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NY State High School Teacher's Presentation Alleges America Is More Racist Now Than 200 Years Ago

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/...0-years-ago-n2599152

Why is it that 'Racism' is the subject of ANYTHING being taught in an English class?

Let the dumbocrats double down on crt; Virginia was a perfect example of what happens when you call people racist that know they are not racist. Up until then, it was a safely blue state solely due to northern VA, or a DC suburb as I like to call it. And look now.

Woke Loudoun County school board agrees to permanent injunction BANNING it from retaliating against suspended teacher who said he opposed the district's gender identity policy

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/ne...spended-teacher.html

Byron Tanner Cross, 38, was suspended from Leesburg Elementary in Loudoun County, Virginia, in May after speaking at a school board meeting

He was arguing over two policies put in place by the public school board: one mandating teachers use the pronouns a transgender child identifies with

The other one would allow transgender kids to take part in sports with the gender they identify with

Cross had filed a restraining order and temporary injunction, demanding his job back and asking that his views not be censored again

Earlier this week, Cross and Loudoun County School Board reached a settlement banning the board from retaliating against him

But a lawsuit filed by Cross and two other teachers against the school board over its gender-fluid policies continues to make its way through the courts

more at link

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The presentation further alleged that white people "harbor significant fragility when discussing race" before claiming that such "manifestations of fragility" include getting defensive or angry, experiencing guilt and becoming tearful.

The Powerpoint also featured a slide on the "Functions of White Fragility," which included hijacking a conversation, protecting white privilege and taking race off the table.

This "white fragility" nonsense is the biggest bunch of shit I've ever seen.

If you DARE object or act defensive while being told you're a racist simply because you are white, why that's your white fragility showing! "See? You're acting guilty already about it, you white racist piece of shit!"

It's insidious and evil to its core.

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Foxnews.com: Loudoun school parents 'livid and sickened' after being kept in dark about sex life survey

]2021 Virginia Youth Survey asks, 'Have you ever had sexual intercourse?' and 'Are you transgender?'

Some parents in Loudoun County, Virginia, are outraged after school officials failed to notify them ahead of time about a survey administered to their kids that asked questions about their sex lives and gender identities.

The Virginia Department of Health (VDOH), which developed the Virginia Youth Survey, states that written notification must be given to parents by the school division at least 30 days before administration, and that parents have the right to review the survey and opt-out.

But Loudoun Valley High School in Purcellville mistakenly administered the survey without first notifying parents, Loudoun County Public Schools (LCPS) told Fox News in a statement.

The survey, which is voluntary, was given to at least 180 students at the high school and approximately 90 students completed it, the school said in a email to parents, which LCPS provided to Fox News.

The survey for high schoolers asks questions like, "Are you transgender?" "Have you been tested for a sexually transmitted disease?" "Have you ever had sexual intercourse?" and, "[W]ith how many people have you had sexual intercourse?" Students are asked not to write their names on the survey and to skip any questions they feel uncomfortable answering.

[Copy of the survey can be found at the linked Foxnews.com story.
The VDOH describes the survey as a "statewide surveillance system that monitors health risk behaviors that contribute to the leading causes of death and disability among youth and adults. The survey is conducted every other year during the fall in randomly elected high schools and middle schools."

One Loudoun County mother, who asked not to be identified, told 7News she was "livid and sickened" by the questions, and that her 14-year-old daughter texted her while taking the survey and said she felt "uncomfortable."

In the email to parents, the school’s assistant principal, Bill Gulgert, said the survey was administered "without families being sent an opt-out form" and that the school "regrets this error."

"We have communicated with the Virginia Population Health Surveys Coordinator and they have removed data collected from these surveys," Gulgert wrote. "Again, we apologize for this error. Loudoun Valley High School respects the right of parents to be notified in such matters. I wanted to you to know that this data will not be used."

The Loudoun County mom said Gulgert told her they had "never notified parents in the past" and that he wasn’t aware it was required, though the school district disputed that account.

"All LCPS have notified parents in the past when this optional survey was administered," an LCPS spokesperson said. "We regret the error that was made at Loudoun Valley and notified the school community about our error in a timely manner."

Education issues in Loudoun County took center stage in the Virginia governor's race earlier this month, which Republican Gov.-elect Glenn Youngkin won in part by championing parental rights in education.

