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[quote=Anonymous]I say this as a lifelong D - who is now a somewhat disgruntled and definitely a centrist D, but a D nonetheless and one who voted for McAuliffe.   I say this to try to HELP the D party - I really hope this is a wake up call.  This is for all the people who say in this thread that CRT is not being taught in schools and that people are so dumb to think it is!!! (And I'm looking at the mainstream media here too - I see it in their articles too).  You need to read this op-ed.  This is the real truth about what is happening, and ignorning it is how Youngkin got elected (that and totally underestimating how big of a deal it was to regular people to close school buildings for a year).

You'll probably poo poo Ross Douthat as being conservative, but I say keep your friends close, and your enemies closer.

Republicans Schooled the Left in Virginia
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/03/opinion/virginia-democrats-republicans.html

"In the Virginia race, the script for both candidates was straightforward and consistent: Glenn Youngkin attacked critical race theory, combining it with a larger attack on how the education bureaucracy has handled the Covid pandemic, while McAuliffe denied that anything like C.R.T. was being taught in Virginia schools and also insisted that the whole controversy was a racist dog whistle.

The problem with the McAuliffe strategy is that it fell back on technicalities — as in, yes, fourth graders in the Commonwealth of Virginia are presumably not being assigned the academic works of Derrick Bell — while evading the context that has made this issue part of a polarizing national debate."

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"Critical race theory is an imperfect term for this movement, too narrow and specialized to capture its full complexity. But a new form of racecraft clearly lies close to the heart of the new progressivism, with the somewhat different, somewhat overlapping ideas of figures like Ibram X. Kendi and Robin DiAngelo enjoying particular influence. And that influence extends into schools and public-education bureaucracies, where Kendi and DiAngelo and their epigones often show up on resources recommended to educators — like the racial-equity reading list sent around in 2019 by one state educational superintendent, for instance, which recommended both DiAngelo’s “White Fragility” and an academic treatise titled “Foundations of Critical Race Theory in Education.”

That superintendent was responsible for Virginia’s public schools."[/quote]

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