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Watch Trump supporters declare support for teaching critical race theory and repatriating Indigenous land [1]

['Jennifer Sandlin']

Date: 2023-07-05

I love Walter Masterson's work—here are two of his latest videos, wherein Trump supporters, inexplicably, seem to be in support of teaching critical race theory and repatriating Indigenous land. Wait, aren't both of those things, within the MAGA-verse, considered 'woke' and therefore 'canceled'? I'm so confused.

As a viewer named April commented on the first video, "The thing that kills me about your interviews is that they get SO CLOSE to the point. Every time." And Masterson replies, "I walk them to the river and they almost make the jump."

I really appreciate Masterson's approach to his comedy. He's not really simply making fun of people—that would get tired and old, and be kind of mean. He comes across, to me, as someone who is trying to let folks (usually MAGA and Trump folks) explain their points of view, and he really seems to listen with the intent of trying to understand. And sure, he pokes a little fun, but the overall vibe seems to be to listen and try to make sense of their worldviews. What's also clear to me is that there are some possible entry points for growth and learning—at least for some of the folks he interviews—and as an educator who has often despaired that the task of countering mis- and dis-information seems overwhelming and impossible, this gives me at least a small sliver of hope.

In this interesting piece, Sarah Ashley, writing for CL!CK (a publication from the NYU American Journalism Online Master's Program), explains why his work is so compelling:

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