If you’re concerned about what’s being taught in public schools, apparently, you’re “bananas.”
In a tirade that sounds remarkably racist, the “journalist” and politician, who is running for governor again, tell us how they really feel about conservatives.
And they’re stunned anyone would challenge teaching their skewed political view of history as fact.
MSNBC’s The ReidOut host Joy Reid went off on conservative parents while on air with former Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe, who is running for his old job again.
Apparently the two are astounded that the Virginia Governor’s race remains “hotly contested” when McAuliffe’s opponent is a conservative endorsed by Donald Trump.
Reid blames the tight race on, “the Critical Race Theory boogeyman.”
She added that Republican candidate for Governor Glenn Youngkin, “vows to protect Virginia’s youth from a law school curriculum. It’s not taught in Virginia Public Schools or any public schools in the country.”
That’s a blatant “pants on fire” claim if we ever saw one.
In fact, an Education Week opinion piece written by Janel George explains that Critical Race Theory isn’t a curriculum at all – it’s a teaching practice.
She writes, “In the K-12 classroom, CRT can be an approach to help students understand how racism has endured past the civil rights era through systems, laws, and policies—and how those same systems, laws, and policies can be transformed. But the vocal opposition to critical race theory—coming from predominantly white states and school districts—will undoubtedly have a chilling effect on its use in the K-12 classroom.”
No amount of debate can have a “chilling” effect on anything that allegedly hasn’t been – and won’t be – used in the classroom.
But back to Reid, who threw out that whopper like gospel truth and went on to rage that one of the, “big CRT battlegrounds is in Loudoun County, the richest County in Virginia, where our friend and colleague Alex Wagner from Showtime’s The Circus interviewed a leading Republican suburban mommy activist who’s fighting the state’s equity and inclusion curriculum.”
Reid failed to mention that a big part of the parental fury against “inclusion” at a Loudoun County school stemmed from a high school where a boy dressed in a skirt and sexually assaulted a young woman in the girls’ bathroom.
But facts, and context, don’t seem to matter these days in corporate-controlled media coverage.
Reid is more concerned that, “Republican activists backed by some pretty big foundations are pushing this idea that teaching about history American history, if it doesn’t completely absolve white people from the distant past of anything bad if it doesn’t portray them as nothing but heroic. It’s harming children.”
Of course, as a white man, McAuliffe had little to do during the interview aside from agreeing with Reid in hopes the media gods will grant him another term.
But Reid’s accusations make some massive logical leaps from assuming that Critical Race Theory isn’t being taken seriously (wouldn’t her friends at Columbia law school be appalled to hear that) to assuming every Republican is a white supremist racist.
Of course, most academic research dollars in the country go into propping up ridiculous left-wing theories, but it’s safe to say most people (at least those living outside of the bubbles delicate left-wing members of the media seem to reside in) know loving, conservative, families who are not 100% white.
In fact, white voters only made up 81% of Republicans who went to the polls in 2019, according to Pew Research.
Of course, diversity seems to only matter to leftists as a means to an end – so Reid and McAuliffe are fine with pretending 19% of Republicans don’t exist.
Pants on Fire News will keep you up-to-date on any developments to this ongoing story.
