The Guardian (UK) is right to call this out [and…. it takes an ocean of distance to find this perspective, and print it, it would seem, sadly]. A political analyst — commenting on the tight Virginia race, with voting underway today — calls the potential for a GOP upset… “white backlash” against CRT, a theory not taught in Virginia public schools, at present.
I still think that McAuliffe, the Democratic candidate will win there, but it will be close.
I write primarily though, to note that any “white backlash” — against a theory that is not being taught at all in the local public schools… ought to be called by its proper name: RACISM. Quoting, now:
…“The operative word is not critical,” Sabato said. “And it’s not theory. It’s race. What a shock, huh? Race. That is what matters. And that’s why it’s sticks.
“There’s a lot of, we can call it white backlash, white resistance, whatever you want to call it. It has to do with race. And so we live in a post-factual era… It doesn’t matter that [CRT] isn’t taught in Virginia schools. It’s this generalised attitude that whites are being put upon and we’ve got to do something about it. We being white voters….”
And, ironically, the fact that at least some white people prefer to refer to this sort of irrational fear-mongering as ‘white backlash’ is itself a fairly strong proof… that CRT has it down, just about right.
White people, or at least some of them, are unable (and in fact unwilling) to see themselves as anything other than long-suffering saints and heroes. And these greivance peddling pro-Tangerine altra-right white GOP candidates will be the death of our fragile Union, I fear. Wake up, people — on to a win, in Virginia (though it may take weeks until the results are know with certainty).
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