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Kingfrost posted...

Youngkin doing so well is so disappointing, but not surprising. Virginia was still once part of the confederacy, and you can still see confederate flags flying. Youngkin has gone back to the dog-whistles of old, rather than outright racism of Trump. People are comfortable with that. It's why so many people are outraged by "CRT", despite being unable to define what the hell CRT is. It's a dog whistle, and it's effective. Because a lot of the racism in this country is underlying prejudices that we don't want to confront in ourselves. So instead we let them fester and grow. And then we become susceptible to dog whistles, even if we outright reject the obvious racism. And the Subtle racism is just as much of a problem as the overt. But admitting that -- that's the hard part.

People in Virginia are fairly poor, and a lot of them work in industries that don't have very good future prospects (i.e. coal). They reject CRT because the implication that being white is an inherited advantage doesn't make sense in a state that is predominantly white and predominantly poor. Is it really that hard to understand why poor people that are being told they are racist colonizers benefiting from systemic racism reject that claim?

CRT is basically an extension of racism if you look at it from their perspective.

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