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Weekly US politics news and updates thread - week of July 5

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This thread is posted weekly - please try to post all relevant US political content in here, such as news, updates, opinion articles, etc. Extremely significant events may warrant a separate topic, but almost all should be posted in here.

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    kfwyre
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    Shouting matches, arrests and fed up parents: How school board meetings became ground zero in politics

    Shouting matches, arrests and fed up parents: How school board meetings became ground zero in politics

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    1. monarda
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      I couldn't finish reading your link. I was both furious, sad, helpless, and hopeless. A few weeks ago I hired a recent West Point graduate on leave to help me get my yard together. We talked about...

      I couldn't finish reading your link. I was both furious, sad, helpless, and hopeless.

      A few weeks ago I hired a recent West Point graduate on leave to help me get my yard together. We talked about all kinds of things where it became apparent that we were politically opposite. At one point he asked me what I thought of critical race theory. I didn't really have any thoughts because, I guess, I hadn't been exposed to any media talking about it. So I said, "I don't have any thoughts." He started in on talking points about white children in school being made to feel guilty for being white. I really didn't know how to respond so just asked "where?" He said "everywhere."

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    2. knocklessmonster
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      I guess CRT is the big new conservative boogeyman, but I didn't know the shit stirring was that bad. I didn't even have an early education based on any sort of racially aware standards graduating...

      I guess CRT is the big new conservative boogeyman, but I didn't know the shit stirring was that bad.

      I didn't even have an early education based on any sort of racially aware standards graduating high school in 2008, but it led me to feel bad about being white because even the stuff we learned was pretty bad (slavery, the Indian massacres/marched/reeducation, internment camps, and more, leading to what was then understood as standard white guilt). To me, it seems many parents weren't paying attention, and are only listening to conservative news media that built this new monster out of nothing.

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  2. Kuromantis
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    The extremes of the GOP have moved beyond Fox News

    The extremes of the GOP have moved beyond Fox News

    For a long time, understanding where Republicans primarily got their news was pretty straightforward, too. Unlike Democrats, Republicans, by and large, turn to just one source for all their news: Fox News. But with the advent of news networks even further to the right than Fox News — One America News Network and Newsmax — that’s changing.

    OANN and Newsmax still make up just a small sliver of Americans’ overall media diet, and there’s, of course, a lot of overlap in viewership between those two networks and Fox News. But there are some signs that OANN and Newsmax are replacing Fox News as the primary news sources for at least some Republicans. I’m the research director at the Public Religion Research Institute, and in a March survey we conducted with Interfaith Youth Core on COVID-19 and conspiracy beliefs, we found that Fox News had fallen in popularity among Republicans, with just 27 percent saying it was their go-to news source versus 40 percent last September. What’s more, 7 percent of Republicans listed a far-right news network they preferred instead. That means they took the time to type in an “other” response in our text-box field, as it was not provided as a choice.1 Only a handful did this in September 2020.

    Forty-six percent of Fox News Republicans completely agreed that the election was stolen (whereas 40 percent mostly agreed), but among far-right news Republicans, 74 percent completely agreed (22 percent mostly agreed).

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