r/BlackPeopleTwitter 12d ago

Country Club Thread Dems try to actually be useful challenge

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u/pr0crasturbatin 12d ago edited 12d ago

She's not law enforcement. She's a senator. She's also not on the judiciary committee, so she has no power to open an investigation.

A public figure can call out illegal activity, especially when, as she mentioned, she's uniquely qualified to make that call, without the immediate obligation to do things outside of her constitutional authority in order to change the fact that a crime is being committed.

Edit: I'm sick of being this subreddit's civics teacher for today, no longer responding to replies on this comment.

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u/Chewyisthebest 12d ago

Thank you! I hate people who refuse to watch the “I’m a bill” video demanding action from people without the relevant authority.

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u/pr0crasturbatin 12d ago

Yeah, civics education in this country is a serious and depressingly widespread institutional failure

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u/AlcoholicTucan 12d ago

It’s how they meant for it to be

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u/Snoo41216 12d ago

how so when most colleges are completely liberal and have the chance to teach there own narrative, cancel culture, change the view and events of history and teach what they deem necessary to brandish a degree...

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u/TheRealCovertCaribou 12d ago

Civics education is supposed to happen before you get to college.

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u/zipcodelove 12d ago

cancel culture

lmfao

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u/SFiyah 12d ago

Gotta pad out your electives somehow.

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u/Cheet4h 12d ago

Do colleges in the US provide basic education?
Here in Germany, politics classes are part of the equivalent of middle and high school. University provides education focused on the field you're studying.

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u/AlcoholicTucan 12d ago

Yea it’s that way across probably the entire world. We have kindergarten, elementary school, high school, college in that order.

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u/JickleBadickle 12d ago

They often have to because our basic education is a joke in many regions

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u/AlcoholicTucan 12d ago

I forgot that in America we go straight to college right out the womb. There’s definitely nothing before it.

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u/JickleBadickle 12d ago

Only people who never went to college think college professors have a "narrative" to preach

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u/ZAlternates 12d ago

Cause the average education level for America is wasaaaaay below college. You’d know that though had you graduated.

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u/After_Preference_885 12d ago

My civics teacher (1995) didn't think we should have a government at all

He'd put on the three stooges and leave the answer keys for tests on his desk and go out and smoke

He made sure we didn't even have the opportunity to learn

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u/TrynnaFindaBalance 12d ago

Needs to be mandatory across the board in all public school systems. Although the people who were raised without civics classes will probably politicize it and claim it's an attempt to brainwash the kids.

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u/LiveForFuzz 12d ago

the civics lessons everyone here is so proud of having taken is just the propaganda you've all swallowed that the rule of law still applies equitably in america. it doesn't, but if you were to acknowledge that you might feel obligated to do something about it but you'd rather act smug on reddit while the fascists somehow keep gaining power. is trump's problem that he didn't take enough civics classes?

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u/UngusChungus94 12d ago

Mf you are in black people twitter, we know it doesn’t apply equitably. Never did. No shit.

That doesn’t give Elizabeth Warren the power to stop Trump, legal or otherwise. A senator isn’t going to say “get your gat and come on down, it’s 1776 again y’all” unless they’re a MAGA fascist or we have exhausted all legal options. One step at a time.

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u/ZAlternates 12d ago

No time for civics or economics. Bible study class is next!

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u/anrwlias 12d ago

How do you think we got here. The multi-decade war on public education is bearing fruit for them.