Youngkin: Liberals Obfuscating on Critical Race Theory — Its ‘Tenets’ Are Being Taught

Governor Glenn Youngkin (R-VA) said on this week’s broadcast of “Fox News Sunday” that when liberals say Critical Race Theory is not taught in school, it was an obfuscation of the fact because its “tenets” were being taught.

Host John Roberts said, “Critics of your position, including former President Obama, say, look, Critical Race Theory is not being taught in schools and that this was merely a trumped-up, phony culture war. What do you say to that? And what does your executive order actually do in terms of Critical Race Theory?”

Youngkin said, “Anyone who thinks that the concepts that underpin Critical Race Theory are not in our schools hasn’t been in our schools. The curriculum has moved in a very opaque way that has hidden a lot of this from parents. And so we, in fact, are going to increase transparency so that parents can actually see what’s being taught in schools.”

He continued, “We’re not going to teach our children to view everything through a lens of race. Yes, we will teach all history. The good and the bad. Because we can’t know where we’re going unless we know where we have come from. But to actually teach our children that one group is advantaged and another is disadvantaged simply because of the color of their skin cuts across everything we know to be true.”

Roberts said, “Is it your contention that Critical Race Theory is being taught in Virginia public schools?”

Youngkin said, “There’s not a course called critical race theory. All the principles of Critical Race Theory, the fundamental building blocks of actually accusing one group of being oppressors and another of being oppressed, of actually burdening children today for the sins of the past, for teaching our children to judge one another based on the color of their skin. Yes, that does exist in Virginia schools today. And that’s why I have signed the executive orders yesterday to make sure that we get it out of our schools.”

He added, “We absolutely have to recognize what the left, liberals do here is try to obfuscate this issue, saying there is not a course of Critical Race Theory. Of course, there are not in elementary school. But in fact, there are absolutely the tenets of CRT present in the schools and what the executive order went at yesterday.”

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