TV host Bill Maher Condemned one Microsoft National Broadcasting Corporation Article accusing the Republican Party Glenn JankinWon the race for governor of Virginia with “white ignorance”
In the panel discussion about his show real time Friday with the U.S. representative Adam Schiff Along with radio host Tavis Smiley, Mach discussed racial differences in the United States during the trial of three white men accused of killing black Ahmad Arbery.
Mach said: “When we split in this way, it is a disturbing omen. It’s like,’I don’t believe in any black people. I don’t believe in any white people.'”
Smiley pointed out that people of color are “not the ones who cause racism,” which prompted Maher to read The MSNBC article titled “Glen Yankin’s victory proves that white ignorance is a powerful weapon.”
Mach criticized the story, saying he thought it was “not helpful”.
“I’m an old-school liberal,” Maher said. “I believe in a color-blind society. This is not a place to wake up, okay? There are a lot of re-segregation going on. There are a lot of’you are either racist or you don’t know you are racist.’ So yes, the other side There are also some’us’.”
During his campaign for governor of Virginia, Youngkin says he will ban teaching critical of race theory (CRT)-An academic framework that examines history from a racial perspective. Conservatives believe this is to make white people in public schools feel that they are born racists.
Democrats include Terry McAuliffeIs the party’s candidate for the governor of Virginia, he argued that public schools did not teach critical racial theory and that this issue was used as a “dog whistle.”
Yankin won the state of Virginia by about 1.9 points in the state presidential election Joe Biden In 2020, it only rose by a little over 10 points.
In an MSNBC article, author Ja’han Jones criticized the governor-elect Youngkin for “grouping” the curriculum plan on inequality with critical racial theories, which he described as “targeting intellectually lazy people (many of whom are white) wanting The mantra of the stigmatized man any discussion about American racism.”
Jones wrote: “The Yankin campaign found that this group of angry, deliberately ignorant whites was a key element needed to elect the Republican governor in Virginia for the first time since 2009.”
Before Mach Defending parents Those who oppose the teaching of critical racial theories in public schools. In his November 5th show, he said that his parents are not opposed to teaching black history, but they are worried about “segregating children by racial segregation.”
“Describe them as’oppressed’ or’oppressors’,” he continued. “I mean, some children feel traumatized when they go home. This is what the parents object to,” Maher said.
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