As I suspected Governor Younkin of Virginia

[gibraltar72]

consulted with Larry Arrn President of Christian Nationalist Hillsdale College before trying to alter school curriculums to exclude Martin Luther King, eliminate reference to holocaust and Nazis, also calling indigenous people first immigrants. Governor Younkin has received a fair amount of pushback from academics and historians along with concerned parents.

[GreenWave]

1. So he wants a Nazi manipulated term Aryan "education" for the kids.

[old guy]

2. The people of Virginia knew who he was and they elected him anyway.

I don't have much sympathy for the state. Elections have consequences.

[Ray Bruns]

6. Not everyone voted for the jackass. Having just moved back here, I intend to use my resources

energy to elect as many democrats as possible.

[Duppers]

7. 👍

Gerrymandering has wreaked havoc with our Democratic district here in Wmsbrg.

We could not vote for Elaine Luria.

[Celerity]

23. I was gutted to see Luria lose.

[spooky3]

12. He won by a very narrow margin. Remember that at

That time no major Dem legislation had passed in Congress, and that the Dem governor of NJ, who was supposed to win by 10+ percentage points fell far short.

And while DUers and others knew “who he was”, he ran as a “moderate.”

[StormKing]

22. A basic empathy problem

A low point for either party is hating a whole state / lacking empathy for a state because of their election outcomes.

Whether it is our leaders or hundreds of posters on a website, people from vulnerable communities notice when a political party abandons them. It's not a good look.

Decent people and Democrats exist by millions in every state.

There's too much of this in US politics.

[Ray Bruns]

3. If governor Youngkin is going to require school teachers to teach the

Latest Newspeak, he could at least provide everyone with the latest edition.

[Kid Berwyn]

4. Guess who heads the Hillsdale College Board?

Why is Pat Sajak Chairman of Michigan's Hillsdale College?

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100217196629

[lindysalsagal]

5. These fools think because they got a few more votes, they can rewrite history

George Orwell wasn't off the mark one inch.

[keithbvadu2]

8. Revisionist history.

Revisionist history.

Was it Dubya who coined that phrase?

[Bernardo de La Paz]

9. Sorry, but as evidenced in the OP, Arrn (sp?) and Younkin (sp?) are racists. . . nt

[calimary]

10. Youngkin certainly was a "Trojan horse" candidate.

Was this shocking racism known when he was a candidate? Or was he in stealth mode throughout?

I don’t remember that coming up in ANY coverage of his campaign, but then again, I’m not in Virginia.

[spooky3]

13. I'm in VA. You're correct. He ran as a moderate; hid his views on abortion, etc.

Karen Tumulty of WaPo recently offered an “apology” (which many saw as not complete) for not seeing through this phony and not reporting accurately.

https://wapo.st/3hVG9Ui

DUers and many other Dems knew who he was.

[calimary]

20. Pretty milquetoast "apology", if you even want to call it any kind of apology.

And evidently he's still talking in vague terms so you can't quite put your finger on who he really is.

So, the lesson here, I think, is - if they're not CRYSTAL CLEAR about what they think and what they believe, and what they plan to do, REJECT THEM.

You can only make a decent judgment if they give specifics.

[spooky3]

21. You can also watch what they do. In his case, there were

Indications from his actions before the election. Since then, he has done other things consistent with his being more MAGA than moderate: in addition to the education BS pointed out in the article, he railed against CRT and set up a snitch line for parents to report any teachers who made their kids uncomfortable (later closed down); took anti LBGTQ actions; proposed restricting abortion further; campaigned for 15 MAGA gubernatorial candidates, most of whom lost, etc.

[calimary]

24. My general rule is: if it's a Republican, it can't be trusted.

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[spooky3]

25. Yes, many of the WaPo readers who commented on Tumulty's faux

apology agree with you.

[calimary]

26. She may want to "go easy" on the GOP, or give them a perpetual benefit of the doubt.

They ran through my sympathy/understanding/patience supply a LONG time ago.

They’ll have to earn it back over time and demonstrated improvement in behavior. In Catholic school, we learned about “outward signs” that allowed for what you might call a human-level “dance with the Deity”.

I need to see outward signs from the Republicans. LOTS of outward signs that indicate they’re waking up and coming around to sensible give-and-take politics, not the greedy, voracious, take-no-prisoners marauder ethic that seems to permeate the mindset and loudest bully voices in the GOP.

I keep hearing about the more “moderate” members “working from inside” supposedly toward more cooperative positions and solutions. But all we seem to hear is the howl of packs of rabid hyenas. It’s awfully hard to try to do business with, or reach any consensus with, packs of rabid hyenas.

[tulipsandroses]

17. Of course the racism was there. The people that voted for him didn't care

This bullshit about parents having a right to choose what their children learn is nothing but a racist, homophobic, transphobic dog whistle.
But they ate it up. Interestingly, I have not seen minority children and their feelings discussed. So if parents have a choice, I don’t expect to see these people object to black parents’ objections about what they want their children to learn.

There are a group of students here in GA, pushing back against this nonsense. They are appalled that so many things related to anything other than Eurocentric history and ideas can not be discussed. I take heart that these kids are smarter than their parents and grandparents who voted to uneducate them.

I just wonder how these parents expect their children to succeed in life. Wait, I know. Strictly on the basis of white privilege. Especially white male privilege. When life does not turn out the way they thought it would, then blame the minorities. It’s the immigrants stealing your job, affirmative action, robbed you of getting into the school you wanted, “femi-nazis” ruining your life when you can’t be a misogynistic jerk.

[Traildogbob]

11. People need to

Stop condemning whole states corrupted in red that eliminate possible Dem wins with vote suppression and throwing voters off of roles. Texas and Florida and Georgia like other corrupted GQP states would have much different results if every one could vote and that vote counted. Until we fix voter rights theses idiots will continue to be appointed. Michigan has a blueprint to take our states back from these assholes rewriting history, and pushing Sharia law of their warped ass view of the BuyBull. North Carolina is not as fucked up as our appointed legislature. Got a lot of oxygen depleted pea brains here but guns and Jebuuuus have a tight grip. You’d think mouth breathing would offer more oxygen to their brains. But a mouth packed with tobacco and spit cuts off the flow. But if there is no brain to begin with, oxygen flow has no effect. I feel your pain Virginia. So much work to do.

[spooky3]

15. +1

[czarjak]

14. Cultists. Period.

[rubbersole]

16. Florida is ringleader of corrupt gerrymandering...

That's why desantis is so fuckin' popular with the moneyed repubs. His nazi blueprint is working. There won't be any federal help on voting rights for at least two years.

[Martin68]

18. Virginia Republicans are infamous for revising history to conform with their white supremacist ideol

And they love meddling with the school system.

[tishaLA]

19. He campaigned on banning Toni Morrison books

Toni Morrison! This shouldn't be a shock to anyone, but they managed to weaponize hysterical responses to anything involving race that might make white kids think their ancestors didn't deserve canonization.

[spanone]

27. Erasing America's history.

Unbelievable.