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Here are the executive actions Biden signed in his first 100 days +3/-0
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Author:TheCrow
6/24/2021 11:16:50 AM
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Personally, I think the executive order to include non-citizens in the census is one of the most important. The 14th Amendment requires the "counting the whole number of persons in each State, excluding Indians not taxed."
Here are the executive actions Biden signed in his first 100 days
By Christopher Hickey, Curt Merrill, Richard J. Chang, Kate Sullivan, Janie Boschma and Sean O’Key, CNN
Updated April 30, 2021
President Joe Biden signed a flurry of executive actions in his first 100 days in office, primarily aimed at curbing the coronavirus pandemic and dismantling many of former President Donald Trump’s policies.
The executive actions include halting funding for the construction of Trump’s border wall, reversing Trump’s travel ban targeting largely Muslim countries, imposing a mask mandate on federal property, ramping up vaccination supplies, canceling the Keystone XL pipeline, ending federal use of private prisons and reversing Trump’s ban on transgender Americans joining the military.
In his first 100 days in office, Biden signed more than 60 executive actions, 24 of which are direct reversals of Trump’s policies.
Biden has defended the number as necessary to undo what he considers “bad policy” inherited from Trump, especially on immigration.
To date, 10 of his 12 actions on immigration are reversals of Trump’s policies.
“And I want to make it clear — there’s a lot of talk, with good reason, about the number of executive orders that I have signed — I’m not making new law; I’m eliminating bad policy,” Biden said as he signed a series of actions on immigration from the Oval Office on February 2. “What I’m doing is taking on the issues that — 99% of them — that the president, the last president of the United States, issued executive orders I felt were very counterproductive to our security, counterproductive to who we are as a country, particularly in the area of immigration.”
See Biden’s first 100 days of executive actions below.
Biden focuses on virus, overturning Trump policies
Most of Biden’s executive actions introducing new policy have been aimed at combating the novel coronavirus, while he has primarily targeted Trump’s immigration policies for reversals.
- Reversals
- Other executive actions
Biden takes early lead on executive actions
So far, Biden has signed more executive orders and memorandums than any of the last three presidents, when comparing how many each had published in the Federal Register through April 30 of their first year in office. These do not include corrections or clerical memos, which include delegations, designations and certifications.
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Source: The White House, Federal Register
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04/27/2021 |
Labor |
Executive Order |
No |
Raises the minimum wage of federal contract workers to $15 an hour in early 2022, up from the current $10.95. Eliminates the tipped minimum wage, $7.65 an hour, by 2024. Requires a $15 minimum wage for federal contract workers with disabilities.
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04/16/2021 |
Immigration |
Memo |
Yes |
Reverses the Trump policy banning refugees from key regions and enables flights from those regions to begin within days. Declares that the 15,000 annual refugee cap set by Trump will be raised to a number to be determined by May 15.
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04/15/2021 |
National Security |
Executive Order |
No |
Imposes sanctions and diplomatic expulsions on Russia in response to the country’s interference in the 2020 US election and the SolarWinds cyberattack; formally names the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service as the force behind SolarWinds; blocks US financial institutions from trading in Russian bonds
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04/09/2021 |
Other |
Executive Order |
No |
Forms the Presidential Commission on the Supreme Court of the United States, which is intended to provide an analysis of the principal arguments for and against Supreme Court reform.
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04/01/2021 |
Other |
Executive Order |
Yes |
Revokes a Trump executive order that authorized sanctions on International Criminal Court officials
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03/08/2021 |
Equity |
Executive Order |
No |
Establishes a White House Gender Policy Council, which will submit a government-wide plan within 200 days with recommendations to “advance gender equity and equality in the United States and around the world”
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03/08/2021 |
Equity |
Executive Order |
No |
Reaffirms as a policy of the Biden administration that “all students should be guaranteed an educational environment free from discrimination on the basis of sex, including discrimination in the form of sexual harassment, which encompasses sexual violence, and including discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity.” Directs the education secretary to review all department policies and actions to identify those that may be inconsistent with the stated policy.
