http://twitchy.com/sarahd-313035/2021/05/03/nbc-news-dizzying-spin-on-texas-voters-rejecting-critical-race-theory-is-perfect-example-of-how-wildly-biased-the-media-can-be-about-an-issue/
Critical Race Theory proponents suffered an embarrassing and very public defeat after voters shot down a proposal to teach what NBC News characterizes as “new diversity and inclusion training requirements” in Texas’ Carroll Independent School District.
And speaking of NBC News, here’s how they framed it:
NBC News ~ Opponents of anti-racism education win big in a bitterly divided election in Southlake, Texas. Conservative candidates who opposed a school diversity plan won every local race, taking about 70% of the vote in the wealthy Dallas-Fort Worth suburb.
http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/bitterly-divided-election-southlake-texas-opponents-anti-racism-education-win-n1266102?cid=sm_npd_nn_tw_ma
We’ve got a few things to unpack here. So let’s start with a simple one: what’s with this “bitterly divided” business?
David Rutz ~ 40 point victories are "bitterly divided"?
Seems like NBC News really, really wanted the election to be a close one. But why would a respected media outlet want that?
Smatt ~ Two headlines from yesterday, and just a beautiful example of the irredeemable bias in the national media.
Up first, opponents of CRT win in a 70/30 landslide. The framing? “Bitterly divided.”
Secondly, 23% think Biden has united the country. Framing? “Country optimistic.”
So odd that this sort of thing keeps happening.
Josh Barro ~ It seems like this sort of story should be written with a bit more acknowledgement that parents and voters might reasonably object to a plan that, for example, entails "microaggression" tracking in students' disciplinary files.
Josh Barro ~ The HR-industrial complex has some very bad "DEI" ideas that are rapidly gaining purchase in organizations, tying people up in useless and sometimes offensive training sessions and hyper-policing people in an essentially arbitrary way. Of course there is a backlash to this.
... ~ You’d think based on the story that it was just white suburban backlash to “diversity.”
You’d think based on the story that the opponents of Critical Race Theory are the bad guys.
Chris Loesch ~ Misleading title. It was actually the opponents of state institutionalized racism won HUGE and we discovered it really wasn’t a bitterly divided community as the vast majority voted against CRT. The people who don’t live here who caused this drama were resoundingly beaten.
John Hayward ~ If you're having trouble keeping up with the ever-shifting Orwellian language, "opponents of anti-racism education" are the people who actually oppose racism on principle; the "anti-racists" are the people who want to discriminate against others on the basis of skin color.
Melissa Chen ~ Opponents of anti-racism = opponents of teaching state-sanctioned racism.
Lyndsey Fifield ~ Critical race theory is a toxic, racist ideology. It is not anti-racist. Your desperation is showing.
It’s just shameless.
Smatt ~ There is simply no way to look at this and think the press is being a fair or neutral arbiter. None.
Jeff B., who on earth is this guy?? ~ From the headline to nearly every single framing decision, this is a perfect example of how wildly biased the media can be about an issue that should be simple. Upside-down world logic, thinking they can fool us.
If the media think they can fool us, well, the joke’s ultimately on them.
Josh Kraushaar ~ FWIW: Southlake, TX is in TX-24, one of the few Biden Republican districts from the 2020 election ... and a helluva bellwether for the culture wars to come in the coming year's elections.
Jeff B., who on earth is this guy?? ~ Critical Race Theory proponents seem to believe that all they have to do to get "their racism" into school curricula is dress it up in the magic language of "diversity plans"; like waving a wand the media will describe it as good and pure and its enemies as a bigots. Not anymore.
Nathan Wurtzel ~ Big turnout. Ignore NBCs framing, because we all know "anti-racism" is racism. Just look at the numbers.
This is what Democrats face if they don't stop the stupid within.
The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted. ~ D.H. Lawrence
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