WaPO Article-Glenn Youngkin’s own children received anti-racist educations

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He’s a hypocrite, plain and simple. His underage kid tried to vote twice and was turned away.

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Anonymous wrote:He’s a hypocrite, plain and simple. His underage kid tried to vote twice and was turned away.

So kids who go to anti racist schools commit voter fraud?

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There is a big, big range between being taught anti-racism and sensitivity training and Kendi.

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Anonymous wrote:There is a big, big range between being taught anti-racism and sensitivity training and Kendi.

Fortunately Youngkin has banned it all. A county in Tennessee just banned Maus, I wonder how long it will take Virginia to follow suit

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Anonymous wrote:I don't suppor Youngkin, however,
I don't think the issue for most voters is what his kids did or did not receive.
I think they don't want their kids to be forced to learn CRT, or to be forced to mask, or to be forced into school closures.

Youngkin can raise his kids with whatever approaches he is comfortable with.

Just saying I don't think this is the smoking gun you thought it was.

Well said. Thank you!

The problem with your statement is that the haves will receive a first class education, while people who can't afford to send their kids to private will receive a lesser education. Parents who want to avoid teaching history are winning the battle but will lose the war. Your kids will be dumber for it. Do you really think someone who has no knowledge of American history will be successful in college or the workforce. They will just sound stupid.

His kids however, will continue to do great b/c they will be well educated. US students already were struggling with history and now he wants to teach them less. The world already thinks are kids are stupid.

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Anonymous wrote:I don't suppor Youngkin, however,
I don't think the issue for most voters is what his kids did or did not receive.
I think they don't want their kids to be forced to learn CRT, or to be forced to mask, or to be forced into school closures.

Youngkin can raise his kids with whatever approaches he is comfortable with.

Just saying I don't think this is the smoking gun you thought it was.

Precisely this. Youngkin's whole point is that it's the *parents' choice* how to raise their kids. He and his wife chose private schools for their kids. He is now governor of VA, and as such, has every right to set the direction of public schools. Especially when those who voted for him have been very specific about their issues.

Disagree. He didn't just choose any private, he chose those schools were diversity is really important, taught and celebrated. He had many schools to choose from where that is not the case.

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Anonymous wrote:He’s a hypocrite, plain and simple. His underage kid tried to vote twice and was turned away.

So kids who go to anti racist schools commit voter fraud?

That kid went to a different school than the older ones.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don't suppor Youngkin, however,
I don't think the issue for most voters is what his kids did or did not receive.
I think they don't want their kids to be forced to learn CRT, or to be forced to mask, or to be forced into school closures.

Youngkin can raise his kids with whatever approaches he is comfortable with.

Just saying I don't think this is the smoking gun you thought it was.

Precisely this. Youngkin's whole point is that it's the *parents' choice* how to raise their kids. He and his wife chose private schools for their kids. He is now governor of VA, and as such, has every right to set the direction of public schools. Especially when those who voted for him have been very specific about their issues.

Disagree. He didn't just choose any private, he chose those schools were diversity is really important, taught and celebrated. He had many schools to choose from where that is not the case.

Disagree. Most privates in the DC area push diversity. It would have actually been difficult to find one that *doesn't*.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don't suppor Youngkin, however,
I don't think the issue for most voters is what his kids did or did not receive.
I think they don't want their kids to be forced to learn CRT, or to be forced to mask, or to be forced into school closures.

Youngkin can raise his kids with whatever approaches he is comfortable with.

Just saying I don't think this is the smoking gun you thought it was.

Well said. Thank you!

The problem with your statement is that the haves will receive a first class education, while people who can't afford to send their kids to private will receive a lesser education. Parents who want to avoid teaching history are winning the battle but will lose the war. Your kids will be dumber for it. Do you really think someone who has no knowledge of American history will be successful in college or the workforce. They will just sound stupid.

His kids however, will continue to do great b/c they will be well educated. US students already were struggling with history and now he wants to teach them less. The world already thinks are kids are stupid.

Here's what is truly stupid: insisting, over and over again, that Republicans want to "avoid teaching history." This has never been the issue. Ever. And if you don't know that by now, then the stupid one is clearly YOU.
DP

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Anonymous wrote:I don't suppor Youngkin, however,
I don't think the issue for most voters is what his kids did or did not receive.
I think they don't want their kids to be forced to learn CRT, or to be forced to mask, or to be forced into school closures.

Youngkin can raise his kids with whatever approaches he is comfortable with.

Just saying I don't think this is the smoking gun you thought it was.

Well said. Thank you!

