{"id":996198,"date":"2021-11-10T21:29:11","date_gmt":"2021-11-11T02:29:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=996198"},"modified":"2021-11-10T21:29:13","modified_gmt":"2021-11-11T02:29:13","slug":"washington-post-op-ed-democrats-are-lying-about-critical-race-theory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/washington-post-op-ed-democrats-are-lying-about-critical-race-theory\/","title":{"rendered":"Washington Post Op-Ed: &#039;Democrats Are Lying About Critical Race Theory&#039;"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/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%2Fwashington-post-op-ed-democrats-are-lying-about-critical-race-theory%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=996198&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--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Parents-Protest-Teaching-of-Critical-Race-Theory-640x335-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">The <em>Washington Post<\/em>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/2021\/11\/09\/democrats-are-lying-about-critical-race-theory\/?utm_source=twitter&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=wp_opinions\">published<\/a> an opinion article on Tuesday titled \u201cDemocrats Are Lying About Critical Race Theory,\u201d an arguably unexpected headline from the far-left publication.<\/p>\n<p>Writer Marc Thiessen criticized Democrats for \u201cgaslighting American parents\u201d about Critical Race Theory following Republican Glenn Youngkin\u2019s win in the Virginia governor election.&nbsp;Thiessen writes a \u201ctwice-weekly column for <em>The Post<\/em> on foreign and domestic policy,\u201d is a fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, and worked as a chief speechwriter for former President George W. Bush.<\/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<p>\u201cIt has become a refrain on the left and its media echo-chamber following Republican Glenn Youngkin\u2019s victory in the Virginia governor\u2019s race: Critical race theory is not being taught in schools,\u201d Thiessen wrote, before noting several instances of corporate media falsely denying that the theory is being taught in schools.&nbsp;\u201c\u2026This is demonstrably false.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Youngkin positioned himself as an enemy to the woke indoctrination of K-12 students, whereas Democrat Terry McAuliffe teamed up with far-leftists in the Democrat Party and even said parents should not tell schools what to teach their children.<\/p>\n<p>Critical Race Theory being taught in schools was a top issue among Virginia voters, with 25 percent of 2,500 voters viewing the CRT debate as the single most important factor when deciding who to support for governor, a Fox News Voter Analysis <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/critical-race-theory-virginia-top-factor-important-fox-analysis\">survey<\/a> found. During election and post-election coverage, corporate media personalities <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2021\/11\/03\/critical-race-theory-top-issue-virginia-election-democrats-insist-isnt-real\/\">largely waffled<\/a> between pretending CRT is not \u201creal\u201d and swinging in the opposite direction, conflating it with \u201cAmerica\u2019s history\u201d and advocating for its widespread teaching in schools.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>Thiessan compiled a short list of leftist media lies following the election:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"7.9815195071869\">\n<p><span>PBS White House correspondent Yamiche Alcindor recently accused Republicans of winning by <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediaite.com\/news\/pbs-yamiche-alcindor-asks-biden-how-to-counter-lying-republicans-after-democratic-defeat-in-virginia\/\"><span>\u201clying about critical race theory.\u201d<\/span><\/a><span> Sen. Mark R. Warner (D-Va.) <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/therecount\/status\/1457358348454711296\"><span>declared<\/span><\/a><span> \u201cthere is not a school in Virginia that teaches critical race theory.\u201d Those who say otherwise, we are told, are <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/newsbusters\/status\/1455599846010802185?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1455599846010802185%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.foxnews.com%2Fmedia%2Fnewsbusters-highlights-medias-crt-lies\"><span>\u201cdishonest,\u201d<\/span><\/a><span> hyping a <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WajahatAli\/status\/1455694095171588096\"><span>\u201cfake CRT threat,\u201d<\/span><\/a><span> promoting an <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DavidCornDC\/status\/1455707493661876228\"><span>\u201cimaginary\u201d<\/span><\/a><span> issue to <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jennycohn1\/status\/1433958764437065736\"><span>\u201cmanipulate low information people,\u201d<\/span><\/a><span> engaging in <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NormOrnstein\/status\/1455700265642901507\"><span>\u201crace-baiting lies\u201d<\/span><\/a><span> and blowing a <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/media\/dnc-chair-youngkin-talking-critical-race-theory-whistle\"><span>\u201cracist dog whistle.