Loudoun County parents certainly and passionately felt it WAS happening to their own children. It seems the liberal stance (very strongly) is to now say it didn't happen and never has happened. Which by the way, seems to be a shift from what I remember just months ago on DP, when CRT conversations began. I remember many liberals saying, then, that CRT is the right way and it's important in order for children to fully understand history and current times.
Then polls started popping up where those polled were asked their opinion about CRT. The poll numbers were terrible in terms of CRT support. So, the liberals backed up (just exactly as they did with "defund the police") and created a new narrative. The new narrative is - What CRT? CRT isn't being taught anywhere.
The problem is that's not what parents are seeing with their own eyes and hearing from their own children. So, the new narrative is viewed as disingenuous.
Liberals have a problem with their narratives. Saying inflation is transitory, the economy is great, CRT isn't happening, covid is a pandemic of the unvaccinated, and on and on and on and on and on - doesn't work. People know, see, feel, experience - a different reality from these narratives - and Dems tank as a result.
Younkin listened and heard. Youngkin didn't say - Oh no, you're just imagining what you are seeing, hearing, feeling and experiencing. The teacher didn't mean it that way, He/she really meant something else and you're misinterpreting what you heard or what your child told you about.
EVERYTHING the Dems do is about a narrative and so much of it does not reflect reality. Often the narrative is the exact opposite of the lived experience of the people voting and of their children. Dems think they have a messaging problem. But they don't understand what their messaging problem is. Their messaging problem is fake narratives that don't/can't ring true. Honesty would go a long way.
When you get your version of the “liberal narrative” from Tucker Carlson, it’s no surprise that it comes with all these rationalizations, deflections, conflations (that’s the most important part, which you embraced) and lies about this non issue, this is what you come up with.
There is NO jurisdiction in the country that is teaching Critical Race Theory in the classroom. I would be surprised if these were a single textbook or curriculum under the post graduate level.
If you are under the impression that this was a spontaneous outburst by some Loudoun County parents, you are seriously mistaken.
The Critical Race Theory campaign was invented by a right wing operative, and was folded into a national campaign which is being run by many of the same people who were active in assembling the tea party crowd of 2009-10.
And they used the same tactics.
Propagandize through right wing media. With special emphasis now on social media, where your message won’t have to stand up to examination for accuracy.
Invest in a few websites for local “grass roots” groups, have all the literature and signs pre printed for them. Get them to assemble local crowds, and make sure the television cameras are there to record the orchestrated “grass roots” in action.
There is already plenty of evidence that this “movement” is a puppet master’s delight.
Just as it is already apparant that critical race theory will disappear into the vacuum of right wing trigger noise campaigns the day after the 2022 mid terms.
That’s what happened to the tea party. Teh party operatives and their consultants delivered Congress the the GOP. Thus, the tea party has served its purpose. The money dried up, and eventually ,so did the “movement”/
This is the same play. And it will end the same way.
And of course the trigger is the same.
it’s an outright appeal to white racism and resentement.
Just at the tea party was.
And it is easy to project onto any hint that any teacher might even hint that bad things could have ever happened to black people. (one only has to read your own post to see how that message works).
And the noise machine will trigger you and folks like you regularly this years.
And most of you will clap like trained seals.
It doesn’t matter that none of the white racists don’t actually know what critical race theory is. They don’t care. When you think in slogans, one that contains the words “critical” and “race” must be bad. No thinking or examination necessary.
You can’t support your misrepresentation of the response to this right wing campaign as “narrative”. Although you’ve constructed an elaborate fact free narrative of your own to dismiss it.
One which depends on your acceptance of the narrative you’ve decided to embrace.