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03/07/2021 |
Equity |
Executive Order |
No |
Directs each agency to evaluate and submit a strategic plan within 200 days on opportunities to promote and expand access to voter registration and participation; directs the General Services Administration to modernize and improve vote.gov; calls for strategies to expand policies allowing federal employees time off to vote and to expand employees’ ability to serve as nonpartisan poll workers or observers; requires a review of barriers to voting for individuals with disabilities and of the Federal Voter Registration Form to ensure it is accessible; requires the defense secretary to review the feasibility of providing an online system for military personnel serving abroad to manage their voter registration and request absentee ballots; directs the attorney general to require jails to provide educational materials on voting and voter registration; establishes the Interagency Steering Group on Native American Voting Rights
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02/24/2021 |
Economy |
Executive Order |
Yes |
Revokes a series of seven Trump administration actions that had eased regulatory requirements, as well as actions that called for withholding funding from cities for allowing protests in support of Black Lives Matter, that imposed stricter work requirements to be eligible for federal welfare and that promoted “beautiful federal civic architecture”
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02/24/2021 |
Immigration |
Proclamation |
Yes |
Revokes a Trump-era proclamation that limited legal immigration during the Covid-19 pandemic
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02/24/2021 |
National Security |
Executive Order |
No |
Launches a 100-day review of US supply chains for pharmaceuticals, critical minerals, semiconductors and large-capacity batteries, directing agencies to identify opportunities to secure and invest in those supply chains. It also calls for a year-long review into six sectors: Defense, public health and biological preparedness, information and communications technology, energy, transportation, and agricultural commodities and food preparation
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02/17/2021 |
Labor |
Executive Order |
Yes |
Revokes a Trump administration order creating an industry-led apprenticeship program
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02/14/2021 |
Other |
Executive Order |
No |
Establishes a White House Office of Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships to coordinate providing community services in partnership with federal, state and local governments and with other private organizations
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02/11/2021 |
National Security |
Executive Order |
No |
Sanctions Myanmar military leaders, blocking property ownership in the United States by any foreign person associated with those leaders, their business interests or those undermining democracy or human rights in Myanmar
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02/04/2021 |
Immigration |
Executive Order |
Yes |
Expands the United States Refugee Admissions Program and rescinds Trump policies that limited refugee admissions and required additional vetting
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02/04/2021 |
Immigration |
Memo |
Yes |
Directs relevant agencies to ensure LGBTQI+ refugees and asylum seekers have equal access to protections, requires the Department of State to lead a standing group to respond quickly to international LGBTQI+ human rights abuses and to report annually to Congress on global LGBTQI+ abuses, directs agencies to review Trump administration policies and rescind those that are inconsistent with this memo within 100 days
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02/04/2021 |
National Security |
Memo |
No |
Establishes an interagency working group to propose improvements for recruiting, retaining and supporting national security professions
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02/04/2021 |
National Security |
Memo |
No |
Outlines the structure of the National Security Council, incorporates more regular participation from Cabinet officials focused on domestic policy that influences national security
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02/02/2021 |
Immigration |
Executive Order |
Yes |
Revokes Trump’s order justifying separating families at the border and creates a task force that recommends steps to Biden to reunite separated families
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02/02/2021 |
Immigration |
Executive Order |
Yes |
Aims to address economic and political causes of migration, works with organizations to provide protection to asylum seekers and ensures Central American asylum seekers have legal access to the United States. Rescinds Trump administration policies and guidelines and also initiates a review of policies “that have effectively closed the U.S. border to asylum seekers”
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02/02/2021 |
Immigration |
Executive Order |
Yes |
Rescinds Trump’s memo requiring immigrants to repay the government if they receive public benefits. Elevates the role of the executive branch in promoting immigrant integration and inclusion, including reestablishing a Task Force on New Americans. Requires agencies to review immigration regulations and policies
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02/02/2021 |
Coronavirus |
Memo |
No |
Extends the timeline from his Jan. 21 memo, which directed FEMA to reimburse states to fully cover the cost for National Guard personnel and emergency supplies. Now states will also be reimbursed for emergency purchases made since the beginning of the pandemic
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02/01/2021 |
Economy |
Proclamation |
Yes |
Reinstates tariffs applied under the Trump administration to aluminum imports from the United Arab Emirates, citing the need for domestic production of aluminum for national security and reviving industry
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01/28/2021 |
Health Care |
Executive Order |
