Thread by @torrHL

“The GOP brands itself, through dog whistles, as the party of White parents.

But it is ignoring or bolstering the principal racial threat facing White youth today.

Not #CRT in schools.

White supremacist grooming online.” theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…

“GOP crusade against anti-racist education has left impressionable white kids unprotected from threat of white supremacists sliding into their feeds, games, DMs—into their minds.

& Republican politicians are doing all of this while insisting that they care about white children”

“The Republican attacks on what they call “critical race theory” aren’t about protecting white kids, or any kids at all.

The attacks are intended to deceive, aggrieve, and mobilize enough white donors and voters to win contested elections this year and beyond.”

“Republican operatives have been most likely to organize “don’t say race” campaigns in schools located in swing districts, particularly where a majority-white school population is rapidly diversifying.”

“This means that students in racially mixed communities whose parents are arguing over politics may particularly be restricted from learning together about complex issues,” UCLA researchers explained.

“Right now, our fear about addressing race causes us to leave kids guessing,” Shelly Tochluk, an education professor at Mount Saint Mary’s University.

“They fill in the blanks with whatever they see online, and this includes horrifically twisted messages from white nationalists”

“caregivers need to start asking different questions.

Instead of asking, Should kids learn about race? they should be asking, Whom do I want teaching kids about race?

Trained educators in schools?
Loving parents in homes?

Or white supremacists in virtual “classrooms”?

“The Republican Party is not the party of parents raising girls, raising trans kids, raising kids of color, raising queer kids, raising poor kids, raising immigrant kids.

The Republican Party is making it harder for all of these kids to learn about themselves and their histories

“The Republican Party is stripping parents and educators of their collective ability to protect vulnerable children from being indoctrinated by—or victimized by—the scourge of white supremacy.”

“Instead of combatting white supremacists, the Republican Party has harbored white supremacists, has mainstreamed their mantra that anti-racism is antiwhite, and has embraced a president who has called them “very fine people,”

“has told this growing army on national television to “stand back and stand by,” has incited them to attack the Capitol, has defended their carnage, and has urged the American people to move on from the greatest domestic terrorist threat of our time.”

“This Republican Party is not the party of any group of parents,

but the party of white supremacy.”