{"id":467970,"date":"2021-05-03T16:35:34","date_gmt":"2021-05-03T20:35:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=467970"},"modified":"2021-05-03T16:35:36","modified_gmt":"2021-05-03T20:35:36","slug":"nbc-news-laments-bitterly-divided-school-board-election-after-woke-activists-lose-in-landslide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/nbc-news-laments-bitterly-divided-school-board-election-after-woke-activists-lose-in-landslide\/","title":{"rendered":"NBC News Laments \u2018Bitterly Divided\u2019 School Board Election After Woke Activists Lose in Landslide"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fnbc-news-laments-bitterly-divided-school-board-election-after-woke-activists-lose-in-landslide%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=467970&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div readability=\"28.986547085202\">\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"article-category\"><a class href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/politics\/\">Politics<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"article-excerpt\">Voters rejected plan to mandate inclusion training and ban microaggressions<\/p>\n<figure class=\"post-thumbnail-container relative lg:mr-24 w-full my-4 mb-8\">\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"736\" height=\"486\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/nbc-news-736x486-1.jpg\" class=\"w-full lazyload blur-up wp-post-image\" alt loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 736px) 100vw, 736px\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/nbc-news-736x486.jpg 736w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/nbc-news-300x198.jpg 300w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/nbc-news-768x507.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/nbc-news.jpg 873w\" data-sizes=\"auto\"  style=\"display:none\">\t\t\t<\/figure>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<span class=\"text-gray text-xs md:text-lg\"><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/author\/andrew-stiles\/\" title=\"Posts by Andrew Stiles\" class=\"author url fn text-red-700\" rel=\"author\">Andrew Stiles<\/a> \u2022 May 3, 2021 4:30 pm<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<div readability=\"99.087529570801\">\n<p>After voters in Southlake, Texas, rejected the efforts of left-wing activists to mandate &#8220;cultural competence&#8221; training in K-12 schools, NBC News <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/us-news\/bitterly-divided-election-southlake-texas-opponents-anti-racism-education-win-n1266102?cid=sm_npd_nn_tw_ma\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">lamented<\/a> the &#8220;bitterly divided&#8221; contest, even though two-thirds of the electorate backed candidates who opposed the controversial proposal.<\/p>\n<p>The Comcast subsidiary&#8217;s reporting on the election results is almost comically biased in its framing of the dispute. The election, which saw unusually high turnout compared with similar contests, is described as a showdown between candidates who &#8220;supported new diversity and inclusion training requirements&#8221; for students and teachers on one side, and &#8220;those backed by a political action committee that was formed last year to defeat the plan.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The activist-backed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.southlakecarroll.edu\/cms\/lib\/TX02219131\/Centricity\/Domain\/97\/Cultural%20Competence%20Action%20Plan%20DRAFT%20-%20July%209%202020.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">proposal<\/a>, unveiled in 2020, called for mandating cultural sensitivity training from &#8220;enrollment to graduation,&#8221; establishing a &#8220;systemic process for consistently tracking and reporting microaggressions and incidents of discrimination,&#8221; and creating a Director of Equity and Inclusion position with an annual salary of $125,000. The NBC News report described opponents as either &#8220;conservative&#8221; or &#8220;white,&#8221; while its backers were merely &#8220;pro-diversity.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The election took place on May 1. Opponents of the plan swept every race on the ballot: two city council seats, two school board seats, and the mayoral race. The smallest margin of victory was 36 percentage points. The decisive result comes at a time when the Democratic Party is facing a backlash for its efforts to promote racially charged policies at every level of politics, while casting its opponents as racists.<\/p>\n<p>The local Democratic Party, via its Twitter account, did precisely that a month prior to the election in Southlake, urging voters to reject the &#8220;racist candidates&#8221; who would go on to win. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/JohnHuffmanSouthlake\/posts\/380253023366327\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">tweet<\/a> was ultimately deleted.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, journalists and other liberal activists embarrassed themselves by relentlessly attacking Sen. Tim Scott (R., S.C.), who delivered the GOP response to President Joe Biden&#8217;s congressional address. Offending tweets were deleted, but not enough to stop the hashtag &#8220;#UncleTim&#8221; from trending on Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>Many took issue with Scott&#8217;s statement that &#8220;America is not a racist country.&#8221; Democratic politicians, however, must have seen some polling data on that question and realized Scott was onto something. Vice President Kamala Harris <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/changing-america\/respect\/551047-kamala-harris-agrees-with-sen-tim-scott-that-america-is-not-a-racist\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">echoed<\/a> Scott&#8217;s language the following day. Rep. James Clyburn (D., S.C.), the highest-ranking black politician in the House of Representatives, did so as well.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We should stop arguing about whether or not this is a racist country,&#8221; Clyburn said. &#8220;It is not.&#8221; The congressman had suggested last fall that Scott was an example of &#8220;tokenism,&#8221; a racially charged putdown. National Democrats may want to stop the argument, or at least change the subject, but their supporters and activists on the ground\u2014all the way down to the school district level\u2014haven&#8217;t gotten the message.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Politics Voters rejected plan to mandate inclusion training and ban microaggressions  Andrew Stiles \u2022 May 3, 2021 4:30 pm After voters in Southlake, Texas, rejected &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2277234,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/nbc-news-736x486-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"NBC News Laments \u2018Bitterly Divided\u2019 School Board Election After Woke Activists Lose in Landslide","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-467970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/nbc-news-736x486-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"NBC News Laments \u2018Bitterly Divided\u2019 School Board Election After Woke Activists Lose in Landslide","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467970","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=467970"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467970\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2277234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=467970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=467970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=467970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}