"Conservatives in state legislatures across the country are pushing legislation to halt the teaching of 'critical race theory' in public schools. I put the term in quotes because genuine critical race theory, a dry and esoteric set of ideas debated in obscure academic journals, is not actually being taught in those schools at all. What’s being taught instead — and squelched — is American history, which happens to include slavery, Jim Crow repression and structural racism.
"I get it. The GOP has become the party of White racial grievance, and this battle against an imaginary enemy stirs the base. But the whole charade involves Republican officials — many of them educated at the nation’s top schools — betting that their constituents are too dumb to know they’re being lied to. So far, the bet is paying off." -- Eugene Robinson in today's Washington Post. The well- organized and funded astroturfers disrupting and harassing local school boards are part of the Republican/ white racial grievance party's electoral game plan. In the important off- year election in Virginia, the Republican weasel running for governor, Glenn Youngkin, is tying his campaign to this bogus issue in the hopes of energizing his sub- moron base. We'll see in a few weeks whether his bet on the dumb has worked.
