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Want to Save America? Don't Act Like a Conservative
Abigail Shrier blog ^ | 7/12/2021 | Abigail Shrier

Posted on 07/12/2021 6:20:13 PM PDT by tbw2

Chris Rufo is doing something so spectacularly unconservative, he may need to update his political affiliation: he’s winning.

Last week, Rufo’s successful legislative efforts to ban critical race theory in the classroom found critique in the New York Times. The guest essay conspicuously avoided naming him; then again, it didn’t have to.

Rufo, a journalist and advocate, has become so synonymous with both the effort to alert Americans to the racism their children are imbibing in public school and the legislative efforts to stop it, that he’s become the person we think of whenever “Critical Race Theory” is mentioned. For the first time in years, Ibram X. Kendi and Nikole-Hannah Jones face actual pushback to the white-hatred they peddle and division they feast upon. Parents have someone they can turn to for evidence, argument and reassurance of their marrow-deep sense that the racial essentialism in their kids’ classroom is wrong and that it’s not racist to say so. For the first time in years, the rejection of “Critical Race Theory” is gaining ground.

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1 posted on 07/12/2021 6:20:13 PM PDT by tbw2
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To: tbw2

Want to Save America? Don’t Act Like a Conservative
Chest-Thumpers and ‘Aw, Shucks’ Conservatives Personify the Right’s Love Affair with Losing
https://abigailshrier.substack.com/p/want-to-save-america-dont-act-like


2 posted on 07/12/2021 6:20:30 PM PDT by tbw2
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To: tbw2

What about self-righteous snobby consevatives?


3 posted on 07/12/2021 6:26:41 PM PDT by \/\/ayne (I regret that I have but one subscription cancellation notice to give to my local newspaper)
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To: tbw2

The left has been given the treatment of what is akin to an “Endangered Species” and you just can’t hunt them. The rules aren’t the same when you consider the Media, the Print, the Hollywood Elites, the Athletes, etc. Add to it the warm welcome to the Squad and such and Conservatives are deemed an outlier. We are seriously messed up.


4 posted on 07/12/2021 6:30:48 PM PDT by theyreallthesame
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To: \/\/ayne
"What about self-righteous snobby consevatives?"

I can say that I hate the GOPe. As far as I am concerned the term "conservative" has been so abused by the Bush Crime Family that I cannot stand the sound of the word. The word "conservative" is a synonym for "impotence/electile dysfunction" or worse.

5 posted on 07/12/2021 6:38:29 PM PDT by wildcard_redneck ( COVID lockdowns are the Establishment's attack on the middle class and our Republic )
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To: tbw2

If anyone learned anything from Trump and Palin it is FIGHT! Get in the sandbox with these evil progressives and beat the at their own game. Alinsky them. NEVER apologize to them. Shame them. Call them them out as the evil bastards that they are.


6 posted on 07/12/2021 6:45:58 PM PDT by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes.)
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To: Organic Panic

AMEN!


7 posted on 07/12/2021 6:52:13 PM PDT by theyreallthesame
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To: tbw2

+1:

“The Chest-Beating Conservatives at least do not underestimate the task at hand. But they lack discipline and restraint and occasionally even seem to revel in ignorance. They find their personification in Marjorie Taylor Greene, the greatest thing to happen to the Left since Roy Moore.

“Far too impatient to comprehend America’s current crisis, they howl “This is insane!” over and over, until they are the ones who seem unhinged. It is no accident that they are error-prone: they do not believe facts are important and they never bother to learn them. They think the gist of an argument is enough. They win claps from the same smarting-red hands and never manage to persuade a single open mind.”


8 posted on 07/12/2021 7:33:54 PM PDT by NobleFree ("law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the right of an individual")
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To: Organic Panic

Sarcasm, caustic commentary, and humiliation are excellent weapons...and greatly underused.


9 posted on 07/12/2021 7:53:13 PM PDT by lightman (I am a binary Trinitarian. Deal with it!)
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To: tbw2
George Soros hands tens of millions to Marxist racist scumbags to take over D.A. and A.G. offices across America.

Is there NO conservative billionaire who will hand Chris Rufo $10 million to jack this mutha up??

10 posted on 07/12/2021 7:56:36 PM PDT by montag813
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To: NobleFree

Exactly.


11 posted on 07/12/2021 8:20:39 PM PDT by GrootheWanderer
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To: wildcard_redneck
Well, good luck with denigrating conservatives here.


12 posted on 07/12/2021 8:24:11 PM PDT by \/\/ayne (I regret that I have but one subscription cancellation notice to give to my local newspaper)
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To: Organic Panic
Indeed. As a former Leftie I've said for years for conservatives to do everything you said.

This isn't some Marquis of Queensbury Rules here. This is a knife fight in a phone booth. Always have a good verbal left hook when dealing with this scum. And a real one too.

13 posted on 07/12/2021 11:43:33 PM PDT by jmacusa (America. Founded by geniuses . Now governed by idiots.)
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To: \/\/ayne

You should read the blog.


14 posted on 07/13/2021 12:04:13 AM PDT by right way right (May we remain sober over mere men, for God really is our only true hope. )
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To: right way right
You should read the blog.

She talks about using better terminology and then uses terrible terminology - pretending that RINOS are conservatives.
15 posted on 07/13/2021 4:57:00 AM PDT by \/\/ayne (I regret that I have but one subscription cancellation notice to give to my local newspaper)
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