No |
Reopens enrollment on HealthCare.gov from Feb. 15 through May 15, and directs federal agencies to reexamine policies that may reduce or undermine access to the Affordable Care Act
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01/28/2021 |
Health Care |
Memo |
Yes |
Rescinds the “Mexico City Policy,” a ban on US government funding for foreign nonprofits that perform or promote abortions
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01/27/2021 |
Environment |
Executive Order |
No |
Elevates climate change as an essential element of US foreign policy and national security and kicks off development of a new emissions reduction target, which will be announced by April 22
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01/27/2021 |
Environment |
Executive Order |
No |
Reestablishes the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology
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01/27/2021 |
Environment |
Memo |
No |
Charges the director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy with responsibility for ensuring scientific integrity across federal agencies
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01/26/2021 |
Equity |
Memo |
No |
Directs the Department of Housing and Urban Development to review the Trump administration’s regulatory actions for their effects on fair housing and to then “take steps necessary” to comply with the Fair Housing Act
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01/26/2021 |
Equity |
Executive Order |
No |
Directs the attorney general not to renew federal contracts with private prisons
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01/26/2021 |
Equity |
Memo |
No |
Recommits federal agencies to “engage in regular, robust and meaningful consultation with Tribal governments”
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01/26/2021 |
Equity |
Memo |
No |
Acknowledges the rise in discrimination against Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders in the past year, directing the Department of Health and Human Services to consider issuing guidance on best practices to improve “cultural competency, language access and sensitivity toward AAPIs” in the federal government’s Covid-19 response, and directs the Department of Justice to partner with AAPI communities to prevent hate crimes and harassment
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01/25/2021 |
Economy |
Executive Order |
No |
Strengthens Buy American rules by closing loopholes and reducing waivers granted on federal purchases of domestic goods
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01/25/2021 |
Coronavirus |
Proclamation |
Yes |
Reinstates Covid-19 travel restrictions for individuals traveling to the United States from the Schengen Area, the United Kingdom, Ireland and South Africa
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01/25/2021 |
Equity |
Executive Order |
Yes |
Reverses the Trump administration’s ban on transgender Americans joining the military
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01/22/2021 |
Economy |
Executive Order |
Yes |
Restores collective bargaining power and worker protections for federal workers, and lays the foundation for $15 minimum wage
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01/22/2021 |
Economy |
Executive Order |
No |
Calls for assistance to those who are struggling to buy food, missed out on stimulus checks or are unemployed
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01/21/2021 |
Coronavirus |
Executive Order |
No |
Accelerates manufacturing and delivery of supplies for vaccination, testing and Personal Protective Equipment
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01/21/2021 |
Coronavirus |
Memo |
No |
Directs FEMA to expand reimbursement to states to fully cover the cost for National Guard personnel and emergency supplies
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01/21/2021 |
Coronavirus |
Executive Order |
No |
Establishes the Pandemic Testing Board to expand US coronavirus testing capacity
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01/21/2021 |
Coronavirus |
Executive Order |
No |
Establishes a preclinical program to boost development of therapeutics in response to pandemic threats
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01/21/2021 |
Coronavirus |
Executive Order |
No |
Enhances the nation’s collection, production, sharing and analysis of coronavirus data
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01/21/2021 |
Coronavirus |
Executive Order |
No |
Directs the Department of Education and HHS to provide guidance for safely reopening and operating schools, childcare providers and institutions of higher education
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01/21/2021 |
Coronavirus |
Executive Order |
No |
Calls on the Occupational Safety and Health Administration to release clear guidance on Covid-19, decide whether to establish emergency temporary standards, and directs OSHA to enforce worker health and safety requirements
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01/21/2021 |
Coronavirus |
Executive Order |
No |
Requires mask wearing in airports and on certain modes of transportation, including many trains, airplanes, maritime vessels and intercity buses. International travelers must provide proof of a negative Covid-19 test prior to coming to the US
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01/21/2021 |
Coronavirus |
Executive Order |
No |
Creates the Covid-19 Health Equity Task Force to help ensure an equitable pandemic response and recovery
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01/21/2021 |
Coronavirus |
Memo |
No |
Promotes restoring America’s leadership, supports the international pandemic response effort, promotes resilience for future threats and advance global health security and the Global Health Security Agenda
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01/20/2021 |
Coronavirus |
Executive Order |
No |
Launches a “100 Days Masking Challenge” asking Americans to wear masks for 100 days. Requires masks and physical distancing in federal buildings, on federal lands and by government contractors, and urges states and local governments to do the same.
