I’ve been getting a large number of story pitches over the past few months. I ignore almost all of them, because they are topics of no interest to me, but I got this one today:
Rand,
Recent Republican-led efforts to politicize college appointments
and restrict curricula are part of a broader effort aimed at
college-aged voters who lean Democratic, said award-winning journalist Kyle Spencer,
who is a longtime New York Times contributing writer and author of the new book “Raising Them Right: The Untold Story of America’s Ultraconservative Youth Movement and its Plot for Power.” She weighs in on the latest below on the College Board’s revision of the A.P. curriculum for African American studies:
—American ultraconservatives have
been in an out-and-out war on history and truth inside American
classrooms for decades. Ron DeSantis is on the front lines of that war
and the College Board’s capitulation to his anti-truth demands should be
alarming to all Americans. A non-partisan organization that plays a
crucial role in what our children learn inside their high school
classrooms has just allowed the American right to censor truth. An
African American history class with no required mention of the debate
over reparations and the Black Lives Matters movement is not only
negligent, it is a lie of omission. The College Board should be ashamed.
This is a stain on its reputation and American educators ought to be
wary of all its course curricula.—
Her new book has been featured on ABC News and on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” and “The 11th Hour,” as well as in The Boston Globe, Politico, Rolling Stone, The Nation and MarketWatch,
among other publications. A Kirkus review called it “eye-opening,” and the Library Journal said it was “a powerful investigative work.”
Please let me know if you would be interested in talking with Kyle more about this. She is available anytime.
I almost never respond to things like this, but I replied: “She sounds like a leftist loon.” Maybe she’ll remove me from her email list.
“Ultraconservatives”, don’t think I’ve seen that one before. I guess that’s even worse than far right fascist devil? The left works overtime developing new derogatory descriptions for ideological norms of just a decade or so ago, even among most democrats of ~1980.
ultraconservatives:”extremely conservative in political or religious beliefs. ”
Must be ultra-Orthodox Judaism:
“ultra-Orthodox Judaism, also called Haredi Judaism, any of several groups within Orthodox Judaism that strictly observe Jewish religious law and separate themselves from Gentile society as well as from Jews who do not follow the religious law as strictly as they do.”
Since America not as old, in America maybe those people who refuse to use electricity.
But like ultra-Orthodox Judaism, to be ultra they also could want live isolated from the people are using electricity.
Amish? Hutterites? A
bogeymanbogeyperson living rent free in their heads?Perhaps Hoplites, they are proven Hoplophobes.
Hoplites were certainly members of the bourgeoisie. The cost of a quilted lined armor tunic, bronze spear, bronze helm, bronze sidearm sword and a hoplon (their signature bronze round shield) did not come cheap …and a servant (slave?) to carry it on the march.
Conservatives! Obviously Ultra-conservatives.
Sounds like battlespace prep by the ultra-communist radical super-left to prepare the ‘DeSantis is the new Super-Ultra-Mega-MAGA-Hitler and will enslave/destroy us all!’ narrative.
They tell us who and what they fear by what the slander the most.
Don’t look into ground zero of those scary adjectives with remaining good eye!
I remember when “ultra-loyal” was used to describe the high quality of certain of Saddam Hussein’s troops – which turned out to be as loyal as rats fleeing a sinking ship. As we see, the abuse of the prefix continues. Unless you’re describing very specific frequency range of light, you have no business using “ultra”. It’s doesn’t get abused as much as “mega-” does, but when it does… it gets really silly.
…award winning!
But she’s award winning!
Rand, we need to create our own awards and then self-issue them. Then we too can call ourselves award-winning. That ice cream cone isn’t going to lick itself without a self-deferential award system to give it the illusion of credibility!
I’m curious how you ended up on a obviously far-left mailing list to begin with? Did you ever write a space piece for Rachael Maddow?
The New Republic? Aha, didn’t you once write a piece for the Atlantic?
Spencer probably hired some marketing expert and that’s who spammed influencers in California for the past week. Rand probably just accidentally fell within the kill zone.
It would be ironic if it was some computer doing a grep *trans* pattern search of blog names: “Transvestite, Transexual, …,Transterrestial” close enough …Send it.
It’s probably not a “far-left” mailing list. I’ve apparently just gotten on a list that all the PR firms use, because I get a lot of pitches. I generally ignore them, but maybe that response will at least get me removed from her copy.
“She is available any time.”
Well, yes, the amount of free time she must have on her hands is obviously quite expansive, based on that excerpt. I have no doubt her dance card remains rather empty even with that media blast.