{"id":964147,"date":"2021-11-03T19:28:58","date_gmt":"2021-11-03T23:28:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=964147"},"modified":"2021-11-03T19:29:01","modified_gmt":"2021-11-03T23:29:01","slug":"msnbc-glenn-youngkins-victory-proves-white-ignorance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/msnbc-glenn-youngkins-victory-proves-white-ignorance\/","title":{"rendered":"MSNBC: Glenn Youngkin&#039;s Victory &#039;Proves White Ignorance&#039;"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">14<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fmsnbc-glenn-youngkins-victory-proves-white-ignorance%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=964147&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"subheading\">The front page of msnbc.com harshly and incorrectly characterized Virginia Republican voters&nbsp;Wednesday morning&nbsp;with&nbsp;the headline \u201cGlenn Youngkin\u2019s victory proves white ignorance is a powerful weapon.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The article <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20211103172731\/https:\/\/www.msnbc.com\/the-reidout\/reidout-blog\/glenn-youngkin-wins-virginia-governor-race-rcna4316\">compared<\/a> the governor-elect to former President Donald Trump, claimed critics of Critical Race Theory (CRT) are \u201cintellectually lazy,\u201d and said, \u201cangry, willfully ignorant white people was the key ingredient needed to elect a GOP governor.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<div id=\"attachment_18590938\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" readability=\"33\"><a href=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2021\/11\/Screen-Shot-2021-11-03-at-12.35.55-PM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-18590938\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Screen-Shot-2021-11-03-at-12.35.55-PM-1024x524-1.png\" alt=\"MSNBC.com\/Screenshot\" width=\"990\" height=\"507\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">The front page of MSNBC.com on November 3, 2021. (MSNBC.com\/Screenshot)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>With the featured title \u201cSTOKING OUTRAGE,\u201d the 382-word article was written by Ja\u2019han Jones, who worked at the HuffPost before joining MSNBC\u2019s&nbsp;ReidOut Blog, an extension of <em>The ReidOut<\/em> starring Joy-Ann Reid.<\/p>\n<p>Jones described Youngkin as an inexperienced businessman \u201cfocused on hot-button social topics \u2014 like outrage over school curricula,\u201d with \u201ca largely ill-defined campaign, often hewing close to the former president\u2019s 2020 election lies while also coyly trying to distance himself from them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Jones did not provide examples in the article to support these claims, but he did describe Youngkin\u2019s platform as \u201cdesigned to shield Americans from the reality of the country\u2019s racist history.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>According to Jones, Youngkin targeted CRT because it \u201cseemed to resonate deeply with white voters in Virginia.\u201d The MSNBC writer claimed, \u201cCritical race theory is a college-level field of study that\u2019s not taught in Virginia K-12 schools, but <strong>it\u2019s become a catchall phrase for intellectually lazy people<\/strong> <strong>\u2014 many of them white<\/strong> \u2014 who want to stigmatize any discussion about American racism\u201d [Emphasis added].<\/p>\n<p>Several other MSNBC commentators also focused on racial issues, without evidence to support their claims. Reid&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JoyAnnReid\/status\/1455915315397861384\">wrote<\/a>&nbsp;Wednesday that \u201cYoungkin, like the Republican he is, filled the vacuum with inchoate fear of threats to the cherished historical narrative of a glorious history of unbroken white Christian great\/goodness.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"12.407407407407\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">McAulliffe\u2019s problem was that A) the overall mood narrative is bad for Dems &amp; Biden, and B) Youngkin, like the Republican he is, filled the vacuum with inchoate fear of threats to the cherished historical narrative of a glorious history of unbroken white Christian great\/goodness.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Joy-Ann (Pro-Democracy) Reid \ud83d\ude37 (@JoyAnnReid) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JoyAnnReid\/status\/1455915315397861384?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 3, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Mehdi Hasan also harped on race, specifically calling out supporters of Winsome Sears, the first female and the first minority to be elected lieutenant governor in Virginia.&nbsp;He&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mehdirhasan?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1455948612538675202%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.breitbart.com%2Fwp-admin%2Fpost.php%3Fpost%3D18590434action%3Dedit\">posted<\/a> on Twitter:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"7\">\n<p>The argument that white supremacy &amp; racial resentment couldn\u2019t have helped power Youngkin to victory in VA because the Republicans elected a black lieutenant governor \u2013 Winsome Sears \u2013 is as convincing as saying Trump isn\u2019t a racist because he made Ben Carson his HUD secretary.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"9.5151515151515\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The argument that white supremacy &amp; racial resentment couldn&#8217;t have helped power Youngkin to victory in VA because the Republicans elected a black lieutenant governor \u2013 Winsome Sears \u2013 is as convincing as saying Trump isn&#8217;t a racist because he made Ben Carson his HUD secretary.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Mehdi Hasan (@mehdirhasan) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mehdirhasan\/status\/1455948612538675202?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 3, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>MSNBC contributor and <em>Mother Jones<\/em> writer David Corn <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DavidCornDC\/status\/1455888229731811330\">claimed<\/a>, \u201cYoungkin exploited a panic over CRT that was orchestrated and exploited people\u2019s race paranoia.