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01/20/2021 |
Coronavirus |
Other |
Yes |
Stops the United States’ withdrawal from the World Health Organization, with Dr. Anthony Fauci becoming the head of the delegation to the WHO
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01/20/2021 |
Coronavirus |
Executive Order |
No |
Creates the position of Covid-19 Response Coordinator, reporting directly to Biden and managing efforts to produce and distribute vaccines and medical equipment
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01/20/2021 |
Economy |
Directive |
No |
Extends the existing nationwide moratorium on evictions and foreclosures until at least March 31
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01/20/2021 |
Economy |
Directive |
No |
Extends the existing pause on student loan payments and interest for Americans with federal student loans until at least September 30
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01/20/2021 |
Environment |
Other |
Yes |
Rejoins the Paris climate accord, a process that will take 30 days
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01/20/2021 |
Environment |
Executive Order |
Yes |
Cancels the Keystone XL pipeline and directs agencies to review and reverse more than 100 Trump actions on the environment
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01/20/2021 |
Equity |
Executive Order |
Yes |
Rescinds the Trump administration’s 1776 Commission, directs agencies to review their actions to ensure racial equity
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01/20/2021 |
Equity |
Executive Order |
No |
Prevents workplace discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity
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01/20/2021 |
Census |
Executive Order |
Yes |
Requires non-citizens to be included in the Census and apportionment of congressional representatives
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01/20/2021 |
Immigration |
Memo |
No |
Fortifies DACA after Trump’s efforts to undo protections for undocumented people brought into the country as children
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01/20/2021 |
Immigration |
Proclamation |
Yes |
Reverses the Trump administration’s restrictions on US entry for passport holders from seven Muslim-majority countries
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01/20/2021 |
Immigration |
Executive Order |
Yes |
Undoes Trump’s expansion of immigration enforcement within the United States
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01/20/2021 |
Immigration |
Proclamation |
Yes |
Halts construction of the border wall by terminating the national emergency declaration used to fund it
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01/20/2021 |
Immigration |
Memo |
No |
Extends deferrals of deportation and work authorizations for Liberians with a safe haven in the United States until June 30, 2022
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01/20/2021 |
Ethics |
Executive Order |
No |
Requires executive branch appointees to sign an ethics pledge barring them from acting in personal interest and requiring them to uphold the independence of the Department of Justice
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01/20/2021 |
Regulation |
Memo, Executive Order |
Yes |
Directs OMB director to develop recommendations to modernize regulatory review and undoes Trump’s regulatory approval process
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This story has been updated to remove one action that was not signed and is not formally an executive action.
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Msg ID:
2694007 |
He is on the wrong side of every issue! (NT) +1/-2
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Author:Old Guy
6/24/2021 12:44:23 PM
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2694015 |
He Has Made Great Strides In Advancing … +1/-2
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Author:obumazombie
6/24/2021 1:24:21 PM
Reply to: 2693993
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CRT...
According to the establishment media, critical race theory, or CRT, is a distraction. It is a right-wing smear. It is a conservative attempt to quash the dark side of American history. Most of all, according to the establishment media, you must never — ever — pay attention to the infusion Ben Shapiro of CRT into the nation's institutions of power.
According to MSNBC's Chuck Todd, controversy over CRT is a "creation...it keeps people watching or it keeps people clicking." According to CNN's Bakari Sellers, CRT is just "America's history." According to The Washington Post's Jonathan Capehart, those who criticize CRT are merely attempting to prevent "us from learning our history."
Critical race theory, of course, is not America's actual history. It is a perverse worldview, unsupportable by the evidence, in which all of America's key institutions are inextricably rooted in white supremacy; it is an activist campaign demanding the destruction of those institutions. The founders of CRT have written as much. According to CRT founders Richard Delgado and Jean Stefancic, CRT is founded on two key premises:
that "racism is ordinary, not aberrational — 'normal science,' the usual way society does business, the common, everyday experience of most people of color in this country" and second, that "our system of white-over-color ascendancy serves important purposes, both psychic and material." This means, according to Delgado and Stefancic, that "racism is difficult to cure or address" and that a formal commitment to legal equality on the basis of color-blindness is merely a guise for further discrimination. Furthermore, CRT founders say that whites are unable to understand racism, and that "minority status...brings with it a presumed competence to speak about race and racism."
CRT therefore holds that racism is embedded deeply in American life, unconsciously into white American psyches, and that it is impossible for white Americans to understand their own racism or that of the system, let alone to remove it. The only solution: tearing away the only systems that have ever provided widespread liberty and prosperity. As fellow CRT founder Derrick Bell wrote, "The whole liberal worldview of private rights and public sovereignty mediated by the rule of law needed to be exploded."
