The top concern in the Virginia governor’s race is education. Many parents are worried about the aggressive woke indoctrination of their kids. Others are simply appalled by McAuliffe’s campaign to disenfranchise parents or even label them terrorists. The result is the Democrat is losing ground at an insane pace and resorting to increasingly extreme measures to fight the tide.
But one of the most common techniques of politicians is the outright lie, executed with plenty of misdirect, which is what he’s trying to do on the subject of Critical Race Theory. Christopher Rufo blows that OUT of the WATER here.
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Terry McAuliffe's closing argument is that critical race theory is a "racist dog whistle" that has "never been taught in Virginia." But I can debunk this lie—and prove that McAuliffe himself was the first Virginia governor to promote CRT.
Let's go.🧵
— Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisrufo) October 30, 2021
In 2015, then-Governor McAuliffe's Department of Education instructed Virginia public schools to "embrace critical race theory" in order to "re-engineer attitudes and belief systems." They explicitly endorse CRT—he can't wiggle out of this one with word games. pic.twitter.com/aLV4LGYFZJ
— Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisrufo) October 30, 2021
Under the Northam administration, Superintendent of Public Instruction James Lane sent a memo to Virginia public schools endorsing "Foundations of Critical Race Theory in Education," calling it an "important analytic tool" that can "further spur developments in education." pic.twitter.com/jJLuqdAqi5
— Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisrufo) October 30, 2021
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Right now, on its website, the Virginia Department of Education recommends "Critical Race Theory in Education" as a "best practice" and derives its definitions of "racism," "white supremacy," and "education equity" explicitly from "critical race theory." pic.twitter.com/QVSJVpju2A
— Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisrufo) October 30, 2021
At the district level, Loudoun County Schools has hired a consulting firm to implement "critical race theory" and developed a high school class explicitly teaching "critical race theory." Even the district superintendent admitted the curricula "align with the ideology of CRT." pic.twitter.com/xLJjeXb8eb
— Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisrufo) October 30, 2021
McAuliffe is playing a linguistic shell game to obfuscate about critical race theory. But the reality is that Virginia Department of Education promotes all of the *concepts* of critical race theory: "systemic racism," "white supremacy," "white privilege," "white fragility," etc.
— Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisrufo) October 30, 2021
I've included the full documentation on critical race theory in Virginia public schools here.https://t.co/53HenbG65y
— Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisrufo) October 30, 2021
Rufo constantly has to fight media lies, and McAuliffe’s shell game depends entirely on his expectation of the media’s enabling of his lies. But even they can’t rescue this fail.
It wasn’t even a good try, McAuliffe. And Lincoln Project falling on the Confederate sword for you ain’t gonna help with parents either, bud.