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"id__q4c3miszvsg\" class=\"css-1dbjc4n r-1wbh5a2 r-dnmrzs r-1ny4l3l\" readability=\"20.6022808268\">\n<div class=\"css-1dbjc4n r-1awozwy r-18u37iz r-dnmrzs\" readability=\"24.482936918304\">\n<p class=\"css-901oao r-1awozwy r-18jsvk2 r-6koalj r-37j5jr r-a023e6 r-b88u0q r-rjixqe r-bcqeeo r-1udh08x r-1ddef8g r-3s2u2q r-qvutc0\" dir=\"auto\"><span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 css-bfa6kz r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\"><span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 css-bfa6kz r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\"><span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\">The outrage is not limited to writers and commentators at MSNBC. CNN\u2019s Ana Navarro-C\u00e1rdenas circled back to the events of January 6, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ananavarro\/status\/1455916172138983431\">writing<\/a>&nbsp;on Twitter, \u201c<\/span><\/span><\/span><span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 css-bfa6kz r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\"><span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\"><strong>Critical Race Theory is not a real thing<\/strong> taught in K-12. But Republicans effectively used it scare and outrage parents and turn out the vote. <strong>January 6th IS a real thing<\/strong> -an act of domestic terrorism threatening our democracy, but Republicans want to pretend it didn\u2019t happen\u201d [Emphasis added].<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"css-901oao r-1awozwy r-18jsvk2 r-6koalj r-37j5jr r-a023e6 r-b88u0q r-rjixqe r-bcqeeo r-1udh08x r-1ddef8g r-3s2u2q r-qvutc0\" dir=\"auto\"><span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 css-bfa6kz r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\"><span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\">CNN Political Analyst Bakari Sellers initially <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Bakari_Sellers\/status\/1455626500657516548\">predicted<\/a>&nbsp;that former <\/span><\/span><span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 css-bfa6kz r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\"><span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\">Gov. Terry McAuliffe (D) would win because \u201c<\/span><\/span><span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 css-bfa6kz r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\"><span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\">black voters will show up.\u201d Almost two hours after Virginia polls closed, Sellers tweeted, \u201c<\/span><\/span><span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 css-bfa6kz r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\"><span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\">The GOP ran a master class on race based identity politics,\u201d and said the Democrats <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Bakari_Sellers\/status\/1455698753520820226\">lost<\/a> since they \u201calways put black issues on back burner &amp; got burned.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"css-901oao r-1awozwy r-18jsvk2 r-6koalj r-37j5jr r-a023e6 r-b88u0q r-rjixqe r-bcqeeo r-1udh08x r-1ddef8g r-3s2u2q r-qvutc0\" dir=\"auto\"><span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 css-bfa6kz r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\"><span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\">Meanwhile, Republicans have taken to Twitter to celebrate the national GOP victories and poke fun at the establishment media outlets:&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"1.8095238095238\">\n<p lang=\"und\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/1HrX5EyTlX\">https:\/\/t.co\/1HrX5EyTlX<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/1spjKh3Luy\">pic.twitter.com\/1spjKh3Luy<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 NRCC (@NRCC) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NRCC\/status\/1455697142417399810?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 3, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"6.4210526315789\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Yikes!!! <\/p>\n<p>Rough day for the Dem hacks masquerading as &#8220;journalists&#8221; over at <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MSNBC?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@MSNBC<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CNN?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@CNN<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/KMWue2Q0Rm\">https:\/\/t.co\/KMWue2Q0Rm<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DonaldJTrumpJr\/status\/1455906133017776139?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 3, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"7.0280898876404\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">CNN and MSNBC ratings plummeting so hard tells you a lot about the lack of enthusiasm on the left <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/7Gd2aPn3WD\">https:\/\/t.co\/7Gd2aPn3WD<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Comfortably Smug (@ComfortablySmug) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ComfortablySmug\/status\/1455969155690254336?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 3, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The front page of msnbc.com harshly and incorrectly characterized Virginia Republican voters\u00a0Wednesday morning\u00a0with\u00a0the headline \u201cGlenn Youngkin\u2019s victory proves white ignorance is a powerful weapon.\u201d The article compared the governor-elect to &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-964147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/964147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/50"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=964147"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/964147\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=964147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=964147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=964147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}