CRT isn't merely a tool of legal analysis, either, as many of its dishonest defenders claim. Delgado and Stefancic are clear: "Although CRT began as a movement in the law, it has rapidly spread beyond that discipline. Today, many in the field of education consider themselves critical race theorists...political scientists ponder voting strategies coined by critical race theorists...unlike some academic disciplines, critical race theory contains an activist dimension."
So, what has CRT accomplished? The near-complete subjugation of our higher educational system, which now traffics regularly in CRT-related theories, the corruption of our establishment media, who parrot the anti-Americanism of CRT as "just history," the infusion of CRT into nearly every area of the government, under the Biden-esque Newspeak of "equity." And yet, if Americans notice this — if Americans lobby school boards to bar indoctrination in the cultish nonsense of CRT — these institutional actors tell those Americans that there is nothing to see. The grassroots pushback against CRT is rooted in the best of the American tradition: a rejection of racial essentialism in favor of individualism, an enthusiastic endorsement of agency rather than determinism, a willingness to stand united against tribalism. We all ought to fight those who have hijacked and weaponized our institutions against all of these traditionally American ideals. Anything less would be an abdication of the trust we have been given — a trust that has resulted in liberty, equality, and prosperity beyond imagining for nearly all of human history.
According to libz like CroWalt Left CRT doesn't exist. Neither does CroWalt Left exist, as a conservative. But as a lib, he certainly does a...
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Msg ID:
2694031 |
More CRT For The Guy Who Is A CRT Denier +1/-3
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Author:obumazombie
6/24/2021 3:13:59 PM
Reply to: 2694015
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CRT from LIBs reported by WND...
UNCOVER DC) – “Deep Equity,” “Critical Theory,” and “Collectivity” are some of the labels used by school districts in Arizona to implement their version of Critical Race Theory (CRT) documented as far back as 2018. In addition, the schools have implemented an Equity and Inclusion Initiative with 7 Principles for Culturally Responsive Teaching.
UncoverDC spoke with the Arizona Informer telegram channel administrator who is an activist in Arizona. She has no children in the schools but is alarmed with the CRT and the “Comprehensive Sex Ed” curriculum.
According to the Arizona Informer, two initiatives – Deep Equity Training as well as Comprehensive Sex Education – have been running parallel with each other since 2019. The Comprehensive Sex Ed began to surface around 2015.
Get your lib/prog/dem/anti American screeds out of the realm of indoctrination, libz.
Put it in the realm where it belongs, libz, in the realm of a...
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Have you read the Critical Race Theory study? It's basically just facts +2/-1
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Author:TheCrow
6/24/2021 5:54:06 PM
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Have you read the Critical Race Theory study? It's basically just facts reported without bias.
Perhaps you should read it, so you know what you're talking about.
Systemic racism is a demonstrable and embarrassing fact. Argue these facts without racism:
A close examination of wealth in the U.S. finds evidence of staggering racial disparities. At $171,000, the net worth of a typical white family is nearly ten times greater than that of a Black family ($17,150) in 2016. Gaps in wealth between Black and white households reveal the effects of accumulated inequality and discrimination, as well as differences in power and opportunity that can be traced back to this nation’s inception. The Black-white wealth gap reflects a society that has not and does not afford equality of opportunity to all its citizens.
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(excerpt from the site)
The nation’s imprisonment rate is at its lowest level in more than two decades. The greatest decline has come among black Americans, whose imprisonment rate has decreased 34% since 2006.
There were 1,501 black prisoners for every 100,000 black adults at the end of 2018, according to a new report from the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS), the statistical agency of the U.S. Justice Department. That was down sharply from 2,261 black inmates per 100,000 black adults at the end of 2006, according to an earlier BJS study. These statistics only count inmates sentenced to more than a year in state or federal prison. They exclude inmates held in local jails and those sentenced to shorter periods of imprisonment.
Imprisonment rates have also declined for the two other major racial or ethnic groups tracked by BJS – Hispanic and white Americans – though not as much as among blacks. Between 2006 and 2018, the imprisonment rate fell 26% among Hispanics and 17% among whites.
While their rate of imprisonment has decreased the most in recent years, black Americans remain far more likely than their Hispanic and white counterparts to be in prison. The black imprisonment rate at the end of 2018 was nearly twice the rate among Hispanics (797 per 100,000) and more than five times the rate among whites (268 per 100,000).
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There you go. Two glaring disparities that demonstrate systemic racism in America. Unless you can offer another explanation that isn't racist?
