It’s Election Day in Virginia, and New York Times reporter Reid Epstein covered in Tuesday’s edition the surprisingly close fight between Republican Glenn Youngkin and Democrat Terry McAuliffe, former Virginia governor and previously the head of the Democratic National Committee: “As Youngkin Tries to Finesse Trump, McAuliffe Conjures His Comeback.”
Beneath that somewhat pro-McAuliffe headline, Epstein actually conveyed some of the Democratic Party’s desperation in a state that Biden won by 10 last year. However, the Times still portrayed the Republican as “weaponizing….racial issues” in public schools, as if it wasn’t liberals who are attempting to foist white guilt onto school children, in the form of Critical Race Theory:
In the final hours of campaigning on Monday to become Virginia’s next governor, it was Glenn Youngkin offering an optimistic vision for the future while Terry McAuliffe delivered harsh warnings about ghosts of the past.
Both men entertained the state with their barnstormed activities, revealing the differences in tone between them in regard to the most prominent race on Tuesday. Mr McAuliffe, a longtime fixture of the Democratic establishment, was scrambling to prevent President Biden’s unpopularity, the gridlock in Washington and Mr. Youngkin’s effective weaponizing of racial issues in the public schools from dooming his bid for a second term as governor.
For his part, Mr. Youngkin was trying to redefine the way Republicans can win elections without former President Donald J. Trump in power. He has accepted Mr. Trump’s support and has abstained from criticizing him, but Mr. Youngkin has kept Mr. Trump from visiting Virginia and never invokes his name during his stump speeches….
Epstein’s descriptions of the educational issues are incomplete.
On Monday, Mr. Youngkin declared in Richmond, that he would take the Republican party to victory across the state. This would set the stage for a new age of the party. One of his priorities has been to give parents more control over public school curriculum, especially in regards to how they educate their children about racism.
“We will not teach our children to view everything through the lens of race,” Mr. Youngkin told supporters at a midday rally in an airplane hangar. “So on Day 1, I will ban critical race theory from Virginia’s schools.”
That theory, a graduate-level academic framework that argues that historical patterns of racism are ingrained in law and other modern institutions, is not taught in Virginia’s public schools. But conservatives have turned it into a flash point in key suburban areas such as Loudoun County, just outside Washington.
Despite what the media tell you, Virginia educators are in fact immersed in Critical Race Theory. Dan McLaughlin discussed at National Review OnlineYou can find this link:
The core defense of Democrats and their pundit group in the debate over Virginia’s critical race theory or other forms of the same fundamental ideology is the denial of any connection between such things and public education in Virginia.
He also pointed to the Virginia Department of Education’s “EdEquityVA” website page on “Anti-racism in Education” (emphasis in original).
Drawing on critical race theory, the term “white supremacy” also refers to a political or socio-economic system where white people enjoy structural advantage and rights that other racial and ethnic groups do not, both at a collective and an individual level.
McLaughlin added, “The page includes numerous suggested reading sources drenched in this kind of rhetoric.”
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