Today's GOP wants candidates to say how they'll use the state to keep white people on top

[Nevilledog]

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We need to talk about how and why the Republican Party isn’t conservative anymore in the way the Republican Party has long-defined the term. The race for governor in Virginia is illustrative.

Republican candidate Glenn Youngkin gets nary a peep out of crowds when talking about traditional Republican things like tax cuts and deregulation. But audiences roar when he talks about the scourge of “Critical Race Theory” in public schools. This scourge does not exist.

No one, and I mean no one, teaches K-12 students anything at all about Critical Race Theory, because Critical Race Theory, without quotes, is something college students engage, if they choose to. What public school teachers do do is teach kids the history of slavery, the history of racism and, in some cases, how systemic anti-Black racism in America was the precondition for a white police officer murdering a Black man.

All the jabbering about “Critical Race Theory” is part of a white-power backlash against political gains made by Black reformers in the wake of George Floyd’s death, itself coming after years of effort to bring more attention to the barbarous, and unequal, treatment of Black Americans by law enforcement. The former president’s Big Lie about the 2020 election being stolen from him has merged with a larger, background narrative about “God’s country” being stolen from “real Americans.” To fight against “Critical Race Theory” is now a fight to save “America.”

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[SCantiGOP]

1. It's really bad

when you are so ashamed of how your ancestors acted that you want to make the mere discussion of it an illegal act.

[Lovie777]

2. republican brand . ..

the racist party.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

3. The GOP is the party of voter suppression and racism