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2694054 |
Yes, I Have. The Authors Of CRT Specifically… +1/-2
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Author:obumazombie
6/24/2021 6:02:29 PM
Reply to: 2694048
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Declared that the basis of CRT is that whites are congenitally oppressive because of their skin color.
I hope you don't think that.
I don't accuse you of thinking that.
But if you do, you are an incredibly sick, and horrible person, and you not only need help, but your presence should be removed from polite society.
You need to consort with community organizers like owebuma, not normal Americans.
Also, you just reprinted the same crap that might contain some legit statistics, but the interpretation of them is all wrong, lib.
Good job Goodlibs! |
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2694064 |
Those facts are because of democrats, not republicans! (NT) +0/-3
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Author:Old Guy
6/24/2021 7:43:20 PM
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2694066 |
So- you admit systemic racism in America, you just blame it on Democrats? (NT) +3/-0
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Author:TheCrow
6/24/2021 7:45:10 PM
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2694071 |
I have said that before +2/-3
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Author:Old Guy
6/24/2021 8:05:22 PM
Reply to: 2694066
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There is systemic racism in America, but it only exist in the minds of democrats! You party has been racist from the start, still is. Pay attention, democrats still believe backs are to dumb to get a ID Card or even log on to the internet. I don't believe that "you do". Who is the racist?
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2694074 |
I'm a Republican, so your term "You party has been racist from the start" +3/-1
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Author:TheCrow
6/24/2021 9:11:36 PM
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I'm a Republican, so your term "You party has been racist from the start" is confusing as it applies only to the Trumplicans, not Republican at all. |
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2694075 |
You should stop that Bull Shit, you are not a republican (NT) +2/-3
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Author:Old Guy
6/24/2021 10:39:57 PM
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2694092 |
conservative Republican since 1968. Not, repeat- NOT a member of the cult +2/-1
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Author:TheCrow
6/25/2021 10:54:01 AM
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conservative Republican since 1968.
Not, repeat- NOT a member of the cult of personality that is the current Trumplican Party.
I supported Rand Paul financially.
I opposed and oppose Trump every step of the way and voted for a good Republican in 2016- Evan McMullin. There was no credible Republican candidate in 2020 and in that absence and in a desperate attempt to avoid another Trump presidency, I voted for Biden who at least trends a practical centrist and competent political administrator.
Not a Biden fan now or ever. His political and administrative competence is welcome after Trump, but that's it. His politics are not mine. Do I think he could work with a Republican? The infrastructure bill is proof.
Not an Obama fan either. Obamacare is and was a major screw up. On the other side of that, the Republicans could have better served America by fixing Obamacares flaws instead of chopping it into poorly functioning remnants. But, hey! The current extreme polarization means attack, discredit and diminish your opponents. They wouldn't consider Obama's SCOTUS nomination because it was an election year, 9 months before the election. But they'd seat Trump's SCOTUS nominee in an election year, WEEKS before the election.
Not a Clinton fan, either of them. Both politically competent administrators and many consider Bill's presidency a successful conservative presidency.
Finally, I was not a Carter fan. An extremely good and intelligent man, he came to the presidency like Trump did, with no real preparation for the job. He did, however, provide the venues and diplomacy that resulted in the Camp David Accord.
That's my voting history, until Trump 2020 I supported and voted Republican, since 1968.
Now, the conservative side:
I believe in individual freedom. If you're not harming anybody else....
I believe limited government. Especially no autocrats.
The rule of law. That applies to the rich, elected officials-everybody.
Peace through strength. That is not limited to military capability alone.
Fiscal responsibility. The taxpayer will eventually bear the burden and pay the cost.
Free markets. This is America's strongest point. Until state capitalism emerged in one of the most populous countries in the world- China, America absolutely dominated world trade. That gave America enormous political power and advantage in diplomacy.
Trump wasted 4 years in empty anti-China rhetoric (while he, his family made money in China) instead of negotiating mutually profitable economic pacts. I'll bet that during the entire Trump presidency, the PRC never diminished their investment in under-developed economies, the 'shit-hole countries' in Trump-speak. They're there, building influence even if those governments are percieved of as being Western oriented. The PRC has a massive workforce, including some with advanced technology training- America should be profiting from that, not fighting it.
Human dignity, irrespective of race, nationality, religion or sexual orientation.
Review my posts- I have never posted anything that contradicts those principles. To a Trumpist, those principles are 'liberal', aren't they? |
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