Some of the questions:

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1. How old are you?
12 years old or younger...

13.During the past 12 months, on how many days did you carry a gun? (Do not count the days when you carried a gun only for hunting or for a sport, such as target shooting.)
0 days
1 day
2 or 3 days
4 or 5 days
6 or more days

That is a clear violation of the student's Fifth Amendment rights.

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Rep. G.K. Butterfield, D-N.C., is set to announce his retirement from the House in a move that will deal another blow to Democrats' chances of keeping control of the chamber in the midterm elections.

Butterfield, a longtime member and former chair of the Congressional Black Caucus, will make the announcement Thursday that he will not be seeking reelection, according to reports. The veteran lawmaker was first elected to represent North Carolina's 1st Congressional District in 2004.

https://www.foxnews.com/politi...-dem-chances-in-2022

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Originally posted by sdy:
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Rep. G.K. Butterfield, D-N.C., is set to announce his retirement from the House in a move that will deal another blow to Democrats' chances of keeping control of the chamber in the midterm elections.

Butterfield, a longtime member and former chair of the Congressional Black Caucus, will make the announcement Thursday that he will not be seeking reelection, according to reports. The veteran lawmaker was first elected to represent North Carolina's 1st Congressional District in 2004.

https://www.foxnews.com/politi...-dem-chances-in-2022

Good riddance

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Why is it that 'Racism' is the subject of ANYTHING being taught in an English class?

It all began long, long ago, like the 1970's or something, and far, far away, like in the graduate studies wing of the English Department at Duke University or someplace, as a small group of womyn sat around trying to dream up really cool grant proposals so they wouldn't have to graduate and come to terms with the job prospects that go with having a master's in English from Duke.

Lo, by some minor miracle of zeitgheist, some stumbled across a government office or two with Congressionally funded mandates to foster both the arts and a deeper understanding of racism. Others managed find a foundation or four endowed to give grants for the arts and in desperate need to both gain prominence and burnish the snobbier segment's sense of their relevance. Either way, this stuff was something that middle-aged people with control over access to a great deal of silly money thought was absolutely edgy!

The womyn in at Duke must have been elated. They hadn't just managed to avoid gainful employment for another six months (maybe a year, if they milked it), they'd discovered an absolute mine. So well did they plumb that vein that, in the fullness of time, all of them were granted PhDs in the somewhat fond hope that they would finally leave and stop creeping out the undergraduates in the women's bathrooms.

Off they flitted on their magic brooms, some to lecturing professorships here, others to special professorships and in-house doyenneships there, gaily poisoning the minds of the very cream of America's degenerate youth at prominent universities all over North America. At last, after many hard years spent retailing the horseshit they dreamed up one night on quaaludes and cheap wine, they were all granted tenure and lived happily ever after.

And thus was an industry born.

A Loudoun County Warrior at Peace

Jon Tigges on standing up and speaking up for what he believes is right

https://www.theepochtimes.com/..._campaign=2021-11-18

On June 22, more than 250 residents of a Virginia county piled into a local school board meeting. Most of them were there to voice their objections to a controversial critical race theory curriculum as well as proposed pro-transgender rules.

Jon Tigges, a Loudoun County resident, was one of the concerned parents.

While he was due to make remarks during the public comment session, the Loudoun County School Board cut the proceedings early, citing disruptive behavior by the crowd.

But Tigges wanted to press on.

“You could feel the tension in the room, and people started singing the national anthem,” he told The Epoch Times.

“It’s a public meeting; they have canceled the meeting. We have every right to continue to speak, whether they’re going to listen or not. There’s a whole bunch of cameras here. Let’s get the word out. Let’s let the rest of the world hear how we feel.”

So he stayed and organized speeches from audience members who hadn’t gotten a chance to comment during the session.

“I knew I could stand up on a chair. There’ll be enough people that knew me that would quiet everyone else and they would listen.”

But after about half an hour, the superintendent declared the gathering an “unlawful assembly.” At that point, Tigges decided it was time to stand his ground, and he refused to leave the room. So he was arrested by deputies for trespassing.

Tigges’s arrest thrust him into the national spotlight overnight. Within 24 hours of his release, he did a dozen media interviews, including on “Tucker Carlson Tonight” on Fox News.

On Sept. 22, Tigges was found guilty of trespass, a decision he’s appealing. During the court hearing, Loudoun County school Superintendent Scott Ziegler acknowledged the unlawful assembly announcement as something “incorrect.”

