Virginia Republican gubernatorial nominee Glenn Youngkin speaks during his election night party at a hotel in Chantilly, Virginia, U.S., November 3, 2021. Other liberals frequently conflate conservative opposition to CRT as a wish to ban teaching about slavery, Jim Crow laws, and other historic injustices. Critical race theory is not being taught in elementary schools, for instance, and yet this was something that got Republicans and the grassroots really energized and jazzed, so the natural manifestation of that is then take that energy and apply it to these elections."Īlthough liberal media members have repeatedly insisted critical race theory – a curriculum broadly defined as teaching about the inherent racism of American institutions – isn't being taught to school-age children, explicit or subtle versions of it are being taught at schools all over the country. Now some of it was not, you know, grounded in reality. They became galvanizing issues for Republicans. Obviously, what we saw over the summer in the lead-up to the Virginia gubernatorial elections was that issues like critical race theory, high school curriculum, local school board elections, became flashpoints. "Down to the local elections, school board elections. "I just think it's just emblematic of how everything has become hyper-politicized nowadays," Politico's Sam Stein said.
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