel culture” is just “political correctness” with the serial numbers filed off, “CRT” is just another way of babbling about things like “affirmative action” and “racial quotas,” a way for white politicians to continue blathering out loud that the white man’s dominance is under attack. Though they’re still sticking with “law & order” (*dun dun*) because it still has the same meaning today in their lexicon as it did when their daddies used it, which is to scare the white suburban folks with images of race riots and mass looting.

Overall message is still the same 14 words as its ever been.

The unfortunate thing is that just because a crisis is manufactured and based totally on a bullshit foundation doesn’t mean that it can’t win the day and its promoters can’t win tangible victories based on that BS even in the face of constant debunkings. We’re still basically living in the aftermath of ‘Sharia Law’ panic that we haven’t even fully extracted ourselves as a country from. We’re relitigating the usual ‘political correctness’ wars under guise of anti-‘woke’ and anti-‘identity politics’ BS that even significant numbers in our coalition are falling for in the face of a right wing totally united against those boogeymen. The current CRT panic seems to have already won tangible victories of essentially outlawing non-whitewashed history in several states, all because of one fucking think tank asshole demonstrating just how easily the right-wing noise machine can pump out a new boogeyman and win the day.

We’re still living in an on-line world where Gamergate essentially fucking won, for christ’s sake, and how the newest generation of right-wing monsters have used that pattern to dominate online spaces