What I don't understand about this whole CRT thing

[maxrandb]

I am white, middle class, married to a non Karen in a suburb in VA.

My first response to Mcauliffe saying he didn't want parents coming into schools telling what kids should be taught was; "damned right Terry"!

See, I had seen footage if these dipshit, inbred hayseeds screaming like banshees at school board meetings.

I had seen footage of them in some state surrounding a female School Board members car, with her traumatized family in the car while they raged that they "knew where she lived", and that "they were coming for her".

I watched them violently harassing Grade School kids as they went to school because the kids were wearing masks. HARASSING ELEMENTARY SCHOOL CHILDREN

I saw all this, and more.

My gut reaction was that I definitely didn't want these folks deciding what my kids were going to be taught in school.

These people are way more scary to me and my kids than a thousand CRT lectures ever could be.

So my question to those that sited CRT, or Education as a reason for jumping back on the Donnie Dipshit trainwreck...and make no mistake...a vote for Trumpkin was exactly that...is this

Is CRT really more scary than people threatening the lives of your School Board and their families, or screaming adults harassing your 2ND Grader?

I think the Mcauliffe campaign made a huge mistake not making this point.

[brewens]

1. We should teach CCT. Critical Christian Theory. Now that'd be some sick shit. Even bring up some of

what they did to each other in the past, and they would be bombing schools.

[OnDoutside]

2. Maybe, in retrospect, Northam could have undercut the Republicans

By banning the teaching of CRT in schools, by executive order, seeing as it wasn't being taught anyway !

[Celerity]

3. the trouble is that soon CRT will be so broadly defined that Norman Rockwell will be banned

[OnDoutside]

7. But he could have defined what he was banning as CRT ?

[Celerity]

9. any attempt will be so nebulous that it will allow bad actors to hijack it

[MadameButterfly]

13. good idea but

of course that would have played into their hands by corroborating their objection. It's impossible to imagine what Republicans will turn into an issue. Since the purveyors of their "issues" are not looking for real problems, just anything to get their base riled up.

[JustAnotherGen]

4. We shouldn't let them own the narrative anymore

There's nothing about the CRT nonsense.

[BlueJac]

5. The morons grabbed a theory they couldn't understand...

Then used it like a weapon. Just like abortion. We need to weaponize a few issues and take the narrative! Fuck Trump and his chumps!

[maxrandb]

11. That is my point

Somehow, harassing and threatening the lives of school board members, and harassing elementary school kids is NOT seen as threatening.

We should have used this violence to show suburban parents who is the real threat to their children.

Politics may not be all about emotion, but motivation certainly is.

Wouldn't it have been nice for a change to have Retrumplicans trying to defend violent school board harassment, instead of Democrats having to constantly defend a fantasy that doesn't exist.

[Claire Oh Nette]

6. CRT Critical Religious Theory

It doesn't take alot of insight or intelligence to learn that the American Colonists practiced chattel slavery. Kids know people aren't property. Kids can read the Declaration of Independence (which they do, in 5th and 8th and 11th grades) and see that all men didn't really mean all men, until after the Civil War, after WWI, after the tumult of the 1960s--and with each advance of non-white people, despite what the Supreme Court said, the ingrained, socialized white supremacists stood up to block that progress.

I thought the old racists would die off. Of course, I never counted on a fake news propaganda station to drum up fake controversies for k-12.

Next time a Hatriot GOPer whines about the horror of teaching history and says their fifth grader is learning CRT, congratulate them for their 11 year old getting into law school.

[LonePirate]

8. CRT is nothing more than a dog whistle to racists. It's not taught in any K-12 school in the US.

Fortunately for Virginia, I suspect the CRT panic will diminish now that the election is over. Unfortunately it will ramp up everywhere else with a Governor election on the ballot in 2022. Republicans have seen how it can work for them so they will replicate it everywhere possible.

[SoonerPride]

12. This. CRT is a dodge. A Hoax. FAKE NEWS. literally.

It is just a new bright shiny boogie man that the press breathlessly reports on.

It is truly mind boggling how easily they always fall for it.

Or maybe they are complicit.

Either way.

[doc03]

10. It doesn't fit on a cap or a bumper sticker. nt

[blm]

14. Those ads with footage you cite should've run 24/7 in VA.

Dems have been asleep at the wheel.

[walkingman]

15. As Robert Reich said -

"Conservatives crying about critical race theory is just the latest chapter of the Southern Strategy."

Most Dems know what the Southern Strategy is but if not just look it up.