In Tigges’s view, what happened in Loudoun County is “a microcosm of what the rest of the country is facing.”

“Every major institution in our country has been taken over by enemies of the Constitution. We spent the last more than 50 years losing it in retreat. It’s going to take decades to win it back,” he said.

Many conservatives have described Loudoun County as “ground zero” in the battle against lockdowns, critical race theory (CRT), and pro-transgender policies in schools; while liberal media outlets have referred to the county as a flashpoint in the “culture wars.” Either way, Loudoun, a wealthy county in northern Virginia, has become a showcase of grassroots disagreement with the policies and the way of governing by those in a position of power, elected or appointed.

The county school superintendent has repeatedly said that the schools don’t teach CRT, a doctrine that contends that U.S. institutions and society are systematically racist. However, some parents and teachers say that the school system instills in teachers tenets from CRT, particularly in so-called “equity training,” which then has a trickle-down effect on students.

For Tigges, CRT, which ostensibly promotes racial equality, in fact, drives more division, and runs “completely counter the value this country was founded on, which was to unite people.”

Tigges’s fight began way before June. An agritourism business owner, he took action in 2020 against the state’s lockdown policies: Last June, he sued Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam so that he could reopen his business; For more than six months, he protested against the COVID-19 lockdown every Friday morning in front of the county government building in Leesburg.

Since his arrest, Tigges has continued to speak up against the county policies virtually and in person.

What makes him so fearless and perseverant when others who share his views are afraid of speaking up? Surprisingly, “peace” was the theme throughout the interview.

“It wasn’t fun to be arrested. It wasn’t fun to have the head bashed into the paddy wagon,” said Tigges. “But I knew at that point I had complete peace. God was going to use this to shine a disinfecting light on the Loudoun County School Board. And he did.”

At Peace With Life and Death:

“The greatest paradox of living is that you have to die to live,” he said, adding that he didn’t mean physical death, but more like making a tough choice or letting go of the fear.

The first time he found peace with death was in northern Iraq in 1996. He was in a safe house protected by the Peshmerga, the Kurdish branch of the Iraqi armed forces. On the first night, he believed he could die at any moment. He relinquished a lot of fear upon realizing his life was not in his own hands.

Tracers were going by his window, and his thoughts were relentless, too. He wasn’t supposed to be there. Before the trip to Iraq, he learned that he had been selected for a doctoral program in Colorado. Then he learned that a general’s favorite might be chosen for the program in his place—though he was assured that this wouldn’t happen. Later, he was informed that unfortunately he had lost his seat in the doctoral program. And in addition, the Air Force was sending him to Iraq for four months.

Knowing that he shouldn’t be at the front of the line for Iraq, he had a choice: to raise the issue or simply go. And the timing wasn’t great. His fourth child was just one month old, and his widowed father-in-law was scheduled for open-heart surgery. Eventually, Tigges decided to “step forward faithfully and have confidence” in God’s plan. Following that, “an amazing peace struck,” he said.

His experience taught him that “being afraid of a virus or some bully politician or administrator is ridiculous.”

“We have nothing to fear. If you’re doing the right thing for the right reason, truth wins in the end,” he said.

Right Here and Right Now
Similar experiences have occurred many times since then when he was up against challenging situations.

“It’s not always pleasant,” he said, but doing the right thing for the right reason resulted in things working out by themselves in the end.

How he ended up in Loudoun is also such a story.

After 9/11, his work in the Air Force brought him to Virginia from Montana, reluctantly so. When a stroke disabled his father-in-law, he decided to invite him to move in. As a result, he bought a lot in Loudoun to build a custom residence that could host a family of eight and a grandfather. Yet shortly before the construction finished, his father-in-law died of another stroke.

By that time, the financial crisis had hit; Tigges had to stay in Loudoun to pay off some bills. He looked into acquiring property for event business, but all deals fell through. Then after the barn in the last agreement burned down in a fire two days before closing, he and his wife thought of moving back west.

The next day, while trimming trees, a neighbor who had crossed Tigges’s path informed him of two lots for sale. Within two weeks, they finalized the deal, and Tigges had a business to run.

He said he didn’t want to leave Montana. He didn’t want to build his place initially, but it was the right thing to do for his father-in-law. Then it led to a business opportunity. He didn’t want to deal with the government anymore, but running a business put the government right in his face.

