Image source, Anthony Zurcher BBC. The recent performance of the Alaska state legislature only drives home Fields' point. Articles by Anthony Zurcher's Profile | BBC Journalist | Muck Rack He promises us that the candidates will be feisty and fierce, as if these are the characteristics that we should seek in politicians. San Francisco Mayor London Breed, a Democrat, called the vote ill-timed, given the challenges schools are facing during the coronavirus pandemic. If you havent checked out Taibbis article, you owe it to yourself to do so: https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/cnn-debate-lottery-draw-media-stupidity-861287/. Your email address will not be published. Cruz says hell renounce his Canadian citizenship, but its not clear whether thats enough to satisfy the birthers in his party who have long claimed at President Obama was born in Africa and therefore ineligible to be president. One thing Americans find hard to talk about. That would be Senator Ted Cruzthe man who so glowingly introduced Ms. Palin and a man who clearly views himself as being on a populist track to the White House. So hell most likely get more attention early on than a junior Senator with no experience would otherwise. The establishment needs its carnival barkers, and here comes Zurcher, drawing us back into the circus tent. Beneath the rhetoric, however, lies an ongoing fundamental dispute about equality and equity - what these concepts mean, and what government's role should be in addressing them. The Republicans "all understand what it means to govern and the necessity of governing," he says - but they know it has become too politically risky to vote with the other party. If I do, its purely coincidental. Anthony is a 49-year-old journalist who was born on November 2, 1992, in California, United States of America. Ill even use his title. "The goal is to have the public read something crazy in the newspaper and immediately think 'critical race theory'," he wrote on Twitter. "Those who embrace the idea (if not the precise language) of cancelling seek more than pat apologies and retractions, although it's not always clear whether the goal is to right a specific wrong and redress a larger imbalance of power.". Insincere appeals to Hispanics from Beto ORourke? He serves as the editor in chief of Supreme Court Debated, he is also the writer and editor of a BBC News blog called Echo Chambers. Just last week, Donald Trump's legal team derided his impeachment trial as "constitutional cancel culture". "Elections (of politicians in their late 80s) have consequences." So is it going to doom Christies presidential hopes? Anthony Zurcher - Biased BBC Alaska used to be different. An example of data being processed may be a unique identifier stored in a cookie. He can count the US states he hasn't visited on one hand. At the moment, Alaska is the only state legislature in the US where centrist Democrats, Republicans and independents have joined together to form a governing majority. Trump adviser Jason Miller said that "big tech" was trying to cancel the 74 million Americans who voted for Trump in 2020. The noise first started, really, back in March 2013, after he introduced Sarah Palin as keynote speaker at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC). If that turns out to be the case, then remote Alaska could be a trend-setter and not a final holdout against the forces of political polarisation and partisan acrimony. The Detroit News. Views expressed BBC's. At the top of that echo chamber is this editorial from the New York Times: There are plenty of questions that Mr. Christie and his aides, current and former, need to answer. Is there anything in the Right-wing echo chamber about this? Shrugging off party labels and the kind of political trench warfare common in other parts of the US is, according to some, the Alaska way. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Matt Taibbi recently wrote about the corporate medias shameful approach to political spectacle, an approach which is becoming frighteningly reminiscent of that which is undertaken by ESPN. Did Mr. Christie know in December, when Mr. Baroni and Mr. Wildstein resigned, that these two members of his inner circle had taken part in the scheme? "No one is condoning the remarks she has made," Jordan said of Greene's seeming endorsement of violence directed at Democratic leaders and suggestion that high-profile school shootings were staged by anti-gun activists. For opponents, it's a subversive plan to indoctrinate young Americans to reject their country and its history. Some of our partners may process your data as a part of their legitimate business interest without asking for consent. Its now the new year, so naturally those who seek to undermine him are going to check up on it. One biker, "Weird" Wayne Manning, suggested the best thing for a politician was a .38 calibre bullet. Each one of these episodes has been cited as evidence of "cancel culture" - the idea that zealous activists, mostly on the left, are seeking to suppress disfavoured free expression by permanently shaming and ostracising individuals who have been deemed to have transgressed. I have to say Im a bit skeptical that there is anything that can be done on abortion in this country that will make everyone very satisfied.. Charles C. W. Cooke (@charlescwcooke) January 9, 2014. Lynn, the CRT scholar, worries that state laws are having a chilling effect on teachers across the US, making them afraid of even touching on the topic of race in the classroom. President Biden may wax poetic about cross-party consensus and co-operation, but Alaska, which became the 49th US state in 1959, has an established track record of it. For supporters, it's an important framework for understanding the way systemic racism can perpetuate discrimination and disadvantage. Read about our approach to external linking. Hes going to get the vetting that the media never did for the Junior Senator from Illinois in 2008, or even during Obamas first term as President. "It's OK to believe that social or professional consequences for things said