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Asked to explain why he "end[ed] racial sensitivity training" in federal agencies, Trump should have been able to state clearly what Critical Race Theory is.
At the debate last night — transcript — Chris Wallace led by equating "racial sensitivity training" and "critical race theory" and tossed in "systemic racism":This month, your administration directed federal agencies to end racial sensitivity training that addresses white privilege or critical race theory. Why did you decide to do that, to end racial sensitivity training? And do you believe that there is systemic racism in this country, sir?Trump began well:
I ended it because it’s racist.But he should have said clearly why he regards it as racist! Why would "racial sensitivity training" be racist? I know the argument, but not everyone does, and whether we know it or not, Trump should have capsulized the reason for regarding the kind of training that's been going on as racist. What he said next was:
I ended it because a lot of people were complaining that they were asked to do things that were absolutely insane.What things?! It's just a weird assertion, "things that were absolutely insane."
That it a radical revolution that was taking place in our military, in our schools, all over the place. And you know it, and so does everybody else. And he would know it....He should have said why it's racist, insane, and radical, but instead he went into You-know-it-everybody-knows it mode, which misses the opportunity to make a good point and makes him look like he actually doesn't know. And he did just say, "I ended it because a lot of people were complaining...." Maybe he doesn't know! Challenge him to explain it!
Chris Wallace's challenge at this point was, "What is radical about racial sensitivity training?" Good question, following up on his own false equation of "racial sensitivity training" and "critical race theory," so now it's really time for Trump to get specific and drive a wedge between these 2 concepts:
If you were a certain person, you had no status in life.What?!
It was sort of a reversal.What?!!
And if you look at the people, we were paying people hundreds of thousands of dollars to teach very bad ideas and frankly, very sick ideas.Explain Critical Race Theory. He needs to do that, right here. What are the "very sick ideas"? What's the "reversal"? Who are the "certain person[s]" with "no status in life"? Was that supposed to refer to working class white people who don't like hearing that they have "white privilege"? I'm just guessing. Trump doesn't help. He makes it vaguely about patriotism and traditional values and sounds as though he's covering up for a lack of knowledge of the theory that he saw fit to ban:
And really, they were teaching people to hate our country And I’m not going to do that. I’m not going to allow that to happen. We have to go back to the core values of this country. They were teaching people that our country is a horrible place. It’s a racist place. And they were teaching people to hate our country. And I’m not going to allow that to happen.He called the theory racist, and then he criticized it for teaching that America is racist. Those are 2 different things — unless you want to argue that it's racist to call America racist. That's not the argument that Critical Race Theory is racist. But it is a reminder that Trump never answered the question "do you believe that there is systemic racism in this country?"
It's Biden's turn at this point, and Biden says, "Nobody’s doing that. He’s the racist." Simple assertions, also without substance. And it's utterly unbelievable that "Nobody’s doing that" except to the extent that it's not clear what "that" is.
Trump interrupts to say "You just don’t know." And Biden says "Here’s the deal" — a phrase that popped out of his mouth 12 times last night — "I know a lot more about this.... The fact is that there is racial insensitivity." So he got away with sticking to the idea of "sensitivity" rather than the Critical Race Theory. He's able to portray what's being taught as not radical at all, but just generic social niceness:
People have to be made aware of what other people feel like, what insults them, what is demeaning to them. It’s important people know. Many people don’t want to hurt other people’s feelings, but it makes a big difference. It makes a gigantic difference in the way a child is able to grow up and have a sense of self-esteem.Then Biden changes the topic to himself, and his usual trope that he's the working class guy, so he obviously doesn't buy what Critical Race Theory is foisting on people:
It’s a little bit like how this guy and his friends look down on so many people. They look down their nose on people like Irish Catholics, like me, who grow up in Scranton. They look down on people who don’t have money. They look down on people who are of a different faith.Interestingly, Biden is like Trump here, concerned about the white working class. He gets back to race:
They looked down on people who are a different color. In fact, we’re all Americans. The only way we’re going to bring this country together is bring everybody together. There’s nothing we cannot do, if we do it together. We can take this on and we can defeat racism in American.Whoa! That's not Critical Race Theory! That's color-blindness. Ironically, Biden would be excoriated at one of these training sessions Trump ended. But Trump doesn't know enough about the subject to skewer Biden here. And Trump failed to use the catchphrase he'd deployed elsewhere in the debate: "He just lost the left." That line would have fit perfectly here, but I don't think Trump even noticed!
Instead Trump lunges into the subject of the racial division that existed during the Obama-Biden administration. He brings up Ferguson, and asserts that "it was more violent than what I’m even seeing now." Biden exclaims, "Oh my Lord" and "This is ridiculous." Whether the assertion is right or wrong — we could fact check — it's changing the subject. I presume Trump is avoiding discussing Critical Race Theory and the training he ended. He should be vaunting his achievement, but I don't think he even understands what it was!
Trump accuses Biden of not wanting to talk about "law and order." Trump wants to talk about violence in the streets, and Trump doesn't want to talk about Critical Race Theory. We hear Trump pressure Biden: "Are you in favor of law and order?" Biden says, "I’m in favor of law." Trump asks it again, "Are you in favor of law and order?" Biden gives a solid answer: "Law and order with justice, where people get treated fairly."
That's the exchange I remember most, the morning after that crazy chaotic debate. You know, it's pretty absurd for Trump to pose as the champion of law and order while bringing so much of a feeling of chaos to the debate. He's the one who loves order? I'm afraid of that kind of order.
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