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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]“was advising these candidates for smaller offices than governor to try and pick up Asian votes by talking about the AG lawsuit against LCPS, and TJ/AOS admissions. One of the candidates was Asian, and he talked about statues.”

Ugh why do Rs not get that those culture wars things may be beloved in SW VA but are exactly why NOVA will not vote for them. If they instead focused on the specifics of schools up here and pushing back against the D excesses like this hair brained plan to do away with advanced math they may stand half a chance. [/quote]

This particular candidate was from SE Asia and had seen first hand tearing down of statues by Communist regimes as a way of rewriting history.[/quote]

I would never vote for someone who could not see the difference between what the Communists did and removing racist monuments to a losing side erected well after the fact and primarily as a a middle finger to minorities who were starting to receive greater rights than white folks were comfortable with.  Anyone who's read a Virginia history textbook from 10-20 years ago knows that the history written in those is very whitewashed and in need of an update for accuracy, not erasure.  And even most of the statue removal advocates would be fine with having them in a museum with appropriate historical context.

My family is from Richmond and has lived there since the early 1950s, plenty familiar with segregation, Jim Crow, Massive Resistance, etc.  The Confederate sympathizers are living in a past that never existed and can't get over a a loss from more than 100 years ago.  The victim mentality is pathetic.  You should have heard the handwringing when the city put a statue of tennis great Arthur Ashe on Monument Ave with all the Confederate generals.

I have no idea why the Rs pander to ROVA.  They need to focus on the urban areas. ROVA wouldn't vote for Jesus Christ if he ran as a Democrat, so spending time on their culture war issues is a total waste of time.  They have those votes, but they're losing the populated, educated areas with their issue choices.[/quote]

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