or done are either too harsh or not harsh enough," she writes, "and it's OK to be concerned about the outsized power tech companies like Facebook or Twitter have in the world, but using the framing of 'cancel culture' to make these points will always come off as lazy and cowardly. But again, Im not a professional journalist, so not qualified to judge the priest caste. He says the idea of "equity" is more than just policy prescriptions, it's about "abandoning the broad political philosophy that has traditionally held this country together". Instead of ticking one box on a ballot in a general election, Alaskans will rank the four candidates according to preference. This byline is for a different person with the same name. Daily Mail. Its too early to know how this will turn out, but the various opinions have been far more revealing of the attitudes and politics of the people making them than about anything in the story itself. Anthony M Zurcher, 46 - Dubuque, IA - Reputation & Contact Details For the next five Echo Chambers installments (not including the next simple list of links), rather than do my usual long-winded parsing and complaining, Im going to attempt an alternative version of what I think it says on the tin. In any case, for Alaska, next year's vote will be a real test of whether partisan polarisation has firmly taken hold - that Alaska isn't special anymore - or if the election reformers have found a way stem the tide and set an example for the rest of the US. Naturally, some wont trust him and are asking What did he know and when did he know it?, while others are taking him at his word. A school district drops the names of famous Americans from its buildings. It does have all the appearances of being very cozy. She notes Hawley, for instance, celebrated a push to have credit-card companies stop doing business with adult website Pornhub. Motorbiker "Weird" Wayne Manning thinks social media has helped get people involved in politics, Cathy Geisell was defeated in the 2020 party primary by a more hardline Republican, A lone voice - Murkowski has bucked Republican party lines, The secret mine that hid the Nazis' stolen treasure. Before closing, we must also consider the other, other echo chamber: Twitter. document.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() ); Here at overwritten.org, your relentless underwriter, Dack Rouleau, will guide you through the ugliest of fonts and the most deliberate of typos. To start, there is an inability to even agree on what critical race theory is, where it came from and what it seeks to accomplish. The mission statement as he originally stated it is this: Welcome to Echo Chambers, a new blog about opinion and commentary in the United States and around the world. He labelled all of the various episodes and instances he was cataloguing as examples of "critical race theory" in practice, even though the academic discipline was not always an exact fit for what he was documenting. Currently, he focuses most of his efforts on investigating, analysing and explaining U.S. and world politics to Americans and a global audience. Anthony Zurcher | Creators Syndicate That has led to single-party state governments and a US Congress that is sharply divided along partisan lines. His choices of who writes quality opinion is revealing. Without reading it in advance, Ill have no idea. But Alaska hasn't been fully immune to a trend of increasing division in the US. Like most US political controversies in the US, this one will end up spilling into both the voting booths and the courtrooms. Last November, the BBC website created the "Echo Chambers" feature, and assigned one of their experienced editors and journalists, Anthony Zurcher to curate it. Something tells me Anthony Zurcher will be back with post-game . Once we take the political affiliations of the Executive Board of the BBC into account we can see that all three of the Jewish members are openly pro-Israel/pro-Zionist, while two of the non-Jewish members are also pro-Israel/pro-Zionist. A Texan who explains US politics to Brits, UK politics to Americans & Canadian politics to everyone. And while Biden may prefer an Alaska Democrat in the Senate, Murkowski is a much better option than someone like Tshibaka. I havent spent hours searching, and at this point its pretty clear that anything will be more speculation or a simple dismissal, repeating whats already been said. As detailed in an extensive New Yorker profile, Rufo built a cottage industry exposing government racial awareness training across the US. Such race-conscious prioritisation, in the view of critics, is a slippery slope that would lead to out-of-control government favouritism. Read about our approach to external linking. A few years ago, conservatives warned of Islamic sharia law being taught in American classrooms - a concern that has since dropped off the radar. Instances like these have led to what has become an increasingly intense criticism. A contentious school board meeting on systemic racism and transgender rights in a Virginia county near Washington DC, made national news when a protestor was arrested for disorderly conduct. ", Alaska's first CSI takes on sub-zero crime scenes, More than 20,000 Russians dead in Bakhmut, US says, France May Day protests leave dozens of police injured, Fighter jets are roaring over my home in Sudan. Government is a corrupting influence on the politicians who spend their careers working in it, and the best way to fix the problem is to throw the "bums" out. The purpose of this blog is to discover and present quality opinion journalism wherever it may be to find value amid the noise. And sets a precedent I feel is dangerous: the power an individual or corporation has over a part of the global public conversation.". In the last four years, coalition Republicans - a total of four, as well as three other incumbents - have been voted out in primary elections. Although she has at other times cast votes that angered liberals, she is exactly the type of moderate Republican who could form the backbone of Biden's efforts at forging compromise across the aisle.