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Great piece, and dead on!

My wife has PTSD from the way I have been targeted and attacked for speaking against CRT here in Vermont. The attackers are toxic, vicious, lying people with serious mental health problems and a deranged misunderstanding of reality. Yet they want to rule the world and crush anyone who questions them.

Yet I know of people here who have endured worse, and who were vulnerable to job or business loss (I'm a farmer so I'm immune). I have learned two important lessons that this commentary affirms:

1) Don't be silenced. As James Lindsay says. "They call you a racist when they want you to shut up." Don't -- talk more and louder. Since I have the facts and law on my side (and I'm an attorney), I simply keep writing and proving they are manipulating statistics and seeding racism. And the attackers have mostly gone silent -- they can't shut me up, and they can't win an argument. So they try to deplatform and ignore me..... Bullies seek vulnerability and people to victimize, not people who stand up to them.

2) It is imperative that we counter their toxicity with tolerance, and not stoop to their level. I embrace their free speech rights -- the more they speak, the more they prove themselves to be deluded, uninformed morons. (Just sayin'....)

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Yes, I speak out against CRT, and I have been attacked in liberal spaces too. Like you, I respond by doubling down, and refusing to be silenced. I state, frequently, that "Black Lives Matter" is a racist slogan. I state that CRT is "revenge racism", where white people are targeted because white.

I envy your status as an attorney. Attorneys learn how to speak and think while others are screaming. It's a profession where skilled practitioners learn how to control emotion in high-tension situations.

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That's true -- even though inside we are screaming.... :) But it is logic and reasoned analysis that refute their plans -- that, and satire (they can't take humor, or fun, or even being nice -- they don't speak those languages).

"The white liberal differs from the white conservative only in one way. The liberal is more deceitful, more hypocritical, than the conservative. Both want power, but the white liberal is the one who has perfected the art of posing as the negro’s friend and benefactor. And by winning the friendship and support of the negro, the white liberal is able to use the negro as a pawn or a weapon, in this political football game that is constantly raging between the white liberals and the white conservatives. The American negro is nothing but a political football, and the white liberals control this ball, through tricks or tokenism, false promises of integration and civil rights. In this game of deceiving and using the American negro, the white liberals have complete cooperation of the negro civil rights leaders who sell our people out for a few crumbs of token recognition, token gains, token progress. " Malcolm X

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