“God has continually challenged me in those ways. And when faced with it, just to be able to say, ‘Am I supposed to take care of my father-in-law? He has no place to go.’ ‘Yes, then we will make the sacrifices to do that.’ ‘Am I supposed to stand up against tyranny when it’s in your face?’ And no one else wants to be the plaintiff; then I need to be the plaintiff. I need to be willing to put time and treasure and fight back against clear tyranny.”

Patriot Pub Alliance:

In April, Tigges hosted the first “Patriot Pub” event at his 24-acre farm in Hamilton, Virginia. He wanted to offer people a venue to meet and discuss in person. His event business made it possible. As a start, he invited those who joined the protests in Leesburg, Virginia, in 2020.

Shawntel Cooper, who was in one of the first viral videos of public comment during a Loudoun County School Board meeting in May, was one of the early Patriot Pub guests.

“It was cold outside, but it was about to be spring,” Cooper told The Epoch Times about her first meeting of about 20 people in April.

She credited Patriot Pub as the “backbone of the beginning of everyone’s fight, taking a stand for their freedom,” adding, “everyone in the community has played a part in being warriors.”

And Patriot Pub has kept up its momentum. In September, Tigges rolled out a Patriot Pub Alliance mobile app to “mobilize action” and build on “crowdsourcing initiatives.” He said it would be the mobile platform to help conservatives self-organize without censorship from Big Tech.

“I’ve got to stop saying, ‘Who’s going to do something?’ When there’s an opportunity for me to do something, then I need to step forward. We can’t live anymore in a world where we vote every other election and think that’ll take care of itself,” Tigges said.

Through the Patriot Pub events, “people connect in a much deeper way. And they begin to trust one another and go to bat for one another,” Tigges said. “And that’s why, on June 22, I felt completely unafraid to stand there and be arrested. As I knew, I had hundreds of other people that had my back, and still do.”

Virginia School Boards Association Quits National Association, Cites ‘Persistent Pattern of Dysfunction’

https://www.theepochtimes.com/...StmAGZN%2BRmDNOptKgo

The Virginia School Boards Association (VSBA) voted on Nov. 18 to end its membership with the National School Boards Association (NSBA), citing a “persistent pattern of dysfunction” within the organization.

Janet Turney-Giles and Gina Patterson, president and executive director of the VSBA, said in a memo to all school board members that the decision to end the membership, effective June 30, 2022, was “made in response to a persistent pattern of dysfunction within the NSBA organization and among those charged with its governance.”

“The VSBA board of directors no longer has faith in NSBA’s ability to effectively represent the interests of our state association and its members,” the two said in the memo.

“For several years, VSBA and many other state associations have repeatedly asked for corrective actions with governance and finances and received little to no action from NSBA that meets VSBA expectations.”

They added that the decision to withdraw from the NSBA was “not based merely” on a letter (pdf) the NSBA leadership sent to President Joe Biden in late September, which compared parents’ protests to “domestic terrorism” and asked federal law enforcement agencies to intervene. Parents had been protesting against COVID-19 restrictions on students and the teaching of critical race theory in schools.

The VSBA was among some school board associations that denounced the NSBA’s letter to Biden.

The VSBA will maintain its membership until June 30, 2022, to help its school board members plan for its departure from the national board and prepare for a transition to a new organization.

The board said in an executive summary that it has directed the executive director to work with other state associations to create a new national organization “to meet the federal advocacy and other needs of its member school boards in a manner that values community ownership through local school board governance and engagement of students, families, and other community stakeholders.”

School boards associations in 26 states have distanced themselves, and in at least 13 states have voted to withdraw their membership from the NSBA.

They fucked up, and everyone knows it, including they, themselves. They know they've fucked up. Oh, they can just see that unearned high salary and all those perks fading away...

The office of the National School Boards Association (NSBA) is in Alexandria, Virginia.

I don't know how much the election of Glenn Youngkin influenced this Virginia School Boards Association decision, but I doubt it would have happened if McAuliffe had won.

Virginia Supreme Court Names Outside Experts to Draw Maps in Messy Redistricting Fight

https://www.theepochtimes.com/...g-fight_4116086.html

The Virginia Supreme Court has appointed two special masters nominated by either political party to redraw Virginia’s electoral maps within a 30-day deadline after an independent state commission deadlocked over a redistricting plan.

