and my conversation on the enduring legacy of george carlin. good evening. i m mehdi hasan. it s been a full week now. since a mass shooter brutally shot and killed ten people at a grocery store in a predominantly black neighborhood of buffalo, new york. seven days since we learned that a quote-unquote manifesto linked to the accused gunman embraces the vial great replacement conspiracy theory, which promotes fears that the people of the west, read, white people, are being replaced by so-called white genocide. a week removed from one of the worst racist massacres in modern american history and how is the republican party responded? well, top republicans have doubled down on their support for the horrific conspiracy theory that was used to justify mass murder. let us count some of the ways, shall we? comments resurfaced after the shooting in which conservative congressman matt gaetz expressed his support for replacement theory and gaetz tried to insist he had been speaking i
years, and in my classroom, my middle school classroom, i ve always had students who were watching the news, who were having conversations at home, who came into school wanting to have that conversation about what was happening in the world. there s no question that kids all ever the country came into the classrooms, after the killing in buffalo and know we lost numbers in that killing in buffalo, and that community, and all of us are still mourning that loss, and seeing how fear and racism and white nationalism fueled all of the hate and anger based on lies and we ve been talking about this for the last few years. to actually tell teachers that they cannot have those conversations with their students is not allowing them to allow those students to build their critical thinking skills
interpret today, the return to mother russia for back to school twofer. buzz feed links to what can only be described as truly bizarre video of what appears to be the russian military performing a drill shooting blanks at the opening of a moscow school. if you listen closely, you can hear rammstein playing in the background during the display. dark and disturbing showing. outdone by russian president vladimir putin s own bizarre display at a russian middle school classroom to commemorate back to school week. we ll let the folks at russia today describe what the russian president is drawing on the smartboard. mr. putin wasn t just doing that, he was also busy giving an artist lesson on the day as well on how to draw a cat from behind. how to draw a cat from behind. am i hearing you right? yes, you are. given a tour of a russian middle school, putin showed the young teens how to draw the back end of a kitty.