Virginia parents manipulated into CRT astroturf campaign by right-wing billionaire Kochs and the Fed

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Virginia parents manipulated into CRT astroturf campaign by right-wing billionaire Kochs and the Federalist Society

By Sarah K. Burris
Published November 07, 2021

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The campaign against "critical race theory" was started by conservative activist Ian Prior and now right-wing billionaires have adopted the idea as a legitimate wedge issue to perpetuate a race debate and enrage their supporters to vote Republican.

The Daily Beast revealed the anti-CRT movement has been propelled by Fox News personalities while it was the billionaire Koch family who invested in the astroturf campaign against it.

The report found "eight recently created anti-CRT groups which operate at local levels across the country but bear ties to ideological right-wing aristocrats and political operatives. Their backers include former officials in Donald Trump's administration, an executive at a notorious D.C. lobbying firm, as well as Koch entities and The Federalist Society."

https://www.rawstory.com/billionaire-funded-critical-race-theory-astroturf/

We'll by golly how many Justices sitting on the US Supreme Court are members of the Federalist Society, how many sitting in the DOJ, Congress.....

[Hoyt]

1. People still have to lean racist before white wing media can "sway" them.

[Six117]

4. Amen!

[uponit7771]

10. +1

[cilla4progress]

2. Quelle

surprise!

[Baked Potato]

3. Divide and Conquer, Gawk The War: The Sport of Billionaires. Nt

[SergeStorms]

5. I think we all knew...

it was a campaign by reich-wing shit-heels, it was just a question of which reich-wing shit-heels. There are so many, but right at the top of the list are always the Koch Suckers and the Federalist Klan.

That's all republicans have; fear, hate, and anger. There's not a constructive, uniting idea for this country between the lot of them, so they trot out their divisive old standbys, and the scum of this country eats it up every time.

Until these low-rent Americans want to change, it will always be so. The monied elite reich-wing shit-heels will always play the race card to stir their reptilian brains into their most base reactions. Hey, unfortunately it works.

[emmaverybo]

6. Having read the proposed curriculum for the CRT-based Ethnic Studies Model program for Ca.,

I don’t think one has to be a Republican racist to be alarmed about both content and teaching method if indeed this or similarly heavily ideological course is what will be offered nationally. I am a liberal former college teacher (at multi-cultural and pretty liberal colleges) and I am not a proponent though I am all for a mandated race and ethnic studies course for college Frosh or as a GE requirement to be fulfilled within a particular time frame.

Dr. Clarence Jones, Martin Luther King’s speechwriter and friend, an academic and activist on the forefront of the civil rights movement, wrote to Governor Newsom “in great dismay” about the suggested curriculum then in a first draft. It is worthwhile to read Dr. Jones’ letter to understand what is concerning for some of us. This program was quickly approved without any changes. Program developers have, however, conceded to removing an extremely offensive, anti-semitic book from the bibliography and making other placating amendments without yet addressing fundamental problems, many cited in other documents found at te link below.

It behooves CRT-derived ES program proponents to familiarize themselves with some of the arguments representatives of diverse communities are making rather than assume that any challenge to CRT-based curricula is far-RW inspired, meant to cover up historic and ongoing racial atrocities, lodged only by those seeking to shut down ethnic studies in K-12 and universities, and itself evidence of racism. Such underlying assumptions are not only wrong, but they are silencing.

https://www.calethstudies.org/aces-resourcedocs/clarence-jones-letter

[FreepFryer]

9. AstroTurf organization, right wing talking points. Hard pass. (Nt)

[emmaverybo]

11. This was a sound ethnic studies program in the L.A. school district which the CRT-based curriculum,

found at the link I gave under “documents,” proposes to replace. This program included a mini-unit
on LBGT+ communities, a wide range of readings and perspectives, of historical figures, an
examination of different racial justice movements, and was clearly designed to be inductive, not indoctrinating.

It was far more comprehensive than the CRT based program. Even the presentation of curriculum itself is professional and pedagogically informed as compared to the one proposed to replace, which leaves out the civil rights movement entirely except to characterize it as passive, non-productive, weak essentially.




https://achieve.lausd.net/cms/lib/CA01000043/Centricity/Domain/226/Ethnic%20Studies%20Survey%20Course%20.pdf

I don’t think Dr. Jones, director of the King institute at Stanford University, makes “Republican talking points.” I don’t think the Jewish caucus does either. ACES may include some Republican supporters with agendas, but I link to it primarily because it offers an actual example of the curriculum our opponents are going to have a field day using to discredit all proposed ES programs across the nation.

[FreepFryer]

12. Calethstudies. AstroTurf, promotes racism and retweeted by right wingers. Hard pass, Like i said. Nt

[certainot]

7. it's the radio. for example, we get a documentary about the "four seasons' idiocy but

there is no recognition that the 'press conference' was timed to start with the start of the limbaugh show, reaching 10-20 mil, and he knew the script and expanded on the content

how the fuck does the 'liberal' media not get that?

as long as dems ignore rw radio , the right's ONLY unique advantage, it will be one idiotic meme and catchphrase after another

[traitorsgalore]

8. The repukes weren't manipulated, VA repukes hate everyone with an IQ over 80

If it wasn't CRT, the rich aholes would have easily used some other rallying cry for the covidiot lowlifes, such as fake crime stats, calling everyone a socialist commie or screeds about taking their guns.

I'm not defending propagandists, I'm saying the stupid repuke covicidal plague rats in Virginia invent all the lies they need themselves to try to boost their pathologically low self-esteem.

[FSogol]

13. And only one week after the election, they are already talking about taking funds out of the public

schools to fund charter schools.