A special master is someone appointed by a court to carry out some sort of action on its behalf, in this case to make new state legislative and congressional district maps using newly available census data. While Virginia will continue to have 11 seats in the U.S. House of Representatives, population shifts within the state mean the boundaries will have to move.

Electoral district boundaries are generally decided by state legislatures, but some delegate the task to other bodies. In Virginia, state voters approved an amendment to the state constitution last year empowering the Virginia Redistricting Commission to do it.

But this year, the 16-member commission got bogged down in partisan disagreements and was unable to finalize a redistricting plan, and so responsibility for the maps fell to the Virginia Supreme Court.

The court appointed RealClearPolitics senior elections analyst Sean Trende and University of California–Irvine political science professor Bernard Grofman as electoral cartographers, according to an order signed Nov. 19 by Virginia Chief Justice Donald Lemons.

The special masters “shall be neutral and shall not act as advocates or representatives of any political party,” the court order states.

“By accepting their appointment, the Special Masters warrant that they have no ‘conflicts of interest’ … that preclude them from prudently exercising independent judgment, dispassionately following the Court’s instructions, or objectively applying the governing decision-making criteria.”

Trende was nominated by Republican lawmakers; Grofman, nominated by Democrats, has previously served as a redistricting special master in Virginia.

Trende, who previously practiced law, is also a nonresident fellow at the conservative American Enterprise Institute, a public policy think tank in the nation’s capital.

The Democratic Party of Virginia objected Nov. 19 to Trende’s association with what it termed “a right-wing news organization” that ran a column of his a year ago that contained the subheading: “Without any extreme gerrymandering, reapportionment and redistricting alone will likely cost Democrats their majority,” according to the Richmond Times-Dispatch. The article with the subheading ran in National Review on Nov. 13, 2020, but was a reprint of a column that first appeared at RealClearPolitics without the subheading.

In 2015, Grofman redrew the state’s congressional districts, and in 2018, he redrew the Virginia House of Delegates districts. His 2015 map drew Republican ire for transforming the 4th District from a Republican stronghold to a Democratic-leaning district that’s currently represented by U.S. Rep. Donald McEachin, a Democrat, according to the Times-Dispatch.

State Senate Majority Leader Dick Saslaw, a Democrat, wrote a letter to the court on Nov. 17 pushing back against Republican criticism of Democratic nominees for special master and arguing that there was no “plausible basis to disqualify any” of the Democrats’ nominees, and that all 3 of the men were “highly qualified, nationally respected, impartial experts.”

Grofman has been recognized by the courts as “one of the world’s leading experts in the study of redistricting and voting rights,” he wrote, citing a 2020 decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit.

The other two of the Democrats’ nominees who didn’t make the final cut, Nathaniel Persily and Bruce Cain, are also recognized as experts, Saslaw wrote.

In the U.S. Congress, Virginia is currently represented in the Senate by two Democrats and in the House by seven Democrats and four Republicans. In the 2020 presidential election, Democrat Joe Biden won the state’s 13 electoral votes, beating incumbent Republican Donald Trump 54.1 percent to 44 percent, according to official results.

In the election on Nov. 2, 2020, Republicans wrested control of the offices of Virginia governor, lieutenant governor, and attorney general from Democrats. While the GOP also regained control of the Virginia House of Delegates, the Senate, which wasn’t up for election in 2021, remains under the control of Democrats.

Admittedly i am not up on the redistricting efforts.

I was not happy to see that the state courts stepped in.

https://www.politico.com/news/...ture-midterms-523194

In the days after the Democratic Party’s collapse in the Virginia governor’s race, party strategists descended on the commonwealth to figure out what went wrong and understand just how bad the national outlook might be next year.

What they discovered, largely through focus groups and polling, was even worse than expected. The problems cut far deeper than the failings of their gubernatorial nominee, Terry McAuliffe, or President Joe Biden’s flagging approval ratings. Rather, the Democratic Party’s entire brand was a wreck.

“Voters couldn’t name anything that Democrats had done, except a few who said we passed the infrastructure bill,” the center-left group Third Way and its pollsters said in a report, obtained first by POLITICO, on focus groups they ran in Virginia.

