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Youngkin Wins.

The Thriller said:
Regurgitating Ben Shapiro disinformation again? Second time in the last 48 hrs my man!

Like I said in my previous post, it’s hard to compete with the RW disinformation machine.

www.nytimes.com

Opinion | The Right’s Big Lie About a Sexual Assault in Virginia

An attack in a school bathroom had nothing to do with trans issues.
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Are you saying that a transsexual, Male to Female, did not rape that girl in a High School Virginia bathroom, then was transferred to another school within the district?
 
The Thriller said:
Like I said in my previous post, it’s hard to compete with the RW disinformation machine.

www.nytimes.com

Opinion | The Right’s Big Lie About a Sexual Assault in Virginia

An attack in a school bathroom had nothing to do with trans issues.
www.nytimes.com www.nytimes.com
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If you want to believe parents were fine with the rape of a 14-year old girl, had no problem with the cover-up by the school board, believed it was totally okay that "a middle-aged plumber named Scott Smith was dragged, lip bleeding and hands cuffed behind his back, from a raucous school board meeting", were perfectly copacetic with the NSBA letter labeling parents as domestic terrorists, and the head of the DOJ forming a task force based on the NSBA letter, but all they really cared about was that a boy wearing a skirt could pee in a girls bathroom then I know I won't change your mind. I disagree with you. I think rape, beating people up, and intimidation via government force outweighs "transphobia" in the minds of most voters.
 
Hax0rs said:
Are you saying that a transsexual, Male to Female, did not rape that girl in a High School Virginia bathroom, then was transferred to another school within the district?
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It helps to read the article I cited
 
Al-O-Meter said:
If you want to believe parents were fine with the rape of a 14-year old girl, had no problem with the cover-up by the school board, believed it was totally okay that "a middle-aged plumber named Scott Smith was dragged, lip bleeding and hands cuffed behind his back, from a raucous school board meeting", were perfectly copacetic with the NSBA letter labeling parents as domestic terrorists, and the head of the DOJ forming a task force based on the NSBA letter, but all they really cared about was that a boy wearing a skirt could pee in a girls bathroom then I know I won't change your mind. I disagree with you. I think rape, beating people up, and intimidation via government force outweighs "transphobia" in the minds of most voters.
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Since this is your perception of what happened, then there's no point in debating you. Really, there's no point in debating people who are clearly mentally wasted in the RW desert of covid disinformation, election fraud, and racial/LGBT hate.
 
Gameface said:
I think CRT was the issue that propelled Youngkin to a win. It was one of his main campaign topics when he surged to the lead and it really seemed to get his supporters fired up.
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Using that certainly makes it easy to demonize the other side. CRT is mentioned a lot at school board meetings but even there I don't think it is really about CRT. I don't think most people even know what CRT is. I think people are just pissed off generally and want to yell at people lording power. Local school boards are one of the few places where you can go face-to-face with people in power and yell at them. I think school boards are taking rage meant for administrators in all levels of government but the school boards are simply the ones most accessible.

I don't feel bad for school boards. People need an outlet and I'd much rather it be school boards than some poor flight attendant or waitress trying to tell customers to comply with a mask mandate.

I don't believe white supremacy is nearly as endemic as you seem to believe. If it is then they're doing a terrible job considering the new Republican Lieutenant Governor the white supremacists elected into office along with Youngkin.
 
Gameface said:
I think CRT was the issue that propelled Youngkin to a win. It was one of his main campaign topics when he surged to the lead and it really seemed to get his supporters fired up.

Since CRT isn't part of the curriculum in VA schools, what would you call the message being sent that he's going to ban something that isn't even being done and isn't being pushed as a K-12 subject?

I call it a racist dog-whistle.
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Are you sure it isn't being taught?


The Virginia Department of Education is encouraging teachers to read the above links and it states:

Virginia’s #EdEquityVA work is informed by literature, best practice, and research. Below are the resources the Office of Equity and Community Engagement references in the development of our work, as well as texts we recommend:


So definitely some books on CRT being promoted teachers to read and add to best practices. Not saying it is being taught, but it sure looks like it...
 
The Thriller said:
Since this is your perception of what happened, then there's no point in debating you. Really, there's no point in debating people who are clearly mentally wasted in the RW desert of covid disinformation, election fraud, and racial/LGBT hate.
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My perception of what happened isn't as important as the public perception of what happened. If you are old enough to remember when Howard Dean destroyed his Presidential aspirations in 2 seconds by saying "YEAARRGGHHH!" then you know people aren't always rational actors. Regardless of how you think the events in Louden County actually happened, the McAuliffe soundbite proclaiming "parents shouldn't have a say" ended him. The context doesn't matter. What he really meant doesn't matter. The subsequent attempts at walking it back don't matter.

What does matter is the mood of the country. If you think the Democrats didn't misjudge anything, didn't make mistakes, and don't need to change a thing going forward, I'm thinking you may want to prepare yourself for some rough election nights in the next couple of years.
 
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TheGoldStandard said:
Are you sure it isn't being taught?


The Virginia Department of Education is encouraging teachers to read the above links and it states:

Virginia’s #EdEquityVA work is informed by literature, best practice, and research. Below are the resources the Office of Equity and Community Engagement references in the development of our work, as well as texts we recommend:


So definitely some books on CRT being promoted teachers to read and add to best practices. Not saying it is being taught, but it sure looks like it...
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Posting a list of resources for admins and teachers to read isn't the same as CRT being taught. Speaking as someone who works in education, I can tell you were given resources that we then choose to use depending on the circumstance of our school and district. Given Virginia's history with shutting its own public education system down for several years rather than desegregate, I'm glad their state board is giving educators resources to improve on the equity of their system.

What exactly is alarming to you from this list?
 
TheGoldStandard said:
Are you sure it isn't being taught?


The Virginia Department of Education is encouraging teachers to read the above links and it states:

Virginia’s #EdEquityVA work is informed by literature, best practice, and research. Below are the resources the Office of Equity and Community Engagement references in the development of our work, as well as texts we recommend:


So definitely some books on CRT being promoted teachers to read and add to best practices. Not saying it is being taught, but it sure looks like it...
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Suggesting teachers read books that are about CRT does not equal teaching CRT. Like not even a little bit. It's good to see that teachers are being encouraged to learn about the inequality that exists in education.

I think it's fine if someone wants to make a technical argument that CRT is not the best way to educate students about the systemic racism that exists in the U.S., but if they do so I would assume they would suggest the better method of teaching students about the systemic racism that exists in the U.S.. What I see are a bunch of angry white boomers pissed that students are learning that there is systemic racism in the U.S. at all even though it is blatantly obvious that there is.
 
Al-O-Meter said:
Using that certainly makes it easy to demonize the other side. CRT is mentioned a lot at school board meetings but even there I don't think it is really about CRT. I don't think most people even know what CRT is. I think people are just pissed off generally and want to yell at people lording power. Local school boards are one of the few places where you can go face-to-face with people in power and yell at them. I think school boards are taking rage meant for administrators in all levels of government but the school boards are simply the ones most accessible.

I don't feel bad for school boards. People need an outlet and I'd much rather it be school boards than some poor flight attendant or waitress trying to tell customers to comply with a mask mandate.

I don't believe white supremacy is nearly as endemic as you seem to believe. If it is then they're doing a terrible job considering the new Republican Lieutenant Governor the white supremacists elected into office along with Youngkin.
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Looking at my OP I think I should have said racist instead of white supremist. If that makes any difference in how you read it.
 
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