\u201d<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Thiessen then proceeded to link several examples of schools either teaching or training teachers to use the tenets of Critical Race Theory, several of which Breitbart News has extensively covered. He specifically detailed how&nbsp;Virginia\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/tech\/2021\/06\/03\/loudoun-county-school-officials-deny-critical-race-theory-allegations\/\">Loudoun County<\/a> Public Schools paid $314,000 for its teachers to be trained in Critical Race Theory by the Equity Collaborative. Thiessen wrote:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"16\">\n<p>One Loudoun country parent filed the public record request to find out what took place in these sessions and obtained a set of talking points used by the Equity Collaborative to train Virginia teachers. They were encouraged not to \u201cprofess color blindness,\u201d but rather to admit their own \u201cracist, sexist, heterosexist, or other detrimental attitudes, beliefs, behaviors, and feelings\u201d and acknowledge that \u201caddressing one\u2019s Whiteness (e.g., white privilege) is crucial for effective teaching.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>He went on to report how the Virginia state superintendent of public instruction&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/christopherrufo.com\/mcaullifes-crt-lie\/\">sent a memo<\/a> to all school districts promoting Critical Race Theory training materials, and asserting:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"18.614864864865\">\n<p>CRT has proven an important analytic tool in the field of education, offering critical perspectives on race, and the causes, consequences and manifestations of race, racism, inequity, and the dynamics of power and privilege in schooling.<\/p>\n<p>This is true in other states as well. In New York City, school administrators were <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2019\/05\/20\/richard-carranza-held-doe-white-supremacy-culture-training\/\">required<\/a> to undergo training sessions where they learned that \u201cobjectivity\u201d and \u201cindividualism\u201d were elements of \u201cwhite-supremacy culture.\u201d In California, students as young as six are being taught CRT-inspired lessons in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kqed.org\/mindshift\/54150\/teaching-6-year-olds-about-privilege-and-power\">white privilege<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20210914025408\/https:\/\/www.learningforjustice.org\/magazine\/when-a-firstgrader-is-called-a-racist\">structural racism.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Thiessen concluded by calling the left\u2019s CRT denial \u201cintellectually dishonest,\u201d and said \u201cDemocrats are gaslighting American parents\u201d by telling them \u201cnot to believe what they can see with their own eyes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He wrote:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"11\">\n<p>Just because grade-school students are not studying academic treatises on critical race theory does not mean it is not being taught in schools. Most of these students are also not reading Karl Marx, but if they were being instructed by teachers trained in Marxist thought to see everything through the prism of class struggle, they would be learning Marxism. Well, today children are being instructed by teachers trained in CRT to see everything through the prism of race; to believe that the United States is a systemically racist country; and to believe that society is divided into two classes \u2014 oppressors and oppressed \u2014 and that which you are is determined by the color of your skin. That is critical race theory.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Thiessen argued that millions of parents were offered a closer look at what their children were learning when schools and moved instruction online during the pandemic, making Democrats\u2019 attempts to deflect particularly ineffective.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMany did not like what they saw. Nor did they like being told that the promotion of CRT is a figment of their imaginations, when in Virginia, it is right on the Department of Education\u2019s website for all to see. So, they rose up to demand change,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the overwhelming response from parents in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2021\/11\/02\/virginia-exit-poll-youngkin-wins-big-hispanic-voters\/\">various demographics<\/a>, Thiessen said Democrats are \u201cdoubling down&nbsp;on the strategy of denigrating parents for raising legitimate concerns about their children\u2019s education\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSorry, parents know that critical race theory is a real problem \u2014 and if Democrats continue telling parents their concerns are imaginary, they will continue to pay a price at the polls,\u201d he concluded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Washington Post\u00a0published an opinion article on Tuesday titled \u201cDemocrats Are Lying About Critical Race Theory,\u201d an arguably unexpected headline from the far-left publication. 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