Most of the voters Third Way spoke with in suburban Virginia focus groups, according to the report, “could not articulate what Democrats stand for. They could also not say what they are doing in Washington, besides fighting.”

And those were just the people who voted for Biden.

more at link

more importantly, voters can think of plenty of things the DEMs have screwed up

Buyers remorse already? What say our Virginia members.

“ Just weeks after Glenn Youngkin was elected Governor of Virginia, conservatives are already accusing him of stabbing them in the back. His communications staff includes a skirt-wearing LGBT man who lists pronouns in his Twitter biography, and Youngkin’s transition team is led by a former Bush Administration official who is pro-Black Lives Matter.”

https://nationalfile.com/glenn...ns-ban-fossil-fuels/

I'm not writing him off over a few dingbats, though there needs to be some serious rolling of heads when he does take office. Let's give him until February 15th at least to get himself settled in then we can discuss whether or not he's just another politician.

At this point the mere fact that Republicans managed to fight back successfully is a hell of a great thing. With a bit of luck we've made some real progress in the transition from thinking "why isn't anyone doing anything?" to understanding that "we can do this, and this is how".

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What say our Virginia members.

After hearing for the last year that it was hopeless, Virginia is a solid blue state, Democrats out number us, etc etc

And having every major, and not so major, DEM hack come to Virginia to campaign for McAuliffe.

With McAuliffe and Youngkin spending a total of $ 115 million in this election

With Biden winning Virginia a year ago by 450,000 votes.


No I couldn't care less because someone's shorts are bunched about a gay man on the Youngkin team.

Probably more BS from a "conservative" group like The Lincoln Project




Left : Nov 2020 (Trump/Biden), Right Nov 2021 (Youngkin/McAuliffe)

Anybody feeling faint of heart can get one of these:

https://hotair.com/john-s-2/20...ople-suspect-n432906

Last week Politico published a story about the moderate Democratic group Third Way, specifically their efforts to figure out what went wrong for Dems in Virginia’s most recent election

Today, the NY Times published an interview with the democratic pollster who carried out those Virginia focus groups. His name is Bryan Stryker and his memo summing up what he learned from them has apparently spread far and wide among Democrats.

So if you’re advising a Democratic client running in 2022, what do you tell them?

I would tell them that we have a problem. We’ve got a national branding problem that is probably deeper than a lot of people suspect. Our party thinks maybe some things we’re saying aren’t cutting through, but I think it’s much deeper than that.

What is that branding problem, in a nutshell?

People think we’re more focused on social issues than the economy — and the economy is the No. 1 issue right now.

yes

As you probably remember, many Democrats’ initial takeaway from the big loss in Virginia was that Republicans has tricked voters into caring about Critical Race Theory, something they were adamant didn’t exist

wrong. CRT has been at the heart of the Virginia awakening. The main DEM message is that white people are racist and "white supremacists"

These voters were more animated talking about their dissatisfaction with their local school districts’ handling of COVID. They felt buffeted by changing and inconsistent policies and concerned about the impact on student learning loss, and there was a sense among some that Virginia was not following the science by keeping schools closed later than other states. One participant, a Biden voter, stated flat out that her vote for Youngkin “was against the party that closed the schools for so long last year.”…

This isn’t about “critical race theory” itself, and we shouldn’t dismiss that CRT isn’t real and think we’ve tackled the issue. Many swing voters knew, when pushed by more-liberal members of the group, that CRT wasn’t taught in Virginia schools.

wrong again. People have been fighting CRT with school boards all over Virginia

But at the same time, they felt like racial and social justice issues were overtaking math, history, and other things

yes

They absolutely want their kids to hear the good and the bad of American history, at the same time they are worried that racial and cultural issues are taking over the state’s curricula.

People are angry at what Democrats themselves have done and not done. The bad polling and the bad results are about the party’s actual behavior.

Comments to the pollster:

This article does not address the issue that Democrats give the appearance that they are dividing the country by race, pitting one group against another. That is an issue for a lot of voters.

DEMs don't "give the appearance". Dividing the country by race is the foundation of Democrat thinking


“What drives this perception that Democrats are fixated on cultural issues?” Everything they do.

If you spend a year placating BLM on dubious ideas like “defund the police” and placating teacher’s unions by leaving schools closed months longer than necessary, it shouldn’t come as a shock that voters don’t think you’re listening to them. Yet somehow this is all breaking news inside the progressive bubble.