“Only Connect”

This would have been the message from Fox News if it had been around in 1963:

Martin Luther King deserves to be in a Birmingham Jail.

Any politician who cites his letter from jail is soft on crime and pro-criminal.

We need to ban that letter from being taught in any classroom. https://t.co/O2BRIgjJMw

— Bill Kristol (@BillKristol) February 15, 2022

Yeah, dudes, the opposition to CRT was always principled and reasonable. You weren’t getting played as rubes by cynical censorious hacks at all. Be proud, be really proud. https://t.co/6Fp6wcgVLt

— TireSlashingHat (@Popehat) February 15, 2022

Rick Perry tried to force UT to hire more adjuncts and so save money that would otherwise be spent on pointy-headed liberal professors.

UT Alumni reminded him he was an Aggie and that UT was intended to be a university of the first degree (language of the State Constitution establishing UT).  They handed him his head, IOW. They’ll do the same thing to Patrick, and he knows it. This is for consumption by primary voters. But it won’t stop there:

And while that may not be a problem for our Lieutenant Governor, it's going to raise some pretty difficult questions for those same UT administrators to answer about both what they told the faculty last fall, and what their plans for the Institute are now.

— Steve Vladeck (@steve_vladeck) February 16, 2022

Piss off the faculty, it reaches the aforesaid alumni PDQ. They take the reputation of the school very seriously (lorry nose they’ve had nothing else to brag about since Darrel Royal retired.)

If anybody remembers CRT by 2023, I’ll be surprised. Besides, UT has a law school that might actually teach CRT. And a school full of lawyers will happily sue to overturn such a stupid law. With any luck, that suit would undo the law affecting lower schools, too.