You Fight The Deep State With The Tools Of The Deep State

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— Elizabeth Joh (@elizabeth_joh) June 11, 2021

Kudos to AP for framing the narrative:

One year after protests over racial injustices and police violence swept the country, clashes over how to teach students about racism and its role in U.S. history are raging in school districts across Nevada and elsewhere, stoking culture wars over curriculums and strategic plans that have previously received less attention.

In Washoe County, a debate over a proposal to expand the K-5 curriculum to include more teaching about equity, diversity and racism has coalesced with a debate about the district’s mask policy, drawn crowds to local school board meetings. To accomodate attendees, the district has arranged overflow rooms and set up loudspeakers outside.

Superintendent Kristen McNeill recommended the district form a task force to review curriculum instead of implementing the plan. The board approved the task force on Wednesday.

But still, it's the hate that dare not speak its name, the hidden wound of America that must remain forever hidden:

“You say there’s no CRT in this curriculum,” Sparks resident Bruce Parks said at the Tuesday board meeting in Reno. “It is being taught in our schools right now. When you use words and language like ‘white male privilege’ ‘systemic racism,’ that’s straight out of CRT.” 

Which, of course, means those ideas can't possibly be true!  But to get at the meat of the matter:

Opponents of Washoe County’s curriculum proposal camped on the eastern side of the entrance to a packed local school board meeting on Tuesday, wearing MAGA hats and carrying signs that read “No CRT,” “CRT teaches racism,” and “The School Board works for the people!”

To combat concerns about ideological indoctrination, the Nevada Family Alliance has proposed outfitting teachers with body cameras to ensure they aren’t indoctrinating students in classrooms.

“You guys have a serious problem with activist teachers pushing politics in the classroom, and there’s no place for it, especially for our fifth graders,” Karen England, the group’s executive director, told trustees Tuesday.

On the other side of the entrance, students, parents and teachers wore green T-shirts and carried signs with slogans including “Amplify Student Voices” to signify support for “Washoe County School District Students for Change,” a group that has pushed for curriculum additions.

“These are systemic issues, and they’ve been here for a long time. But I think the protests last year really gave light to how divided people were and how polarized people were,” said Michael Arreyguy, a college student who attended Washoe County schools. “There’s people who don’t want to acknowledge that these problems exist — that there is systemic racism and injustice.”

On Tuesday at the Carson City School Board meeting, Jason Tingle said he was concerned when he heard talk about critical race theory in schools. But he reviewed district materials and concluded the fears were unfounded.

“I’ve yet to see anything in the curriculum that shows that we are actually going to take a hardcore approach to critical race theory,” said Tingle, who has four children enrolled in district schools. “Until our kids come home and show us something different or tell us something different, then we should keep our faith in the school district and let them do what they were sent here to do.”

That guy's far too reasonable.  I'm bettin' he gets some death threats.

And how does that tie into the "Deep State"?  I'm glad you asked:

"The Trump DOJ took the extraordinary step of having prosecutors subpoena Apple for data from the accounts of at least two Democrats on the House Intelligence Committee, along with their aides, their family members, and even kids," said Cuomo. and they put a gag order on apple. so apple wasn't allowed to tell anybody about what was going on, even though they were main members of this government."

"The politicization of the department and the attacks on the rule of law are among the most dangerous assaults on our democracy carried out by a former president," continued Cuomo. "Remember, we know that Trump took this stuff very seriously because he complained about it all the time. This is the Deep State. What was that about? It was using those who are behind the machinery of government to do bad political things, that is exactly what he was doing." 

As ever:  takes one to know one.  Whether it's trying to abuse public officials and public school teachers, or it's using the government to spy on American citizens, it's all okay so long as the right people's feelings are protected, and the "wrong people" are the targets.

NEW: In hunting for people who leaked Russia investigation intel to reporters, DOJ subpoenaed Apple for data belonging to Adam Schiff, another House Intel Committee Democrat, aides and family members. One was a minor.
w. @npfandos @nytmike @adamgoldmanNYThttps://t.co/6jWHq34kUB

— Katie Benner (@ktbenner) June 11, 2021

They were using kids as human shields!

You fight the Deep State with the tools of the Deep State in order to keep the Deep State on your side.*

*well, and of course, the Twitter peanut gallery:

The Trump DOJ subpoenaed Adam Schiff's cell phone data from Apple -- and Apple apparently forked it over https://t.co/j4RewJMAkC

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) June 11, 2021

Court orders (which is what a subpoena is) we don't like are invalid. Isn't that the law? Anyway, companies should be able to ignore court orders when someone on Twitter doesn't like them. If that's not the law, it should be

(Do people still think their cell phone data is protected by law?  Still? It’s well-settled law that metadata is not protected nor privileged information.)