{"id":44102,"date":"2021-06-16T07:00:55","date_gmt":"2021-06-16T14:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=44102"},"modified":"2021-06-15T16:52:26","modified_gmt":"2021-06-15T23:52:26","slug":"open-thread-for-june-16-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2021\/06\/16\/open-thread-for-june-16-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread for June 16, 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"

Boring here yesterday – and that’s a good<\/strong> thing. I like<\/strong> boring.<\/p>\n

Cartoon<\/strong><\/span>
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Short Takes<\/span><\/p>\n

The Hill – White House unveils strategy to battle domestic extremism<\/a>
\nQuote: \u201cThat means tackling racism in America. It means protecting Americans from gun violence and mass murders. It means ensuring that we provide early intervention and appropriate care for those who pose a danger to themselves or others,\u201d the White House wrote. \u201cIt means ensuring that Americans receive the type of civics education that promotes tolerance and respect for all and investing in policies and programs that foster civic engagement and inspire a shared commitment to American Democracy.\u201d
\nClick through for the full story<\/a>. This is still in the contemplation stage, so we’ll have to wait to see what comes of it.<\/p>\n

Mother Jones – Conservatives Are Hellbent On Attacking Critical Race Theory.<\/a> They\u2019re Whitewashing Structural Racism.
\nQuote – When asked about the most troubling thing politicians get wrong about critical race theory, Dr. Ibram X. Kendi, author of How to Be an Anti-Racist, told MSNBC contributor Jason Johnson it is the notion that critical race theory attacks white people, rather than interrogates structures of racism.
\nClick through for full article.<\/a> It would appear that it is actually the Colonel Jessups of the world who “can’t handle the truth ” (If you say “2 +2 = 5” and I say “No, it’s 4”, that is not a personal attack. But that is how they are taking this.)<\/p>\n

Huffington Post – Key House Dem Demands Answers About Prominent White Nationalist In The Air Force<\/a>
\nQuote – The inquiry from Rep. Jackie Speier (D-Calif.), who chairs the military personnel subcommittee, concerns Airman 1st Class Shawn McCaffrey, a well-known white nationalist. McCaffrey graduated from boot camp in March, as HuffPost reported earlier this year, even as the military received a historic stand-down order so it could address the problem of extremism in its ranks. \u201cI will be contacting Air Force leadership to find out why this individual \u2015 who has his own author page on a website for far right extremists, describes himself as an \u2018activist,\u2019 and co-hosted a weekly podcast in which he attacked Jews, women, LGBTQ+ people, the U.S. armed forces, and many others using unacceptable slurs \u2015 remains on active duty and under review given the very public and abundant evidence of his extremist ties,\u201d Speier said in an emailed statement.
\nClick through for details<\/a>. So many good people in Congress and we only hea about thr dorks.<\/p>\n

Food for Thought<\/span>
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Boring here yesterday – and that’s a good thing. I like boring. Cartoon Short Takes The Hill – White House unveils strategy to battle domestic extremism Quote: \u201cThat means tackling racism in America. It means protecting Americans from gun violence and mass murders. It means ensuring that we provide early intervention and appropriate care for […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":43905,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,3,5],"tags":[4138,3748],"class_list":["post-44102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-politics","tag-domestic-terrorism","tag-racism","category-35-id","category-3-id","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44102"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44102\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}