It Isn’t the Elections, It’s the Consequences
No more standing athwart history, yelling stop. It's time to grab history by the throat, put a gun to its head, and calmly and politely direct it where we’d like it to go.
by Scott McKay
November 11, 2021, 11:27 PM
On Thursday at the Federalist, Joy Pullman had a good piece on a subject which has begged for discussion ever since the surprising results of the Nov. 2 elections. It’s a subject which has made appearances in columns within this space, but perhaps not with sufficient emphasis.
So we’ll correct that right now.
Pullman’s piece had to do with something the libertarian pundit Kmele Foster, who’s a cohost on the popular “The Fifth Column” podcast and has been a Fox News contributor as well, said recently.
Foster isn’t a bad guy. His opinion on Critical Race Theory stinks, but it stinks in the way libertarian opinions often do when they run into the wall that is the 21st century Hard Left. We’ll let Pullman put in her perspective on the question…
… While discussing to what extent public opposition to this form of racism fueled Republican success in last week’s elections, Foster again claimed “there is zero evidence that this particular strategy [of banning CRT in schools] is working.”
“In practice, these bills create a great deal of uncertainty about how curriculum should be constructed and what constitutes a kid being made to feel uncomfortable or being told they should feel shame on account of their race,” he claimed.
He cited a school board meeting in which teachers questioned whether they should now teach “the other side” of the Holocaust. “That is a direct result of these idiotic bans” of critical race theory, Foster claimed. Later he also noted that Texas lawmakers are asking state institutions to report whether they are using public resources to buy and promote anti-American and racist books, claiming that’s a prelude to book bans.
For one thing, even if Texas lawmakers do take action after they gather this information, they will not be “banning books.” They may refuse to expend public resources on certain books, but that is not banning them. Actual book bans, actual censorship, would mean what happens with successful full-bore cancel operations from the left: The person with the book is unable to publicly publish or distribute it, even on his own time and dime.
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https://spectator.org/it-isnt-the-elections-its-the-consequences/
