The Texas Tribune basically did an infomercial for CSCOPE, the controversial anti-American curriculum under fire from parents all over Texas.
In the latest Tribcast a reporter tutored her Texas Tribune workmates about CSCOPE, reciting CSCOPE’s talking points while Evan Smith asked leading questions to color the reporter’s portrait.
In the discussion they tried to whitewash CSCOPE’s treating an American symbol, the nonviolent Boston Tea Party protest, as a terrorist act, claiming, with CSCOPE, to be engaging in mere perspectivalism.
By contrast, CSCOPE described the Black Panthers as protesters. The Black Panthers tortured and murdered 19 year-old Alex Rackley, and nine law enforcement officials lost their lives in altercations with the Black Panthers. The Texas Tribune made no mention of this is their CSCOPE infomercial.
They also made no mention of CSCOPE’s perspectivalism in favor of hijabs and burkas, or in comparing Christianity to a cult. They also seem to have forgotten about CSCOPE’s listing of Communism as the big idea of the 20th Century.
Underlying both CSCOPE and the Texas Tribune’s pretended innocence is a corrosive relativism that refuses to make cultural value judgments except against American and Western civilization. In reality it isn’t relativism or perspectivalism at all, it is a selective perspectivalism, the portfolio of which reveals an anti-Americanism they are too cowardly to own.
For those misled by the Texas Tribune’s recounting of CSCOPE, The Daily Caller did a real report on CSCOPE’s sins.