Erick Erickson sends another e-mail:
In Atlanta, they’re filming the new Spiderman movie in a local public school. But the school itself, like so many others, is closed to students because of the virus. Even Dr. Fauci is saying schools should be opened. But local governments and teacher unions are adamant that kids should suffer. Poor kids are falling behind.
This is the civil rights issue of our time and conservatives are on the winning side — give parents a choice of where to send their kids.
A legit issue, sure. This is the civil rights issue of our time?
No.
If, in fact, it’s true that Fauci thinks schools can be open, then, sure, this may be an easily correctable mistake. But it’s the schools in one city, not the entire Black community suffering segregation and worse for generations, which also burdened kids.
I’m so unimpressed. But – skipping the point that school choice will improve schooling has been an illusion chased by conservatives ever since I can remember – conservatives are desperate to distract from the Georgia Senate races, where both Perdue and Loeffler have been hit with unethical stock trade charges.
Otherwise, it’s really just standard boilerplate – the messages Democrat-led governments are incompetent or evil and teacher unions are evil and out to hurt the kids are standard conservative and / or libertarian messages from way, way back.
Erickson doesn’t want to acknowledge the difficulty of the issue of the pandemic, or, for that matter, how vaccines are best managed for reopening schools. No, that’s not his goal. Gotta get the faithful riled up and believing in the conservative cause, make them civil rights warriors, because it appears Georgia is turning blue.
And we just can’t have that.
