Maggie Astor: "After taking office & examining 100s of pages of curriculum, Gore was shocked by what she found—and didn’t find. The pervasive indoctrination she had railed against simply did not exist. Children were not being sexualized & she could find no examples" of CRT. Former allies started threatening her.

"After taking office & examining 100s of pages of curriculum, Gore was shocked by what she found—and didn’t find. The pervasive indoctrination she had railed against simply did not exist. Children were not being sexualized & she could find no examples" of CRT. Former allies started threatening her.

A GOP Texas school board member campaigned against schools indoctrina…www.texastribune.org Courtney Gore, a Granbury ISD school board member, has disavowed the far-right platform she campaigned on. Her defiance has brought her backlash.

Pretty remarkable, considering that on the right, CRT now means "anything presenting people of color in a favorable light."

Or, y'know, "anything presenting white people in a bad light".

More like “anything not presenting white people in a good light”

You'd think they would examine the curriculum BEFORE taking office, but I guess that's expecting too much.

good heavens NO. Opinions over facts every time

Obligatory: facts have a lib'rul bias

obviously you gotta get in power first so you can find the SECRET REAL DOCUMENTS they dont show the public.

I guarantee you that was the mindset.

What about BEFORE RUNNING FOR OFFICE?

you're right, consider this a correction to my statement

By that logic, you'd expect them to actually READ the books they want to ban! OUTRAGEOUS!!!!!!!

Well, as a black man, I find it endlessly infuriating that the mere mention of race is still the easiest trigger. We’re not your fucking enemies. We have way more in common than the people doing the gaslighting.

That’s exactly why they don’t want white kids to discover things in common with black kids through books: what if they start realizing how many issues they share and start working together against the rich people making life difficult for the rest of us?

At some level the concern that white kids might feel bad to discover that some of their ancestors did bad things would be the result of the obscurity of white dissidents. You don't learn much about southern unionists in the civil war section of APUSH, for example.

Worse still: what if they have sex and get married?

Ready the fainting couch

It's all about setting us against -each other-. God forbid we would -cooperate- to overcome our mutual oppression, no, we must blame each other for it! Meanwhile, those in power rob us blind.

🎶 It's too late to say "I'm sorry" (How could I know? Why should I care?) Please don't bother trying to find it. It's not there. 🎶

Zombies everywhere one looks these days.

Maybe it's just that time of the season.

"School marshals escort her and her fellow board members to their cars to ensure no one accosts them.…a fellow trustee follows her in his car to make sure she gets home safely." These people are scary.

Wait till you get to the guy who brought a gun to a board meeting.

It sounds like there were no consequences for that guy because oopsies the police made a lil mistake?? Did I get that right?

"...but because officers didn’t conclusively identify the weapon that night, and because Cliff Criswell declined to cooperate, prosecutors were unable to file charges, said Granbury police Deputy Chief Cliff Andrews." Based on this, it apparently is the way the law works. 🤷‍♀️

"Had we identified the gun at the very moment, yes, absolutely, we could have filed charges on it,” Andrews said. “We made a simple mistake.” Argh these people! So fucking tired of hearing how "the far left", whatever that is, is such a threat because diversity in books or whatever.

Ah! Oopsie! Yes, "the far left" is basically "the devil" to many God-fearing people. And the devil speaks through diversity in books. LOL

Not like he was someone truly threatening like a Black teenager with a plastic water pistol. Those split second decisions...

CRT is only taught in like, law school. these people are as dense as dying stars

And far less attractive.

Incredible. It's like an Onion story!

So her friends shunned her for telling the truth. THIS IS THE REPUBLICAN PARTY TODAY FOLKS. If you dare to not be a raging bigot/racist who believes their lies you are shunned or have your life threatened.

Leopard, face, etc etc

This was somebody who took her job seriously diligently worked to find the truth. I think anybody who finds out their allies were shit is allowed to be surprised.

It’s not surprising to you and me, but I give her props for caring about the truth and standing up to these people. That takes guts. I have lefty friends who are making sly jokes about moving to Canada and throwing in the towel and I’m ashamed for them.

Just so we're clear, she ran for office because she opposed masks, vaccines, discussing race or LGBTQ matters. She's not rejecting those beliefs, she's rejecting "extremism" i.e. "people being mean to me".

She is still a conservative and disagrees with us, but she denounced the lies her allies told when she found out they were lying.

An honest bigot. Thank God for small miracles.

I do agree with your position. She's still pure dogshit, but at least took one step away from the kool-aid. Things will never get better unless more of them do this, so, yes, I too will give her VERY TINY props.

Nah, not when that whole worldview always turns on anyone who recants the insanity, or even just becomes a political inconvenience. Remember Ashley Babbitt? She died doing treason on Trump's behalf and they tried to call her a leftist plant. Glad she did her job, but this can't be surprising

Texan here. there are plenty of us here who hate this line of thinking.

much like the border 'crisis'

So you mean she decided to actually look into the bullshit she was spouting and found that it was, in fact, bullshit? It's amazing what a little critical thinking can do

"It's amazing what a little critical thinking can do" Critical Brain Theory

#CBT

Critical thinking? That sounds like critical race theory, so we're going to have to shun and shame you now.

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I got to the end and didn't see where she denounces and/or leaves the republican party

In August 2023, she moved to censure Karen Lowery for violating a campus policy, rather than supporting a false narrative. In the November 2023 election, she turned against the party candidates & endorsed the woman she'd previously ousted, Nancy Alana, as a way to redress the balance to the board.

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