{"id":575610,"date":"2021-06-28T15:35:50","date_gmt":"2021-06-28T19:35:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=575610"},"modified":"2021-06-28T15:35:53","modified_gmt":"2021-06-28T19:35:53","slug":"the-media-has-entered-the-republicans-pounce-stage-of-critical-race-theory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-media-has-entered-the-republicans-pounce-stage-of-critical-race-theory\/","title":{"rendered":"The Media Has Entered the \u2018Republicans Pounce\u2019 Stage Of Critical Race Theory"},"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\">24<\/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%2Fthe-media-has-entered-the-republicans-pounce-stage-of-critical-race-theory%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=575610&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><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/GettyImages-685256128.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"  style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p>Now that polls show a majority of Americans oppose Critical Race Theory, the Democratic Party and their scribes in the legacy media have launched a rearguard action against parents \u2014 by casting them as the aggressors. As is true every time the Left misfires or overreaches, the media ignore the offense and focus on the popular backlash in a tactic popularly known as \u201cRepublicans pounce.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Media coverage proves that CRT has entered the \u201cRepublicans pounce\u201d stage. Witness the words of one Politico writer, who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2021\/06\/24\/culture-war-critical-race-theory-496087\">said<\/a>\u00a0on Thursday, \u201c[T]he right is hoping to capitalize on the grassroots angst over critical race theory and excite its base voters in next year\u2019s midterms.\u201d Chris Hayes, who has the unenviable position of competing directly with Tucker Carlson on MSNBC, agreed Thursday night that all the Republican Party\u2019s \u201crhetorical fire has moved away from the deficit and on to some random, school superintendent in Maine after his district dared to denounce white supremacy after the murder of George Floyd.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But why are grassroots Americans so filled with \u201cangst\u201d? Because they are intellectually deficient and, of course, racist, according to Vox.com.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cConservatives have launched a growing disinformation campaign around the academic concept\u201d of CRT. \u201cIt\u2019s an attempt to push back against progress,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/22443822\/critical-race-theory-controversy\">wrote<\/a> Vox.com reporter Fabiola Cineas. The problem is that \u201cRepublicans \u2026 want to ban anti-racist teachings and trainings in classrooms and workplaces across the country.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTogether, the [state anti-racist] bills amount to a Republican scare tactic and disinformation campaign, and critical race theory has in some circles become a dog whistle that communicates resistance toward racial justice progress,\u201d Vox continued. \u201cWhat the fight against critical race theory really shows is how Republicans are threatened by the progress that has been made with respect to racial justice and are uncomfortable with what it might actually look like to confront and eradicate racism.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Cineas concluded by using the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2020\/07\/20\/892943728\/professor-criticizes-book-white-fragility-as-dehumanizing-to-black-people\">circular reasoning<\/a> that lies at the heart of CRT: \u201cUltimately, the controversy over critical race theory exemplifies a tenet of the theory itself: Any racial progress will be met with great resistance.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Republicans seek to exploit CRT in order to avoid the work of governing, MSNBC reported. \u201cDemocrats could focus on governing pesky details surrounding the pandemic and the economy, but GOP officials on Capitol Hill saw value in the politics of cultural grievances,\u201d the website <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msnbc.com\/rachel-maddow-show\/republican-leaders-advise-members-lean-culture-war-n1272372\">blogged<\/a>. Republican opposition to CRT is simply another example of the long history \u201cof the GOP coming up with some vague and nonsensical boogeyman \u2014 Sharia law, 9\/11 Mosque, Common Core, Jade Helm, death panels \u2014 intended to fuel conservative media and keep conservative voters angry, afraid, and engaged.\u201d But unlike previous culture war issues that MSNBC blamed on Republicans \u2014 it named abortion, same-sex marriage, pornography (all of which were foisted on the United States by an activist Supreme Court) \u2014 now \u201cRepublicans are increasingly fixated on cultural grievances with no possible solutions in mind.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The anti-CRT campaign is nothing more than \u201cRepublicans effectively saying, \u2018Vote for us because we hate the same stuff you hate,\u2019\u201d MSNBC reported.<\/p>\n<p>CNN\u2019s Don Lemon portrayed the school administrators as the victims of misguided parents whose ignorance and ill-will had been weaponized by the GOP. On Wednesday, he asked Brenda Sheridan, a member of the Loudon County (Virginia) school board, \u201cHow frustrating is this for school, for educators around the country to be dealing with B.S. [when] they\u2019re not even teaching [CRT], because it\u2019s being stirred up by politicians and propagandists on so-called news networks?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The falsehoods spread to the Big Three networks, as well. On Wednesday, Jonathan Karl of ABC News said that General Mark Milley, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, launched into his homilette about \u201cwhite rage\u201d when \u201cRepublican congressmen accused the military academy of embracing divisive theories on race.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/here-are-5-ways-the-media-is-trying-to-mislead-you-on-critical-race-theory\">gaslighting about CRT<\/a> has been going on for weeks. Earlier this month, NBC News falsely claimed that school administrators nationwide are being \u201calmost held hostage\u201d as the parents whom they serve implement \u201cthe playbook of seasoned GOP activists.\u201d One of its authors, Brandy Zadrozny,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/nbc-news-reporter-suggests-open-records-laws-are-being-abused-to-expose-crt-in-schools\">claimed<\/a>\u00a0that parents were being manipulated by the Heritage Foundation and \u201cnational and just hyper- and fast-growing local organizations\u201d into asking public school districts for records available through the Freedom of Information Act \u2014 which she said is \u201cwonderful\u201d when used by the legacy media but \u201conerous\u201d when employed by the parents those school districts are supposed to serve. But then, Zadrozny <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BrandyZadrozny\/status\/1404795213718208517\">lectured<\/a> conservative parents on Twitter that CRT is merely a \u201cjust a catch-all term repurposed as a conservative boogeyman.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Rather than respond to the concerns of millions of heartbroken parents outraged that the public schools remain heedless of their concerns, the media have fallen in lockstep with their fellow elites in pursuit of a misguided utopian vision.<\/p>\n<p><em>The views expressed in this piece are the author\u2019s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em>member<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now that polls show a majority of Americans oppose Critical Race Theory, the Democratic Party and their scribes in the legacy media have launched a rearguard action against parents \u2014 &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2281543,"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\/06\/GettyImages-685256128.jpg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"The Media Has Entered the \u2018Republicans Pounce\u2019 Stage Of Critical Race Theory","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-575610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/GettyImages-685256128.jpg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"The Media Has Entered the \u2018Republicans Pounce\u2019 Stage Of Critical Race Theory","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575610","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=575610"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575610\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2281543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=575610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=575610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=575610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}