The problem with your statement is that the haves will receive a first class education, while people who can't afford to send their kids to private will receive a lesser education. Parents who want to avoid teaching history are winning the battle but will lose the war. Your kids will be dumber for it. Do you really think someone who has no knowledge of American history will be successful in college or the workforce. They will just sound stupid.

His kids however, will continue to do great b/c they will be well educated. US students already were struggling with history and now he wants to teach them less. The world already thinks are kids are stupid.

Here's what is truly stupid: insisting, over and over again, that Republicans want to "avoid teaching history." This has never been the issue. Ever. And if you don't know that by now, then the stupid one is clearly YOU.
DP

DP... yeah, the problem isn't that Republicans don't want to teach history, it's that they want to teach ALTERNATIVE history, with happy slaves, where the Civil war was the War of Northern Aggression that had nothing at all to do about slavery, where 6 million Jews weren't really killed by the Nazis and so on.

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You're clearly beyond help. There's still hope for your children. We educate children for the benefit of society -- your wishes as a parent are duly noted but ultimately inconsequential. Literally no once cares what you as a parent want -- your opinion really doesn't matter.

And this my fellow Democrats is why the Red Wave will come! Stop talking this trash.

This is what is repugnant to voters. This attitude that the goal is to indoctrinate children rather than engage other adults deemed too stupid or intractably racist to discuss how history and current race relations should be framed in schools. No wonder there was a backlash against the current DEI curriculum.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don't suppor Youngkin, however,
I don't think the issue for most voters is what his kids did or did not receive.
I think they don't want their kids to be forced to learn CRT, or to be forced to mask, or to be forced into school closures.

Youngkin can raise his kids with whatever approaches he is comfortable with.

Just saying I don't think this is the smoking gun you thought it was.

Precisely this. Youngkin's whole point is that it's the *parents' choice* how to raise their kids. He and his wife chose private schools for their kids. He is now governor of VA, and as such, has every right to set the direction of public schools. Especially when those who voted for him have been very specific about their issues.

Disagree. He didn't just choose any private, he chose those schools were diversity is really important, taught and celebrated. He had many schools to choose from where that is not the case.

Disagree. Most privates in the DC area push diversity. It would have actually been difficult to find one that *doesn't*.

There are tons of conservative Christian schools he could have chosen if he really though CRT (or dei) was inappropriate in the classroom

[Anonymous]

The church that Youngkin founded, Holy Trinity, used to have quite the progressive statement on racial unity on its website, with "Glenn Youngkin" as the first signee. It was taken down after Youngkin was elected, but the internet is forever.

https://web.archive.org/web/20211017213640/https://www.htc.us/vestryupdates/vestry-racialunity

HTC Vestry’s Statement on Racial Unity
CHURCH STATEMENT
Greetings Dear HTC Family,

The Vestry has an expressed leadership responsibility for establishing, refining, communicating and defending the mission and values of Holy Trinity Church (HTC). Over the past months, we have been starkly reminded by many horrific and unconscionable events that racism in our country is real. We, as the Vestry, feel compelled to express our solidarity with Black people and all members of minority groups – members of our staff, our congregation, and the broader community – to condemn racism in all its forms. Racism and dehumanization faced by people of color is very real, is in no way reconcilable with our Christian faith and requires us all to take action to make positive change.

Racism, by definition, is “prejudice, discrimination or antagonism directed against someone of a different race based on the belief that one’s own race is superior.” Racism is hate. Racism in our country did not end in 1865 with the end of slavery. It did not end with Civil Rights legislation of 1965. It did not end with the election of a Black president in 2008. We are heartbroken, we are angry, we are afraid, we are ashamed and we are confused – all because we recognize that racism has not ended.

Then they ask the entire congregation to read a book which has been criticized as "Critical Race Theory" - that "inherently divisive concept" which Youngkin's first Executive Order forbid being taught in Virginia's public schools.

We have asked Derek and the other church leaders, working with the Vestry and the Racial Unity Committee, to develop a comprehensive ministry approach to racial unity. As a congregation-wide action, the Racial Unity Committee encouraged the HTC family to read Be the Bridge: Pursuing God’s Heart for Racial Reconciliation, by Latasha Morrison.

Hypocrisy much, Governor?

[Anonymous]

I'm guessing you don't understand the difference between PUBLIC schools and church. Clearly, Youngkin does. They don't mix.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm guessing you don't understand the difference between PUBLIC schools and church. Clearly, Youngkin does. They don't mix.

Why did Youngkin endorse an anti-racism initiative in his church based on an "inherently divisive concept" that is equivalent to "political indoctrination"? Or at least that's what Youngkin's Executive Order #1 said.

And if it's not inconsistent, then why was it scrubbed from the church's website?