I love the headline from Rawstory -- "Personal injury lawyer asks conservatives to hire him if they've been 'harmed' by critical race theory."
Man, and I thought liberals were supposed to be the snowflakes. I mean, honestly, this makes snowflakes look like macho warlords. I can see someone maybe wanting to hire a personal injury lawyer if they thought they’d been hurt by the theory of gravity because bricks fell off a building under construction and clonked them on the head. Or perhaps someone suing because they were harmed by the theory of evolution when someone who grew taller and stronger beat the bejeepers out of them. But hurt by the theory of critical race theory? The only way I can see filing a lawsuit because you were harmed by it is when you were publicly humiliated for not knowing what it actually was and got fired from your high-level executive job because your stupidity reflected badly on the company. “Hi, I’m personal injury lawyer Ed Bondurant and are you a conservative who has been harmed by critical race theory? Had your feelings hurt because by critical race theory for any reason – perhaps you learned that slavery existed when America was founded, and it made you feel sad…or made you feel proud but were shamed for it? Maybe you were unexpectedly side-swiped by critical race theory when you didn’t see it coming and couldn’t defend yourself. If you believe you’ve been wrong in any way for anything, you don’t have to know if the cause was critical race theory – that’s why I’m here for you, to tell a court that you were because critical race theory is the cause of all your problems. You don’t even have to know what critical race theory is – after all, if you don’t know that COVID-19 is real and then get infected by it, you’re still sick. Same with critical race theory – ignorance is not your fault. It’s the fault of critical race theory. And don’t worry about claiming that you were hurt by something that could also hurt moderates or liberals – moderates and liberals will never think they’re hurt by critical race theory. So, all of our lawsuits are moderate-and-liberal free. We only sue over critical race theory on behalf of conservatives. Because they are the only people who will ever believe that critical race theory ‘harmed’ them. I’m personal injury lawyer Ed Bondurant, and I’m here for you. I want you to hire me. And remember, if we don’t win our lawsuit, it’s because of critical race theory. And you can hire me again to file yet another lawsuit. Call 1-800-WOEISME.” One of the things that really stood out for me from this story is how it showed Republicans have really learned how to con money out of members of the party’s base for pretty much any reason. Clearly that comes from watching Trump fundraise for four years after claiming he was SO rich he was going to self-finance his campaign. And from Republican officials raising money by trumpeting every conceivable slight by Democrats. “Democrats want to get rid of Mr. Potato Head. Help me block them and save the beloved potato toy.” Hey, Republicans mounted an insurrection to overthrow the United States and they began raising money to defend themselves. So, trying to make money by convincing the eternally aggrieved to sue because they were hurt by an educational theory seems the natural extension. But the main thing that stood out for me was the most obvious, natural response when a personal injury lawyer asks conservatives to hire him if they've been harmed by critical race theory – It’s that I look forward to any lawyer asking anyone, whatever their political beliefs, to hire him if they’ve been harmed by actual gunfire, actual baseball bats, actual beatings as a result of critical race reality. Actually, I do think there is one way for conservatives to be truly hurt by critical race theory. And that's if they continue trying to create laws about what can be taught in schools and what can't and try to build a faux-agenda around critical race theory by trying to convince to American public that racism didn't exist at the beginning of the country, when black people weren't given the right to vote and only counted as three-fifth of a person and slavery was allowed to exist in the South. If conservatives do that in the 2022 mid-term elections, critical race theory will be part of them getting pummeled.
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Douglass Abramson
7/15/2021 10:19:19 am
I'm working on a theory that the American Right's intellectual decline disproves the Theory of Evolution; after all...they're not all from Alabama. As for the lawyer in the story, every time I hear of an ambulance chaser this blatant, this comes to mind:https://youtu.be/oXkxrb7fj3Q
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