Election Night 2021: Youngkin (R) beats McAuliffe (D) in Virginia, Murphy (D) bearly beats Ciattarelli (R) in NJ.

Yet, the way I have been describing it has been consistant with pretty much everyone else here. You are the outlier, and to be frank, you are also wrong.

Bottom line is this, progressives aren't winners. Most democrats are moderate. Progressives are just louder.

The democrats better go back to real liberal ideas and remember their base. The progressives are going to kill their own party from within with all of this virtue signal and woke political agenda. There are real issues that the moderate democrats stand for that moderate republicans would agree with.

Fun political fact, most voters are moderate on both sides.

@WitIsWisdom: Good post on #27. Enjoyed reading that.

What could possibly be more important than bathroom genders and reparations? I mean, besides literally anything else?

Republican party sells fear. And for Republican voters that is all it takes.

@girlusocrazy: Regardless of whether or not you feel the CRT boogeyman is real or justified, the fact of the matter is, Terry said some stuff that rightfully enraged many parents. Anyone who is not a parent will never understand this.

So no, it's not "fake news" when a governor is outed for holding the belief that parents aren't entitled to have a say in their own children's education.

Democrats are selling identity politics, woke ideas, and virtue signalling. Republicans sell the fear of letting those politics become part of everyday life.

Everyone is selling something.

Is it really hard to sell a fair tax plan that doesn't kill the middle class, a real plan for climate change, produce jobs, and curb inflation?

It is "us" vs "them". Just awful.

Coming from the people who thought Trump would be as bad as Hitler and that global warming will end the world in 5 years thats pretty funny.

@LJS9502_basic: You don't let them define the curriculum wholesale, no. But you also don't tell them something that boils down to "parents shouldn't have a say in what their kids are taught". Unless you want to instantly alienate a big portion of your voter base who are parents.

@eoten: Agreed. The culture wars is so boring. Democrats should focus on issues that affect most people.

• The environment
• Universal Healthcare
• Infrastructure Spending
• Urban Planning
• Homelessness
• Social Mobility

@silentchief: You always make shit up?

@girlusocrazy:

Right, but "whiteness" here doesn't mean a person being white, it refers to the normalization of the concept of a defacto culture, and having to align with that culture in order to proceed in your own life.

There's the first problem right there. Who got together and agreed that this is what "whiteness" means for everyone else?

Just because everyone in ones little social media bubble agrees, that the term whiteness has this new shiny definition does not mean everyone agrees. Yet you're proceeding as though this is a foregone conclusion for everyone.

By your interpretation but what does that really mean?

It identifies standard American values as racist and a product of whiteness. To link standard parts of American culture that are generally positive and act like they are only created to get white people ahead thus they may must be eliminated. Those teachings have negative real world consequences and lead to batshit insane assertions such as the following.

https://www.tcpress.com/blog/dismantling-white-supremacy-includes-racist-tests-sat-act/

I think it would be a mistake to reduce Youngkin's win in Virginia and their good night overall, to just Critical Race Theory.

McAuliffe said a few homer-esque things but that's because I'd guess the democrats took Virginia for granted and expected an easy victory.

Yeah, Critical Race Theory is pretty irrelevent these days. There is some fearmongering over it, but it really wasnt it

Democrats not doing enough
Unclear messaging
Poor prioritization

All arguably contributed far more than anything else.

You seem to fail to know the issue hear. As someone stated earlier, according to them the correct label would be critical race applied principle or C.R.A.P ( what an appropriate acronym). You are angry that they are calling it CRT but that is irrelevant. The issue is whats being taught and how widespread it has become.

Not sure how many times that needs to be said. You're upset they got the acronym wrong?

@Maroxad: Pissing off parents was the main one imo.

@silentchief: Seriously.

If a teacher was to hypothetically teach children that Jesus is lord and savior without ever bringing a bible into a school, by the same logic, said teacher can claim "But I'm not teaching Christianity!".

@Solaryellow: Yeah also a possibility. Underestimating ones opposition has felled many!

You are overselling how often it is actually taught.

It might have been for you. But the reason they lost Virginia was the immense level of voter apathy among democrats. Republicans had it too, but Voter Apathy among democrats was far higher.

