Glenn Youngkin's No-Guilt History of Virginia for Fragile White People

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Today @Milbank did more to counteract GOP propaganda on K-12 curriculum than a million dollar digital ad campaign could have done simply by publishing this.

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Opinion | Glenn Youngkin’s No-Guilt History of Virginia for Fragile White People
It's right there, in the textbook formerly used in Virginia schools.
12:20 PM · Feb 2, 2022

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/02/01/racist-virginia-textbooks-history-youngkin/

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History has come alive for Trumpist Republicans. They’re rewriting it every day.
This week, Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.), in a tweet deriding Anthony Fauci, claimed to quote the 18th-century French philosopher Voltaire. The quote was actually uttered by a neo-Nazi pedophile.

But Massie’s, er, Enlightenment is a footnote compared with the historical revisionism Republican governors are attempting. Florida’s Ron DeSantis proposes a law (variations of which have been enacted in 10 states) to prohibit public schools from making (White) children “feel discomfort, guilt, anguish, or any other form of psychological distress on account of his or her race.” Virginia’s Glenn Youngkin opened a tip line so parents can report teachers mentioning anything “divisive.” The clear intent and likely effect of such actions: excise any reference to America’s racist past. Just in time for Black History Month!

So how would history sound denuded of anything potentially distressing for White kids? We don’t have to guess, because we’ve already been there. I have an actual 7th-grade textbook used in Virginia’s public schools from the 1950s through the 1970s — when Virginia began moving toward the current version of history: the truth.

I therefore present these verbatim excerpts from the textbook (“Virginia: History, Government, Geography” by Francis Butler Simkins and others), shared with me by Hamilton College historian Ty Seidule, author of “Robert E. Lee and Me: A Southerner’s Reckoning with the Myth of the Lost Cause.” Let’s call it “Glenn Youngkin’s No-Guilt History of Virginia for Fragile White People.”

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[Thomas Hurt]

1. The christofascist campaign against white nationalist blasphemy.

Don't diss the white exceptionalism people.

[Hekate]

2. Fiction of the vilest sort

[OldBaldy1701E]

3. So, I need to go look and see if it specifies 'white'

Because if it does not, I implore every Parent Of Color in Florida to start hammering the schools and the administration with lawsuits because every single child of color has suffered through what that law describes for decades. Pursue it all the way to the Supreme court. Make those racists rethugs on the bench explain why this does not apply to the cases that will flood the docket. If they do the same thing in VA, then people of color there should also pursue legal action against the schools and the government for the very 'crime' that they are trying to say exists. (It does, but I assure you that the only 'suffering' endured by white children is the fact that they will learn that their elders are racists asshats. Which really means that the racist parents are the ones suffering, NOT their kids.)

[sop]

5. White parents don't want their kids coming home from school and asking them, "mom, dad...

why do you hate black people so much?"

[Hugin]

7. There's a compelling argument.

"What is white?"

Let the courts decide.

[calimary]

4. Ahhh, the Snowflake-Protection/Preservation Dept.

One would think Snowflakes would be the most vocal about global warming…

[uponit7771]

6. K&R,