
Once a lying hack, always a lying hack. Surely Virginia can do better than McAuliffe. |
What exactly is Youngkin going to do about schools? I've only seen him claim he's going to throw out democratic votes and restrict abortion. |
He would start by firing Atif Qarni, who is a ridiculous zealot. |
Has he said that? Does he even know who that is? |
I am so disturbed by people having a conniption over teaching the truth about our difficult history. Our history has been so ridiculously whitewashed over the years. WTF is wrong with you? Our country will never become a more perfect union if we don't know what brought us here. |
+1 Here’s a page from a 1956 Virginia history textbook that was still in use in the 1980s. "Men in the South wanted laws that would help them on their plantations." |
It's easy to see how somebody who was taught this in school could be frightened by the strawman version of CRT constructed by right wing media. But, we shouldn't craft policy based on their ignorance. |
"Here’s a page from a 1956 Virginia history textbook that was still in use in the 1980s." We need a citation for this statement. |
https://richmond.com/discover-richmond/happy-slaves-the-peculiar-story-of-three-virginia-school-textbooks/article_47e79d49-eac8-575d-ac9d-1c6fce52328f.amp.html?__twitter_impression=true https://richmond.com/news/local/williams-for-two-decades-virginia-textbooks-fed-baby-boomers-a-bogus-history-of-slavery-why/article_7494b8bc-c6ed-529f-b1a7-c67297c957a2.amp.html?__twitter_impression=true |