??

the narrative peddled by the tuckers and other fear-mongers on the right to scare the gullible clickers into a froth has been "they're using publicly funded schools to teach little tommy and emma that they're racist because they're white"

yet the evidence you provide is nowhere near that. adults can make up their own minds and private schools have ALWAYS had their own curriculum. what's next? screaming that a catholic school is teaching about jesus? OMG!

war on christmas?

@Maroxad: If its just voter apathy then 2022 will just be a blue win if that apathy goes away.

@thenation Democrats will learn nothing from this, continue to get nothing done. And we might see a red wave.

That stuff is actually really common.

Creationist teachers pushing Christianity to undermine evolution.

However, I wouldnt call it a particularly big deal, not one big enough to make a huge political issue from. As it is far too rare, and more of a rare fringe case rather than a systemic issue.

We also have tonnes of anecdotes of southern sympathetic teachers seriously downplaying slavery. But again, there are far bigger issues than this.

@Maroxad: Which school was the cartoon above used in?

Grady High School in Atlanta

https://friendlyatheist.patheos.com/2014/07/06/two-high-school-students-investigate-how-a-pro-creationism-cartoon-ended-up-in-a-biology-teachers-lesson/

@Maroxad: We will see. That cartoon is moronic.

When your place of work tells you to be less white that isn't a problem to you because adults make up their own mind? And private schools are generally less likely to teach these things.

So for you Its only a problem if its widespread in public education? So like this?

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.wsj.com/amp/articles/california-wants-to-teach-your-kids-that-capitalism-is-racist-11564441342

Let me guess it doesn't matter because its California?

How about this ?

https://www.google.com/amp/s/news.yahoo.com/amphtml/teachers-force-fed-slice-privilege-184423907.

Not a big deal because its given to the teachers?

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9607615/amp/Maryland-school-district-condemned-spending-450-000-claptrap-anti-racism-audit.

Doesn't count either?

Lol seriously get your head out of your ass.

Us vs them was heightened under trump. The country has not been this divided since 1861. Republicans are selling fear by using lies. CRT is not a thing. The 2020 election was not stolen. Programs to help Americans is not socialism.

@Maroxad: If I was a parent of a kid at that school and made aware of something like that, I would absolutely object in the very same manner.

I mean, I escaped one religion already. I'll be damned if I'll allow my kids to be indoctrinated into one by a school.

Makes sense. When I had an obnoxious teacher, who was clearly pushing her politics on us, I was pissed, EVEN if I agreed with her. That said, as far as I am concerned, stuff like this is more of a Local Political level than a statewide.

On a sidenote, were you able to read the text? The first one I took was pretty bad, my apologies. So I found a better pic and put it in the edit.

Its a little more then a blog

https://ssir.org/articles/entry/the_bias_of_professionalism_standards

I didn't make up these ideas i heard them directly from people in power. Its more common then you think.

I don't think i am. I saw it in course material of my 16 year old niece when i went to visit family who lives in Alabama. If it's there( a deep red state) i would expect it to be pretty common.

When multi billion dollar companies like Disney, Bank of America, Nike, Under Armor and Lowes are teaching it to employees we are past the point of this being a rare occurrence.

@girlusocrazy: Democracy is dead, the right decided it was evil.

@silentchief: Nothing more empowering than when mostly white male CEOs tell their mostly minimum wage employees they need to reexamine their privilege.

Funny, none of them seem to have resigned in the name of diversity to let someone underprivileged have their job.

Or you can look at actual course curriculums being taught in schools and corporations.

Good grief, the usual wingnuts in the media are already starting to blame racism for losing in Virginia.

@girlusocrazy: Why support a system that allows you to lose?

@Eoten: Looking for your next faux outrage?

@girlusocrazy said:

@silentchief: Why do that when I could read alarmist fake news and blogs and get outraged?

Those courses have been taught for decades but when the fake news told us to be alarmed...

...and now look at all that buzzing!

In elementary schools and multi billion dollar corporations?

Hate to tell you but i noticed it for before Fox was talking about it. Good to see others noticing it as well.

Thats all they ever do.

@silentchief: Talking to yourself? Wouldnt be shocked if you missed the point.